Allen tells a story of accidental evolution, Arik reassures 1930s New York, Allen accidentally learns about pearling, and Arik explains how the sun heats things.
- The July 1930 issue of The New Yorker
- The Chrysler Building
- Bedrock and Midtown
- Vavilovian mimicry
- Why it’s colder on a mountain
- Prolate spheroids
- Pearling, not the wikipedia page about body modification, but rather a very nice page from Bob’s Red Mill