Something I wrote a short while ago about the Beatles, the Get Back documentary, and what time does to art| Tom Cox
We’ve known about far-UVC’s promise for a decade. Why isn't it everywhere?| The Works in Progress Newsletter
[This is a slightly edited repost of an essay from my old LiveJournal] A friend recently complained about how many people lack the basic skill of believing arguments. That is, if you have a valid a…| Slate Star Codex
To lump or to split? Deciding whether an animal is a species or subspecies profoundly influences our conservation priorities| Aeon
Cynicism is the cheap seats. It’s the fast food of intellectual positions. Anyone can point at something and say it’s broken, corrupt, or destined to fail. The real challenge? Building something better. The cynic sees a proposal for change and immediately lists why it won’t work. They’| westenberg.
Why new reforms could make it easier to build infrastructure and protect nature better| www.samdumitriu.com
Gisèle Pelicot doesn’t conceive of her now ex-husband or the other men who raped her as ‘bad apples’, aberrations...| London Review of Books
A new generation of Luddites stand against the big streaming platforms and AI companies. What happens next?| roblog.co.uk