We also greatly enjoyed our trip to Nova Scotia a few years ago. We wish there were more bike trails and we unfortunately did not make it to Cape Breton. However, we are a hockey family, so we were delighted to find a museum that discussed Halifax’s invention of this great sport, which one of its homegrown heroes, Sid the Kid, has come to shine at over the last decade: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/hockey-started-near-halifax-n_FLMY8SQM6PUac4XE7tUA
I also have become a fan of the late, great, Stan Rogers, who sang some beautiful songs about Nova Scotia and who gave up his life saving people during an aircraft fire. We enjoyed listening to his songs as we traveled around the coves near Halifax: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/hockey-started-near-halifax-n_FLMY8SQM6PUac4XE7tUA
Thanks for bringing back the memories and for all the usual interesting nuggets!
I did go to the Discovery Center museum and saw the hockey section in the bottom floor, but not being hockey fans, I admit I didn't pay that much attention to the details ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Did you make it to Peggy's Cove? That was a nice spot.
Happy to see the general change in sentiment toward nuclear power over the last decade. Still feels like we still have a ways to go, but it actually seems feasible now, which it did not a couple decades ago.
I immediately and blindly walked us right into a nuclear power sentiment discussion at the last OSV bookclub. It ended up being a more lively and much more positive discussion than I am used to. The main take aways were around possible methods of normalization as a way forward.
I can look out my window right now and see a coal fired plant, and 10 miles down the river there is a decommission nuclear power plant that was never completed. I've always been fairly liberal democrat but Greenpeace's involvement in the anti-nuclear movement and their direct involvement in getting this plant shut down always left a bad taste in my mouth for that sort of short sighted activism.
Granted the coal fired plant is orders of magnitudes "cleaner" than it used to be, it only now occasionally deposits bits of white and yellow ash on everything in a 10 mile radius, but still produces the same amount of CO2, and still produces radioactive fly ash that has to be buried on site. That was always the irony to me, the coal fired plants release orders of magnitude more radiation into the environment than a nuclear plant under nominal conditions. The fly ash pond at this plant has been there for 60+ years, 100ft from a major US waterway, and will likely be a super fund site in the not too distant future...
It's really sad, but the environmental movement may have negated almost all the good they did by helping kill the nuclear rollout a few decades ago.
Imagine if we had kept building at the rate we were? The world would be way different now and there would be many gigatons of carbon not in the atmosphere and dissolved into oceans right now..
Outlive is such a great book -- I was surprised at how much weight training specifically is associated with positive "healthspan". I would intuitively have thought that cardio is everything you need, and that humans didn't necessarily stand to benefit from lifting much.
We also greatly enjoyed our trip to Nova Scotia a few years ago. We wish there were more bike trails and we unfortunately did not make it to Cape Breton. However, we are a hockey family, so we were delighted to find a museum that discussed Halifax’s invention of this great sport, which one of its homegrown heroes, Sid the Kid, has come to shine at over the last decade: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/hockey-started-near-halifax-n_FLMY8SQM6PUac4XE7tUA
I also have become a fan of the late, great, Stan Rogers, who sang some beautiful songs about Nova Scotia and who gave up his life saving people during an aircraft fire. We enjoyed listening to his songs as we traveled around the coves near Halifax: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/hockey-started-near-halifax-n_FLMY8SQM6PUac4XE7tUA
Thanks for bringing back the memories and for all the usual interesting nuggets!
Josh
Thanks for sharing, Josh!
I did go to the Discovery Center museum and saw the hockey section in the bottom floor, but not being hockey fans, I admit I didn't pay that much attention to the details ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Did you make it to Peggy's Cove? That was a nice spot.
Happy to see the general change in sentiment toward nuclear power over the last decade. Still feels like we still have a ways to go, but it actually seems feasible now, which it did not a couple decades ago.
I immediately and blindly walked us right into a nuclear power sentiment discussion at the last OSV bookclub. It ended up being a more lively and much more positive discussion than I am used to. The main take aways were around possible methods of normalization as a way forward.
I can look out my window right now and see a coal fired plant, and 10 miles down the river there is a decommission nuclear power plant that was never completed. I've always been fairly liberal democrat but Greenpeace's involvement in the anti-nuclear movement and their direct involvement in getting this plant shut down always left a bad taste in my mouth for that sort of short sighted activism.
Granted the coal fired plant is orders of magnitudes "cleaner" than it used to be, it only now occasionally deposits bits of white and yellow ash on everything in a 10 mile radius, but still produces the same amount of CO2, and still produces radioactive fly ash that has to be buried on site. That was always the irony to me, the coal fired plants release orders of magnitude more radiation into the environment than a nuclear plant under nominal conditions. The fly ash pond at this plant has been there for 60+ years, 100ft from a major US waterway, and will likely be a super fund site in the not too distant future...
"In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant—a by-product from burning coal for electricity—carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy." - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/
💯
It's really sad, but the environmental movement may have negated almost all the good they did by helping kill the nuclear rollout a few decades ago.
Imagine if we had kept building at the rate we were? The world would be way different now and there would be many gigatons of carbon not in the atmosphere and dissolved into oceans right now..
I've wondered that quite often myself, and what advances may we have made.
Great post as usual. Love the Junger quote, I also found that one to be powerful.
Outlive is such a great book -- I was surprised at how much weight training specifically is associated with positive "healthspan". I would intuitively have thought that cardio is everything you need, and that humans didn't necessarily stand to benefit from lifting much.
I won't be skipping leg day any time soon!
The book was one of the final straws that pushed me to really get moving on my basement gym 💪
The Icahn story is unbelieveable
I know, right?
And issue all that overvalued stock to investors attracted by his "personal brand" feels pretty yucky..
I feel sorry for the boomers in retirement who held this purely on his personal brand and juicy dividend.