The Monday Mix (16/05/2022)
Hey friends,
The sun is shining and we are now basked in warm weather here in England, which makes the grim few previous months worth it. I don’t have much to update, but there will be a few more trips in the coming months and hopefully more articles too.
Here’s what I want to share this week!
Forgetting The Bomb
A lengthy but important post on nuclear weapons and how we’ve forgotten their destructive potential. This really is a remarkable post and highlights a lot of things I was unaware of, and I say this as a history graduate who mainly studied modern history. What happened in Hiroshima is indescribable, I don’t think any of us realise how awful the consequences of the bombing were.
On the one hand, we should be glad we live in a world where the threat of nuclear weapons being used in combat is remote, even if that risk has increased somewhat recently. Yet, on the other hand, not fearing is also a cause for concern as we risk becoming blase over their destructive potential.
The events of the past few months have sharpened our minds and made us remember that humanity has the potential to inflict widespread devastation on one another. Turning to the past to remind ourselves of the consequence and potential solutions is more important than ever.
Bill Gates Interview
An interesting interview with Bill Gates where he’s asked a multitude of questions by a variety of different people, famous and otherwise. It’s an interesting insight into the mind of one of the cleverest people on the planet.
His answers on many different topics are well worth taking in and mulling over.
The Earth ‘Blobs’ No One Understands
I love articles like this that tell me something I didn’t know about a coll and crazy phenomenon. As much as we know about our planet, there’s also much we don’t. I don’t want to spoil the article so will leave it up to you to discover what the ‘blobs’ that no one understands refers to!
Book I’m reading - One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I’m still reading this book and getting more and more into it as it progresses. It’s a slow burner, but the further you get into it, the more you understand why it’s so highly regarded.
Quote I’m pondering: Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. – Marie Curie
That’s all for this week.
Until next time,
Tom