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

Sign of the future: GPT 5.5

Ethan Mollick at One Useful Thing: I had early access to GPT-5.51, and I think it is a big deal. It is a big deal because it indicates that we are not done with the rapid improvement in AI. It is also

The Bird That Is Your Life

The great danger is to stand motionless on the bank as the river of your life rushes by. It is not easy, learning how to stop waiting and start living; not easy not to waste your life; not easy knowin

It's Friday, Let's Do an Open Thread

What’s on your mind lately? What’s going on in your life? Witnessed anything amazing? Anything you’d like to share with the rest of the class? Here in Vermont, it’s barely spring (which means it’ll pr

Grit Garden

“stories grown from daily struggles Wordle” is a lovely way to transform digital crumbs of bread into something new. Brought to life by hackpravj, via sidebar

XOXO Explore

Andy&Andy gathered goodness from the many years of XOXO festivals and wrapped it all up in a wonderful digital archive (with a pretty sweet shop to boot). More about the new site and lots of links wit

What I Learned from Teaching Darwin

C. Brandon Ogbunu in Undark Magazine: During the fall semester of 2025, I taught a graduate seminar entitled “Darwinian Thought and Society.” While teaching should always derive from generosity and a

What Mummies Read Before a Long Nap

Archaeologists have recovered a scrap of the Iliad in the belly of an interred Egyptian The post What Mummies Read Before a Long Nap appeared first on Nautilus.

The Atlantic on Billionaires

What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat Decades of research in developmental psychology have shown that moral reasoning develops through consequences—not punishment, nec

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