Spero In Dialogue

4/29–5/3

Each week, we like to share links, books, movies, and content that the team found interesting. Hopefully it helps the world get to know us a little better, and maybe some interesting patterns will emerge.

Andrew Parker

Spacecraft Cemetery (Wikipedia)

TIL there is a dedicated part of the Pacific where everyone knows to crash their end-of-life space junk. It’s at the point in the ocean furthest from all land.

Marc Tarpenning

Killer Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks (NYT)

Clever new software and a lot of compute can reveal amazing things in old data, including finding 27,500 asteroids we didn’t know about.

Lisa Zieger

Guantánamo (Serial Season 4)

Like almost everyone else, my entry into podcasts was the first season of Serial. They’re back with Season 4, this time focused on Guantanamo. I’m three episodes in, and while it doesn’t have me hooked quite as much as the mystery of Season 1, it’s a great companion on a long run.

Sara Eshelman

‎Oppenheimer: The Father of the Atom Bomb (The Rest is History Podcast)

Discovered a podcast this week after distractedly watching the Oppenheimer movie on a flight and needing to better understand the whole political side of the plot. Seems like I’m really late to the game, but this is a good one!

Stephen Wemple

The future of silk (Works in Progress)

Every so often I come across a thoughtful piece re-surfacing the power and potential of silk. Reading about the properties of such a small thread has a new meaning after watching the Three Body Problem…

Shripriya Mahesh

What’s Enough to Make Us Happy? (HBS)

Doing this exercise every 5 years makes sense.