Science

• The tallest natural arch in the world (taller than the Empire State Building), see the pic above.
• Mathematica for Data Science

Watchables

• I like watching all the “Beauty of …” videos, this is one on BladeRunner 49

The world

• Chris Hedges is always hard-hitting
• This old SNL bit on the 2020 Dem candidates is … on the money :-|
• NFT, AI, and the concept of history

Readables

• Something Pynchon wrote for the NYT Book Review in 1984
• There was an actual trailer for Anathem (remember reading the book a bit over a decade ago)
• When Douglas Adams made an interactive text game for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• On the rise and decline of Slashdot (checking it was a daily routine for a decade!)

Computing

• A view of Nvidia and Arm and … the coming era of specialized software-and-hardware
• a Dvorak e-zine: https://www.dvzine.org/zine/22-23.html
• “The last cool prank”
• “Why not gpl, for scientific software?"
• Ordering salads (from Sweetgreen) within Emacs (why am I not surprised)
• A reality check on programming being both hard and easy