Small Findings

Episode 3: When there's lightning

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The findings this week:
The basics of China's economic model
  • A spectre is haunting the West — the spectre of authoritarian capitalism
  • Harvard's endowment
    • Harvard announces salary and hiring freezes
    • What's involved in an ICU
      • How to set up an ICU
      • Conspiracy theories
        • Conspiracy and Democracy
        • John Naughton's quarantine diary
        • Jair Bolsonaro claims NGOs behind Amazon forest fire surge – but provides no evidence
        • Brussels accuses Orbán of peddling conspiracy theory with Juncker poster
        • Ruling party blames Muslims for spreading the coronavirus, would-be autocrats use Covid-19 as an excuse to grab power
        • Volcanic lightning
          • brownpau on Taal
          • Lava fountain times
          • Popular Science on volcanic lightning
          • Popular Mechanics: How to stir up lightning in a lab
          • Wikipedia on Taal's 2020 eruption
          • Rappler's Taal eruption timeline
          • Space elevators
            • Sky Line, a documentary from 2015
            • Wikipedia
              • Email me any findings you want to share (or questions) at [email protected]!
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              Small FindingsBy Jim Kang