Africa’s exception to every rule: Ethiopian genetics, sovereignty and religion
Pulling back the curtain on one of Africa’s most enduringly unique nations
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It’s Time to Build the Exoplanet Telescope
With the recent SpaceX Starship orbital flight tests, it is time to commit to building the largest physically possible space telescope. Such a telescope would…
The Secretive Dynasty That Controls the Boar’s Head Brand
The deli-meat company made its owners fabulously wealthy. But they have remained silent, even as the company faces the biggest scandal in its history.
Neom ‘uses one fifth of world’s steel’
The Neom giga-project in Saudi Arabia is currently using one fifth of all the steel produced in the world, an official said
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How Traffickers Got Away with the Biggest Rosewood Heist in History
Ten years after officials seized $50 million worth of illegally harvested rosewood, the logs have been returned to the traffickers and sit in limbo in a Singapore port. The legal saga highlights the ongoing corruption and gaping holes in efforts to save endangered species.
Arithmetic is an underrated world-modeling technology
if you keep units
Cargo airships are happening
I got something wrong; introducing Airship Industries
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What It’s Like to Work on a Megayacht
My Two Cents Personal-finance columnist Charlotte Cowles asks the nosy, revealing, sometimes uncomfortable questions about money so you don’t have to.…
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Petite Balade Alpine - Blog | Kilian Jornet Burgada
Alpine Connections was the name of the WhatsApp group I had with some friends who helped me during this journey across the Alps linking summits over 4000…
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The City Where Paint Became Art
Search Find anything you save across the site in your account The Art World The Met’s new exhibition on Siena—the first of its kind in America—shows how the…
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New nuclear clean energy agreement with Kairos Power
Google’s first nuclear energy deal is a step toward helping the world decarbonize through investments in advanced clean energy technologies.
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‘Advanced’ technology found at 5000-year-old Stone Age site in Denmark
Funnel Beaker Culture site may hold one of the earliest insulated cellars constructed in Europe to preserve food
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Conceptual models of space colonization - Charlie's Diary
I'm thinking morose thoughts about the practical prospects for space colonization (ahem: stripped of the colonialist rhetoric, manifest destiny bullshit, "the…
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How much I'm paying for AI productivity software (and the future of AI use) — LessWrong
This post is broken down into two parts: Which AI productivity tools am I currently using (as an alignment researcher)?Why does it currently feel hard to spend…
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The Gorpcore Clog Heist that Nearly Sank a Beloved Outdoor Brand
How a small outdoor footwear company lost 5,000 pairs of shoes and found itself entangled in an international crime saga
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A Syllabus for Generalists
A Syllabus for Generalists by Cristina Jerney In recent years, there’s a tendency towards specialism and specialists, from the job market to identities to relationships to education and …
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Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping?
We would rather talk about literally everything else.
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The big idea: should we be thinking about luck differently?
We tend to focus on good or bad fortune, successes and failures. But what about the fact you’re here at all?
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World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission
The treatment’s success in three people raises hopes for mass production of cutting-edge CAR T therapies.
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Do U.S. Ports Need More Automation?
On October 1st, 47,000 members of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), primarily dockworkers on East and Gulf Coast ports, went on strike after failing to agree contract terms with USMX, an alliance of port operators and employers.
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I profiled Diddy. His rebranding as ‘Love’ was a ‘psychopath move’
Sean Combs sat down three years ago for a magazine profile in which he applauded #MeToo while waxing lyrical about this love of women – as he launched a rebranding as ‘Love’ himself in his latest name change. The entire interview was performative, the writer tells Sheila Flynn – and revelatory in new ways as Diddy faces a litany of civil and criminal charges
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The Hidden World of Electrostatic Ecology – Quanta Magazine
Invisibly to us, insects and other tiny creatures use static electricity to travel, avoid predators, collect pollen and more. New experiments explore how evolution may have influenced this phenomenon.
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The strange and turbulent global world of ant geopolitics | Aeon Essays
Over the past four centuries quadrillions of ants have created a strange and turbulent global society that shadows our own
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Power and Piety.
By Joshua Majeski As an Evangelical Christian, I never thought hearing the phrase “Christ is King” would make me cringe. But in the last couple of years, I've seen this basic articulation of Christian faith used in a way that makes me feel a combination of anger, shame, and confusion.
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What Does College Football Have to Do With College?
The question isn’t new. But seismic changes to college sports, embraced by Coach Deion Sanders and his University of Colorado Buffaloes, have made it more relevant than ever.
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AI research assistants competition 2024Q3: Tie between Elicit and You.com
Summary I make a large part of my living performing literature reviews to answer scientific questions. For years AI has been unable to do anything to lower my research workload, but back in …
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The survival skills of Helena Valero
Anthropology has been bad at capturing the living conditions of women. A kidnapped woman who returned to civilization was the exception.
