Great books programs have an unsavory reputation on the political left. That’s a mistake
Great books programs have an unsavory reputation on the political left. That’s a mistake
Lionel Shriver in exile. The novelist has managed to alienate the literati. She's fine with that
Lionel Shriver in exile. The novelist has managed to alienate the literati. She's fine with that
Malcolm Cowley’s Stalinism reveals him to have been a fool and a knave. What does it say about his literary acumen?
Malcolm Cowley’s Stalinism reveals him to have been a fool and a knave. What does it say about his literary acumen?
The novelist George Sand dressed like a man, took a male name, and went through lovers like a rake. The life and the work cannot be disentangled
The novelist George Sand dressed like a man, took a male name, and went through lovers like a rake. The life and the work cannot be disentangled
The vapid radicalism of American studies. Scholars are quick to denote “racist, patriarchal, imperial” forces, but where does that take the field?
The vapid radicalism of American studies. Scholars are quick to denote “racist, patriarchal, imperial” forces, but where does that take the field?
That books are disappearing, along with our capacity for complex and rational thought, has become a ubiquitous belief. Doesn't mean it's true
That books are disappearing, along with our capacity for complex and rational thought, has become a ubiquitous belief. Doesn't mean it's true
Review of “The Bed Trick” by Izabella Scott – a bizarre story of sexual duplicity
Olivia Laing in The Guardian: In September 2015, Gayle Newland stood trial accused of sex by deception. It was alleged that she created an online identity as a man and used this character, Kye Fortune
Climate and energy: Innovation at every level
Talks and writing from Progress Conference 2025
Grad Student Homebrews Cosmic Dust in the Lab
“It’s like we have recreated a little bit of the universe in a bottle in our lab” The post Grad Student Homebrews Cosmic Dust in the Lab appeared first on Nautilus.
A collection of thousands of photographs of NYC...
A collection of thousands of photographs of NYC restaurants (2002-2008) taken by Noah Kalina. Quite an archive of interior design from that era. 💬 Join the discussion on
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Folly of Bombing Iran
Escalation advocates argue that bombing Iran could extract concessions, collapse the regime, or permanently secure Israel. History suggests otherwise. Strategic bombing has repeatedly failed to produc
The Legacy of Daniel Kahneman
Gerd Gigerenzer in Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics: Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky’s joint papers from the 1970s and 1980s have inspired many, including myself. These articles magically
READING: Judith Shklar as Proto-Feminist in the 1950s
Sewing circles & sections: Judith Shklar’s early Harvard wars of gossip, fairness, & drift as she found a way...
Claude's Constitution
A couple of weeks ago, AI company Anthropic published the constitution that they use to train their Claude LLM (“under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Deed, meaning it can be freely used by anyone for any
Tuesday links: disappearing companies
The Case of the Green Covers is a risograph-printed...
The Case of the Green Covers is a risograph-printed zine that documents the history of the “Green Penguins”, “a series of hundreds of crime novels published with green covers by the UK publisher Pengu
Why I’m Not Worried About a Weaker Dollar
The dollar continues falling, now down around 11% from January 2025 levels: This is a big move by currency standards, especially the global reserve currency. When you see a move this big in something
A deep dive into AlphaGenome
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Podcast interview with two photojournalists who have...
Podcast interview with two photojournalists who have been covering ICE in Minnesota. “It’s a conversation about what they’ve seen, the vital role of photojournalism at this moment, and the personal to
How the “Atlantic Grand Canyon” Came to Exist
New research sheds light on the mysterious underwater structure The post How the “Atlantic Grand Canyon” Came to Exist appeared first on Nautilus.
The “Hard Problem Of Consciousness” Is Actually Easy
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Haven't watched this 90-minute video yet, but...
Haven’t watched this 90-minute video yet, but I’ve seen so many recommendations for it that I’m posting it as a to-do list item for myself: You are being misled about renewable energy technology.
Trump Helps Putin Kill Ukrainians: A Case Study
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It’s Time To Target The Political Power Of Polluters
The post It’s Time To Target The Political Power Of Polluters appeared first on NOEMA.
US military action in Iran risks igniting a regional and global nuclear cascade
Farah N. Jan at The Conversation: On Jan. 28, 2026, President Donald Trump sharply intensified his threats to the Islamic Republic, suggesting that if Tehran did not agree to a set of demands, he coul
Underrated ways to change the world, vol. II
OR: why you should sell onions on the internet
A group of 50 Chileans recently spent several hours...
A group of 50 Chileans recently spent several hours powering a human-operated chatbot. Some questions were answered quickly but “when they didn’t know the answer, they walked around the room to see if
The Gypsy Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
David Mason at The Hudson Review: The adventure story and the historical romance were two genres at which Stevenson excelled, but he was also brilliant at the macabre psychological parable in his nove
Many Victorian cities grew by tenfold in a century
Could ours do the same?
The Birds That Roamed New Zealand a Million Years Ago
Early Pleistocene cave fossils reveal unique avifauna that were ultimately wiped out by natural disasters The post The Birds That Roamed New Zealand a Million Years Ago appeared first on Nautilus.
Can You Rewire Your Brain?
Peter Lukacs at Aeon Magazine: Popular wisdom holds we can ‘rewire’ our brains: after a stroke, after trauma, after learning a new skill, even with 10 minutes a day on the right app. The phrase is eve
The Hidden Cost Of Investment Income
For decades, investors have viewed bond interest and REIT dividends as desirable portfolio features.
Killing In The Name, The Minnesota Edition
Late last week, Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello led a crowd gathered at the iconic First Avenue music venue in a spirited rendition of the band’s Killing In the Name. The band handled the music
Weekly Top Picks #112: Besides Moltbook
Can AI be profitable? / China is ahead is behind / Zero privacy / A new era of AI research / Anthropic's conundrum / The useful power of power users
The future of literature belongs to amateurs
Reviews have started to arrive for my forthcoming non-fiction book, What’s So Great About The Great Books?
US Military Helping DHS Build Massive Network of ‘Concentration Camps,’ Navy Contract Reveals
DHS is using a repurposed $55 billion Navy contract to turn warehouses into makeshift jails and plan sprawling tent cities in the boonies.
Research links: behavioral inefficiencies
Tuesdays are all about academic (and practitioner) literature at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s edition including a look at...
The Border Patrol Is the Problem. It Always Has Been....
The Border Patrol Is the Problem. It Always Has Been. “If you are uncomfortable with what the Border Patrol is doing in Minneapolis, you are uncomfortable with the Border Patrol, full stop.”
By 2030, the World Will Be Unrecognizable
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AI Now Beats the Average Human in Tests of Creativity
Edd Gent in Singularity Hub: Creativity is a trait that AI critics say is likely to remain the preserve of humans for the foreseeable future. But a large-scale study finds that leading generative lang
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