The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

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Watching water boil - better

Yes, even boiling water doesn't have to take so long.
The actual tradeoffs are interesting (& not too technical)
MIT engineers design surfaces that make water boil more efficiently | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Khanate history in Russian lands

Fascinating, how liberal were the perceived tyrannical Khans?

Also reflects the Polish-Litguanian treatment.

Read the unroll, not the thread.

Ben Franklin's home abortion how-to

Ben Franklin's home abortion how-to

(what the Founding Fathers wanted, eh Alito?)

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/05/ben-franklin-american-instru...

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/18/1099542962/abortion-

More on Alito's jurisprudence incompetence or selective vindictiveness and mendaciousness

[Health Care] death watch in private nursing homes

3% rule: your culture sucks (most of the time)

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