âRevolutionâ initially signaled destruction. Why did the word take on a more optimistic tenor?
âRevolutionâ initially signaled destruction. Why did the word take on a more optimistic tenor?
âOne of the most consequential misunderstandings in the history of literary criticism turns on a single Greek wordâ
âOne of the most consequential misunderstandings in the history of literary criticism turns on a single Greek wordâ
Can an AI be endowed with a sense of morality? Amanda Askell is fashioning a soul for Claude
Can an AI be endowed with a sense of morality? Amanda Askell is fashioning a soul for Claude
Fun word search game from Slate: Pears . (I love any...
Fun word search game from Slate: Pears. (I love any Boggle-esque sort of game. Got 433 today.)
Donât have a menty b about this bloggy p (on 3 Quarky D!)
Stan Carey at Sentence first: We can show this linguistic fad as having two main stereotyped patterns or formulas, which overlap morphologically. For type 1, we take a word or short phrase, clip (i.e.
" 'CEO said a thing!' journalism...
ââCEO said a thing!â journalism generally involves a press outlet parroting the claims of a CEO or billionaire utterly mindlessly without any sort of useful historical context as to whether anything b
Computer, Enhance
People keep running crime footage through AI thinking theyâre helping. Theyâre not.
Trump just killed the EPAâs ability to fight climate change. It may backfire.
The EPAâs repeal of the âendangerment findingâ could threaten automakers and oil companies â if it survives in court.
Why governments insist on CBDCs or stablecoins when most people donât want them
CBDCs could create a two-tier wealth system: non-programmable assets for the elite and total digital surveillance for the population.
A Peek Inside the Minds of Honeybees
New research reveals the neurochemical cocktail brewing in bee brains when they learn The post A Peek Inside the Minds of Honeybees appeared first on Nautilus.
âAll It Is Is Painâ: The Olympian Testing the Limits of Endurance
Reid Forgrave at the New York Times: There are two principal reasons for the superior conditioning of cross-country skiers, according to Laura Richardson, a clinical exercise physiologist at the Unive
Updating My Too Hard Pile
Are software stocks a buy here? The post Updating My Too Hard Pile appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...
"Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive...
âOur Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its centre but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark matter exerting the same gravitational influence.â
Thursday links: the drip of good news
The Philosopher of Games
A conversation with C. Thi Nguyen on his new book 'The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Elseâs Game'
The Art of Choosing Love Over Not-Love: Rumiâs Antidote to Our Human Tragedy
"Youâll long for me when Iâm gone... You'll kiss the headstone of my grave... Kiss my face instead!"
Magical Athlete
Elizabeth Goodspeed (web / insta / newsletter) posted about the type in this game she lent design and art direction. It has opened a rabbit hole of goodness. CMYK games is chock full of colorful delig
Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness
"If you can acknowledge it and you can relax with it a little bit, very often it shortens its duration."
Econ 196 :: Societies of Domination :: Pre-Class Assignmentâdo before 2026-02-15 23:59 PST
What I am teaching in my seminar these days: predatory thugs with spears and transitory economic booms with limitsâagrarian-age antiquity as both domination and efflorescenceâŚ
Terence Tao: Why I Co-Founded SAIR (The Foundation for âScience and AI Researchâ)
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The Origins of One of the Most Beloved Video Games of...
The Origins of One of the Most Beloved Video Games of All Time. âSomething Iâve heard from every Mario developer Iâve ever spoken to over the years is this: Whenever you press a button, something fun
Are books and babies compatible?
Some general thoughts and Hollis Robbins in The Republic of Letters
Michelle Zauner (Crying in H Mart) on the 30th...
Michelle Zauner (Crying in H Mart) on the 30th anniversary of Infinite Jest. âIf you allow yourself to trust-fall into the barbed intricacies of the writing, you will discover soft, exquisite humanity
The Spy Who Found T. Rex
Pioneering paleontologist Barnum Brown took on some curious gigs outside of his digs The post The Spy Who Found T. Rex appeared first on Nautilus.
How to rescue the aid industry: focus on conflict prevention, not just relief
Rabah Arezki in Nature: The unravelling of the aid industry must force a reset of the nexus between peace and economic development. The international-development model has changed little in eight deca
Sorry For My Language
Jessi Jezewska Stevens on the water main.
Oh my God how I do hate species & varieties
Unhappy Birthday Charles Darwin
The Darkness Within
How evil are humans?
Corporations Are Winning the Stock Market.
Hereâs a New Plan for Everyone Else
"It's Fine If I Suck Sometimes"
Sara Hussain for Vogue India: In 2026, Iâm No Longer Interested in âWorking on Myselfâ, aka the exhausting âhyper-policing [of] our thoughts and language until having a personality feels like a risk a
The Median Voter Theorem is a Clarity Trap
What the Democratic party needs; what it demands; is bold, persistent experimentation
Ive + Newsom + Ferrari = Some buttons
Iâve read the stories about how LoveFrom, helped design the interior of the first electric Ferrari and it wasnât until seeing this video that it all clicked. Though I would probably appreciate a chunk
"Any serious push to account for the actions of...
âAny serious push to account for the actions of this government â to abolish the presidentâs private army, restructure immigration enforcement and punish anyone responsible for wrongdoing â must inclu
Molly Guard
Learned a new word this morning, and the etymology is absolutely worth the click. The ensuing thought about design interaction expands the notion.
Bird Poop Powered the Success of This Ancient Kingdom
âIn ancient Andean cultures, fertilizer was powerâ The post Bird Poop Powered the Success of This Ancient Kingdom appeared first on Nautilus.
When Gmail was released as a public beta in 2004, it...
When Gmail was released as a public beta in 2004, it âran on three hundred old Pentium III computers nobody else at Google wantedâ.
Has the Rate of Global Warming More Than Doubled?
Troubling global warming updates from the authoritative James Hansen.
Longform links: solidifying your world view
Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. Wherever possible, free links for premium sites are used. You can check out...
Mark Zuckerberg Wanted to Keep in Touch With Jeffrey Epstein
Despite his later denial, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wanted to keep a line open to Jeffrey Epstein. Emails between the two suggest that the world of the Big Tech elite is less a back room of evi
What the Ivy League Is Really Selling
Not a better education, but elite social formation.
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