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It’s Cool to Be Weird

I really like what Razaak Eniola has to say here about human difference. Before Prince was Prince, Prince was weird . And that goes the same for probably any of your favorite artists. Before Erykah Badu was Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu was weird. Before Marc Rebillet was Marc

Some Interesting Apples

Something that still blows my mind is that every apple seed produces a new variety. Every single one. This is a lovely short documentary about a project called Some Interesting Apples , which aims to find apples growing in unusual places (i.e. not commercial orchards but in

OnlyMarms: Funding Science Research on OnlyFans

This is an extremely 2026 story (derogatory): because of the Trump regime’s assualt on scientific funding , a group of scientists who has been studying marmot populations in Colorado since 1962 turned to OnlyFans to fund their research this year . From The NY Times : In

How to spot pseudoscience

We are living in a golden age of pseudoscience. Here are three helpful tools for separating science from its imitator - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

Eager to give up agency

We work so hard to have freedom and leverage and choice. And then, as soon as a social network, boss or cultural force instructs us to do something, we fold our tents and go along. Responsibility is scary. Sometimes it’s easier to find someone (or something) to blame. Just

On the experience of the long haul flight . “The...

On the experience of the long haul flight . “The meal cart appears two hours in. You can hear it banging into passengers’ knees before you see it, and the sound causes the entire cabin to sit up slightly, like meerkats detecting motion on the savanna.”