A Tall Tree Reading List. Featuring five essays: The Wolf Tree and the World Wide Web. Do Trees Talk to Each Another? Illuminating Kirinyaga. Inside the Pacheedaht Nation’s stand on Fairy Creek Logging Blockades. When the Toughest Trees meet the H…
NFT – Nothing For Tons (of Cash)
If you thought the NFT mania was nutty before….. As Matthew Levine put it:
“Another model is that the value in an NFT comes from a concept, and the value in a fractionalized NFT comes from, like, two concepts. “Take an object / Do something to it / …
Rational difficulties
Why is it so hard to be rational? “In everyday life, the biggest obstacle to metacognition is what psychologists call the “illusion of fluency.” As we perform increasingly familiar tasks, we monitor our performance less rigorously; this happens when we…
The Audience will become the Artist
Glenn Gould: Uninvited Guests. [archive version] In celebration of what would have been his 88th birthday, a group of hip-hop and electronic artists (with the blessing of the Gould estate) took some Gould samples and ran with them. Listen to the albu…
Tripping the Light fantastically
No One Has Ever Measured the One Way Speed of Light. (Veritasium video) … in fact the one-way speed of light is not just unknown, it is undefined.
Crazily enough, it is possible that light travels at c in one direction, and instantaneously in the rev…
EV’s aren’t so green?
The Tough Calculus of EV carbon emissions. “A growing body of research points to the likelihood that widespread replacement of conventional cars with EVs would likely have a relatively small impact on global emissions. And it’s even possible that the o…
If you can’t stand the heat, you can still stay in the kitchen.
How to Make Dinner Without Cooking Anything. (SLNYT)
“We had no capacity or experience with some of our tasks”
How America Failed Afghanistan. “We checked the box when it came to saying that we had trained our partners, spun a rosy narrative of progress, and perhaps prioritized the safety and well-being of our troops over the mission of buttressing partner capa…
The Rise of Mixed Events at the Tokyo Olympics
Seven Olympic sports have added mixed events. The new events pose interesting tactical and strategic challenges. “On Saturday, the race’s unique configuration meant that Lydia Jacoby, the gold medalist in the women’s 100-meter breaststroke, wound up sw…
The Elateful Eight
Olympic Gymnast Oksana Chusovitina has retired. This was her final vault.