Links for July 2020
Before face masks, Americans went to war against seat belts. by Daniel Ackerman. And the pro-smoking movement.
Exposing Jordan Peterson’s Barrage of Revisionist Falsehoods About Hitler and Nazism by Mikael Nilsson
“Jordan Peterson, YouTube psychology guru and right-wing cult figure, talks a lot about Hitler, WWII and Nazism – in lectures riddled with alarming errors, spurious analogies and a strange reluctance to use the word ‘Holocaust.’ This is why his constant misinformation matters.”
Twibright Optar
A codec for encoding data on paper or free software 2D barcode in other words. Optar fits 200kB on an A4 page.
Missed Payment Rate Hits New High of 32 Percent in July
22 Strange Animals
Meteor Impact Leaves Giant Crater in Africa, Creates Ejecta Blast Zone
Conservative victimhood complex has made America impossible to govern. by Ryan Cooper
CERN’s obsolete particle detectors
Ways To Stay Motivated In This Shit-Shellacked Era Of Epic Stupid by Chuck Wendig
Railroad Grade lever set pocket watches
Modern Calendar Watches by Humbert (Bernard)
“For half a century one of the most widely used text and reference book on how to service, adjust and repair the calendar mechanisms in 20th century watches has been “Modern Calendar Watches” by B. Humbert. This book was published in 1954 in English as part of a trilogy by Scriptar, then publisher of the “Journal Suisse d’Horlogerie” but has been out of print for over 25 years. It is the companion volume to “The Chronograph – Its Mechanism and Repair” (ca.1955, republished 1990) and to “Swiss Self-Winding Watches” (1956, now out of print), all by the same author.”
Hi-rez images of John James Audubon’s Birds of America
Silverpoint and metalpoint drawing
Home automation / security controller, open source: Home Assistant
John Oliver on COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories
Cassina or yaupon tea, Atlas Obscura
Behind the Accidentally Resilient Design of Athens Apartments: Athens polikatoikias — concrete apartments with tiered balconies — were built quickly to create affordable housing, but their design has stood the test of time. by Feargus O’Sullivan