"Mangled Worlds": Robin Hanson's thoughts on the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, interesting.
Alex Tabarrok on the administration's proposed new science policy, which is supposed to "align program goals with administration priorities."
The gold treasure of Varna, a Bulgarian settlement of the late Neolithic.
Scott Sumner, The World is Bigger than You Can Imagine; also, your own life is bigger than you can imagine.
Construction Physics asks whether the time to build a new bridge in the US has really changed much, when planning is taken into account.
Excellent 15-minute video from William Spaniel on the ongoing Battle of Kupiansk.
An artists' collective turns an abandoned hospital in LA into a giant art show: news article, project web site.
London Characters, set of cigarette cards from 1934. From the same site, a visit to London's very weird House of Dreams.
The story of the fraudulent edition of Galileo's Starry Messenger that appeared on the market in 2005.
In this Substack post, Richard Hanania lays out part of the argument in his anti-populist book Kakistocracy.
Another 18th-century "Porcelain Wreck" has been found, but this one is in deep water off the coast of Norway.
Fascinating piece on the recent history of the avocado industry.
Steven Pinker thinks most of the writing academics do for each other is a waste of time, short video on Twitter/X.
More "split portraits" from Ulric Collette, documenting resemblences between relatives.
Ethan Mollick on the new AI from Anthropic, which he says is amazing but increasingly weird: "One thing I mentioned only in passing in my Fable post is that, for long running tasks, Fable starts to develop its own dialect as its many agents and tasks reinforce themselves and make Claudish language ever more Claudish." Much to ponder there. (Twitter/X, Substack)
Thread on Russian tanks remaining in storage, from Jompy. Not much is left. Amazing that the vast Soviet stockpile could be gone, but then this war has already gone on longer than WW I.
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