We Need to Start Bringing our Pinterest Boards to Life
Field notes on a phone-free Coachella + my first zine!
My Best Idea: Decision Markets
Many (Poincaré 1908, Schumpeter 1911, Ogburn 1922) have said that, as there are so many good ideas out there, most innovation is just simple combos of prior good ideas.
Exclusive Video 24 - A Common Emotional Difficulty Arising For Cat Shelter Volunteers
it can be a real challenge for some of our volunteers
Common Charity Assumptions Are Wrong
Thinking in effects, not dollars
Can Nvidia Double From Here?
The company's real moat may be on the software side, I'll explain it.
Reading List 04/25/26
Transformer steel manufacturing, textile engineering, bringing power plants online quickly, infrasound, and more.
How to Actually Learn a Language
Hint: not with Duolingo...
Nearly half of US children are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, report warns
The American Lung Association report comes amid the EPA’s expansive rollback of environmental protections.
Saturday links: making good stuff
Saturdays we catch up with the non-finance related items that we didn’t get to earlier in the week. You can check out...
International Structure of Marxist Death Drive
Or: taking responsibility for the repetition compulsion of 1789-1848 in the challenge of reformulating an internationalism capable of socialism
Pluralistic: Ada Palmer's "Inventing the Renaissance" (25 Apr 2026)
Today's links Ada Palmer's "Inventing the Renaissance": A tour-de-force, a magnum opus, a work of utter brilliance. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Gloating about the dot-b
Links 4/25/2026
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Iran War: Waiting Is the Hardest Part, Back to Pakistan, USraeli Attack Incoming?
All of the ominous signs that have preceded previous "suprise attacks" on Iran are here: the markets are closed for the weekend, Kushner and Witkoff are headed to Pakistan for negotiations, and US for
Top Links 1083 China investing in batteries, India in dockyards. Big cuts in big tech & "Talking with Sartre".
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Talking Vibes With Jared Bernstein
More on why people feel so bad about the economy
Suggested Readings
A few recommendations by Figs in Winter for your reading pleasure
To Solve Homelessness, Fix the Economy
A dangerous right-wing solution to homelessness is to hide the unhoused in out-of-sight detention camps
the thrill of living privately
there is a difference between being known and being known about
Why Focus On Mid-Level Goals?
Human action plans are often organized around goal hierarchies, with lower-level subgoals helping to achieve higher-level goals.
Parachute
Oh, this looks like a way easier iCloud Photo backup option for simple folk like myself — it’s point-and-click with easier options for target backups. / tip of the hat to Mike with the tip
The Stranger, The Drama, and the criticism of Ben Lerner
Two new films and one great review
Second Cohort: Studying Philosophy Outside Traditional Academia
our next 1-day workshop session is coming up on May 9!
Why shoplifting is bad
It may feel like a small act of rebellion, but it hurts a lot of people who don't deserve it.
What the offline discourse class is talking about
Swing-state letter writers are not arguing about whether petty theft is a new kind of political protest.
Why Volcanoes Sometimes Shoot Out Lightning
Tiny grains produce big charges The post Why Volcanoes Sometimes Shoot Out Lightning appeared first on Nautilus.
Vintage Weekly Bus Passes
A collection of weekly bus passes from Milwaukee, WI. Years covered are 1930-1979. Was there a new design every single week? (via @slowernet) [This is a vintage post originally from Feb
Final Assignment for Econ 196: Simulating Krugman on Lewis on the Development of Underdevelopment
Students do before 2026-05-03 Su: what I am doing about my feeling that teaching econ without data science is now professional malpractice…
Don’t Fight the Stock Market
Why the stock market does make sense right now. The post Don’t Fight the Stock Market appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...
These Bees Change Color with the Weather
But the biological significance of their shifts is a mystery The post These Bees Change Color with the Weather appeared first on Nautilus.
Tantrums, tears, and meltdowns. The history of chess grandmasters is replete with tragic stories of lives undone by delusion and paranoia
Tantrums, tears, and meltdowns. The history of chess grandmasters is replete with tragic stories of lives undone by delusion and paranoia
“Slavery has been such a widespread practice throughout human history that it has rarely needed a particular racial ideology in order to take root”
“Slavery has been such a widespread practice throughout human history that it has rarely needed a particular racial ideology in order to take root”
Malcolm Cowley, who rescued Faulkner, launched Kerouac, and shaped the canon, is a forgotten man who made others unforgettable
Malcolm Cowley, who rescued Faulkner, launched Kerouac, and shaped the canon, is a forgotten man who made others unforgettable
A papyrus of part of the Iliad has been discovered in a...
A papyrus of part of the Iliad has been discovered in a Roman-era tomb of mummies in Egypt. “The papyrus contains a passage from Book II of Homer’s Iliad, specifically the section known as the ‘Catalo
This New Model May Explain Why You’re Not a Twin
It’s a rare event The post This New Model May Explain Why You’re Not a Twin appeared first on Nautilus.
"We had the idea to make a Bodoni interpretation...
“We had the idea to make a Bodoni interpretation with potato stamps, so we bought 8kg of potatoes, some knives and [started carving]. When we finally had the full alphabet we stamped it on paper, made
The Isle of the Dead: I am not against stupid painters
Morgan Meis at Close Reading: I’ve never actually seen Arnold Böcklin’s famous but now not really all that famous, let’s say once-famous and now fairly obscure painting known as Die Toteninsel, or The
When “Extinct” Volcanoes Reawaken
They’re filled with a lot more fury than their millennia-long slumber would suggest The post When “Extinct” Volcanoes Reawaken appeared first on Nautilus.
Tenfold Knottiness
While reading this article about the structure of complex knots, I ran across this diagram drawn by scientist Peter Guthrie Tait in 1885 for a paper called On Knots Part III. It’s one of two figures t
Weekly Top Picks #119
SpaceX + Cursor + Mistral / Jensen v Jensen / The job AI can't take / GPT-5.5 and ChatGPT Images 2.0 / An anti-grammar app / Terence Tao on the future
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