Oliver Sacks and the art of annotation. His marginalia spanned 10,000 books, the chronicle of a life well read
Oliver Sacks and the art of annotation. His marginalia spanned 10,000 books, the chronicle of a life well read
An idolatrous, consumerist faith in AI that has distorted our thinking about human life and human meaning
An idolatrous, consumerist faith in AI that has distorted our thinking about human life and human meaning
Robert Macfarlane is one of the great nature writers of his generation, making him an unusual critic of the genre
Robert Macfarlane is one of the great nature writers of his generation, making him an unusual critic of the genre
Draft legislation aims to criminalise "sexually suggestive" photographs of fully clothed people in public because AI is scary
The Federal Republic of Germany is becoming a very stupid country.
The Vibe-Horsing Coal-&-Steam Revolution of the 1700s
It was steam-engine pioneer James Watt coined and quantified “horsepower” as a sales gimmick to sell steam engines. The point was that steam engines could replace your power-horses, not multiply...
When Fake Supplements Work
A new twist on the placebo effect The post When Fake Supplements Work appeared first on Nautilus.
Chuck Norris once beat the sun in a staring contest
Sopan Deb at the New York Times: Chuck Norris once gave a horse an uppercut and now we have giraffes. Chuck Norris doesn’t sleep. He waits. Chuck Norris is so tough he can slam a revolving door. Chuck
Friday links: what happens next
Rare Sperm Whale Birth Caught on Video
It’s very much a family affair The post Rare Sperm Whale Birth Caught on Video appeared first on Nautilus.
Coffee Break: East Asia and the War in West Asia, RIP Metaverse, Cetacean Doulas, and Social Sycophancy
Part the First: The War in West Asia Viewed from East Asia. The daily updates compiled here have been essential for cutting through the fog of war associated with the current War in West Asia. Many
A Cloud That Looks Like a Bird
For my part, I knew that I had fallen in love with Dry Leaf when another cow—or was it a horse?—ambled through the frame enfolded in a pixelated outline distinct from the rest of the sky behind it. I
Remembering Robert Trivers, arguably the most important evolutionary theorist since Darwin
Robert Lynch at The Laughing Ape: Robert Trivers, who died on March 12, 2026, was arguably the most important evolutionary theorist since Darwin. He had a rare gift for seeing through the messy clutte
Weekly Top Picks #117
OpenAI's main quest / Anthropic Trumps the DoD / The worst sales pitch ever/ ARC-AGI 3, Spud, and Mythos / The tragedy of AI writing / This is a disaster, so have fun
to feel and to fail
that's the artist's vocation for ya
What should a university AI czar do?
Advice for a flourishing future
Middle-Power Multilateralism In A Hard Power World
The post Middle-Power Multilateralism In A Hard Power World appeared first on NOEMA.
Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, the world’s most valuable company and the engine powering the AI computing revolution, talks to Lex Fridman
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Test footage from a slime simulator game made by former...
Test footage from a slime simulator game made by former Epic Games employee Asher Zhu. You try to stay hydrated in the hot Tokyo summer by showering and drinking beverages from vending machines.
How Science Fiction Can Save Us
Three scientists share their bold vision for turning stories into testable experiments The post How Science Fiction Can Save Us appeared first on Nautilus.
An Intention Upgrade
By ditching the Mac Pro so close to its 50th anniversary, Apple is making a statement of intent for its next 50 years. A mere six days before the 50th anniversary of Apple, the company quietly did so
How development economics forgot the most important thing
Quico Toro at Persuasion: There used to be an academic discipline centered on a straightforward question: what helps poor countries get richer? It was called development economics, and it was the inte
DeBriefed 27 Mach 2026: North Sea myths debunked | India’s climate plan | IPCC and Indigenous knowledge
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate... The post DeBriefed 27 Mach 2026: North Sea myths debunked | India’s climate plan | IPCC an
Dinergothdom
Robert Mariani at The New Atlantis: You’re not hallucinating the great weirding of America. The visual evidence is everywhere. Start with what you can see. You’re in a small town in Wisconsin, the hea
Corrective for a Broken Heart
“Life will break you,” Louise Erdrich wrote in her passionate insistence that “you are here to risk your heart.” It can happen with a shattering, or with a thousand small fissures, but the great parad
Escaping the Ogallala trap
There is a closing window to stop Waymos from creating omnigridlock.
A Buddhist Sun Miracle?
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The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother
"It is not easy to give closeness and freedom, safety plus danger."
"Predictive History" and the Second Coming
Evil Cabals and Angelic Communities
When Coupled Volcanoes Talk, These Researchers Listen
Around the world, volcanologists are following the path of magma as it travels between connected volcanoes, in an effort that could lead to improved eruption forecasts. The post When Coupl
A Third Way for the Humanities: A Declaration
Justin Smith-Ruiu at Wondercabinet: Higher education is no longer expanding; it is contracting, or transforming to the point of total discontinuity with what it had once been. It is only natural that
A list of chain restaurants whose names contain unusual...
A list of chain restaurants whose names contain unusual structures, presented in decreasing order of how appealing it would be to eat in such a structure. (White Castle, Waffle House, etc.)
The Controversy Over Deep-Sea Mining, Explained
Deep-sea mining backers want metals for clean tech. Indigenous Pacific Islanders call it a threat to life, culture, and the ocean itself.
The algorithm will see you now, Out Loud
Radiology combines digital images, clear benchmarks, and repeatable tasks. But replacing humans with AI is harder than it seems.
<cite>Bummerland</cite> Sends Up Austin’s MAGA Tech-Bro Culture
A new essay collection by Randolph Lewis chronicles how Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, an Apple campus, and scorched-earth MAGA capitalism killed Austin's famous weirdness — and finds unexpected glimmers of ho
Can America and Iran Reach a Cease-Fire?
Both sides want to dictate the terms—but neither truly can.
Adorno, Hegel, and Negative Dialectics: Professor Martin Saar
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The Death of Redemption
Speaking about Dostoevsky's "Devils" - Part 2
The Worst and the Dumbest
Has the U.S. military been Kudlowized?
The Wealth of Nations is a classic of English Literature
a blog at Liberty Fund
The Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore: Death and satire
Will Self in Harper’s Magazine: How could we satirize all sorts of different people, with different faiths, without implicitly arguing that they should abandon their ethical precepts in favor of our s
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