Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
“human-powered discovery engine for interestingness.”
Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
we cannot assume that everything interesting is at the same scale as ourselves.
John Brockman • This Will Make You Smarter: 150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (Edge Question Series)
“The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it tries to supply them.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/technology/evan-williams-mediu
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Alexander Green • Beyond Wealth
This is the most accurate image of an atom
news.thesci-universe.com
Nadia Asparouhova on antimemetics, nuclear mysticism, and scrolling
Nadia Asparouhovathegeneralist.substack.com