Revolutionary leftism vs. actually doing good, partly as seen through the life of Anton Chekhov: "Chekhov believed in the transformational power of tiny acts of compassion divested of ideological abstraction."
Teeside Psychogeography visits the church and ruined abbey of Easby, Yorkshire.
Desert art by Alfredo de Stefano.
New calculations about the exact mechanism by which that asteroid killed the last dinosaurs, 6-minute video.
Cool photographs of the WW II bunkers of South Tyrol.
Noah Smith: no, you are not on indigenous land. I think this attack on the whole notion of ethnic groups owning land is one of my own most fervent beliefs, and one I think has the most import for the human future.
Fascism on the American Right.
Among the groups singled out for genocide by the Khmer Rouge was musicians; here's a piece on how Cambodian pop music survived and revived.
The people trying to bring back Latin as Europe's common language.
In a piece titled "The Age of Wonders and Terrors," Scott Aaronson offers this take on AI: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA."
New rail stations for Auckland, New Zealand, "informed by Maori values." Better than brutalism, anyway.
An argument that the Czech Republic's plan to give $50,000 to couples who have a second child will not budge the birth rate. (Twitter/X)
Ethan Mollick: "the infamous Milgram Experiment is actually quite weak because most people suspected the shocks were fake (kind of obvious in retrospect) & thus went along with shocking people, not out of obedience to authority, but because it didn’t matter."
Modern bamboo architecture.
Khatia Buniatishvili's wonderful performance of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, said by some to be the definitive work of Romantic music. You know the second movement even if you have never heard of Rachmaninoff.
An old post of mine that has gotten a bunch of views lately: Gold Signet Rings of the Minoan and Mycenaean Worlds.
Sixteenth-century soldier found under a Latvian Lake, near the remains of an old bridge. From 2020. If anyone can find a report on the analysis of this find, which ought to have taken place by now, please send it my way.
First intact burials found at Göbeklitepe; one of the many puzzled about the site has been the discovery of numerous human bone fragments scattered about.
Large hoard of Roman silver coins found in Germany.
Salmon seem to be thriving in the Klamath River after dam removals. (NY Times, scientific paper)
The evolution of Russian "Turtle Tanks" in Ukraine.
The former mayor of Belgorod in Russia was convicted of corruption in 2024, but rather than going to prison he signed up for the "special military operation." He has now been killed at the front.
Emissions test cheating, diesel prices, and Ukraine's attacks on Russian refineries, 16-minute video.
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