What I saw on the web on 2022.1.23

1. … all times and places at once …
   by Abe Janzen
   https://somemessynotes.wordpress.com/2022/01/23/all-times-and-places-at-once/
   a review of The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya
   via rss
   
   
2. Hundreds of thousands of Canadians are travelling abroad despite Omicron
   by Sophia Harris
   https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/travel-omicron-test-1.6322609
   ah yes, the "i want this thing to be so, therefore it is so" school of philosophy
   via rss
   
   
3. doctor
   by Zach Weinersmith
   https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/doctor-3
   i suspect many nurses will agree with this
   via rss
   
   
4. Tunnelling through a Mountain
   by Hannah Fry talking to Brady Haran
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwrDX5qkwvA
   some clever ancient engineering
   via rss
   
   
5. 29-year-old Conway conjecture settled
   by apgoucher
   https://cp4space.hatsya.com/2022/01/14/conway-conjecture-settled/
   also news on a few other recent game of life developments
   via /.
   
   
6. Other people's needs
   by DRMacIver
   https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2022-01-23-13:27.html
   how to keep from others' finite need for you growing in an unbounded fashion?
   via rss
   
   
7. This Burkina Faso farmer raps to highlight climate change's effects on agriculture
   by Art Melody speaking to Mouhamad Rachini
   https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-climate-migrants-the-current-for-nov-4-2021-1.6236735/this-burkina-faso-farmer-raps-to-highlight-climate-change-s-effects-on-agriculture-1.6237057
   at least sometimes there is non-horrible news from Burkina
   via horrible news from Burkina
   
   
8. One list to list them all!
   by Ada Palmer, commenting about Wikipedia
   https://twitter.com/Ada_Palmer/status/1485359531152531461
   for, it is said, anything you can do, i (well, wikipedia) can do meta
   via Ada_Palmer
   
   
9. a picture of A025487
   by Michael De Vlieger
   https://oeis.org/A025487/a025487.png
   this is a thing of beauty
   via A025487