{"id":39771,"date":"2022-02-27T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=39771"},"modified":"2022-02-22T11:44:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T18:44:01","slug":"understanding-physicsmoon-treeshacker-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/understanding-physicsmoon-treeshacker-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Physics\/Moon Trees\/Hacker Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/recomendo.com\/\">Sign up here<\/a>\u00a0to get Recomendo a week early in your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Understanding physics<\/strong><br \/>\nIsaac Asimov\u2019s 768-page\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/understanding-physics?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Understanding Physics<\/em><\/a>\u00a0clearly explains the principles of motion, sound, heat, light, magnetism, and electricity in a historical context. It gave me a better understanding of physics than four years of mechanical engineering school, and was actually fun to read. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n<p><strong>Find a Moon Tree near you<\/strong><br \/>\nI didn\u2019t know about the tree seeds that flew around the Moon in 1971 and were planted upon return until I read this article in The Atlantic:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2022\/01\/nasa-moon-trees-apollo\/621395\/?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\"><em>We Almost Forgot About the Moon Trees<\/em><\/a>. All the of the locations of these Moon Trees\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov\/planetary\/lunar\/moon_tree.html?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">are kept here<\/a>\u00a0and up-to-date, including the ones no longer alive. Visiting as many of these trees as possible is now on my travel bucket list. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hacker laws that apply in real life<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"revue-p\">Here are a few of my favorites from this GitHub repository of<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/dwmkerr\/hacker-laws?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter#cunninghams-law\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Dwmkerr\u2019s Hacker Laws and Principles<\/a>:<\/div>\n<ul class=\"revue-ul\">\n<li><strong>Hofstadter\u2019s Law<\/strong>: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter\u2019s Law.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Amara\u2019s Law<\/strong>: We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate in the long run<\/li>\n<li><strong>Putt\u2019s Law<\/strong>: Technology is dominated by two types of people, those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"revue-p\">\u2014 MF<\/div>\n<p><strong>Teaching a dog to speak<\/strong><br \/>\nI don\u2019t have a dog, but if I did I would be trying to get it to talk. At\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theycantalk.org\/about\/our-approach-to-research?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">They Can Talk<\/a>\u00a0there\u2019s a bunch of researchers training dogs to use cheap electronic devices to \u201csay\u201d words. Some dog-owners claim to be able to train their dogs to chain together a string of spoken words into something like a sentence. There\u2019s a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.akc.org\/expert-advice\/training\/how-to-teach-your-dog-to-talk\/?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">whole community of folks trying it<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/UNoyUh?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">recordable buttons<\/a>\u00a0sold on Amazon, and a good book on it,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/QroFU?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\"><em>How Stella Learned to Talk<\/em><\/a>. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discover unique places to eat<\/strong><br \/>\nI just discovered Atlas Obscura has a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/cool-places-to-eat?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">Gastro Obscura map<\/a>\u00a0where you can find unusual restaurants or food museums all over the world. Anyone can contribute an entry \u2014 the requirements being that it is an awe-inspiring place or that it preserves lesser known culinary traditions or amazing architecture or decor. Way more interesting that Yelp! \u2014 CD<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clear advice<\/strong><br \/>\nThe\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/paulgraham.com\/articles.html?utm_campaign=Recomendo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">essays of Paul Graham<\/a>\u00a0are masterpieces of clear thinking. He writes about the process of making things, from a small idea, to a large company. Known as the co-founder of YCombinator, a high-tech incubator, his advice is eagerly sought by entrepreneurs, but his advice in these essays, posted on his ancient and free blog, is uncommonly useful to individuals who like to make things and make things happen. I learn a tremendous lot from each short essay. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recomendo: issue no. 293<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2323],"tags":[2324],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39773,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39771\/revisions\/39773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}