- There are such things as Paleoburrows, dug by “mega fauna” in the past.
“So if a 90-pound animal living today digs a 16-inch by 20-foot borrow, what would dig one five feet wide and 250 feet long?” asks Frank. “There’s no explanation – not predators, not climate, not humidity. I really don’t know.”
- Zizek had some very interesting things to say about Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions, if you care for that sort of thing.
- A nice collection of randomly interesting stuff from the Library of Congress archives (such as the attempt, in 1847, to make Euclid more accessible … see image at top).
- Not the sort of thing I usually link to: a part-historical, part-travelogue look at Russian trains.
- This one was depressing but felt in the vein of “something true-ish that must be read”: The Return of the Strong Gods
- An article with the title of “Ninnies, Pedants, Tyrants and Other Academics” might have been written today, but it happened to have been written in 1991. By Camille Paglia.
- One of the episodes of “Conversations with Tyler” featured a very interesting “reverse interview” between him and Patrick Collison.
- David Brooks wrote this one piece I liked
- I thought this was a nice tribute to Umberto Eco
- Finally, (in the old style of the web) I came across some random person with a very interesting web site, and … that’s all. Here’s a snippet:
the Website of Aleph (Defunct)
See what I mean?! Yes? No? Alright, next time then.