Some strange Iron Age carved symbols may be early Norse runes.
A serious paper estimating the economic impact of AI over the next five years.
Remains of a huge Roman wall mosaic found under Trajan's Baths in Rome.
Norwegian archaeology: the Baglers, the Birchlegs, and the body in the well.
Tyler Cowen interviews Jared Diamond.
Sales of nonfiction books are way down.
An illustrated history of women's underwear.
Some eerily contemporary complaints about San Francisco, from the nineteenth century. People, housing in thriving cities is always expensive. This has probably been true since ancient Uruk.
Ethan Molick asks a couple of AIs to "make a game about imminence."
JD Vance did not like the discussion in the White House about the upcoming Iran war, so he devoted a lot of time and energy to asking military officers, CIA agents, and others about their views. This NY Times story paints Vance as someone who at least understands that war is a serious business.
From Scott Siskind's book review contest, what may actually be the best review I have read of The Tale of Genji, brings home how weird it is.
Meditation seems to help some people, but for others it can be a gateway into a dark realm of brooding and self-torture.
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Thank you for linking to the essay on meditation, and for giving it to us as a gift. A fascinating read, and another instance of Scott's dictum: "nothing makes sense except in light of inter-individual variation."
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