Field Notes

So you think you know everything about electricity? Are you sure? Let’s find out. 

“A problem becomes a crisis when it challenges our ability to cope and thus threatens our identity. In the polycrisis the shocks are disparate, but they interact so that the whole is even more overwhelming than the sum of the parts. At times one feels as if one is losing one’s sense of reality.” 

Learn more about Polycrisis over at Aeon.

Personal ads shouldn’t be boring, as demonstrated by the London Review of Books. (Someone should send a memo to the Tinder crowd.)

You thought scam phone calls in Chinese were bad? Wait until you come across these Twitter Extortion Schemes. This is what happens when people try to make a quick buck and undermine the value of the blue check mark.

The first-ever radio commercial was broadcast on New York AM station WEAF, broadcasting at 660 kHz on the AM dial, 101 years ago on August 28, 1922. August 28th is now celebrated as Radio Commercials Day!

August 29, 2023.