What I saw on the web on 2022.10.1

1. Down With Romanticism: Vol. 1
   by Gili Loftus and David Eggert
   https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/down-with-romanticism-vol-1/
   in case you'd like to back an excellent early music project
   via FB
   
   
2. French Embassy attacked in Burkina Faso capital hours after coup sees leader ousted
   by the Associated Press
   https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/burkina-faso-tensions-coup-1.6602996
   i wish there could be news stories about Burkina Faso that aren't sad ones
   via rss
   
   
3. Have you seen more math videos in your feed recently? (SoME2 results)
   by 3Blue1Brown
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDofhN-RJqg
   with lots of pointers to interesting things, such as...
   via rss
   
   
4. How to Take the Factorial of Any Number
   by Lines That Connect
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_HeaeUUOnc
   a derivation of the i-can't-believe-it's-not-the-gamma-function which dodges the usual integral form
   via previous link
   
   
5. 1 Billion is Tiny in an Alternate Universe: Introduction to p-adic Numbers
   by Eric Rowland
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gyHKCDq1YA
   a surprisingly intuitive introduction to a mathematical topic which i've not usually considered intuitive
   via also previous link