frozenbit

It’s been posted on HN before, but if this topic interests you, John Hersey’s famous reporting on the aftermath at Hiroshima (entitled “Hiroshima”) is worth reading. It’s essentially a short book, but the accounts laid out in the story make the impersonal tragedy into something that’s tangible. It should be required reading.

Wow, what a great story! Really inspiring too, well done and well written.

Funny, I actually appreciated that. I only wanted broad strokes and didn’t want to dig into detail, so having the explanation hidden made it easier for me to read.

What does it say about my literary tastes, I’d actually read some of these books. The 2019 winner sounds fun, has a Douglas Adams vibe.

A lot of terrible eating apples are great for baking, Granny Smith for example.

Also, red delicious _used_ to be, well, delicious. But selective breeding made them taste terrible: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Delicious

Wonder if the same will happen to other popular varieties, or if apple growers know better now.