Weekly Links 26-12

• My Mother's Dying Wish Took Me on a Trip I'll Never Forget (gift link) — Good read, and it also made me aware of scattering tubes.

• Thomas Jackson Photography — Gorgeous photos!

• “This Is Not The Computer For You” — This is beautiful writing.

• Learn Ancient Greek, with Prof. Leonard Muellner— Want to learn Ancient Greek? I do! Will I learn Ancient Greek? Probably not.

• The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real — Huh.

• Why was the British women's suffrage movement more violent than the American one? — I had no idea the two movements differed so much.

• Ars Magica Open License— This is great. More open licences please!

• The World's First 'Active' Greenhouse — I had no idea greenhouses were such an old invention.

• Field of Clones: How Horse Replicas Came to Dominate Polo — This is bonkers.

• On Geldings and the 'Natural' Social Order of Horses — More on horses, and the “naturalness” of geldings, specifically.

• Setting Up a New Mac the Easy Way — Useful! For when I next need to set up a Mac, hopefully many years from now.

• Manuscriptions — Eleanor Konik’s blog is endlessly fascinating. I was going to link to her recent book review Rise & Reign of Mammals by Steve Brusatte , but decided to link the blog itself too, because it’s so good.

Links found via my RSS feeds, Manuscriptions, Mastodon, The Browser, and general internetting.