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“This Is Not The Computer For You”

Maybe it’s because I’m a little bit allergic to hype , but I just now got around to reading this review of the Macbook Neo by Sam Henri Gold that absolutely everyone has been recommending and, well, this might be the best product review ever written? The consensus is

The Trump regime is deliberately destroying the...

The Trump regime is deliberately destroying the scientific community in the US . “This is not efficiency. This is not streamlining. This is the systematic elimination of scientific stewardship at the world’s largest biomedical research funder.”

Unbounded

In the early 20th century, Emmy Noether’s mathematics transcended the physical world. She longed to do the same herself - by Julia Ravanis Read on Aeon

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A kitchen metaphor

Colleagues you care about are coming over for dinner. What should you make? Some people don’t care if it’s delicious, as long as it’s interesting. Some don’t need it to be interesting, but it needs to start on time. Others define delicious differently than you do. One couple

Roots and the Meaning of Life

They are so far out of sight for us, creatures of the upper world, that we don’t readily think of them. But as soon as we do, as soon as we plunge the mind into the cold dark humus to which the body will one day return, they become a spell against despair and a consecration of