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Hi! Here is your weekly dose of “Everything Strange,” literally a list of everything strange happening around us. So let’s start with Operation Chastise: Exactly 77 years ago, today in 1943 UK's Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron began the famous Dambusters Raid, bombing German dams in the Ruhr valley with bouncing bombs. Nazi Attack: In 1943, SS General Jürgen Stroop ordered burning of the Warsaw Ghetto, to end a month of Jewish resistance.

Heyyyy! Daylight savings was last week (for U.S. residents) and I’m kinda sorta accustomed to spring ahead time now. And … the weekend is finally here. So, in my world, that means deciding what K-dramas my family will watch this weekend. Are you doing the same? For this newsletter, I am reviewing K-dramas that reflect on characters who have (or had) been … imprisoned. (And please note that not all of these are suitable for young children.

It takes one hour and 45 minutes to fly from Berlin to Paris. If you’ve ever been on a flight of that approximate length, as I did every winter and summer break from Oakland to Seattle and back to Oakland again, you know that not much can really happen on a flight that short. The airplane takes off, the seatbelt sign flickers on and off a couple times, drinks and a snack are served, you read a few chapters, the airplane descends, and then it’s all over.

I believe that this is the defining decade for direct air capture (DAC). Not because this is the decade that DAC will actually play an outsized role in mitigating the effects of climate change - in fact, we should primarily be focused on reducing emissions, which can often be done more quickly and cheaply than DAC - but because this decade is a critical juncture for companies, researchers, and policymakers working on DAC to figure out how to do three things:

Our guest today is Martin Surbeck. An assistant professor in evolutionary biology at Harvard University, Surbeck is one of the world’s foremost experts in primatology. He is interested in questions of social behavior in animals: competition but also cooperation, a skill and strategy often considered unique to humans. His main research object? Apes and monkeys, chimpanzees and bonobos especially, our cousins from 8 million years ago. Chimpanzees, as anyone who has ever been to the zoo knows, are experts at competing - with each other and seemingly everyone else.

Hello, and happy Monday. Welp, I finally caved. After about a year and a half of playing on my partner’s switch, I finally got my own. The first game I got was Pokémon Arceus and I have to say, it’s so lovely to see something of myself on the screen: I’ve been having a lot of trouble “switching off” lately. Whenever I try to relax at the end of the day by watching a movie or reading for fun, I’ve found that I keep thinking about work.

UPDATE 17/04/2024: Things have moved on a lot since I wrote this in 2021. I have a more recent article on email platforms here which I recommend reading alongside this chapter: Email platforms for writers in 2024Today’s newsletter is all about different writing platforms. This should be useful regardless of what you write, although I do inevitably have a focus towards fiction platforms. Talking of fact vs fiction, I’ve realised a slight design flaw in how I’m publishing my work on this newsletter.

I write to you from Arapahoe, Ute, and Cheyenne land. I am interested in learning about the different animals that live in the place where I was born. Before we start with today’s animal, I want to emphasize that biological classification as understood by western society has its roots in racism, sexism, and transphobia – here’s a good explainer about why. Colorado has four species of chipmunk: the Least Chipmunk (Eutamias minimus), the Colorado Chipmunk (Eutamius quadrivittatus), the Uinta Chipmunk (Eutamias umbrinus), and the Cliff Chipmunk (Eutamius dorsalis).