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For the ones interested, there’s a fascination book on the history of oil. The Prize, by Daniel Yergin [1].

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/169354


Nice project! For other people interested in the history of the Silk Roads, I loved the book by Peter Frankopan.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25812847-the-silk-roads


At FOSDEM there was a talk about boosting Python with Rust [1]. Might be interesting for the people checking this.

[1] https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/python2020_rust/


A Dutch professor created the "Herengracht index" to track the price of these canal houses back to when construction started in 1620.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herengracht_index [2] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=598


I really like this tutorial to get into Make files: https://swcarpentry.github.io/make-novice/.


In the Netherlands we, as hydraulic engineers, are working on something called 'Building with Nature'. This is a perfect example of that. If you guys like this, check out https://www.ecoshape.org/en/.


As a part of that there are several projects underway trying to get oysters to return, using artificial reefs:

https://www.platteoester.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Overv...


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