Interesting Links for 24-08-2023

[andrewducker]

1. When did galley slaves become common, and why?

(tags:history boats war sea europe slavery viaDanielDWilliam )

2. Would *you* like to know about the racist birth centrifuge?

(tags:childbirth gravity history patent viaPatrickHadfield )

3. LEGO officially offers Braille Bricks for sale for the first time

(tags:blindness lego )

4. It's Getting Too Hot for Tropical Trees to Photosynthesize

(tags:trees plants doom globalwarming )

Comments

[liv]

4. A friend of mine who is a grass specialist has been involved in experiments that found empirically that parts of Africa are now regularly too hot for important crop seeds to germinate. That's not as devastating as no photosynthesis because it's not that hot constantly so there might still be a window in which you can get germination. But it's an experimental result, not just modelling. And there's nothing you can do about altering conditions other than temperature to compensate for, it's too hot to germinate.

[andrewducker]

Well that's not at all terrifying.

[andrewducker]

When they publish, let me know