Assorted links #8

211. Surprising shared word etymologies
212. A Beginner’s Guide to Miles Davis
213. Doc Pop’s One-Dimensional Chess
214. The C-Word: Scientific Euphemisms Do Not Improve Causal Inference From Observational Data
215. Star Trek + Design
216. Curves and Surfaces
217. Deep Play? Video Games and the Historical Imaginary
218. Bicycle Network Analysis
219. Shortage nation: why the UK is braced for a grim Christmas
220. Hard Thinking about Hard and Easy Cases in Security Studies
221. History of Grand Theft Auto (1984 – 2021)
222. The SaaS CTO Security Checklist Redux
223. The 12 Step Program for Grad School
224. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Job Market
225. ESL Classics: Rapha vs. Cooller
226. 3 Budget Levels
227. Potterian Economics
228. Seasons of Denmark: Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring
229. Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate
230. A master list of named aesthetics, sorted from A – Z
231. I made a map of Central London museums… there are a lot
232. The Second World War in real time
233. Great Art Explained
234. List of Physical Visualizations and Related Artifacts
235. List of unusual deaths
236. A Practical Guide to Growing Your Open Source Project: Part 1 – Contributors; Part 2 – Community; Part 3 – Users
237. The Rocks and Minerals of Minecraft
238. Why James Bond gets constantly reinvented
239. Tom’s Essay
240. How the 3-point line is breaking basketball


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