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An inhaler that costs nearly $300 in the US goes for just $9 in Germany. What gives?
The Mystery Social Media Account Schooling Congress on How to Do Its Job Ringwiss, an influential X account, is changing how the public understands Congress,…
“It gets the intense hierarchy so right.”
In 2021, as a component of a long-running career plan to heavily monetize my two worst qualities, pedantry and obsession, I undertook the task of “annotating”…
At around 9 A.M. every weekday, a crow caws in the Jardin des Plantes, the oldest botanical garden in Paris. The sound is a warning to every other crow:…
If govts could focus a bit more on infrastructure and transportation, the heart of Pakistan would be able to pump a lot more life and activity.
How Breath of the Wild ignited a love of games for a 96 year old woman
Under cover of darkness, I boarded a Navy vessel at a heavily guarded military base along the Eastern Seaboard. The location and time of departure, as well as…
Not long ago, I randomly opened Vaclav Smil’s recent book “Size: How It Explains the World.” The first paragraph I read, in a chapter about good and bad design,…
Willige Langerak polder, Utrecht, 1984. [© Rijkswaterstaat / Gerrit Zeilstra] “God made the world, but the Dutch made the Netherlands.” So the saying goes, in…
The BBC’s Leire Ventas is granted rare access to Cecot, a secretive maximum security prison.
Opinion Commentary Wyoming Hits the Rare-Earth Mother Lode If managed wisely, the discovery at Halleck Creek will make the U.S. the world’s indispensable…
We have now had a little over a week with Gemini Advanced, based on Gemini Ultra. A few reviews are in. Not that many, though, compared to what I would have expected, or what I feel the situation calls for. This is yet another case of there being an obvious thing lots of people should do, and almost no one doing it. Should we use Gemini Advanced versus ChatGPT? Which tasks are better for one versus the other?
What the Samotsvety group can teach us about predicting the future.
The Silicon Valley establishment has grown so suspicious and fearful of original and authentic belief.
The smell of fresh pine sawdust filled the air, with more floating up as I sanded the last rough corner of the stool. My toddler was happily sanding her own block off to the side. Woodworking was a new hobby I'd picked up. My old ones, coding, reading, writing, had
AI tools provided by companies like Palantir raise questions about when and how invasive tech should be used in wartime
After Zac Brettler died, his parents struggled to decode the mystery of what had happened to him. They thought that they could pinpoint the moment he’d started…
A book excerpt from Brené Brown's Dare to Lead book — We need braver leaders and more courageous cultures.
The Apple Vision Pro is a disappointment for productivity, in part because of choices made to deliver a remarkable entertainment experience. Plus, the future of AR/VR for Apple and Meta.
Businessweek Can AI Unlock the Secrets of the Ancient World? Almost 2,000 years ago, a volcano preserved Herculaneum’s vast library of scrolls but left them…
Among all of the visual information published by the U.S. government, there may be no product with a higher information density than the Federal Aviation Administration’s aviation maps.
The franchise’s evolution since the 1960s reflects disconcerting trends in American society.
This post is extensive thoughts on Tyler Cowen’s excellent talk with Dwarkesh Patel. It is interesting throughout. You can read this while listening, after listening or instead of listening, and is written to be compatible with all three options. The notes are in order in terms of what they are reacting to, and are mostly written as I listened.
Spencer Wright on cobblestone construction, tire dust collection, and File Filosophy.