Monday links

Steven Levy interviews Bill Gates (highly recommended)
A neat Raspberry Pi nano computer
The lost art of having a chat
FiveThirtyEight on Why GOP Senators are sticking with Trump
Sixty years ago Dr. Seuss published Green Eggs and Ham – Here’s how it happened
Flying is actually pretty safe in the age of covid
Good Conflict – long but highly recommended. My favorite quote: “the scary thing was how much reward was waiting for me if I presented myself as victimized”
How Doug Engelbart pulled off the mother of all demos

And finally:

Aristotle, followed by Averroes and Ramon Llull, charge the Tower of Falsehood (where Truth is held hostage) armed with Philosophy.

St. Peter perg. 92, North France after 1321 https://t.co/nH8ZFH39Hk #medievaltwitter #medievalmanuscripts pic.twitter.com/g2FxAOOVn8
— Mateusz Fafinski (@Calthalas) August 9, 2020

[ARCHAEOLOGY THREAD] Apollo’s sanctuary at Delphi is the stuff of legends

For over a thousand years, the famous oracle foretold the futures and fortunes of the city-states and heroes of ancient Greece

This thread explores whether she was stoned on geological vapors
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— Flint Dibble 🍖🏺 (@FlintDibble) August 9, 2020

The words 'Plato' and 'plate' are related to each other.

Both derive from the Greek adjective platús, meaning 'broad' or 'flat'.

('Plato' was in fact the philosopher's nickname, probably given on account of his physique – his real name was Aristocles.) pic.twitter.com/cDGvmHuJ5t
— Danny Bate (@DannyBate4) August 9, 2020

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