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Scott Alexander at Astral Codex Ten: Saar Wilf is an ex-Israeli entrepreneur. Since 2016, he’s been developing a new form of reasoning, meant to transcend normal human bias. His method
Continue reading“I Watched 15 Hours of COVID Origins Arguments So You Don’t Have to”
Amelia Nierenberg in The New York Times: Walnuts can improve cognitive function. Blueberries can boost memory. Fish oil supplements can lower your risk of Alzheimer’s disease. You may have noticed these buzzy “brain food”
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Carl Zimmer in Quanta: Ever since viruses came to light in the late 1800s, scientists have set them apart from the rest of life. Viruses were far smaller than cells,
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That’s the cold-sweat-inducing premise of the two books, Annie Jacobsen’s “Nuclear War” and Sarah Scoles’s “Countdown”–Barry Gewen, a longtime editor at the NY Times Book Review who retired in 2022,
Continue readingLet’s Say Someone Did Drop the Bomb. Then What?
by Charles Bukowski at Poetic Outlaws You know: I’m drunk once againherelistening to Tchaikovskyon the radio. Jesus, I heard him 47 yearsagowhen I was a starving writerand here he isagainand
‘Swaying between atomic and spiritual disintegration.’ Miri Davidson in Sidecar: The far right wants to decolonize. In France, far-right intellectuals routinely cast Europe as indigenous victim of an ‘immigrant colonization’
Rashid Khalidi in The Guardian: For people everywhere, myself included, the awful images that have come out of Gaza and Israel since 7 October 2023 have been inescapable. This war hangs over us
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Rick Cleveland at Mississippi Today: No telling how many times this sports writer has made the drive back from Oxford to Jackson following some sports event. Hundreds of times for
Continue readingIt was Like ‘The Twilight Zone,’ But With O.J., it Was All Too Real
From cave art to contemporary art, humans have created the most outstanding works of art and reflected on every aspect of human life and its relationship with creativity. And throughout the
by Engr. Habib Khan from Quetta: In my youth days, I happened to be in Central Ukraine during the Soviet era, and was fascinated by the immensity of their sports
Once, in the cool blue middle of a lake,up to my neck in that most precious element of all, I found the pale gray curled-upwards pigeon featherfloating on the tension
Nathan Cheek at Psyche: Imagine this upsetting scenario: two women are both suffering physical abuse from their partners. One woman is relatively affluent, while the other struggles to make ends