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A young man—not so young as some—is going to war. He is small, aquiline, Jewish, gay, cultivated, and preposterously rich. He speaks the high-toned German of fin-de-siècle Vienna, and has decent en…

Blake Butler had given up on publishing Decade. He’d written the novel in 2008, and its complicated structure and dense language rendered it virtually unpublishable by both commercial and avant-gar…

If I told you about a piece of consumer electronics technology that: A billion+ people own and use every dayHas changed those people and their world in some pretty radical and consequential waysGet…

TL;DR: outrage mobs aren’t a bug. They’re a feature. After the introduction, there are five parts: the algorithm is real, the algorithm wants you online, the algorithm will find you, walk away from…

I am very pleased to add to my collection this equally historical and handsome Roman Republican denarius serratus, minted by the moneyer Gaius Marius Capito in 81 BC. This moneyer, unrelated to the famous Gaius Marius, is known only from his coins struck during the dictatorship of Sulla - in the tense aftermath of his defeat of the Marians, second march on Rome and bloody proscriptions. The Damoclean sense of terror that prevailed in Rome after Sulla's total victory is chillingly described by Pl

Sixteen years after the launch of Google Talk, Google messaging is still a mess.

In a crowded field of wrongness, one person stands out: Alex Berenson.

Scientists are finding new ways to probe two not-so-rare conditions to better understand the links between vision, perception and memory.

A surge involving the rapidly-transmitting Delta variant in heavily vaccinated countries has led to much hand-wringing that the vaccines are not effective against Delta, or vaccine effectivenss wanes after 4-6 months. This has fueled anti-vaccine sentiment suggesting the vaccines are not working, and causing much stress in vaccinated people that they are not as protected as they thought they would be. In this post, I will focus on vaccine effectiveness vs. severe disease/hospitalization, which

Sarah Green escaped her mother’s cult 22 years ago. She still thinks about those she left behind.

For a few days in 1995, many Indians believed a religious idol had developed a lifelike ability to drink milk — a new story from India to the world, each week on Fifty Two.

A Princeton geologist has endured decades of ridicule for arguing that the fifth extinction was caused not by an asteroid but by a series of colossal volcanic eruptions. But she’s reopened that debate.

You wouldn't think that chess players, who sit for hours on end and extend their arms only from time to time, would struggle with weight loss. But they do. Inside the very real, very bizarre metabolic phenomenon gripping chess.

​Tech companies fear public outcry as much as they do regulatory crackdowns.

Here’s a list of crypto readings and resources. It’s organized from building blocks and basics; foundations (& history); and key concepts — followed by specific topics such as governance; privacy and security; scaling; consensus and governance; cryptoeconomics, cryptoassets, and investing; …

Read by Shane Morris-On April 23, 1910, a year after leaving his presidential office, Theodore Roosevelt gave what would become one of his greatest rhetorica...

The coronavirus pandemic threw everyone into Walden Pond.

The pandemic is on its way out, but SARS-CoV-2 is here to stay. Here is why it's not a problem.

Why is it that non-Afghans only care to learn about Afghanistan when there are pictures of women in miniskirts involved? By shifting the topic to women's clothing, broader questions around the problems facing Afghanistan become elided – and the discussion goes back to a simplistic dichotomy between Islam and secular modernity.View Post

The way we build startups is changing, and with that change comes the rise of a new breed of company: bootstrapped, cash generative, and growing like crazy.

The price for Ubers, scooters and Airbnb rentals is going up as tech companies aim for profitability.

The fastest way to build your expertise, network, and second brain.

The results of Foote’s simple experiments were confirmed through hundreds of tests by scientists in the US and Europe. It happened more than a century ago.

Heating from humans has caused irreparable damage to the Earth that may get worse in coming decades.

A space expert warns NASA's safety culture may be eroding again

Meesho does millions of orders everyday but with our growing scale, we have also witnessed increase in cases of platform misuse by some resellers in sending unconsented orders to consumers. 🧵 thread on the problem and our steps in solving it

Upon some research, we found that in the last few months, several people such as Ravi have been receiving such ghost orders from Meesho

This is part of a series of columns on public philosophy by Agnes Callard; read more here. These words exist for you to read them. I […]

All signs seem to indicate that by 2022, for the first time, nontraditional tech investors—including hedge funds, mutual funds and the like—will invest more in private tech companies than traditional Silicon Valley–style venture capitalists will. Many people are quick to write this off as a ...