Counterculture prophet, Whole Earth cataloguer, proto-internet evangelist, Stewart Brand has a new obsession: maintenance
Counterculture prophet, Whole Earth cataloguer, proto-internet evangelist, Stewart Brand has a new obsession: maintenance
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Counterculture prophet, Whole Earth cataloguer, proto-internet evangelist, Stewart Brand has a new obsession: maintenance
He championed Joyce, mentored Eliot, and broadcast fascist propaganda. Ezra Pound was indispensable as an artist and irredeemable as a man
An Emerson for our times? Terry Tempest Williamsâs âepic documentation of the Gloriansâ is full of celestial beings and desert miracles
Judy Berman in Time Magazine: In the series premiere of Netflixâs Vladimir, Rachel Weisz awakens from troubled sleep to a cascade of texts, sighs deeply, and addresses the camera with pleading eyes. â
Morgan Meis at Laphamâs Quarterly: The book I bought is an English translation of letters written by the painter Franz Marc to his wife, Maria. It is a thin hardcover volume published by Peter Lang as
Lots of great defecation physics here: â66 percent of animals take between 5 and 19 seconds to defecate. Itâs aâŚsmall range, given that elephant feces have a volume of 20 liters, nearly a thousand tim
Michelle Boorstein in The Washington Post: From Indonesia to Nigeria to Greece, people around the world see some slice of their fellow citizens as immoral or unethical. But there is only one country w
Part the First: As Giants Still Walk the Earth.  Stanley Plotkin began practicing medicine in the 1950s. When he was an intern, outcomes for patients such as this little boy were frightening and deva
How to tackle a common kitchen problem with fluid dynamics The post Physicists Uncover How Long It Takes to Get the Last Drop of Syrup appeared first on Nautilus.
Drought and heatwaves occurring together â known as âcompoundâ events â have âsurgedâ across the... The post Heatwaves driving recent âsurgeâ in compound drought and heat extremes appeared first on Ca
The New School Cancelled Their Class on Soccer and World Politics. We Are Going To Teach it Anyway. Enrollment is now open; the class will deal with questions like âWhich regimes are using this tourna
Eliza Strickland at IEEE Spectrum: As Matthew Hutson reports in âAI Hunts for the Next Big Thing in Physics,â the field is currently gripped by a quiet crisis. In an email discussing his reporting, Hu
SETI might be missing alien signals because âstellar âspace weatherâ may blur ultra-narrow radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations before they leave their home star systemsâ. SETI usually lo
From Project Syndicate: With widening inequality fueling populist anger, and AI threatening to displace human labor, Nobel laureate economist Daron Acemoglu of MIT recently sat down with political phi
Welcome to Carbon Briefâs DeBriefed. An essential guide to the weekâs key developments relating to climate... The post DeBriefed 6 March 2026: Iran energy crisis | China climate plan | Bristolâs âpion
It takes a family to drive research for a rare disease forward The post Saving the Girl with Dementia appeared first on Nautilus.
Hereâs a gem from the archive of the NY Times. One day in September 1976, NY Times food critic Mimi Sheraton and Colonel Harland Sanders stopped into a Manhattan Kentucky Fried Chicken. The Colonel, t
Robert Pape at Escalation Trap: Across more than a century of modern warfare, one pattern stands out for its consistency. In war after war, cities have burned, infrastructure has collapsed, leaders ha
Speaking with Will Storr
The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of Art Historical Objects, including Egyptian temples, Greek oil flasks, van Gogh paintings, and cuneiform tablets.
Listen to Two is already too many by Phoebe Arslanagic-Little
Chinaâs leadership has published a draft of its 15th five-year plan setting the strategic direction... The post Q&A: What does Chinaâs 15th âfive-year planâ mean for climate change? appeared first on
The Hidden Vulnerability in Systematic Investing
Our culture might be boring but it sure is fast
tolerance for ambiguity in investment
You think the problem with spy agencies is that they are clandestine organisations that get up to nefarious things in secret with little oversight, and thatâs true.
âIf measles-mumps-rubella vaccination rates decline 1% annually for the next five years, associated medical and societal costs could reach $1.5 billion.â (That 1% is a conservative estimate âgiven cur
A straightforward conjecture about runners moving around a track turns out to be equivalent to many complex mathematical questions. Three new proofs mark the first significant progress on the problem
A case for tackling the corporate machinery driving extreme wealth, and the reforms that could truly curb it.
The State of the Union seems like a long time ago
Fridays are all about podcast links here at Abnormal Returns. You can also check out last weekâs links including a look at...
An acceleration in human-caused global warming could see the Paris Agreementâs 1.5C limit breached before... The post Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study appeared first
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a16z AD Summit, Pi memory, Evo 2, Injectable Livers, Ginkgo Cloud Lab + 5 fundraising stories and my favorite sci-fi series.
The war on Iran is a joint effort by segments of the US, Israeli, European, and Arab ruling classes that are committed to global and regional domination â not just the result of Israeli pressure on Do
Twelve Hours Out of New York after Twenty Days at Sea The sun always setting behind us. I did not mean to come this far. âbaseball games on the radio   Commercials that turn your hairâ The last time
Many who look at the high and rising cost of housing see the problem as fundamentally one of production methods; more specifically, that homes could be built more cheaply if they were made using facto
why have those with the least exposure to sex and romance become so influential in our public debates about them?
Yes, but most likely viewing them as âotherâ The post Are Killer Whales Also Cannibals? appeared first on Nautilus.
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