Counterculture prophet, Whole Earth cataloguer, proto-internet evangelist, Stewart Brand has a new obsession: maintenance
Counterculture prophet, Whole Earth cataloguer, proto-internet evangelist, Stewart Brand has a new obsession: maintenance
He championed Joyce, mentored Eliot, and broadcast fascist propaganda. Ezra Pound was indispensable as an artist and irredeemable as a man
He championed Joyce, mentored Eliot, and broadcast fascist propaganda. Ezra Pound was indispensable as an artist and irredeemable as a man
An Emerson for our times? Terry Tempest Williamsâs âepic documentation of the Gloriansâ is full of celestial beings and desert miracles
An Emerson for our times? Terry Tempest Williamsâs âepic documentation of the Gloriansâ is full of celestial beings and desert miracles
Two New Comedies Try to Make Sex on Campus Funny Again
Judy Berman in Time Magazine: In the series premiere of Netflixâs Vladimir, Rachel Weisz awakens from troubled sleep to a cascade of texts, sighs deeply, and addresses the camera with pleading eyes. â
Morgan Meis on Franz Marc, the Battle of Verdun, and painting as prophecy
Morgan Meis at Laphamâs Quarterly: The book I bought is an English translation of letters written by the painter Franz Marc to his wife, Maria. It is a thin hardcover volume published by Peter Lang as
Lots of great defecation physics here: " 66 percent...
Lots of great defecation physics here: â66 percent of animals take between 5 and 19 seconds to defecate. Itâs aâŚsmall range, given that elephant feces have a volume of 20 liters, nearly a thousand tim
U.S. was only country in a worldwide survey to say most fellow citizens are bad people
Michelle Boorstein in The Washington Post: From Indonesia to Nigeria to Greece, people around the world see some slice of their fellow citizens as immoral or unethical. But there is only one country w
Coffee Break: Vaccines, Libraries, and DietâŚNothing About the War
Part the First: As Giants Still Walk the Earth.  Stanley Plotkin began practicing medicine in the 1950s. When he was an intern, outcomes for patients such as this little boy were frightening and deva
Physicists Uncover How Long It Takes to Get the Last Drop of Syrup
How to tackle a common kitchen problem with fluid dynamics The post Physicists Uncover How Long It Takes to Get the Last Drop of Syrup appeared first on Nautilus.
Heatwaves driving recent âsurgeâ in compound drought and heat extremes
Drought and heatwaves occurring together â known as âcompoundâ events â have âsurgedâ across the... The post Heatwaves driving recent âsurgeâ in compound drought and heat extremes appeared first on Ca
The New School Cancelled Their Class on Soccer and World...
The New School Cancelled Their Class on Soccer and World Politics. We Are Going To Teach it Anyway. Enrollment is now open; the class will deal with questions like âWhich regimes are using this tourna
AI systems in particle detectors now shape what physicists study
Eliza Strickland at IEEE Spectrum: As Matthew Hutson reports in âAI Hunts for the Next Big Thing in Physics,â the field is currently gripped by a quiet crisis. In an email discussing his reporting, Hu
SETI might be missing alien signals because...
SETI might be missing alien signals because âstellar âspace weatherâ may blur ultra-narrow radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations before they leave their home star systemsâ. SETI usually lo
Michael J. Sandel interviewed by Daron Acemoglu
From Project Syndicate: With widening inequality fueling populist anger, and AI threatening to displace human labor, Nobel laureate economist Daron Acemoglu of MIT recently sat down with political phi
Friday links: suspect motives
DeBriefed 6 March 2026: Iran energy crisis | China climate plan | Bristolâs âpioneeringâ wind turbine
Welcome to Carbon Briefâs DeBriefed. An essential guide to the weekâs key developments relating to climate... The post DeBriefed 6 March 2026: Iran energy crisis | China climate plan | Bristolâs âpion
Saving the Girl with Dementia
It takes a family to drive research for a rare disease forward The post Saving the Girl with Dementia appeared first on Nautilus.
"For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin' Bad"
Hereâs a gem from the archive of the NY Times. One day in September 1976, NY Times food critic Mimi Sheraton and Colonel Harland Sanders stopped into a Manhattan Kentucky Fried Chicken. The Colonel, t
The Air Power Illusion
Robert Pape at Escalation Trap: Across more than a century of modern warfare, one pattern stands out for its consistency. In war after war, cities have burned, infrastructure has collapsed, leaders ha
Male Decline in The Sopranos
Speaking with Will Storr
The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of...
The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of Art Historical Objects, including Egyptian temples, Greek oil flasks, van Gogh paintings, and cuneiform tablets.
Introducing Works in Progress Out Loud
Listen to Two is already too many by Phoebe Arslanagic-Little
Q&A: What does Chinaâs 15th âfive-year planâ mean for climate change?
Chinaâs leadership has published a draft of its 15th five-year plan setting the strategic direction... The post Q&A: What does Chinaâs 15th âfive-year planâ mean for climate change? appeared first on
Strategy-Decay Risk: Why Your Best Strategies Might Not Stay That Way
The Hidden Vulnerability in Systematic Investing
Why Are Tech Bros Watching Videos at 3x Speed
Our culture might be boring but it sure is fast
the fudge must flow
tolerance for ambiguity in investment
How German political spies mistook a random Berlin woman for a white nationalist troll, surveilled her for two years and got her fired for no reason
You think the problem with spy agencies is that they are clandestine organisations that get up to nefarious things in secret with little oversight, and thatâs true.
"If measles-mumps-rubella vaccination rates decline...
âIf measles-mumps-rubella vaccination rates decline 1% annually for the next five years, associated medical and societal costs could reach $1.5 billion.â (That 1% is a conservative estimate âgiven cur
New Strides Made on Deceptively Simple âLonely Runnerâ Problem
A straightforward conjecture about runners moving around a track turns out to be equivalent to many complex mathematical questions. Three new proofs mark the first significant progress on the problem
Why Chase Taylor Swift? Stop the Corporate Looting That Makes Billionaires
A case for tackling the corporate machinery driving extreme wealth, and the reforms that could truly curb it.
Where's My Golden Age?
The State of the Union seems like a long time ago
Podcast links: open and free
Fridays are all about podcast links here at Abnormal Returns. You can also check out last weekâs links including a look at...
Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study
An acceleration in human-caused global warming could see the Paris Agreementâs 1.5C limit breached before... The post Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, reveals study appeared first
SEIU Delenda Est
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #183
a16z AD Summit, Pi memory, Evo 2, Injectable Livers, Ginkgo Cloud Lab + 5 fundraising stories and my favorite sci-fi series.
Netanyahuâs Iran War Is Also the War of Global Neocon Elites
The war on Iran is a joint effort by segments of the US, Israeli, European, and Arab ruling classes that are committed to global and regional domination â not just the result of Israeli pressure on Do
Friday Poem
Twelve Hours Out of New York after Twenty Days at Sea The sun always setting behind us. I did not mean to come this far. âbaseball games on the radio   Commercials that turn your hairâ The last time
A History of Operation Breakthrough
Many who look at the high and rising cost of housing see the problem as fundamentally one of production methods; more specifically, that homes could be built more cheaply if they were made using facto
The Incel's Veto and Other Observations
why have those with the least exposure to sex and romance become so influential in our public debates about them?
Are Killer Whales Also Cannibals?
Yes, but most likely viewing them as âotherâ The post Are Killer Whales Also Cannibals? appeared first on Nautilus.
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