Hundred Year Old Computer for Fourier Analysis

 This is amazing. 23 minutes. 

Count the votes

 

An Onderdonk painting

 I just found it, and liked it. Julian Onderdonk, 1921

McWhorter on cops

 There are problems with American cops killing people, but they are not essentially racial. Here.

Ginning up riots

 You need to click on the photo to see what CBS cropped out.  There is no innocent explanation for this, CBS is ginning up riots. 

Compare and Contrast: Afghanistan coverage

 A thread of side by side screenshots. 

DuckDuckGo vs Google

 Here.

I use DDG — which is really an anonymizer wrapped around Bing — as my default. I find it works better than Google most of the time. Really obscure stuff is better with Google. 

There are better browsers than Chrome too. On iOS I like Perfect and Brave. 

Quackometer on sex

 An excellent article on the confusion of sex and gender. Plus butterflies.

A visit to a nail salon

 Two minutes.

False Witness

 Not all lies are the same. What we used to call bearing false witness is worse than lying about how many watched your inauguration. Biden doubles down.

Visualizing General Relativity

 A brilliant video discussing how to use graphics to illustrate General Relativity. 

Brendan O'Neill on “lived” experience

 A very insightful essay.

QPQ Micro reviews, a bump

An old post I occasionally update, reviews of mysteries by Patrick Quentin aka Q. Patrick aka Jonathan Stagge. Updated today. 

Disinterpretation

 I learned a good neologism, disinterpretation, deliberate and hostile misinterpretation to score points. Here is a nice disassembly of a disinterpretation.

A simple but apparently controversial observation

 I can believe in fire without believing in phlogiston. 

Wesley Yang on Suess

 Spot on.

Cartan's Exterior Derivative d, motivated

 A key idea in differential geometry and topology is the exterior derivative d. Most presentations of d do a poor job motivating the definition. This video does an excellent job, in a discussion restricted to R^3.