Small Findings

The findings this week:

1. The basics of China's economic model
   • A spectre is haunting the West — the spectre of authoritarian capitalism
2. Harvard's endowment
   • Harvard announces salary and hiring freezes
3. What's involved in an ICU
   • How to set up an ICU
4. Conspiracy theories
   • Conspiracy and Democracy
   • John Naughton's quarantine diary
   • Jair Bolsonaro claims NGOs behind Amazon forest fire surge – but provides no evidence
   • Brussels accuses Orbán of peddling conspiracy theory with Juncker poster
   • Ruling party blames Muslims for spreading the coronavirus, would-be autocrats use Covid-19 as an excuse to grab power
5. Volcanic lightning
   • brownpau on Taal
   • Lava fountain times
   • Popular Science on volcanic lightning
   • Popular Mechanics: How to stir up lightning in a lab
   • Wikipedia on Taal's 2020 eruption
   • Rappler's Taal eruption timeline
6. Space elevators
   • Sky Line, a documentary from 2015
   • Wikipedia

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