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In a recent conversation with my poetic physicist friend Alan Lightman, sparring over whether the creative spirit can be usefully divided into complementary arts and science (Alan’s view) or whether t
“What we see from the air is so simple and beautiful,” Georgia O’Keeffe wrote after her first airplane flight, “I cannot help feeling that it would do something wonderful for the human race — rid it o
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Paul Ford: This Is How We Get Moral A.I. Companies. (Tl;dr: regulation.) “The entire culture of American technology is built around two terms: disruption and, of course, scale. But ethics are constrai
Pranab Bardhan talks to Debin Ma over at his substack: Pranab Bardhan (PB): 1. First, please give our readers a general idea of your unifying framework for understanding East Asian (particularly Chine
Leonard Benardo interviews Marc Ribot in The Ideas Letter: Marc Ribot has spent more than four decades moving fluidly across the boundaries that ordinarily organize musical life: between downtown expe
Over at the Polycrisis podcast this season: This first season of The Polycrisis podcast tells the story of the clash between new and old energy regimes. Just like other energy transitions before it, t
"On many levels, we wind up being strengthened by what we join, or what joins us, as well as by what we combat."
Almost any other view is more plausible than thinking fine-tuning is brute
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Consider the accepted social ranking of who is how much of an intellectual.
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Wow, Sabastian Sawe set a world record with a 1:59:30 marathon. “They call Sabastian Sawe the silent assassin. But it was impossible to ignore the beautiful destruction on the streets of London as the
Maureen Dowd in The New York Times: “It looked like a good thing: but wait till I tell you.” That’s the opening of the classic O. Henry short story “The Ransom of Red Chief.” The tale, written in 1907
My major experience of writer’s block came after I sold my first book, in 2014.
I’m doing a little straightening up and find this in an old notebook. (I tidy it up a bit instead of the room.) —Nils Time No Longer Marches Small Morning Poem Sweet to lie in bed with a notebook of g
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Putting the current bull market into context. The post An All-Time Bull Market appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...
State of the newsletter + book announcement
A Q&A with the New Mexico Reforestation Center director about what it takes to replant a burn scar post-wildfire.
Poetry by Heart, IV
Thanks for checking in with us this weekend. Here are the most clicked on items on Abnormal Returns for the week ended...
... or the ironies of neo-Hobsonian analysis.
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Today's Iran War update includes Netanyahu ordering strikes on Lebanon, Trump rug pulling "negotiations" in Pakistan, the MSM publishing more bad war news for the US, and some takes from the UAE and I
White Sun of the Desert is a tale of high adventure set in the far east of Soviet Russia.
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
No.400 — Extrapolated futures archive ⊗ The dissonance is expanding ⊗ South Korea to spur a renewables revolution ⊗ Eye contact with a humpback whale
by Daniel Gauss If the United States reinstated the military draft, many defense experts and policy analysts argue that this would weaken the all-volunteer force by lowering personnel quality, hurting
Or how defeat in the Iran War will accelerate American global decline.
by Eric Feigenbaum When I lived in Singapore during the mid-aughts, it seemed like the only thing you needed to do Hot Yoga was to turn off the air conditioning or go outside. In recent years, I have
A Revealing Week In the Air War; The Machine War, More Ukrainian Thoughts
It's a five-letter word that starts with G.
A master technician of neoclassical economics spent his last decades explaining why his own framework misled us. From IS‑LM to Kaldor‑Hicks to ‘temporary equilibrium,’ Hicks ended his career trying...
Field notes on a phone-free Coachella + my first zine!
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.
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