âThe humanities are not a system for the production of positive âresearch results.â They are a practice of self-cultivation, or they are nothingâ
The Butterfly Grove at Pismo Beach used to sound alive before you even saw it. The first time I visited on a winter morning over a decade ago, I stood beneath the towering eucalyptus and heard a faint
Leann Davis Alspaugh at Acroteria: The artist known as Banksy has made a fortune in graffiti and irony and ironic graffiti. No, heâs not the guyâwe now know that Banksy is a middle-aged Englishman nam
A guide to which Apple chargers to use with which Apple products in order to charge the quickest. (Your chargerâs wattage really matters when the deviceâs battery level is 0-50%. After that, less so.)
U.S. global air power depends on aerial refueling, but the tanker fleet that sustains it is under growing strain. What appears sufficient on paper becomes fragile in practice, revealing a widening gap
C. Brandon Ogbunugafor in Nature: Some thirty-five years ago, biologist Richard Dawkins coined the phrase âparadox of the organismâ to encapsulate a conundrum. If genes are âselfishâ â driven to incre
This shot from Artemis II of the Moon eclipsing the Sun is one of the most breathtaking astronomical photos Iâve ever seen. Holy shit.
Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April
I missed that author Tracy Kidder died a few weeks ago. Kidder wrote the excellent The Soul of a New Machine, which won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize.
Sophie McBain in The Guardian: In 2021, the psychologist and writer Kathryn Paige Harden co-authored a paper outlining her research into the genetic patterns linked to a higher risk of developing subs
Tuesdays are all about academic (and practitioner) literature at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last weekâs edition including a visualization of...
Hollywood, Ending is John Greenâs forthcoming book, âa deeply observed novel about the tension between a public and a private life, and finding your safe someone to hold ontoâ.
By channeling the Delphic spirits of his mentors, Lerner manages to avoid heavy-handed commentary in favor of stranger pursuits: finding the sense and nonsense in natural speech; intersplicing shards
Ruby Eastwood at the Dublin Review of Books: The Life of Violet brings together three interconnected short stories written by Woolf in 1907, at the age of twenty-five. They show her beginning to think
Sven Beckertâs Capitalism: A Global History ranges impressively over time and space, from medieval Yemen to modern-day Cambodia. But we need a clearer political economy of capitalism to make sense of
In a period of four years, Belgian photographer Barbara Iweins took a photo of every single thing in her house, âfrom my daughters torn sock to my sons Lego, but also my vibrator, my anxiolytics⌠abso
As the closure of the Strait of Hormuz wreaks havoc on fossil-fuel supplies across the...
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