Vernal Equinox 2025 links
the best of the internet over the last season
- Evidence of turmeric adulteration with lead chromate across South Asia: “the widespread practice of adding lead chromate to turmeric roots to enhance appearances and to facilitate the sale of poor quality roots”.
- The Deception Behind Plastic Recycling: “Under all the math and engineering, I found an inconvenient truth: Not much plastic is being recycled at all, nor is pyrolysis capable of curbing the plastic crisis. Not now. Maybe not ever.”
- Lorraine Nicholson on Laura Flynn Boyle
- Unnathi Aiyappa profile by Deccan Herald
- Solving the Zariski Cancellation Problem - Neena Gupta, 2024 Infosys Prize Laureate and an interview with her.
- Art by Flora Yukhnovich
- The Napkin Project. Also, Evan Chen is like five people put in one, how does he manage to do so much?
- How the System Works: a series by Charles C. Mann highlighting and rightly glorifying “the hidden mechanisms that support modern life”.
- Improving GTA Online loading times
- The Somalian Shilling: wow the Somalians had a paper currency without a central bank, and they had counterfeit notes that were fungible with legitimate paper notes. Which meant that the exchange rate with the dollar was determined by the cost of printing counterfeit currency!