"The Bones of a Kingdom" Part 3
Why did baronial castles go away?
The book review flourished in tandem with the Enlightenment. Now both are in decline, leaving a great deal at stake. David Bell explains
The book review flourished in tandem with the Enlightenment. Now both are in decline, leaving a great deal at stake. David Bell explains
âPeople in government today obviously donât care about literature, so the effort to ridicule them in literature can seem pointless or (worse) harmlessâ
âPeople in government today obviously donât care about literature, so the effort to ridicule them in literature can seem pointless or (worse) harmlessâ
Gin and secrets: We know that the Cambridge Five betrayed Britain, but the damage runs deeper than previously thought
Gin and secrets: We know that the Cambridge Five betrayed Britain, but the damage runs deeper than previously thought
How Nicotine Disrupts the âLung-Brain AxisââAnd Could Lead to Dementia
Vaping might be just as bad The post How Nicotine Disrupts the âLung-Brain AxisââAnd Could Lead to Dementia appeared first on Nautilus.
Three reasons to think that the Claude Mythos announcement from Anthropic was overblown
No need to panic just yet
The writing secrets of Stephen King
Kathryn Hughes in The Guardian: When Caroline Bicks first met Stephen King she was worried. As a teenager she had scared herself silly with his books â Carrie and The Shining were the two that crept u
What Happens When AI Gets Too Good at One Thing
Thoughts on Claude Mythos
After the Iran War: A New World Order, but Not a New System
The Iran War has accelerated the emergence of a new world order, but the world system remains the same. This distinction is crucial.
The Deep Secrets of the Nautilus
Evolutionary time has forged changes in these shelled cephalopods The post The Deep Secrets of the Nautilus appeared first on Nautilus.
Laws of Nature and Chances: What Breathes Fire into the Equations
Craig Callender at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: This bookâs subtitle is based on a question the physicist Stephen Hawking once asked: âWhat breathes fire into the equationsâŚ?â If understood as as
Ultralightweight sonar plus AI lets tiny drones navigate like bats
Nitin Sanket at The Conversation: To help small aerial robots navigate in the dark and other low-visibility environments, my colleagues and I developed an ultrasound-based perception system inspired b
The Fabulous Engineering and Design of Duct Tape
Bill Hammack, aka The Engineer Guy, is an amazing engineering educator and in this video he explains how duct tape is designed to simultaneously do three things well: âa) adhere with light pressure, b
This Is How People Who Use Emojis at Work Are Perceived
đor đ? The post This Is How People Who Use Emojis at Work Are Perceived appeared first on Nautilus.
Upcoming Online Workshop: The Stoic Heart (Saturday, April 18)
Three Stoic Shifts To Stop Reactive Conflict & Build Real Connection
Sam Altman, Josh Achiam, and Adrien Ecoffet talk about the future of AI
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Someone ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii ....
Someone ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii. âSince its launch in 2007, the Wii has seen several operating systems ported to it: Linux, NetBSD, and most-recently, Windows NT. Today, Mac OS X joins tha
On Ben Lernerâs Transcription
Maggie Millner at n+1: Transcription is his first book written as an elegy, a mode that comes with a thornier-than-usual crop of formal mandates. What kind of verbal machine is an elegy supposed to be
Book Club Recap: The Sun Also Rises
Introduction (Session 1 of 2)
"Working with agents feels much less like classic...
âWorking with agents feels much less like classic deep work, and much more like playing a game.â
âStay Alive,â about daily life in Nazi Berlin, shows how easy it is to just go along
John Powers at NPR: Itâs been 80 years since Adolf Hitler shot himself in his bunker, yet our fascination with the Nazi era seems eternal. By now Iâve read and seen so many different things that Iâm a
Take Him Literally
Donald Trump threatened to destroy a civilization of 90 million people on a Tuesday morning. We've moved on.
Understanding How Past Returns Drive Trading Volumeâand What It Means for Your Portfolio
Wen-I Chuang, Yun-Huan Lee, Rauli Susmel, and Tsung-Li Wang, authors of the January 2026 study âInvestorsâ Trading on Past Returns and their Trading Impact on Stock Returns,â shed light on the questio
What To Do In Iran?
Why I don't think the policy of threatening to destroy a civilization, and then chickening out, is optimal.
How to Guess If Your Job Will Exist in Five Years ....
How to Guess If Your Job Will Exist in Five Years. âThereâs a better question for white-collar workers to ask themselves: Am I coal, or am I a horse?â
AI Policy Primer (#24)
Identifying agents, self-improvement, and artificial clouds
Australia Has a Serious Landlord Problem
Landlords dominate Australiaâs parliament and Reserve Bank. Their policies make the housing crisis worse. In Australia, a cost-of-living surge comes in the context of a worsening housing crisis. (Lisa
Supreme Court Reform Ideas
I'm not a constitutional law scholar, but something clearly needs to be done.
Post-Digital Digital Glitch Collages
I really love these collages by Anton Elfilter (Instagram, Threads). They are digital-ish? But also not? And does anyone else see the influence of Hilma af Klint in these? (via moss & fog)
Psilocybin Mushrooms Are Going Mainstream, but Scientific Research and Regulation Lag Behind
Less is known about psilocybin mushrooms than you might think even as their popularity and potency of products like edibles rises.
Young Adult Novels, Starring Various Pundits, That I Made Up
Matt Yglesias & the Legend of Big Muggy. Everyoneâs favorite contrarian blogger searches for a mythical giant turtle in the Amazon, risking life and limb in his quest to bring sensible centrism to cry
Longform links: inverting our lives
Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. Wherever possible, free links for premium sites are used. You can check out...
What ChatGPT Is Doing to Student Writing
Todayâs students can write a perfect sentence that says absolutely nothing.
Farmers won their right-to-repair fight against John...
Farmers won their right-to-repair fight against John Deere. The settlement includes a 10-year âagreement by Deere to provide âthe digital tools ârequired for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repairâ of
The Push for Artificial Inheritance
Ashley Smart in Undark Magazine: Last June, at a conference and retreat center not far from downtown Berkeley, California, around 100 people gathered to mull a new, techno-centric future of human repr
This May Be the Most Important Medical Story of the Decade
Jeff Coller in The New York Times: When KJ Muldoon was born in the summer of 2024, his parents were told he had a disease so rare, it strikes about one in 1.3 million newborns. His condition, a severe
How popular is the Iran War?
Silver Bulletin approval ratings for the ongoing conflict.
Why A Liberal Arts Education Will Soon Be More Valuable Than Ever
The post Why A Liberal Arts Education Will Soon Be More Valuable Than Ever appeared first on NOEMA.
This sounds like an interesting podcast series from M....
This sounds like an interesting podcast series from M. Gessen: The Idiot. âCompassion has its limits when it comes to your own cousin.â
The âModerateâ Think Tank Pushing Dems to Loosen AI Rules
Ascendant DC think tank Searchlight Institute, pushing Democrats to the center, has ties to megadonor Simone Coxe, whose Nvidia-linked money could boost AI-backed efforts to defend data center build-o
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