href weekly | April 7 – April 13 2024

Sound & Music

In 1974, musician Connie Converse drove away from home and was never heard from again. https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-259-if-im-long-unheard-from

This 2,000-Year-Old Peruvian Rock Art May Depict Psychedelic Music https://www.iflscience.com/this-2000-year-old-peruvian-rock-art-may-depict-psychedelic-music-73677

“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God?”

Nightfall – Issac Asimov

https://archive.org/download/OTRR_X_Minus_One_Singles/XMinusOne55-12-07028Nightfall.mp3

Comics

https://xkcd.com/2914/

Politics & Economics

“by the end of the decade, barring some massive cash infusion of grants, we’re probably going to see rises in average student debt on the order of 20-25%, meaning the national average student debt for a bachelor’s degree (among those who borrow) would top $35,000. And that’s without factoring in much in the way of tuition or other cost increases.” https://higheredstrategy.com/why-student-debt-might-be-about-to-rise/

Terms like “record” or “outlier” start to sound inapt, less than fully accurate. The charts are hilariously underpowered attempts to depict just how out-of-balance we have rendered the world. https://www.splinter.com/the-climate-charts-are-not-okay

Great series from Canada Commons .. the history and ever-changing present of what it means to be a worker in https://www.canadaland.com/shows/commons/

The low snowpack would be a challenge for electricity producers in some areas of the province, he said. BC Hydro relies on melting snowpacks to fill reservoirs and allow power generation. https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/04/12/How-Lowest-Snowpack-50-Years-Will-Hit-BC/

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