Welcome to 5 Quick Things that I saw since last month that I thought were interesting enough to share with you. None of them are particularly timely so feel free to just enjoy 🙂

>Number One<

Hear Ye, Adventurers

Perfect might be the enemy of done but the thing is some things take time and I don’t think we like to admit that in this hyper paced world. This article tackles the Silicon mantra that seems to be driving a lot of horrible decision making that focuses on the speed a technology over all other parameters like usefulness, or safety or, anything else. It’s just been a constant bee in my bonnet to see people decide that doing things purposefully incorrectly with no benefit other than to make money or even to have a widget is somehow worth anything.

>Number Two<

Climate Changes

This piece is a great interview about how the USDA and American food hygiene was developed. There’s no regulations that weren’t born in blood and I don’t think people are really aware of how dangerous food used to be to people and how our modes of cooking and eating having been so changed by the safety and processes put in place over the last 75 years especially.

>Number Three<

Not Hurting Myself

I wasn’t a SciShow watcher but the episode that was “about” knitting and physics started showing up in my social circles because I have a lot of knitting friends (I’m a crocheter myself). Evie Unraveling does a great job “re-writing” the episode to actually honor both the realities of knitting in its relation to math and physics but also why SciShow probably had a huge blind spot for it. I think the most important part of this video is how it really hammers home how easy it is to do lazy science or lazy research if you simply do not ask anyone involved in that science/activity because even I, a lay person who does different fiber craft, could have instantly pointed out mistakes in the original episode.

>Number Four<

You Have to Find It Yourself

You might have noticed that I have been casting around for more old school style internet and people interested in the building up the project of collaborative human information instead of slop. I hope that these monthly little updates bringing you some interesting thing you probably didn’t see on the 3-5 sites most visits on the internet are filtered through are contributing to that but anyway here’s an entire magazine dedicated to that cause! Hurrah!

>Number Five<

Get Food in Your Face

I have thought about this a lot in many different forms but I found this long read about Mary Midgley, a philosopher I’ve never heard of discussing the social place that most philosophers come from extremely interesting. I usually come at this from the angle of people who become famous early in life or write a lot of books / great heaps of papers usually have someone silently taking care of them in the background who is swept under the rug and that has pretty much always been women who did not get to do any work but the house work. Anyway here’s the short script she was going to give on the BBC Radio which was never aired.

That’s all for this month and hopefully I’ll see you back again next month with some more exciting and cool things!