JDJohn Doeinbananas.hashnode.dev·Jan 16, 2025 · 3 min readSound Barrier of Letting GoIt’s 1956. In a room full of British and French officials, someone's just had what they think is a brilliant idea: "What if we made planes go really, really fast?" Two nations, fresh from centuries of trying to kill each other, decide to collaborate ...00
JDJohn Doeinbananas.hashnode.dev·Jan 16, 2025 · 3 min readTribal IsolationIt's April 1967. Cubberley High School in Palo Alto, California. History teacher Ron Jones is having the kind of week that's about to go spectacularly sideways. He's teaching World History to a bunch of sophomores. They are discussing Nazi Germany wh...00
JDJohn Doeinbananas.hashnode.dev·Jan 16, 2025 · 2 min readBullet PointsThe year is 1943. The U.S. military has a deadly serious problem. Their planes keep getting shot down over enemy territory, and nobody can figure out why. So they do what any reasonable organization would do - they gather their brightest minds in a g...00
JDJohn Doeinbananas.hashnode.dev·Jan 7, 2025 · 2 min readDangerously QualifiedIt's March 15th, 1840. A young doctor named Ignaz Semmelweis is standing in Vienna General Hospital's maternity ward, staring at a piece of paper that's about to change his life. The numbers don't lie: 1 in 3 women in the doctors' ward are dying from...00
