Random Links 2022-09-17

[jaggedwolf]

Mao Kun Explorer: Really cool mapping (ha!) between the Mao Kun map and the countries it covers. The Mao Kun map is a Chinese map of Southeast Asia and the Indian ocean, understood to be based on the expeditions of Zheng He, a fleet admiral during the Ming Dynasty. Had seen the map with a description before but found it hard to understand, especially since it contorts an oceanic journey into a long horizontal strip. This explorer makes it really easy to see what markers corresponds to where.

Scopolamine and the Murder of King Hamlet - A medical examination of whether Dad Hamlet could have been murdered the way his ghost describes, an angle of approach towards fiction that I am very into even if I had to google a lot of terms and became very aware of all the tubes within one's head.

How attainable is the Singapore dream? - Looks at the specifics of public housing policies and how they affect various subgroups. Bunch of stuff I didn't know.

Admiral Grace Hopper explains the nanosecond

The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero

Comments

[queenlua]

ok that hamlet-murder paper was absolutely delightful. i actually use scopolamine patches as a motion sickness treatment from time to time; who knew it had all these other properties!

and that singapore housing article was really well-written. ty for sharing these!

[jaggedwolf]

oh cool, I hadn't heard of scopolamine at all before this paper! Gives me joy to know the paper has been cited 4 times.