Exhibit at the Morgan Library about their first librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, a fascinating character who was also born black but passed for white. (Morgan Library, The New Yorker, wikipedia)
Alex Tabarrok reviews "The Remarkable Life of Ibelin," a documentary about a young man with muscular dystrophy who had an amazing life online.
Zvi takes a detailed look at the first week of congestion pricing in Manhattan.
Sometimes people in the Roman empire poured liquid gypsum over burials; one of these was recently excavated in England.
Documenting the hidden 13th-century murals in Angers Cathedral.
Sex education in the early nineteenth century.
Interview with a scholar of Theodore Adorno, much about why thinkers from the early 20th century were pessimistic (gee I wonder) and what sort of hope they nonetheless retained. I was struck by this: "The norms that we must invoke for the purposes of criticism are as damaged as the damaged world."
Sabine Hossenfelder on Jeff Bezos' space plans, 7 minute video.
Fascinating genetic findings Britain, where one Iron Age Celtic community seems to have been dominated by a multi-generation female lineage.
The politics of declaring a species "invasive."
Is it true that men don't read?
A history of the concept of entropy, and doubts about it. Lots of bit-time physicists don't accept the Second Law.
"Net neutrality" was fought over with millions of words, but Tyler Cowen says its disappearance in the US has hardly been noticed. On the other hand what people worried about was what internet providers would do in secret, so it might be having impacts we can't see; might turn out to be just another reason we are shown some things on the internet but not others.
Literary critic Joseph Epstein always said his life was too boring to ever write a memoir, but in the end he did write a memoir about his boring life.
Writer Kevin Killian wrote a lot of reviews on Amazon, and they have now been published as a 697-page book.
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