Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
In the three-dimensional world of the deep ocean, above and below matter as much as in front and behind.
Ed Yong • An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
[on Wilczek's current project]: weaving together threads from across the frontiers of knowledge, optimistically pushing ever deeper, never satisfied with an incomplete understanding of the universe and all the potential it holds for us. And having a great time doing it.
Gabriel Popkin • The Universe According to Frank Wilczek - John Templeton Foundation
“human-powered discovery engine for interestingness.”
Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
Essays on health technologies and Silicon Valley’s obsession with engineering bodies and minds, from the critic formerly known as “ed-tech’s Cassandra”
Second Breakfast
Science may be the pursuit of truth, but scientific language is adept at dressing up insidious ideologies as fundamental truths.
Elan Ullendorff • A brief history of creativity (and power)
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The Good News: The M...
The Gene: An Intimate History
Packy McCormick • Differentiation
David Lang: Most scientists are under tremendous pressure to constantly publish. That realization caused me to view scientific expertise through the lens of incentives. I’m nervous to use that language, because it’s the same line that conspiracy theorists use to deny and obfuscate facts, but I do think it’s the fault line.