Comment and Link Roundup: November 17, 2021

Comments on my own posts:

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Comments on other people's posts:

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by tentacion1999: I suspect it was actually stolen from some non-Tumblrite, but I was unable to track down who) Shadows cast by the sun shining directly downward (not *necessarily* at the equator).

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by argumate) Matt Levine is in Hell and we are all just watching; recounting the story of my own brushes with cryptocurrency.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by transgenderer) Terra Ignota characters and the workings of Ada Palmer's mind.

[cw: food] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by feotakahari) Concerning and/or intriguing ideas for pizza toppings.

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Links:

[cw: bugs (with pictures)] [ScienceNews; Wayback] (by Betsy Mason) The sensorium of jumping spiders.

[Forbes; Wayback] (by Ethan Siegel) There are two subtly different kinds of shoelace knot, and one of them is much more prone to coming loose than the other. Turns out I have been using the wrong one: I'll have to try another practice hike now that I know, although I'm pretty sure *some* of my issues are in fact from the shoelaces getting old and stretched-out.



There is a blanket [cw: illness] on the rest of this post.

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