This Week’s Selections
The Anti-Social Century (link)
There Are No Pure Cultures (link)
Crumple Zone: What Car Crashes Reveal About Human Hubris and Fragility (link)
At The Thistle (link) –– A sympathetic assessment of a controversial center for drug addicts.
Why hydrants ran dry as firefighters battled California’s deadly fires (link)
Flashbacks:
The great San Francisco fire of 1906 (link)
The Control of Nature (link)
Other Items of Note
Matt Welch on the failures of California officials (link)
The Guardian with photos of Pacific Palisades (link)
Joan Didion on The Santa Anas (link) and California burning (link)
A high resolution photo of smoke over Los Angeles (link)
Hard truths about California’s fire crisis (link)
Noah Smith on the fires, paywalled but good stuff before you hit it (link)
Alta Dena after the fire (link)
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