Benjamin Steenkamer

A list of videos, papers, and articles I find interesting. The links are ordered in the sequence I come across them, with the top entries of a category being more recent. If a link is dead, there should be a backup of it on the Wayback Machine or possibly Archive.today.
Last updated: 2024-04-07

Table of Contents:

• Architecture and Buildings
• Artists
• Automobiles
• Chemistry
• Computer Science and Software
  • Video Games
  • Vintage Computer Science and Software
• Computer Security and Reverse Engineering
• Economics, Finance, and Business
• Electrical Engineering and Electronics
  • Vintage Electrical Engineering and Electronics
• Geography and Natural Formations
• General Information
• Heavy Industry
• History
• Journalism
• Mathematics
• Movies
• Nuclear
• Oceans, Ships, and Boats
• Space
• Trains

Architecture and Buildings

• Chalet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalet
• American Craftsman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Craftsman
• Rainier Tower: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainier_Tower
• BOK Tower: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOK_Tower
  • “Cousin” building of the World Trade Center Twin Towers
• Leadenhall Market: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadenhall_Market
• 375 Pearl Street, New York, NY (Verizon Building): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/375_Pearl_Street
• Corporation Trust Center, 1209 North Orange Street, Wilmington, DE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_Trust_Center_(CT_Corporation)
  • A huge number of American businesses are registered at this single address
  • See also: 251 Little Falls Drive, Wilmington, DE
• Cupolas: https://www.thisoldhouse.com/roofing/21018295/cupolas
• Regrading in Seattle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regrading_in_Seattle
  • Seattle Underground: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Underground
• Writers’ Museum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writers%27_Museum
• Terraced house: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraced_house
• The Shambles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shambles
• Meissen Cathedral: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meissen_Cathedral
• Brownstone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownstone
• One Liberty Plaza: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Liberty_Plaza
  • Singer Building: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singer_Building
• Khrushchyovka: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khrushchyovka
• Queen Anne style architecture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Anne_style_architecture
• Towers of Bologna: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towers_of_Bologna
• Lever House: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lever_House
• Seagram Building: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagram_Building
• Curtain wall (architecture): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtain_wall_(architecture)
• One Times Square: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Times_Square
  • Photos of the inside
• 33 Thomas Street (AT&T Long Lines Building): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street
• Brutalist architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture
  • A great book on this topic is Atlas of Brutalist Architecture: https://www.phaidon.com/store/architecture/Atlas-of-Brutalist-Architecture-9781838661908/

Artists:

• Susan Kare: https://www.aiga.org/medalist-susan-kare, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Kare
• John Martin (painter): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Martin_(painter)
• Frederic Edwin Church: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Edwin_Church
• Gustave Doré: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Dor%C3%A9
• Zdzisław Beksiński: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zdzis%C5%82aw_Beksi%C5%84ski
• Albert Bierstadt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Bierstadt
• Thomas Cole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cole
• Ilya Repin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Repin

Automobiles

• Volkswagen currywurst: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_currywurst
• Gasoline explained: Where our gasoline comes from: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/gasoline/where-our-gasoline-comes-from.php
• Mitsubishi North America Sold Negative Three (-3) Lancers Last Month (2019): https://jalopnik.com/mitsubishi-north-america-sold-negative-three-3-lance-1832274956
• Images of Change, Closed Chrysler Newark Plant - Lynn Mcdowell (2010, 2011): https://lynnmcdowell.photoshelter.com/gallery-collection/Images-of-Change-Closed-Chrysler-Newark-Plant/C0000yDtYV7f7bpw
• Below are some of the largest original equipment manufactures (OEMs) for car parts. If you are looking for a replacement part, you can search these companies’ catalogs and probably find an equivalent or exact replacement.
  • ACDelco (General Motors): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACDelco
  • Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (Toyota Group): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisin_Seiki
  • Continental AG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_AG
  • Denso Corporation (Toyota Group): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denso
  • Magna International Inc.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_International
  • ZF Friedrichshafen AG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZF_Friedrichshafen
• How an engine works - comprehensive tutorial animation featuring Toyota engine technologies (2011): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA_19bHxEYg
• DTM 1991 - Season Review (English Commentary): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5_fmSRouf4

Chemistry

• Benzene: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzene
• Potassium nitrate (saltpeter): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_nitrate
• Creosote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creosote
• SCOBY: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCOBY
• AT&T Archives: The Physical Chemistry of Polymers (1962): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeRcPO5lVwQ
• AT&T Archives: Crystal Growth Morphologies, a 1974 microscopic film study from Bell Laboratories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3GwvN5W1dE

Computer Science and Software:

• Killed by Google: https://killedbygoogle.com
• The Secret History of Windows Bluescreens by Davepl (2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgqJJECQQH0
• The Secret History of Windows Task Manager: Part 1 - Retired Microsoft Engineer Davepl (2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8VBOiPV-_M
• How NOT to Measure Latency - Gil Tene, Strange Loops 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ8ydIuPFeU
• The Bits Between the Bits: How We Get to main() - Matt Godbolt, CppCon 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOfucXtyEsU
• What Else Has My Compiler Done For Me Lately? - Matt Godbolt, C++Now 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAbCKa0FzjQ
• What Has My Compiler Done for Me Lately? Unbolting the Compiler’s Lid - Matt Godbolt, CppCon 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSkpMdDe4g4
• When a Microsecond Is an Eternity: High Performance Trading Systems in C++ - Carl Cook, CppCon 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH1Tta7purM
• Performance Matters - Emery Berger, Stange Loops 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-TLSBdHe1A
• SAM (Software Automatic Mouth): https://github.com/s-macke/SAM
• Famous laws of Software development: https://www.timsommer.be/famous-laws-of-software-development/
• An introduction to vectorization: https://blog.cr.yp.to/20190430-vectorize.html
• 0x5f3759df: http://h14s.p5r.org/2012/09/0x5f3759df.html
• Fast inverse square root: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
• Markdown Cheatsheet: https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet
• x86-64 Instruction Usage among C/C++ Applications (2019): https://aakshintala.com/papers/instrpop-systor19.pdf
• What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory (2007): https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf

  Video Games

• How The NES Conquered A Skeptical America In 1985 - Ars Technica (2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn5v09L_uDg
• Breaking Conventions with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Hidemaro Fujibayashi, CDC 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyMsF31NdNc
• Dwarf Fortress Live - PAX West 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW_dHPtC2wg
• DOOM: Behind the Music - Mick Gordon, CDC 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4FNBMZsqrY

  Vintage Computer Science and Software

• Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation - David C. Brock (2020): https://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies-lost-dissertation/
  • Recreating Dennis Ritchie’s PhD Thesis - Computerphile (2021): https://youtu.be/82TxNejKsng
• Uptime 15,364 days - The Computers of Voyager - Aaron Cummings, Strange Loops 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H62hZJVqs2o
• AT&T Archives: Microelectronics Video Disc Exhibit (1984): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRTJqnXr8tM
• AT&T Archives: Processing Integrated Circuits at Bell Labs (1979): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLReXtpNlbw
• AT&T Archives: The UNIX System: Making Computers More Productive (1982): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc4ROCJYbm0
• AT&T Archives: The UNIX System: Making Computers Easier to Use (1982): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvDZLjaCJuw
• FLATLINE: How The Amiga Languished - Stuart Brown (2018): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB_UZsJUbwQ
• Pictures of Bell Labs (1969 - 1970): http://www.larryluckham.com/1969%20&%2070%20-%20Bell%20Labs/album/index.html
  • Pictures inside Bell Labs, Oakland, CA; taken by an employee some time between 1969 and 1970.

Computer Security and Reverse Engineering

• Semiconductor Security Awareness, Today and Yesterday - Christopher Tarnovsky, Black Hat USA 2010: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXX00tRKOlw
• Tales from Hardware Security Research - Johannes and Marc, CCC 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqAHCpe8Oxw
• Lightening fast CTF solving - Automatic Exploit Generation & Side Channel Analysis - Christoper Roberts, BSides DC 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4goiRPcxl4
• Cache Side Channels: State of the Art and Research Opportunities - Yinqian Zhang, ACM CCS 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLEjSU1a748
• Exploiting modern microarchitectures Meltdown, Spectre, and other hardware attacks - Jon Masters, FOSDEM 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kCDPCgjlJ4
• Reverse engineering FPGAs - MathiasL, 34C3 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Wwa8csFjk
• Breaking the x86 Instruction Set - Christopher Domas, Black Hat USA 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrksBdWcZgQ
• A better zip bomb: https://www.bamsoftware.com/hacks/zipbomb/
• A Quick Survey on Anti-Anti-Viruses: https://bananamafia.dev/post/crypt0r/
• project:rosenbridge: hardware backdoors in x86 CPUs: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge
• s a n d s i f t e r: the x86 processor fuzzer: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/sandsifter
• Fun with self-decryption: https://x64dbg.com/blog/2018/02/25/fun-with-self-decryption.html
• Demovfuscator: A work-in-progress deobfuscator for movfuscated binaries: https://github.com/kirschju/demovfuscator
• M/o/Vfuscator: The single instruction C compiler: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator
• FUZZIFICATION: Anti-Fuzzing Techniques (2019): https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec19fall_jung_prepub.pdf
• FORESHADOW: Extracting the Keys to the Intel SGX Kingdom with Transient Out-of-Order Execution (2018): https://foreshadowattack.eu/foreshadow.pdf
• Fallout: Reading Kernel Writes From User Space (2019): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.12701.pdf
• Dowsing for overflows: A guided fuzzer to find buffer boundary violations (2013): https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity13/sec13-paper_haller.pdf
• RAMBleed: Reading Bits in Memory Without Accessing Them (2019): https://rambleed.com/docs/20190603-rambleed-web.pdf
• FlatFlash: Exploiting the Byte-Accessibility of SSDs within A Unified Memory-Storage Hierarchy (2019): https://jianh.web.engr.illinois.edu/papers/flatflash.pdf
• Flipping Bits in Memory Without Accessing Them: An Experimental Study of DRAM Disturbance Errors (2014): http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~yoonguk/papers/kim-isca14.pdf
• Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution (2018): https://spectreattack.com/spectre.pdf
• Meltdown: Reading Kernel Memory from User Space (2018): https://meltdownattack.com/meltdown.pdf

Economics, Finance, and Business

• ZOPA - Zone Of Possible Agreement: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/z/zoneofpossibleagreement.asp
• Externality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
• Jevons paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
• Swiss Re: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Re
• Good Delivery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Delivery
• Wilmington Trust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_Trust
• Corporation Service Company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_Service_Company
• Bulge bracket: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulge_bracket
• Banq (term): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banq_(term)

Electrical Engineering and Electronics

• How Japan Learned Semiconductors (2022): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwhU9goCiaI
• How anti-theft tags work - magnetostriction (2015): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAm7qAKAXwI
• Capacitor plague (1999 - 2007): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
• Counterfeit electronic components: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfeit_electronic_components
• Silicon Run I (1996): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XTWXRj24GM
  • The version of Cadence Virtuoso they use @10:45 looks basically the exact same as the version I used ~20 years later…
• How Microchips Are Made - Manufacturing of a Semiconductor (2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdcLRMv3D3g
• Fuse cutout: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuse_cutout
• Semiconductor Engineering: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2LCc4VvMYj-6Kqe09avwow
  • A Youtube channel with highlevel interviews of people in the semiconductor industry on various topics
• From DC to RF…starting where? - Chris Gammell, CCC 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFr-_p1UwHI
• Fomu - an FPGA inside your USB port - Tim Ansell and Sean Cross, CCC 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBfC-oxvaqM
• Why memory is a hard problem in modern computer architectures - Felix Held, OSFC 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK1jYTYVh1U
• 5D optical data storage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5D_optical_data_storage
• An in-depth look at Google’s first Tensor Processing Unit (TPU): https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/an-in-depth-look-at-googles-first-tensor-processing-unit-tpu
• 45-year CPU evolution: one law and two equations (2018): https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1803/1803.00254.pdf
• Quantum advantage with shallow circuits (2017): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.00690.pdf
• Zeptobars (IC die analysis): https://zeptobars.com/en/
• J.C. Bose: 60 GHz in the 1890s: https://www.cv.nrao.edu/~demerson/bose/bose.html

  Vintage Electrical Engineering and Electronics

• AT&T Archives: Communications Satellites Documentary (1987): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tsDqlnP0Xw
• Tektronix Printed Circuit Boards (1969): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7weZ0TNRcuw
• AT&T Archives: Principles of the Optical Maser (1963): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuORqMb481k
• AT&T Archives: Invention of the First Electric Computer (1980): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4bhZYoY3lo
• The LM6142 Story: http://www.idea2ic.com/LM6142/LM6142_Story.html
• The Transistor: a 1953 documentary, anticipating its coming impact on technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9xUQWo4vN0

Geography and Natural Formations

• Salt dome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_dome
• Burning Mountain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Mountain
  • Coal-seam fire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal-seam_fire
• Lake Toba: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Toba
• Great Dismal Swamp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Dismal_Swamp
• Piedmont (United States): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piedmont_(United_States)
• Vernal pool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernal_pool
• Vortex Spring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_Spring
• Novaya Zemlya: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novaya_Zemlya

General Information

• Dead mileage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_mileage
• VUCA - volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VUCA
• The Origins of Office Speak (2014): https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/04/business-speak/361135/
• Hollywood Edge - The Premiere Edition Volume 1 Sound Effects Library: https://www.sound-ideas.com/Product/98/Premiere-Edition-Vol-1-Sound-Effects-Library
  • Sound library used by pretty much every movie. Includes classics such as Pottery Drop Break PE112401 and Sm Heavy Metal Door Sl PE185001.
• McMurdo Station Webcams (Antarctic): https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/mcmwebcam.cfm
• Sympathetic detonation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathetic_detonation
• Sun dog: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog
• Portland cement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_cement
• Knock-down kit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knock-down_kit
• Virginia Tech Bicycle Helmet Ratings: https://www.helmet.beam.vt.edu/bicycle-helmet-ratings.html
• Inside Earth’s Doomsday Seed Vault - Vice (2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AzG9EZ20tY
• Drop Shipping: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_shipping
• How It’s Made: Bourbon - Science Channel (2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VscpKT7tXE
• What WD-40 Is REALLY For! - Fran Blanche (2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTD_SBudQfY
• Weapons That May Cause Unnecessary Suffering or Have Indiscriminate Effects (1973): https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/pdf/RC-Weapons.pdf

Heavy Industry

• Mitsubishi Keiretsu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi
  • Banking, heavy industry, defense, cars…
• Hyundai Chaebol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai
  • Retail, cars, bots, robotics, steel, oil refining…
• Irving Group of Companies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Group_of_Companies
• Intermodal container: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermodal_container
• Cofferdam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cofferdam
• Byford Dolphin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin
• Urals Automotive Plant (UralAZ): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ural_Automotive_Plant
• KAMAZ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamaz
• Heavy Press Program - United States Air Force (1951): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ50nZU3oG8
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Press_Program

History

• Great Smog of London: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London
• The Codex Argenteus: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/silver-purple-bible-codex-mysterious-centuries
• Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%A6al_Saflieni_Hypogeum
• Index Librorum Prohibitorum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum
• Malleus Maleficarum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malleus_Maleficarum
• Directorium Inquisitorum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directorium_Inquisitorum

Journalism

• A most wanted man: Fugitive Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek exposed as decade-long GRU spy (2024): https://theins.ru/en/politics/269612
• The Dirty Secrets of a Smear Campaign (2023): https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/03/the-dirty-secrets-of-a-smear-campaign
• EXPLAINER: Why do the media call races in US elections? (2020): https://apnews.com/article/why-does-media-call-races-us-elections-20e9b5688aa0b7404648ea74b1c2f4dc

Mathematics

• How random can you be? (2019): https://www.expunctis.com/2019/03/07/Not-so-random.html
• Lakes of Wada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakes_of_Wada
• The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences: https://oeis.org/

Movies

• David Lynch Keeps His Head (1996): http://www.lynchnet.com/lh/lhpremiere.html
  • Scan of the orignal article from Premiere, Septmeber 1996 issue: https://archive.org/details/sim_premiere_1996-09_10_1/page/90
  • The “Lynch Pic” is excellent: https://robday.com/david-lynch

Nuclear

• Windscale fire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire
• Oklo Mine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklo_Mine
• “Paper Reactor” Memo: https://whatisnuclear.com/rickover.html
• Savannah River Site: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah_River_Site
• Dead Hand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand
• LOW - Launch on warning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_on_warning
• List of nuclear close calls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls
  • Able Archer 83: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83
  • More about Able Archer 83: https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/nuclear-close-calls-able-archer-83/
• Sandia Containment Testing and FEA (2017): https://www.xceed-eng.com/reactor-containment-test-and-fea/
• Westinghouse Atom Smasher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Atom_Smasher
• Pig: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/glossary/pig.html
• Moving Nuclear Waste Around - David Ruzic (2019): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLwqokQ7Gpk
• Radioisotope thermoelectric generator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator
  • The nuclear lighthouses built by the Soviets in the Arctic - BBC (2021): https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0931jtk/the-nuclear-lighthouses-built-by-the-soviets-in-the-arctic
• National Nuclear Security Administration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Nuclear_Security_Administration
• Long-time nuclear waste warning messages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warning_messages
• Waste Isolation Pilot Plant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Isolation_Pilot_Plant
• Scarm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scram
• Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_repository
• The Nuclear Novel and Language: http://histscifi.com/essays/gordin/languages
• Expert Judgement on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (1993): https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10117359
  • Excerpts from this paper: https://urbigenous.net/library/WIPP/

Oceans, Ships, and Boats

• Glomar Explorer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_Explorer
• What’s the Difference Between a Boat and a Ship? (2023): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cps0xBV6xi0
• Floating sheerleg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_sheerleg
• Life on board a British nuclear submarine (2012): https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/aug/21/life-on-board-nuclear-submarine
• Shipping Out: On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise (1996): https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazine-1996-01-0007859.pdf
  • Crying Myself to Sleep on the Biggest Cruise Ship Ever (2024): https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/05/royal-caribbean-cruise-ship-icon-of-seas/677838/
• Graveyard of the Pacific: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graveyard_of_the_Pacific
• Well dock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_dock
• NOAAS Rainier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOAAS_Rainier
• Shackleton’s Endurance: The impossible search for the greatest shipwreck (2022): https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60239105
• Ghost ship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_ship
• Heaving to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaving_to
• Twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-foot_equivalent_unit
• United States Lighthouse Service: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Lighthouse_Service
• Draupner wave: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draupner_wave
  • The first rogue wave to be detected by a measuring instrument
• Intertropical Convergence Zone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertropical_Convergence_Zone
  • Also know as the “doldrums”
• Fresnel lens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel_lens
  • How a Fresnel Lens works, using a simple blackboard model (2012): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nBNnlu6Rqo
  • Good movie with one of these: The Lighthouse (2019 film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lighthouse_(2019_film)
• Bollard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollard

Space

• Miyake event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyake_event
• The Carrington Event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event
• Sputnik Crashed Here (Manitowoc, Wisconsin): https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/12959
• Wow! signal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal

Trains

• Federal Railroad Administration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Railroad_Administration
• Woodbridge train derailment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodbridge_train_derailment
  • Fun fact: my great-uncle’s father was on this train and survived the disaster
• Telescoping (rail cars): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescoping_%28rail_cars%29
• End-of-train device (flashing rear-end device, FRED): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-train_device