- “The rise and fall of New york city …”
- On the fractured sense of time in the 2010s
- Turns out this building near where I work is a “Silicon Valley” prop
- On how hard it is to truly forget these days
- On “neo-reaction”
- On how Youtube gives “love without the messiness”
- The earth’s hidden, deep oceans
- An analysis of Pynchon novels
- On how Krugman’s writing has become both repetitive and incoherent
- On how America is still, in many ways, in the 2000s
- Crazy fascinating look at how spiders might “use” their webs to “think” (!)
- The influence of Master of Orion on later games
- Lionel Shriver on … a passing fad
- Interesting historical bit on something that almost happened: “The Cold War Plan to Build Earth’s Largest Telescope”
- Generative Art, this time using Ant-colony optimization
- Bizarre creatures edition: Sea Cucumbuers
- My favorite recent “science read”: the forgotten mystery of Inertia
- A strange (creepy) musical instrument
- The title says it all: before the Iron Age, most iron came from … space meteorites
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