A wikipedia gem: "John Murray Spear (1804 – 1887) was an American spiritualist minister who was most known for his attempts to construct an electrically powered Messiah which he referred to as the New Motive Power."
A Facebook reel with a cool visualization of water flow through the Niagra River.
Twitter thread on how hard it has proved for both Russia and Ukraine to actually destroy major bridges.
Last May a document appeared that was said to be a leaked slide deck prepared by a Kremlin insider about how to spin the inevitably disappointing end of the Ukraine War. (The Spectator; Extracts and Translations)
Noah Smith: maybe the Great Filter is smartphones and short-form video.
Why was the elite of Victorian Britain so effective, despite their heavy drinking and strange educational system?
How might we regulate democracy to improve it?
The enduring influence of the film Excalibur.
Old European masking traditions.
Charles Darwin dealt with all problems by throwing himself into work, in particular minutely detailed studies of barnacles and earthworms.
Traditional brickmaking still endures in Britain.
Newly discovered Hittite royal archive.
Summary of the science Nobels for this year.
The modernization of Meiji Japan, 15-minute video from Sarah Paine.
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