Comment and Link Roundup: May 6, 2021
May. 6th, 2021 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Comment and Link Roundup: April 12, 2021
[arguably cw: apocalypse, poverty] Shining a light on the availability of energy efficiency [three comments, not counting the postscripts]
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Comments on other people's posts:
[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by
ms-demeanor) Discord is going downhill, like so many instant-messengers before it.
[cw: death, apocalypse] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by
contrarianarchon) The inherent value of life.
[cw: apocalypse, drugs, (arguably) discourse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by
rustingbridges; partially in response to
cthulhubert and
alarajrogers) Gold and disaster-hedging. [four comments]
[cw: amnesia, (fairly mild) death] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by the fittingly-named
existentialterror) qntm's fiction is very good at being the kind of thing that it is, and that is the best that can be said about it. (Read his time-travel meta, though.)
[arguably cw: amnesia] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by
eightyonekilograms) Audio-processing while exercising.
[Blogspot; Wayback] (OP by Michael Mock) Unpacking the references in tea names.
[cw: scrupulosity] [AO3; Wayback] (OP by
cthulhuraejepsen) A possible ending to A Common Sense Guide to Doing the Most Good.
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Links:
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There is a blanket [cw: illness] on the rest of this post.
Comments on my own posts:
The one about quarantine hotels
A Connecticut Yankee in the Bellezzan Court [one comment, not counting the postscript]
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Comments on other people's posts:
[cw: food, poverty] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by
mindstalk) The physical and psychological benefits of respirators; also, price-matching. [five comments]
[mild cw: death] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by
Doinkadect) Doctor Who's complete lack of concern for inter-temporal disease transmission, not even so much as throwing in a line of reassuring technobabble while *visiting an infectious-disease research facility from the year five billion*.
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Links:
[University of Manchester; Wayback] (by Joe Sherving; h/t
ilzo-misc) Neat facts about Alan Turing, including such incredibly relatable quotes as:
[Science Translational Medicine; Wayback] (by Derek Lowe) Honestly most of y'all are probably reading In the Pipeline already, but: malaria vaccine!!
(see also this Kelsey Piper article)
Comment and Link Roundup: April 12, 2021
[arguably cw: apocalypse, poverty] Shining a light on the availability of energy efficiency [three comments, not counting the postscripts]
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Comments on other people's posts:
[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by
[cw: death, apocalypse] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by
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[cw: apocalypse, drugs, (arguably) discourse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by
[cw: amnesia, (fairly mild) death] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by the fittingly-named
[arguably cw: amnesia] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by
[Blogspot; Wayback] (OP by Michael Mock) Unpacking the references in tea names.
[cw: scrupulosity] [AO3; Wayback] (OP by
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Links:
[none suitable for this section]
There is a blanket [cw: illness] on the rest of this post.
Comments on my own posts:
The one about quarantine hotels
A Connecticut Yankee in the Bellezzan Court [one comment, not counting the postscript]
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Comments on other people's posts:
[cw: food, poverty] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
[mild cw: death] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by
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Links:
[University of Manchester; Wayback] (by Joe Sherving; h/t
A sufferer of hayfever, Turing was also known to cut an especially peculiar figure in the first week of June each year, when he would cycle to work in a gas mask to keep the pollen away.
[Science Translational Medicine; Wayback] (by Derek Lowe) Honestly most of y'all are probably reading In the Pipeline already, but: malaria vaccine!!
(see also this Kelsey Piper article)
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Date: 2021-05-06 03:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-05-06 03:21 pm (UTC)(I haven't had a chance to read Worth the Candle myself yet beyond the first chapter, but I seem to recall you read it.)
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Date: 2021-05-06 08:53 pm (UTC)