What I saw on the web on 2022.11.14

1. Cow-culus and Elegant Geometry
   by Zvedelina Stankova speaking to Brady Haran
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SI3_XbItHo
   a nice development of this problem
   via rss
   
   
2. Cow-culus v Geometry (extra)
   by Zvedelina Stankova speaking to Brady Haran
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW7R1U6FMLs
   two more fun questions from the same people
   via previous link
   
   
3. The Great Age of Plagues: Climate Change
   by siderea
   https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1785877.html
   here come the ticks!
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4. Every Covid Infection Does More Damage & Makes You Less Healthy And More Likely To Die
   by Ian Welsh
   https://www.ianwelsh.net/every-covid-infection-does-more-damage-makes-you-less-healthy-and-more-likely-to-die/
   moral of the story: don't get covid. except it's mostly too late for that.
   via rss
   
   
5. Crows Found to Be Smarter Than We Think
   by Dominique Mosbergen
   https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/crows-found-to-be-smarter-than-we-think-11667412092
   as ran says, "I think we'll continue to find that crows are smarter than we think, for a long time to come."
   via ran prieur
   
   
6. The Ants Have Not Read Kant: Pëtr Kropotkin and Mutual Aid
   by Lee Dugatkin
   https://areomagazine.com/2022/01/12/the-ants-have-not-read-kant-petr-kropotkin-and-mutual-aid/
   gotta track down some Kropotkin sometime to read
   via ran prieur
   
   
7. All People Are Created Educable, a Vital Oft-Forgotten Tenet of Modern Democracy
   by Ada Palmer
   https://www.exurbe.com/educable/
   well said! combine this with the Kropotkin stuff at the previous link, and you get somewhere very interesting
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