A good overview of the use, battling and development of naval vessel from around the world.
Interesting tidbit: Original night telescopes showed the image upside-down because the extra lens needed to flip the image would degrade the image too much.
Category: Notes
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Mark Earls and Alex Bentley: I’ll Have What She’s Having: Mapping social behaviour
Remarkably, humans generally spend their lifetimes mimicking others. Even when we are adults and think that we are making our own “big” choices when we are still generally following social cues.
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Susan Cain: The power of introverts
Cain challenges us to respect the power of introverts instead of expecting or worse, pushing, them to be extroverts.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
I was recently watching some old Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes and watched a highly acclaimed (though not particularly liked by me) episode called “Darmok”. In this episode, Darmok (the alien) is trying to teach Picard how to converse. Darmok’s people use stories to communicate everything which makes it very difficult for Picard to understand because the stories mean nothing to him. To overcome this, they tell each other cultural stories:
I used to hate this episode… then Picard mentioned Gilgamesh. Then I read several versions of The Epic of Gilgamesh. Then I decided that this episode was alright. -
“The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs” by Dougal Dixon
Dixon’s book is a very tastefully illustrated and fairly modern book about dinosaurs.
Interesting tidbit: T-Rex had long arms compared to many of its cousins.