Linkteresting #1: Reading, writing, and web places
Click for curiosity.
Hello webmates!
Newsletter for friends is now morphed to Linkteresting, which is exactly what it sounds like. Below are some notable things I’ve read, written, and consumed this month. Click links you’re curious about—that’s what the Web is for. ☕️
Reading
- The Three-Body Problem Series by Cixin Liu: Finished the trilogy this month. All of it is equally terrific and terrifying. What I love most about it is that the author goes straight for the heart of physics. I’ve read plenty of Sci-Fi stories, including many classics, and this series comes right at the top. It definitely has flaws, technical and social, but the sheer scale of thought makes up for everything. It’s also a breadth of fresh air when compared to a singular kind of nature of Western Sci-Fis. If you’re into science fiction, this is a must-read.
This is the journey that must be made by every civilization: awakening inside a cramped cradle, toddling out of it, taking flight, flying faster and farther, and, finally, merging with the fate of the universe as one.
- White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky: I found the perspective of being inside the mind of a dreamer interesting. It allowed the author to say things that would otherwise be quite questionable even for the 19th century. But I did not like the book as much as many people seem to. Perhaps I preconditioned myself to expect something incredible but all I got was something non-tangible. This part stays though:
A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man’s life?
- The Last Answer by Isaac Asimov: If you pick this up after enjoying the perennial Last Question, you will be disappointed like I was, in that it wasn’t a follow up at all. Well, The Last Question doesn’t need one. By itself though, The Last Answer is a decent short story that makes you curious about beings of eternity.
For what could any Entity, conscious of eternal existence, want—but an end?
Writing
- Special page: Deep dive into India’s Chandrayaan Moon missions
- Completed my 5-part series on India’s rocket launch crisis, which has taken me about a year of work to research and publish
- Blue Origin’s failure and shortfalls in Artemis III
- The time NASA figured out our Moon is cratered all the way down
- Lessons on lapses in lunar missions operations from the 20th century
More links
- Interactive: Can you terraform Mars?
- Cool websites I’ve found through IndieWebClub BLR
- Watched Gen V S2 and The Boys S5. I liked the former better but since I’ve invested in this whole universe for its reflections on the dystopian reality of power abuse, the latter was enjoyable enough to watch as well as the series came to an end.
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