Caffeine and Lasers
Caffeine and Lasers
Cam
I run a poruidly niche-less blog, where I talk about Science, Culture, Economics, Beer, Coffee, Technology and whatever else I feel like.
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2024-07-28 Note: This is a transcript for a talk I delivered to Joel Carpenter's UQ Optics class in 2022. I found it in my notes and did not bother to re-read it before uploading. Feel free to yell at me if I've made any mistakes. From...
1 Anatomy of the Espresso There are dozens of methods of brewing coffee, from the humble filter, plunger, aeropress and cold brew. But here in Australia, when we hear "coffee", we think espresso. There is a lot of mysticism around coffee...
Rating: ⭐ Type: Non-Fiction Typically I am a very materialist (philosophically, not literally) person, and as a results this was one of the more impactful political books I have ever read. In many cases power is downstream from...
UPDATE I built a widget to generate the feed url for you. See it here 1 How and Why to Use RSS to Improve Your Reddit UX Did you know you can subscribe to subreddits via RSS? Maybe you did, but did you know it’s the best way to use...
Rating: 🟩 Type: Non-Fiction Of all the books I've read about beer (3) this remains my favourite. Probably because it was written by a physicist.
Rating: ⭐ Type: Fiction I never thought I would take "Astro-socialogy" as a serious concept before reading this. Read the whole series, seriously.
Rating: 🟩 Type: Fiction I read Dune, and Dune Messiah where it got a bit too weird. The original is where it is at. The book is at its most interesting when it is talking about real politik.