Satellite photos reveal how Mumbai killed its rivers and mangrove forests to risk epic floods — Quartz

Houston’s rampant development and lack of any government regulation whatsoever (all in the name of affordable housing, compared to regulated places like cities in Democratic states) and destruction of natural environment to build housing contributed to the scale of their disaster.

Hope they will consider better design and more government oversight when they rebuild.

Places like Mumbai though, with corruption and lack of regulation is on another scale altogether, and it’s scary to even contemplate what will happen there.

Satellite photos reveal how Mumbai killed its rivers and mangrove forests to risk epic floods — Quartz

minus229k1:

After TRAPPIST-1, our very own Saturn and its moons get to make music! Since it’s the area with the most resonances in our solar system, thanks to its rings and moons, there is much to “extract” music and sounds from: 

“In part 1 we use a numerical simulation of the moon system to play a note for each orbit and assign pitches by increasing their actual orbital frequencies by 27 octaves so that they can be heard by human ears. We apply the same pitch scaling to the entire ring system and modulate the volume of the resulting tone using the observed brightness of the rings. The final sound was created by combining the oscillation frequencies of Saturn itself.” 

The team behind the project is the same that “auditified” TRAPPIST-1: Andrew Santaguida, Matt Russo and Dan Tamayo. 

Find out more here:
http://www.system-sounds.com/saturn-sounds-part1/

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Men who want to fight sexism at work: Read Sheryl Sandberg’s blunt advice

A lot of tips in this article were widely taught and pretty much expected of me and my coworkers in the Old Company, it’s sort of common sense that I always (mistakenly) thought was standard outside my old company’s bubble.

But following these at this job, simply because it is the only way that I know, is the reason I have no friends here, and will always stay an outsider.

I’ve pretty much come to accept it, but it still sucks.

Men who want to fight sexism at work: Read Sheryl Sandberg’s blunt advice

Could not stop thinking about it at night. Why do we ever engage in something so stupid and so utterly trrrifying as war? And send our children to die in it.

Ended up having a dream about an old friend whom I haven’t seen in a while resurfacing as a republican VP candidate. She was her normal awesome self except she existed in the weird republican alternative makebelieve universe and said strange things that she seemed to have believed sincerely.

@alwaysinairplanemode I go so rarely that it’s okay I guess. And I imagine Brooklyn is marginally better. The theater was mostly empty.

It could be made to be less, with advance planning, though what applies in most of the rest of the country always comes with a small print exception for this area. We are just suckers like that.

And btw <i>Dunkirk </i> is totally worth seeing, despite the sense of dread I still seem to be unable to shake off.