ProPublica explores what a future without vaccines would look like in the US. Hundreds of thousands of deaths, tens of thousands of children paralyzed, and many other children stricken with serious bu
Never underestimate the power of an old pile of rocks
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The earliest-known recordings of whale songs (from 1949) were recently discovered in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institutionâs archive. The scientists who recorded the audio didnât even know what the
Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten: 1: Against microdishonesty Sasha Chapin has a piece If You Have Writerâs Block, Maybe Stop Lying To Yourself. Maybe lying gives Sasha writerâs block, but for my la
Iâve never seen anything like these photos before. In October 2024, Rachel Moore had a close encounter with a humpback whale in French Polynesia and took these photos of the whaleâs eye. Moore wrote o
Nathan Gardels at Noema: It is a mark of the paucity of social imagination among Americaâs political class, whether a supine Congress beholden to the presidentâs personality cult or the moribund Democ
Worried About Teens Today? So Were Adults in the 1920s. âA century ago, new technology and mobility reshaped what it meant to be young, linking rural life more closely to the city.â
The European Commission has launched a strategy to protect people in the EU from âfossil-fuel...
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I got the chance to go to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden with friends recently and it was magical, otherworldly, lovely. I think we hit peak blossom down to the second. It was cold and gray and windy, wh
Francis Fukuyama at Persuasion: Now that Donald Trump is visibly weakening, itâs important to start thinking seriously about what comes after him. Itâs no secret that Iâve been a big fan of the Abunda
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If you want to surf elsewhere in the galaxy, it doesnât actually look that promising. âSurfing on Titan would likely be a surreal, slow-motion, and tenebrous experience.â Or thereâs also a planet with
Gerald Holton at The MIT Reader: In 1929, Bostonâs Cardinal OâConnell branded Einsteinâs theory of relativity as âbefogged speculation producing universal doubt about God and His Creation,â and as imp
Hannes von DĂśhren decided to find out if those thin serifs would translate to the starchy tuber with help from other potato carvers. They ended up with HVD Bodedo. / hat tip Tyler Sticka (who has a gr
Several years ago, rummaging through the archives of the Academy of American Poets, I came upon a box labeled âBallots 1950â â the record of the secret vote by the chancellors the year the Academyâs p
On a recent mini-episode of the Becoming the People podcast, Prentis Hemphill talked about traitors to the patriarchy. Hereâs a short excerpt:
I only want to spend time with men who are traitors to t
Thereâs more than a couple things of note here. First, Matt Haughey freshened up his site and itâs lovely. Second, he shared a bunch of practical and technical tidbits that could not only make travel
I love the chutzpah of this: all 35 of Shakespeareâs plays ranked. Romeo & Juliet didnât crack the top 20 but Macbeth, Hamlet, and Twelfth Night made the top 5. Worth it for the old photos of producti
Elias Canetti at Salmagundi: February 15, 1942 Today I decided that I will record thoughts against death as they happen to occur to me, without any kind of structure and without submitting them to any