Links and tweets, 2022-07-19

by Jason Crawford · July 19, 2022 · 1 min read

Links

• The first images from the JWST look amazing. See also this comparison with Hubble
• Helion Energy is hiring. “Clean, continuous energy for 1 cent per kilowatt-hour”
• Lant Pritchett on the difference between anti-poverty programs and poverty reduction. To paraphrase Rutherford, all poverty reduction is either economic growth or stamp collecting
• Joel Mokyr reviews Koyama & Rubin’s How the World Became Rich
• Potential for a vaccine against a broad category of SARS-like coronaviruses (in Science; see also the announcement from Wellcome Leap which funded this)

Threads

• Many waste byproducts were developed in Britain during the Industrial Revolution (@VincentGeloso). See also: In capitalism they use every part of the animal
• “Reclosers” on electrical utility poles (@HillhouseGrady)

Queries

• Why is hating humanity acceptable? (@CineraVerinia)
• Why doesn’t washing hands create hand-washing resistant bacteria? (@_brianpotter)

Tweets

• Request for blog: the history of social change, and lessons for modern movements
• Eradicating smallpox sometimes meant breaking the rules
• India might already the most populous country in the world

Retweets

• Terraform Industries can convert H₂ and CO₂ into natural gas (@TerraformIndies)
• Montessori on the need to teach “the highest discoveries” of science (@mbateman)
• There’s an Industrial Revolution board game set in 18th-c. Lancashire (@dkedrosky)

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