The mission to save NASA's Swift satellite.
Crazy story in the Washington Post claiming that Tulsi Gabbard was a cult member whose whole career has been directed by cult leader Chris Butler (article, summary on Twitter/X)
Mineralogist Louis Pope Gratacap's foray into Lost Worlds fiction, a popular genre in 1880 to 1930.
How endangered is American democracy? Scott Siskind on the Metaculus Threat to Democracy Index.
Analysis of a cyberattack on an important Russian military system, Groza.
US infant mortality at an all-time low.
Sabine Hossenfelder reports that many fusion startups are giving up (7-minute video).
Against rolling pizza cutters. And Noah Smith.
The UN says that 1.7 million Syrians returned home after Assad's fall. In a weird way this is an argument for keeping refugees in nearby camps, since those are the ones who have gone home. From what I can tell, not many have returned from Europe.
A pair of ravens is nesting amidst the Gothic sculptures of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC. (Twitter/X 1; Twitter/2)
From Dezeen, Ten Examples of Oddly Satisfying Architecture.
Boston has liberalized its outdoor drinking laws for the World Cup; why not make it permanent?
Softening brutalist architecture with plants.
Ethan Mollick makes short video clips of sci-fi cities using Midjourney.
The weird story of a seldom seen painting.
How the Himalayan blackberry took over the Pacific northwest.
Fasting during Ramadan doesn't seem to hurt the performance of Muslim chess players.
Dwarkesh Patel interviews Ada Palmer about Machiavelli, 2-hour video.
2 comments:
the best way to cut a pizza is kitchen scissors and that article doesn't even mention it
Addedn a link that addresses scissors, which I meant to do in the first place.
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