Ian Leslie in The Ruffian: Will Storr, author and fellow Substacker, recently wrote about his “midlife identity crisis”. I was struck, while reading it, at how rare it is for people – men in particular – to admit that growing older can be tough. In the second half of life, we’re all expected to say
Enter an address and get a 3D file to print or order a printed version. Neato! I'm trying to figure out how topography is an option, but the notion is grand. / via Kay Reply via email
Sarah Stein Lubrano at The Ideas Letter: Governments, social scientists, public health officials, and others have grown concerned about a possible “loneliness epidemic.” They paint a picture that looks a bit like this: old people staring wistfully out the window, young men growing radicalized online
Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Let us know what you think at [email protected]. Opening up This past spring, U.S. prison officials from several states spent a week touring four German prisons “where inmates wore street clothes, m
How can you tell if a tech bubble is about to burst? Consider this recent conversation between Mark Zuckerberg and Mark Chen, chief researcher at OpenAI—as reported by the Wall Street Journal:Zuckerberg asked Chen if he would consider joining Meta—and what it would take to bring him aboard.A couple
For the past week, I've been reading a set of stories, written by Robert E. Howard in the early 1930s, about a tall, brawny, sword-wielding adventurer named Conan.These stories take place in a fantasy world that resembles the early Iron Age, and in these tales, Conan is sometimes a thief, sometimes
There is no greater remedy for helplessness than helping someone else, no greater salve for sorrow than according gladness to another. What makes life livable despite the cruelties of chance — the accident, the wildfire, the random intracellular mutation — are these little acts of mercy, of tenderne
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Many modern stories you know well are in fact far older than you think. In the case of Mario Puzo's The Godfather, there's an underlying narrative that has been told by humans for thousands of years. That's because The Godfather is really an Ancient Greek tragedy.In ancient Athens, the amphitheaters
Illustration by Alexander NaughtonYou are allowed to care about people who don't care about you, and even people who dislike you. The way you feel about someone else can be totally decoupled from how they feel about you. In fact, uncovering your capacity to love people who will never fully reciproca
A climbing variety of roses intruding into the covered outdoor deck at the Hotel Löwenhof in Vahrn, South Tyrol. According to ChatGPT this variety is called Ballerina. Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now.
In her 'Notes on Spite', has suggested a productive new area for enquiry. What are the great works of art and literary criticism about spite? Hollis says "Spite may be the most undertheorized force in creative achievement." Is that because spite is so hard to define? Even Johnson could only manage a
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Illustration by Alexander NaughtonIf you seek advice from people at the very top of competitive domains, you'll probably hear a lot about the power of tenacity, grit, and determination. There is obviously wisdom in this: You won't get very far in life if you're constantly changing course at the firs
Myles Burke in BBC News: On 14 July 1960, 65 years ago this week, a young English woman with no formal scientific background or qualifications stepped off a boat at the Gombe Stream Game Reserve in Tanzania to begin what would become a pioneering study of wild chimpanzees. Her discoveries would not
For every person mareveling at the ease of creation, there is another grieveing what feels like the death of the process. Originality, we're being told is becoming obsolete. Chatter on the topic is constant. Plagerism this. Authenticity that. And if not the chatter, the unsettling sameness of conten
Jane Austen was attuned to the ways that "little matters" — footstools, boots, curtains – can reveal big things
The first time I went out to Silicon Valley, or California for that matter, or anywhere at all west of New York state, was after college. A company cold called me for an interview. If you searched the internet at the time, it happened to look like I knew the most about HTML canvas, and maybe it was
Greetings all — Busy week in BITM land. Got home from some travel only to take off to SF to speak on a panel about AI and work for a CalMatters conference with state lawmakers and labor leaders, and made it back to LA in time for the 404 live event night, where I had the pleasure of bumping into a b
Kamloops, British Columbia, is a radiant place, receiving over 3,100 hours of sunshine a year. So it’s no wonder that in 2016, Thompson Rivers University (TRU) decided to harness all that luminescence and convert it to electricity. If the university’s solar array had been installed on a roof or moun
Thank you for being a regular reader of An Africanist Perspective. If you haven't done so yet, please hit subscribe to receive timely updates along with over 28,000 other subscribers.Subscribe nowPresident William Tolbert and Emperor Haile Selassie. Source: YouTubeLet's be blunt. It's fair to say th
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Here's my latest roundup of new records I'm recommending. I'm sharing a dozen picks this time. Happy listening!Please support my work by taking out a premium subscription—just $6 per month (even less if you sign up for a year).Subscribe nowCymande: Renascence 1970s British-Caribbean Funk Band Makes
Many things in the world have not been named openly; and many things, even if they are admitted, have never been described. One is the unsung sensibility – a sentiment and power source, a secret reservoir, unmistakable and timeless, a variant of umbrage but hardly identical with it – known as spite.
NewsNation's Chris Cuomo wants you to know he's a serious journalist. He's a former CNN anchor, which makes it extra special that he just fell for a laughably bad AI-generated video of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calling Sydney Sweeney's jeans ad "Nazi propaganda."The fake AOC in the video, which Cuomo
The central critical question about Rear Window is: what makes it so compelling? For the first part of the film, nothing happens. The murder only happens a quarter of the way into the film, and it is doubted for most of the duration. From the opening frame, behind the credits, we can see people movi
David Friedman of Ironic Sans willed a computer to create this playable demo of a game he'd been pondering for some time. (related Toot) Reply via email
I urge you to read this article through to the end, and share it with others.I won't hide it behind a paywall, as I sometimes do with predictive analysis of this sort. I want the issues raised here debated and discussed. And if I'm wrong—and I hope I am—I'd like to see the evidence.Please persuade m
Kevin Hartnett in Quanta: It’s not that anyone ever said sophisticated math problems can’t be solved by teenagers who haven’t finished high school. But the odds of such a result would have seemed long. Yet a paper posted on February 10(opens a new tab) left the math world by turns stunned, delighted
Photo: GettyIn 1955, travel editor Richard Joseph and his wife, Morgan, left the intensity of New York behind and settled into the relative calm of Connecticut. They adapted quickly to the slower pace of life, and before long had welcomed a Basset Hound puppy named Vicky into their home. One Sunday
Ella Creamer in The Guardian: Zadie Smith, Michael Rosen, Irvine Welsh and Jeanette Winterson are among more than 200 writers who have signed a letter calling for an “immediate and complete” boycott of Israel until the people of Gaza are given adequate food, water and aid. Hanif Kureishi, Brian Eno,
"Study Mode," a new educational feature released yesterday by OpenAI to much fanfare, was inevitable. The roadblocks were few. Leaders of educational institutions seem lately to be in a sort of race to see who can be first to forge partnerships with AI labs. And on a technical level, careful prompti
This story was originally reported by Eden Turner of The 19th. Meet Eden and read more of her reporting on gender, politics and policy. After she moved into her first apartment in 2021, a one-bedroom unit in East Baltimore, Saj Dillard realized her rent wouldn’t have gotten her much once her lease e
Greetings from Read Max HQ, now returned to its rightful place in Brooklyn! Today, we're writing about Luke Farritor, "cracked coders," and "epistemic arrogance."Read Max, in case you have forgotten, is funded almost entirely by paying subscribers. The reading, writing, panic attacks, anxiety scroll
Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Let us know what you think at [email protected]. Soak it in Copenhagen is getting spongier to handle future flooding, with hundreds of nature-based and engineered flood mitigation projects either co
Charles T. Rubin at the New Atlantis: What makes Gibson’s portrait of great cities thought-provoking is that, despite all this change, he imagines them persisting at all, in some ways operating no worse than the worst that can be found today. This situation becomes all the more thought-provoking whe
"To think of a satirist as a person who angrily turns against a gale-force wind and sprays liquefied shit at a group of constantly multiplying targets would not be entirely wrong"
Martha Barnette at LitHub: But just how do scholars dig up those linguistic fossils and discover those brilliant pictures within? One way is to compare related words in languages arising from a common ancestor, which brings us to the hypothetical mother tongue scholars call Proto-Indo-European. The
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"Do you have anything you would recommend on...?" It is a question I get asked regularly by readers and those interested in learning more about agrarianism. So, what I thought I would do — as a form pf public service to all agrarians — is create a curated guide of the top books for each of the field
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