- Heh, BioShock: the collection (!)
- A 210,000-year old human skull
- On the economic impact of the coronavirus
- On how Leo Tolstoy’s children’s stories aren’t considered “safe for kids” these days
- A NYTimes article from 2006, on … an interesting geological artifact
> At the southern end of Madagascar lie four enormous wedge-shaped sediment deposits, called chevrons, that are composed of material from the ocean floor. Each covers twice the area of Manhattan with sediment as deep as the Chrysler Building is high. - > On close inspection, the chevron deposits contain deep ocean microfossils that are fused with a medley of metals typically formed by cosmic impacts. And all of them point in the same direction – toward the middle of the Indian Ocean where a newly discovered crater, 18 miles in diameter, lies 12,500 feet below the surface.
- Once upon a time, there was planned an animated film, by Salvador Dalí & Walt Disney’s set to the Music of Pink Floyd
- On higher education as a Ponzi scheme
- On the design of escape pods from space
- Wolfram continues trying (image above) to reconcile fundamental physics (and a couple of papers)
- On Bernie Sanders dropping out (and … yet)
- ”The normal economy is never coming back”
- Rethinking the human migration story
- On how deep sea squid communicate using skin color
- On building. Building things.
- Remembering Mark Fisher
- On how a fan persuaded Ian Fleming on a tiny detail about James Bond
- John Denver and Placido Domingo, recording Perhaps Love (eh, before I was born!)
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