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dragged my friends to see the Broad Street Pump- basically THE PUMP that like made modern epidemiology real. Like they were still believing miasma theory and shit and Dr. Snow was like…. Lol no the cholera is in the dirty Thames water actually…. Germ theory real. Anyway. Had stupid photo shoot so I have pics for my public health advisor.
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Visited my friend’s lab in London. It’s cool he vaporizes rock samples with a laser and ultimately gets data about when and at what temperature different parts of the rock were formed or somthing, idk tho. I’m pretty sure this pic is of a mass spectrometer.
I love how magical copper coils are. Loopy. Straight witchery. Pump some current and magnetic field goes brrr Occult shit. Electromagnetism stays winning
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Bought this for cheap in Berlin and read this on the plane + train back to London. had to fight tears. Such a quick and beautiful read.
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like many of the other responses to this post, I think that having physical copies of media ensures that there is some enduring access. It’s archival.
I would also add that having the physical copies enhances engagement with the media. This is of course a privilege bc physical media is usually more expensive than digital, but I do think that consuming Digital media is often more passive. Idk. I love my phone too (and Spotify and the internet archive and Gutenberg project). But after I started collecting CDs and physical books I became very interested in getting as much as possible out of them. listening to the same album in its entirety for weeks at a time. rereading a book (Seriously, I would rarely reread a book before).
Also lending the copies to friends is the best thing in the world. Like being able to share and then discus- or even just the sharing. Whether or not you get it back it just becomes a gift. Which is nice.
Anyways to blabber on this last point: I don’t think that you always have to personally own and keep forever all of the physical media you accrue. just going to a library does a lot of the same good (supporting local archiving + engaging with stuff my tangibly + media becoming communal). learning that many libraries still have VHS, CDs, and DVDs available to check out changed my life. ya.
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