Long reads
Essays, features and reporting from magazines and papers: The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Aeon, Quanta, the Economist and more.
Top publicationsThe New York Times 74BBC 33The Guardian 27Wired 27The Wall Street Journal 26Bloomberg 25The Atlantic 24The New Yorker 21The Washington Post 16The Economist 14Atlas Obscura 12Nature 10
514 articles.
(500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/dharavi-coronavirus-india-slums-mumbai/2020/05/11/beb2a4fe-8e1b-11ea-9322-a29e75effc93_story.html
Much better article about India. Numbers, interviews, focus on what people are doing to improve their situation.
New York Sent Recovering Coronavirus Patients to Nursing Homes: ‘It Was a Fatal Error’ - WSJ
"In New York, adding coronavirus patients to nursing homes proved a dangerous mix. It was fatal error." @WSJ | It was murder.
Why Does Every American Graduation Play ‘Pomp and Circumstance’? | Smart News
@btbytes
The Weekend Interview with Joel Kotkin: The Great California Exodus - WSJ
19/ "The state is run for the very rich, the very poor, and the public employees." A great quote from Joel Kotkin—on California slowly turning into a "two-and-a-half-class society"—from this fantastic 2012 article Feinstein mansions…
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@ClassicalMyths The "Hand of Hercules" at the Temple of Hercules, Amman, Jordan
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This is a very interesting hypothesis by @mattwridley - that a lot of covid-19 transmission has happened through hospitals! Reminds me of the NY typhoid doctor from @DavidEpstein 's book. Who kept giving his patients typhoid.
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
The hurdles people are forced to jump over in order to eat in this country
Cancer and the Coronavirus: Trying to Survive a Pandemic
I remember when @CaitlinPacific told me. I was standing in the living room talking to her on the phone. She was upbeat and wanted no sympathy. I remember saying “I’m in no position to offer you that because we are all born dying, just at…
(500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/22/coronavirus-blood-clots/
This disease gets weirder and weird by the minute: legs turning blue, patients on blood thinners developing clots, clogging of dialysis machines.
What COVID-19 Revealed About the Internet
Everyone with a brain is rightly dragging this piece. It's obtusely stupid about the technology, as well as morally misguided. To think there's some fraction of our legacy gerontocracy that agrees with it makes a seasteader out of me.
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
This old article by @tracyalloway is helpful for those wanting to do a deeper dive
Quanta Magazine
RT @svat: Very nice article/interview of Donald Knuth in @QuantaMagazine by @susandagostino Some thoughts on reading it —
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Maybe not a coincidence.
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Average 'First Leaf' appearance in the contiguous U.S. #dataviz Source:
What Is Conservatism? - American Affairs Journal
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The Mask Fiasco To me, this is the seminal failure of this pandemic. Saying that masks are…
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@matthewstoller they would have accused of being racist given your china-skepticism
Coronavirus Closes Salons and Amateurs Take Hair Into Their Own Hands - WSJ
With salons closed, people are cutting their hair at home and it’s not pretty. A note: In…
How Does the Coronavirus Behave Inside a Patient?
@ClintEhrlich @paulportesi Siddhartha Mukherjee talks about it
“Dishonesty...Is Always an Indicator of Weakness”: Tucker Carlson on How He Brought His Coronavirus Message to Mar-a-Lago
Train PhD students to be thinkers not just specialists
Train PhD students to be thinkers not just specialists
(500) https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/museum-of-the-bible-dead-sea-scrolls-forgeries/?fbclid=IwAR2BRp8HD0LwDceQBJX0j8Ogz2esOCRZeQbFDQyf3vaV-qIy2mE53GYrYIM
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
TREASURY 10-YEAR NOTE YIELD SLIDES BELOW 0.5% FOR FIRST TIME
The blurred history of Orientalist art | 1843
Stefan Collini | In real sound stupidity the English are unrivalled · LRB 27 January 2020
The logic of Buddhist philosophy goes beyond simple truth | Aeon Essays
[Report] Click Here to Kill, by Brian Merchant
From the archives: the open society and its enemies revisited - Karl Popper on democracy
Sacred Scripture Lives and Evolves, is Never Fixed
The Intoxicating History of Gin
Jonathan Rée reviews ‘Wittgenstein’s Family Letters’ edited by Brian McGuinness, translated by Peter Winslow · LRB 21 November 2019
Mrauk U, the Hidden City of Myanmar | Travel
‘Point me and I’ll march’ - TLS
A fine piece on John Le Carré's novels - Le Carré and Len Deighton - my favourite spy masters.
Who is the real Dice Man? The elusive writer behind the disturbing cult novel | News
Slave markets found on Instagram and other apps - BBC News
One of the oldest known human settlements is about to be swallowed whole
Why It’s Good To Be Wrong - Issue 2: Uncertainty
Pagers, Pay Phones, and Dialup: How We Communicated on 9/11
The Anti-Bill Gates - WSJ
The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code
Humboldt’s legacy | Nature Ecology & Evolution
The Secret History of Dune
Why the humanities can't be saved
Last Call
O Oberlin, My Oberlin
Charles Sanders Peirce was America's greatest thinker | Aeon Essays
In Praise of Halvings: Hidden Histories of Japan Excavated by Dr D. Fenberger
John Gray: The Friedrich Hayek I knew, and what he got right - and wrong
Animal Extinction: Caring for the Last of a Species
Your Work Peak Is Earlier Than You Think