Brandolini's Law
notes.pinboard.in/u:vloux/6832e372a0b5afa4b729“The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.”— @ziobrando
Design is about values — Mike Press — Medium
medium.com/@MikePress/design-is-about-values-b116e7e12b67Design makes a statement of what we want the world to be like. And in doing so, it is a political activity. Values are political, values express preferences about what problems are worth solving, and in whose interests they are solved. Values determine the degree to which design liberates or empowers the individual and those communities that make up the wider society.
All Dressed Up For Mars and Nowhere to Go — Matter — Medium
medium.com/matter/all-dressed-up-for-mars-and-nowhere-to-go-7e76df527ca0Valentin Vitaljevich Lebedev was a Soviet cosmonaut who made two flights into space. His stay aboard the Space Station Salyut 7 with Anatoly Berezovoy in 1982, which lasted 211 days,[1] was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.
Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa
launiusr.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/why-explore-space-a-1970-letter-to-a-nun-in-africa/Besides the need for new technologies, there is a continuing great need for new basic knowledge in the sciences if we wish to improve the conditions of human life on Earth. We need more knowledge in physics and chemistry, in biology and physiology, and very particularly in medicine to cope with all these problems which threaten man’s life: hunger, disease, contamination of food and water, pollution of the environment.
The Food Lab: The Hard Truth About Boiled Eggs | Serious Eats
seriouseats.com/2014/05/the-secrets-to-peeling-hard-boiled-eggs.htmlPressure-cook your eggs for six minutes to get perfectly hard-cooked yolks, and the outer layers of your whites end up tough. At least, tougher than equivalently steamed or simmered eggs.