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When Michelangelo met Titian. The evidence of how they influenced each other is scant, and we so enter the realm of the educated guess
âIf you were to construct a baseball lineup of the western worldâs foundational thinkers, Plato would almost certainly bat cleanupâ
Before 1970, humans were rational. After 1970, irrational. What changed? The nature of psychology experiments
Shared Claude is a website anyone can change via LLM chat. âText the number below to shape this website in real-time.â (Does anyone remember Metababy?) đŹ Join the discus
Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten: Whatâs the difference between ârealâ and âroleplayingâ? One possible answer invokes internal reality. Are the AIs conscious? Do they âreallyâ âcareâ about the thin
Paul Grimstad at The Baffler: There is an especially gnarly chapter more than halfway through Ulysses called the âOxen of the Sunâ in which Joyceâs weirdly adversarial virtuosity takes the form of a p
Our personalities affect the regularity of our mental dalliances, new research shows The post Neurotic People Have More Frequent Sexual Fantasies appeared first on Nautilus.
Wow, these paper flowers from 11th-century China are amazingly well-preserved. đŹ Join the discussion on kottke.org â
Elon Musk, on paper the world's wealthiest human, threatens to go supernova under the pressure of his appearances in the Epstein Files, his suit against OpenAI and Microsoft, the merger of SpaceX and
Eddy Keming Chen, Mikhail Belkin, Leon Bergen & David Danks in Nature: We think the current evidence is clear. By inference to the best explanation â the same reasoning we use in attributing general i
A group in rural California wants to help us understand death through hallucinogens and narrative medicine The post Tripping at Deathâs Door: Psychedelics in End-of-Life Care appeared first on Nautilu
I was poking around on YouTube for âhow toâ videos (one of my favorite video genres) the other day when I hit a small jackpot: a bunch of How Do TheyâŚ? videos from the National Film Board of Canada. A
& some of my musings on how to teach it. The long agrarian-age Malthusian night of the trap, of the ensorcellment: thugs, patriarchs, & standard-of-living stagnation, that is. For 5,000 years...
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An almost 2-hour mashup mix by dk darkly of music from Franceâs two most well-known electronic duos, Daft Punk and Justice. Also available on Bandcamp. đŹ Join the discus
A new study has identified five distinct subtypes The post Night Owls vs. Early Birds: Sleep Categories Are More Complicated Than We Thought appeared first on Nautilus.
The question of what it takes to create â to make something of beauty and substance that touches other lives across space and time â is one of the deepest, oldest questions, perhaps because the answer
accounting hallucinations revisited
All morality is demanding--some just demands things of people who aren't us!
From the collection of the Met, an Egyptian artistâs sketch of a sparrow circa 1479â1458 BCE. Much of the art that filters down to us from ancient civilizations was used for official purposes (state,
Paul Krugman at his Substack: On Monday India and the European Union concluded negotiations on a breakthrough free trade agreement. Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission â the
Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at whatâs getting our team talking. Tell us what youâve been reading at [email protected] and we just might feature it here. Recogniti
The Evolutionary Brilliance of the Baby Giggle. âLaughter and humor are fundamental to how babies learn about and participate in the world.â *Highly recommend* watching the laughing baby videos to bri
Today's links Justin Key's "The Hospital at the End Of the World": A biopunk medical thriller from a major new talent. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Coconut volunteers; A
And does it really matter?
On 1 February, Indiaâs finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman unveiled the governmentâs budget for 2026, which... The post Five key climate and energy announcements in Indiaâs budget for 2026 appeared fi
How physically magnifying objects using a key ingredient in diapers has opened an unprecedented view of the microbial world. The post Expansion Microscopy Has Transformed How We See the Ce
Only 7 gasoline cars were sold in Norway last month. Seven! 98 diesel cars & 29 hybrids were also sold, but the rest were EVs. And this comes after Norway cut EV incentives.
A collection of self-portrait descriptions shared in the spirit of thinking more deeply about our senses. I love this sentiment from the welcome page âAt their core, alt text selfies are an access pra
"It may be that in REM, this gloaming between waking consciousness and the unconscious, we practice the possible into the real... It may be that we evolved to dream ourselves into reality â a laborato
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Roxane Gay: âHumanity is, always, enough. We have a right to protest, legally carry a firearm, drive while Black, walk in a neighborhood at night, play in a park, sleep in a bed or do anything else wh
Wednesdays are all about personal finance here at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last weekâs links including a look at how...
Is Kristi Noem incompetent, evil, or just doing exactly what Trump wants her to do? Her misrule at FEMA provides more to consider.
Why This Isnât a Private Credit Crisis
Putting this here so I can find it easily. Originally 2023-03-07. Contra Rafael Guthman; or, what a Malthusian economy looks like. Rafael is doing something genuinely interesting and valuable: he...
A friend of mine who is about to visit Japan recently asked me what sorts of things I would recommend to understand Japanâs process of modernization.
Good god, this story: Mother Says Asking 13-Year-Old Son to Swim Four Hours to Save Family âOne of the Hardest Decisionsâ. âI knew he was the strongest and he could do it.â Australia: a nation of athl
In a tribute to Catherine OâHara for her 2021 Governor Generalâs Performing Arts Award, Noah Reid performed Joni Mitchellâs classic. Itâs good right from the get-go, but stick with it, it keeps gettin
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