A few more lines of the pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles found in an Egyptian papyrus. We remember Empedocles as a natural philosopher but he seems to have been more of a charismatic religious figure who dabbled in physics; he claimed to be a god, and legend says he threw himself into Mount Etna to prove his divinity.
Still uploading chapters of The Voice from the Darkness at Royal Road.
Noah Smith, why shoplifting is bad.
Interesting article on Viktor Orban and American post-liberalism.
Robin Hanson on the factors that make your beliefs unreliable.
Ukrainian military innovation: problems encountered in the field can lead to engineered solutions in seven days, and "The cost per kill today is $1,000, down from around $60,000 in 2022."
An ancient tourist knickknack from Hadrian's Wall found in Spain.
Charlotte Perkins Gillman, The Yellow Wallpaper, a famous work of psychological horror, 36-minute audio.
An ecological and economic model of What Happened to Haiti.
Photographs of old architecture in east London by Paul Anthony Gardner.
Linocuts by Mexican artist Eduardo Robledo.
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