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The 4 Abilities Every Investors Needs to be Successful

Why studying market history is so important. The post The 4 Abilities Every Investors Needs to be Successful appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...

Quaker principles line up quite well with modern...

Quaker principles line up quite well with modern parenting research. “Infused in all of these practices is the conviction that children are not lesser proto-adults, but fellow beings worthy of respect

Bull Run, butterflies, Jeep Cat, prom

On the stone bridge that crosses Bull Run, where the first shots of the first land battle of the Civil War were fired, a group of teenagers in sparkly gowns and fancy dresses whose sequins caught the

Ancient Teeth Hint at Homo Erectus-Denisovan Interbreeding

The human family tree gets more complicated The post Ancient Teeth Hint at Homo Erectus-Denisovan Interbreeding appeared first on Nautilus.

The Revolt Against the Girl Bosses…...

The Revolt Against the Girl Bosses… “Empowerment won’t fix the mess we’re in. Women know it now. They’re mad as hell. Anyone trying to sell them advice instead of a way to use that anger to build a be

CROSSPOST: Ilari Mäkelä, Steven Broadberry, & Bishnupriya Gupta: The Big Picture: Measuring the Origins of the "Modern" World

Lots to talk about here: Around 1600, living standards in India and Britain are similar; by 1750, Indian real wages are less than half of British real wages (in grain‑wage terms). Under Mughal and...

Filtered for bad addresses and good emotions

1. I love this terrible fake address generator: We have spent 3 years collecting data from every country to generate this enormous database. …it promises. These are not English addresses: "2 Scott Com

The Night Witches: The Female Nazi Hunters of WWII

The Night Witches were an all-female Soviet bomber regiment that attacked Nazi forces during World War II. An attack technique of the night bombers involved idling the engine near the target and glid

The Use and Abuse of Joan Didion

Henry Reichman at The Hedgehog Review: “It was just as nice as I hoped and dreamed it would be,” sobs a young bride in the final line of Joan Didion’s piece “Marrying Absurd.” Just a few pages and slo

College credit for this?

What that Oklahoma Bible-citing essay controversy was really about

Friday links: intellectual dishonesty

Meet “The Last Titan,” Southeast Asia’s Most Massive Dinosaur

Its femur was larger than most people The post Meet “The Last Titan,” Southeast Asia’s Most Massive Dinosaur appeared first on Nautilus.

25 Books That Capture This American Moment . They...

25 Books That Capture This American Moment. They include Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, Toni Morrison’s A Mercy, Make the Impossible Possible by Bill Strickland, and Rabbit Redux by John Updike.

Coffee Break: Scientists and the Growth Economy, Sternly Worded Letters, Scientist Runs Afoul of RFKJr, Timothy Snyder with the Editor of Science, and Wither Food

Dear gentle readers: Apologies for a somewhat ragged Coffee Break today.  Traveling in Scotland and time has been taken up with details (all good) along with a few unexpected disconnects (as in stuff

Montreal’s Guillotine Gate Is a Tempest in a Teapot

For International Workers’ Day, a labor organization called Alliance Ouvrière (AO; “Workers’ Alliance” in English) brought a mock guillotine to the big union demonstration in Montreal. Rank-and-file w

The End of Loneliness

A live performance of my New Yorker article

Nearly Half of Italy’s Wolves Are Part Dog Now, Thanks to Hybridization

Gennaro Tomma in Smithsonian Magazine: Between 15,000 and 30,000 years ago, a now-extinct population of wolves evolved into dogs, with a little help from humans. Today—at least in Italy, which hosts o

Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains ....

Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains. “[Some] developers who use AI at work report that they feel like they are de-skilling themselves and losing their ability to do their jobs as well a

In which the Green Party commits an accidental fascism by passing a law with AfD support

To save all that is Right and Good about Our Democracy, the cartel parties of the Federal Republic have erected a massive firewall round the Evil Fascist Nazi Hitlerites of Alternative für Deutschland

Artificial intelligence and future of capitalism from a Marxist, and a neoclassical, point of view

What would be the likely effects of massive introduction of artificial intelligence in the economy, from the Marxist point of view?

On "rich guy has an opinion" journalism ,...

On “rich guy has an opinion” journalism, i.e. “entire news stories dedicated to the otherwise unremarkable opinion of a rich person, or news stories that fold the opinions of rich people into their ot

Grant Sanderson: The High Cost of Being a Second-Hand Thinker

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🍪 TWiC: GaN vs SiC, Wolfspeed, Semtech

A random collection of unfinished thoughts through the week that needs exploring.

Nate's 3 rules for constitutional hardball

A “democracy agenda” should be principled, create a stable equilibrium, and pass muster with voters.

What, actually, is European Civilization?

The foundational texts of classical liberalism were written in Europe too

Weekly Top Picks #121

Hottest AI job: FDEs / Trump in China / No jobpocalypse / AI models fixing benchmarks / Americans agree: "no datacenters here" / Claude 3 vs Claude 4

There Is A Soul, But Not A Transcendent One

The post There Is A Soul, But Not A Transcendent One appeared first on NOEMA.

Why Penguins Don’t Fly

We have a lot to learn about adaptability from a bird who evolved to swim The post Why Penguins Don’t Fly appeared first on Nautilus.

World History Timeline

This World History Timeline (2016) shows how nations, empires, and ruling groups shifted and evolved across the globe from 3000 BCE to the present. It takes a second to understand what you’re looking

Culture Wars & The Myth Of The Neutral State: Michael Sandel interviewed by Nathan Gardels

From Noema: Nathan Gardels: It is remarkable in today’s context to remember that 40 years ago, you and I sat here in Cambridge at the dining room table of the famous sociologist Daniel Bell to discuss

Boys, Beasts, and a Bloated Lord of the Flies

A very fancy version of  is playing on Netflix as a four-part series, loaded up with arty flourishes like distorting fish-eye lens shots, blurred-out flashbacks, extreme slo-mo, many choppy montages,

Americans: We’re Broke. Donald Trump: No, You’re Not.

Not long ago, when Joe Biden was running the show, I pointed out  and  (and ) that countless metrics showed Americans were not having a good time economically, and that Democrats fixating on glowing m

Review: The Dying Trade

Are those knee deep in blood any different from the rest?

New York’s Neue Galerie Will Merge With the Metropolitan...

New York’s Neue Galerie Will Merge With the Metropolitan Museum. “The merger will significantly bolster the Met’s holdings of early 20th-century Austrian and German art…”

The Neanderthal dentist: archaeologists found evidence...

The Neanderthal dentist: archaeologists found evidence of a decayed tooth being drilled out with a stone tools 59,000 years ago. “It’s now the oldest known evidence of dentistry — or any direct medica

US AI policy is a clumsy mess. Here’s what to do about it.

1200 bills, state and federal, and no framework

The Impossible Strength of the Testosterone Myth

Scientists keep knocking it down but it keeps roaring back The post The Impossible Strength of the Testosterone Myth appeared first on Nautilus.

Sarah Rose (who is blind): "Meta glasses are...

Sarah Rose (who is blind): “Meta glasses are absolute game changers for the blind community…they are completely revolutionary.” And: “It really is incredible to talk to your glasses and ask them what

South Korea Will Remain a Key Part of the US’ Chinese Containment Plans

The US hopes South Korea and Japan will join AUKUS+ to advance its China containment schemes.

Rubin Tracks Skyscraper-Size Asteroids, Failed Supernovas, and Interstellar Visitors

Astronomers are preparing for a new era of big-data astronomy, and results are already starting to arrive. The post Rubin Tracks Skyscraper-Size Asteroids, Failed Supernovas, and Interstel