Small Findings

Small Findings

By Jim KangEducationSelf-Improvement
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Small Findings episodes

  • Episode 4: There's gotta be a better way
    The findings this week:
    The hardest part of making pizza
    • The other episode with a segment on pizza
    • Why stock buybacks matter
      • Wikipedia
      • These Companies Enriched Themselves. Now They’re Getting a Bailout.
      • Amazon and labor
        • Amazon is reportedly using a heat map to track stores at risk of unionization
        • Amazon executives privately insulted a warehouse worker, then attacked him on Twitter
        • Amazon warehouse workers walk out in rising tide of COVID-19 protests
        • Amazon's "Brazil" office
        • Leaked Amazon Memo Details Plan to Smear Fired Warehouse Organizer: ‘He’s Not Smart or Articulate’
        • 'Go back to work': outcry over deaths on Amazon's warehouse floor
        • ‘That should not be happening’ – Amazon warehouses’ serious injury rates more than double industry average
        • VP Tim Bray quits Amazon in response to Amazon firing protesting workers (Discovered after the podcast was recorded)
        • How Testament records an album
          • Titans of Creation
          • Interview about recording Titans of Creation
          • Existential risk
            • We have the power to destroy ourselves without the wisdom to ensure that we don't
            • Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority
              • Email me any findings you want to share (or questions) at [email protected]!
              20 min
            • Episode 3: When there's lightning
              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]!
                          20 min
                        • Episode 2: Still eruption columns
                          The findings this week:
                          The CARES act signing statement
                          • Trump's signing statement
                          • Undoing paint
                          • Zoom
                          • Audm
                          • Wistia
                          • The coronavirus impact on the ad industry
                            • NYT: The impact of the coronavirus on advertising
                            • Black beans and black coffee
                            • Bread and grape resurrections
                              • Bon Appetit: How to revive stale bread
                              • MRRP!
                                Email me any findings you want to share (or questions) at [email protected]!
                                28 min
                              • Episode 1: What is Small Findings? Also painting darkness, mice handedness, and stimulus.
                                The findings this week:
                                Woodrow Wilson was weak on sharks
                              • How to paint lots of darkness
                              • tags as elements
                              • Hot water gaskets
                              • Mouse handedness
                              • Lap desks
                              • Making good pizza dough and cooking pizza sausage
                              • The coronavirus stimulus package.
                                Here's the executive raise limit formula for companies that take stimulus assistance: (current pay - $3 million)/2 + $3 million. (The / means "divided by" there.)
                                Email me any findings you want to share (or questions) at [email protected]!
                                22 min

                              About Small Findings

                              From the publisher's feed

                              A roundup of small bits of information that I've collected, processed, and put away each week. Findings topics are often mundane (like pizza dough) or weird (like shark attacks in 1916).