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There is a cost to being unreachable. But the cost of being available is far higher. Jerusalem Demsas's experiment in disconnectedness
While many critics have recognized JG Ballard's talent, few could describe it. He's always been too anarchic and too unsettling for general acceptance
Due to changes in the DSM, itâs now difficult to be diagnosed with hypochondria. And yet the disease persists as a character type
ProPublica explores what a future without vaccines would look like in the US. Hundreds of thousands of deaths, tens of thousands of children paralyzed, and many other children stricken with serious bu
Never underestimate the power of an old pile of rocks The post The Australian Rocks That House the Oldest Life-Forms on Earth appeared first on Nautilus.
The earliest-known recordings of whale songs (from 1949) were recently discovered in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institutionâs archive. The scientists who recorded the audio didnât even know what the
Itâs named for a Chinese philosopher The post The New Pitviper Species Hidden in Chinaâs Panda Park appeared first on Nautilus.
Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten: 1: Against microdishonesty Sasha Chapin has a piece If You Have Writerâs Block, Maybe Stop Lying To Yourself. Maybe lying gives Sasha writerâs block, but for my la
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Iâve never seen anything like these photos before. In October 2024, Rachel Moore had a close encounter with a humpback whale in French Polynesia and took these photos of the whaleâs eye. Moore wrote o
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Here there be monsters The post Massive Intelligent Octopuses Once Stalked the Primordial Oceans appeared first on Nautilus.
Palantirâs manifesto is the stated agenda of a new class within the systemâs power structure, driven by a binary worldview of 0 and 1
Nathan Gardels at Noema: It is a mark of the paucity of social imagination among Americaâs political class, whether a supine Congress beholden to the presidentâs personality cult or the moribund Democ
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Worried About Teens Today? So Were Adults in the 1920s. âA century ago, new technology and mobility reshaped what it meant to be young, linking rural life more closely to the city.â
The European Commission has launched a strategy to protect people in the EU from âfossil-fuel... The post Iran war: EU strategy sets out 44 actions to limit âfossil-fuel price shocksâ appeared first o
I got the chance to go to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden with friends recently and it was magical, otherworldly, lovely. I think we hit peak blossom down to the second. It was cold and gray and windy, wh
Francis Fukuyama at Persuasion: Now that Donald Trump is visibly weakening, itâs important to start thinking seriously about what comes after him. Itâs no secret that Iâve been a big fan of the Abunda
The Current Wisdom Is That Geopolitical Shocks Can Always Be Weathered. What If We Are Wrong?
n+1 is seeking a full-time Audience Manager to work in our Brooklyn office. Compensation will range from $60,000 to $64,000 and includes health and dental insurance. n+1 is a print magazine of literat
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Lab skills come from hands-on mentorship, not from reading the entire internet.
If you want to surf elsewhere in the galaxy, it doesnât actually look that promising. âSurfing on Titan would likely be a surreal, slow-motion, and tenebrous experience.â Or thereâs also a planet with
Gerald Holton at The MIT Reader: In 1929, Bostonâs Cardinal OâConnell branded Einsteinâs theory of relativity as âbefogged speculation producing universal doubt about God and His Creation,â and as imp
Joining the S&P 500 index has been treated as a stamp of approval, signaling that a company has truly arrived.
Hannes von DĂśhren decided to find out if those thin serifs would translate to the starchy tuber with help from other potato carvers. They ended up with HVD Bodedo. / hat tip Tyler Sticka (who has a gr
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Several years ago, rummaging through the archives of the Academy of American Poets, I came upon a box labeled âBallots 1950â â the record of the secret vote by the chancellors the year the Academyâs p
Two major studies suggest tens of millions of people thought safe from coastal flooding are now at risk from sea level increases.
On a recent mini-episode of the Becoming the People podcast, Prentis Hemphill talked about traitors to the patriarchy. Hereâs a short excerpt: I only want to spend time with men who are traitors to t
How much do you need to retire at age 55? The post How Do You Retire at 55? appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...
Thereâs more than a couple things of note here. First, Matt Haughey freshened up his site and itâs lovely. Second, he shared a bunch of practical and technical tidbits that could not only make travel
A close look at a misunderstood pattern
With Quinn Slobodian, Ben Tarnoff, and John Ganz
I love the chutzpah of this: all 35 of Shakespeareâs plays ranked. Romeo & Juliet didnât crack the top 20 but Macbeth, Hamlet, and Twelfth Night made the top 5. Worth it for the old photos of producti
Elias Canetti at Salmagundi: February 15, 1942 Today I decided that I will record thoughts against death as they happen to occur to me, without any kind of structure and without submitting them to any
The Pens and Poison Podcast EP 12
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