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The Wildest Bet Is the Winning Bet

We place life’s bets by countless calculations of probability, conscious and unconscious, only to discover over and over how short they fall of the wildest reaches of the possible, which always includes but exceeds the probable. It helps to remember that we ourselves are

Required Reading

A day in the life of Peter Hujar, Mahmoud Khalil a year after detention, the madman theory of Trump, and more.

Venice Biennale Jury Resigns

Responsible for awarding the Golden Lions, the women-led jury stepped down a week after its statement of intent to omit Russia and Israel from consideration.

Farewell, Voting Rights Act

Adam Serwer writing about the yesterday’s Supreme Court decision that guts much of whatever remains of the Voting Rights Act: In states with large Black populations that remain under Republican control — half of the Black American population resides in the South — lawmakers

Who invented bad guys?

The good-vs-evil paradigm of most pop-culture storytelling is a relatively recent effort to promote social cohesion - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

The Ethiopian running secret

One school of training is highly personalised, technical and data-driven. The other is the one that wins marathons - by Michael Crawley & Geoff Burns Read on Aeon

One thing at a time

Multi-tasking is mostly an illusion. What we’re actually doing is slicing our focus, jumping from one thing to another and then back again. All that jumping decreases our productivity and worse, erodes our peace of mind. You’re only doing one thing at a time anyway. Might as