Interesting Links for 23-11-2025

[andrewducker]

1. The Uncertain Origins of Aspirin (a fascinating piece of history, neatly dividing myths from evidence)

(tags:drugs history myths )

2. 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit' takes on Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer. Kinda

(tags:neilgaiman AmandaPalmer tv rape )

Comments

[calimac]

1) Stan Freberg on one of his comedy albums read 18th-century long s as an f, as a joke. To transcribe it that way in a serious article is just ignorant.

[fanf]

It’s weird that Asimov’s magazine is now science fact instead of science fiction …

(It seems to be a subsidiary of a biotech startup.)