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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 3/21/2023: Dealer's Choice [1]
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Date: 2023-03-21
I need to open with this, because I was so pleased to happen upon it. I have driven past this “telephone pole farm” in Chester, NJ countless times. The extent of it is not obvious from the road, but the first rows of stubby poles are. “What the hell IS that?”, I used to wonder. Now I know: it’s a telephone pole testing ground, and like many residents of this part of New Jersey, when I learned that Bell Labs was behind it, I just went, “OH, okay, got it.” [2:23]
This company, NODE, is prototyping flat-pack, affordable, carbon-negative houses that could be shipped cheaply and assembled quickly on-site by only a few people. It’s a very interesting idea! More info at their link. [5:10]
This video from the scientific journal Nature shows a clever little device that autonomously drills itself into the ground. It can be loaded with seeds or other cargo, even sensors, and then strewn over a large or remote area to plant whatever it’s carrying. Nature requires a subscription, but you can see the abstract of the paper without a paywall. Or just watch! [2:29]
Puppeteer Barnaby Dixon started out as a stop-motion animator, and that led him to develop his unique puppets that have remarkably fluid motion. [9:09]
According to the video’s title, Caltech seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones tells you “how to prepare for a major earthquake”, but it’s not “here’s where to hide when the shaking starts” — it’s more like “here are all the ways infrastructure needs to change now”. It is, however, extremely informative, if alarming. [14:07]
The Brick Experiment Channel is a guy in Finland (we see a lot of them, don't we?) who says, “I do nerdy experiments with Lego bricks :)”. Here, he has assembled 20 different machine elements (e.g. a universal joint, a rack-and-pinion, a camshaft) out of Lego. He briefly demonstrates how they work, and then adds them to his machine, which does… nothing, really. But it’s fun to watch! [7:20]
I know I’ve put this in a diary before, but I recently had occasion to put it into a comment under a diary about Woody Guthrie, who wrote it (folk tune, I think, but he wrote the words), and I feel like it’s time for it again. This is the awesome Rhiannon Giddens and the Resistance Revival Chorus. I warn you, you’ll be singing the chorus of it for days. [3:21]
If you are having a difficult day, perhaps you’d like to stop for a while at this quiet cafe, which is also full of books and birdsong and, inexplicably, large flowering cherry trees. (I’m told that large flowering cherry trees that grow inside towering library cafes emit no pollen, so no worries there.) [8 hours]
🌼 Monday late: Mercy Ormont took some pictures of the Superbloom in Arizona, and posted some in a late comment. If we’re nice to her, maybe she’ll post some more!
I need to toss in this tweet, for those who missed it Monday morning in Cheers and Jeers. You can also see it on YouTube, but I chose the tweet because it has some text saying what on earth this is. [2:19]
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