Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 21st/22nd October 2023
Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found by Anthony King
“If you believe their back-of-the-envelope estimation, this is a very, very significant deposit of lithium,’ says Anouk Borst, a geologist at KU Leuven University and the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium. ‘It could change the dynamics of lithium globally, in terms of price, security of supply and geopolitics.’ …”
Lisztomania Enters the Twenty-first Century by Alex Ross
“As new Liszt recordings and books piled up—about twenty traversals of the Sonata have appeared in the past couple of years, alongside six renditions of the complete Transcendental Études—I decided to grapple with the composer as I never had before. I listened not only to the familiar warhorses but also to the vast remainder of Liszt’s output: the clattery technical showpieces, the bombastic ceremonial marches, the freewheeling paraphrases of other composers, the cryptic fragments of old age…”
There Are No Rules by Anne Applebaum
“Nevertheless, these documents have influenced real behavior in the real world. Soviet dissidents used to embarrass their government by pointing to human-rights language in treaties the Kremlin had signed and did not respect…”
Musk Shut Down Ukrainian Attack After Chat with Russian Official
“Musk made business and financial decisions that, under our economic system, entitles him to the vast profits of SpaceX. But he didn’t create it on his own. The company was built on the back of U.S. government contracts. In essence the U.S. government fronted the money to build SpaceX by awarding it contracts that made its business viable.…”
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