Linkteresting #2: Reading, writing, and webmarks

Hello again webmates!Below are some notable things I’ve read, written, and consumed lately. Click links you’re curious about—that’s what the Web is for. ☕️ReadingWhat if? 2 by Randall Munroe: It’s just as funny and nerdy as the first one. The two books are by the creator of xkcd comics, and share the subtitle of “serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions”. That’s exactly right. If I had these books in college, physics would’ve been even more fun! It’s hard to choose the most destructive scenario in the books hell bent on breaking things but Proton Earth, Electron Moon probably takes the prize.In the case of an electron Moon, the energy from all those electrons pushing on each other is so large that the gravitational pull wins, and our singularity would form a normal black hole. At least, "normal" in some sense; it would be a black hole as massive as the observable universe.Poetry by T. S. Eliot: Some of his verses strike eerily even for events and themes of the world…