Friday, April 10, 2026

Links 10 April 2026

Beth Moon, Heart of the Dragon, 2010
More Beth Moon here and here.

More and more fossils from the Ediacaran period (635-542 million years ago) expose the history of complex life before the Cambrian explosion.

Still uploading chapters of The Voice from the Darkness at Royal Road.

Sabine Hossenfelder on the photographic evidence of "UAPs" in earth orbit, 7-minute video.

New science about consciousness in birds, 18-minute video.

Annals of madness: the Renaissance men who thought they were made of glass.

The idealism of architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

The Peebles Hoard, a wonderful hoard of Bronze Age objects found a few years ago in Scotland.

And from the same museum, eleven Scottish Posy Rings.

Does the internet thing about "back rooms" tell us anything about our society?

Funding new scientific instruments as a way to move 20th-century science forward.

Anthropic's new AI is very good at finding vulnerabilities in software systems.

The history of the cucumber.

Researching in the Stephen King archive.

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