Links: The I love humans edition
I've written at least six link-ish posts since my last round-up type one, so clearly this is a good habit I'm getting into.
Laura Michet's excellent find about competitive model plane skydiving is also precisely what I love about humans. Delightful.
Relatedly, my siblings and siblings-in-law and I were all sitting around at a party where the kids had been doing that balloon keepy uppy game when we realised the kids had all gone and we were just batting balloons around between us. Which led to us looking up the Balloon World Cup which is exactly what you think it is.
'Competitive' is used pretty loosely in these things, and I like that. Trying to do one's best, in the company of other people also trying to do their best, while encouraging everyone to try to do their best.
Randomising your evenings is a fun, and it seems, useful, approach I might try.
The Perils of Learning Alien Languages: The Sapir-Whorf Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis piqued my interest particularly because I recently rewatched Arrival (which I appreciate more each time.)
Also on language, Perry linked some excellent videos in A translator's imagination and also on a YouTube theme I saved A YouTube Education from Cultural Capital that collects some great documentaries.
The Cipher / Voynich manuscript is available online from Yale. One of the great wonders of the world in a wondering sense. Humans are weird.
Cosy game discourse continues to interest me and Maddi Chilton has a comprehensive cosy games link dump.
The other week I referenced the thirty-nine trillion microbes we all host. I think about them a lot. How, even if I do nothing else productive with my day, I feed and house them. And it's relatable, honestly, that I am more bacteria than I am myself. Or they are me, and more than half of myself is bacteria. Anyway, here's the link about the human microbiome.
Another large thing, When the forest is the tree about the Pando, an aspen forest that is a single, hundred acre, 10,000+ year-old organism.
Read about Octothorpes which led me to Ním's memex and thoughts about the internet and other posts.
Feeling very sympathetic towards the Luddlife Manifesto.
Somebody has done the blog of Margery Kempe because of course they have.
By the stirring of a worshipful clerk, a bachelor of divinity, my friend the priest has read my postings and understands them more seriously and expressively than before, and has thus been moved to compose my Book! Keep your eye out for its release in 1436!
Did I mention I love humans?