To Scale: The Solar System | Wylie Overstreet
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Baby Food: If breast is best, why are women bottling their milk? | New Yorker
Pumps can be handy; they’re also a handy way to avoid privately agonizing and publicly unpalatable questions: is it the mother, or her milk, that matters more to the baby? Gadgets are one of the few ways to “promote breast-feeding” while avoiding harder—and divisive and more stubborn—social and economic issues. Is milk medicine? Is suckling love?
This is an old article (2009) but I came across it while googling something pumping-related. It’s a sort of “history” of breastfeeding and pumping and all of the issues involved.
The End of the NASA Window | Kottke
In retrospect, it was an unlikely set of conditions that came together to produce the Space Age. Not just the postwar blend of prosperity and paranoia, but a series of scientific breakthroughs, both pure and applied, that happened in such close succession that we nearly had a surplus, one that had to be invested in something.
This is an interesting thought, and an idea that I’ve never heard before — essentially, the supposition that we as a society are now “smart enough” to recognize that space travel is an inefficient use of resources. I hope this is not true.
