Anna Brandenberger
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- This Emily Dickinson Poem Will Hit You Where You Live - The New York Times1 savers
- What Are the Biggest Questions in Science Today? 100 Scientists Weigh In. - The New York Times2 savers
- How Did Life Arise? Three Turning Points in Early Evolution - The New York Times1 savers
- There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy5 savers
- The Vertiginous Revelations of “You Can See Everything” | The New Yorker1 savers
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- Easy Star All Stars - Radiodread (Album Full) - YouTube1 savers
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- Opinion | College campuses are being suffocated by administrators1 savers
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- Dolly Parton: “I Will Always Love You” Track Review | Pitchfork2 savers
- Dirty Little Zine — Free 8-Page Printable Zine Maker1 savers
- Light pollution map3 savers
- The Laboratory and the Artist - Cleveland Review of Books12 savers
- Intelligence is not the main bottleneck - by Ruxandra Teslo7 savers
- Fast · Patrick Collison50 savers
- Niven T. Achenjang | postdoc application advice2 savers
- Elena Ferrante’s New Book: Art Wins | The New Yorker1 savers
- An Opinionated Guide to ML Research59 savers
- Is the Internet Making Culture Worse?—Asterisk8 savers
- Can You Just Do Things?—Asterisk16 savers
- Relationship primitives8 savers
- Is There Love After Marriage? - by Agnes Callard2 savers
- Fence Digital – Our publications explore the boundary between the virtual nature of digital information and the viscerality of text.1 savers
- Art Is for Seeing Evil | The Point Magazine12 savers
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- DARK SKY PARKS & PLACES | Bortle & Light Pollution Maps for Stargazing1 savers
- Annie Ernaux Has Broken Every Taboo of What Women Are Allowed to Write - The New York Times4 savers
- the archive1 savers
- Redaction | Typeface from Titus Kaphar / Reginald Dwayne Betts’ show at MoMA PS111 savers
- Free Bespoke Sewing Patterns | FreeSewing1 savers
- Goodhart's law15 savers
- If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you29 savers
- Income and emotional well-being: A conflict resolved | PNAS5 savers
- GENER8ION - STORM starring Yung Lean - YouTube4 savers
- It’s Possible to Learn in Our Sleep. Should We? | The New Yorker1 savers
- Library of Babel11 savers
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- Grad school is worse for public health than STDs | benkuhn.net6 savers
- The supreme court’s voting rights decision is a death knell for American democracy | Moira Donegan | The Guardian2 savers
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- Pretext - Text measurement that never touches the DOM.2 savers
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- The 25 Most Interesting Ideas I've Found in 2025 (So Far)4 savers
- games | eieio.games5 savers
- Jean-luc Doumont · Nicholas J. Matiasz, Ph.D.2 savers
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- Why books don't work66 savers
- 150 Great Articles & Essays: interesting articles to read online9 savers
- Tug-of-war with noise: A game-theoretic view of the p-Laplacian1 savers
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- Stitch - Design with AI1 savers
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- How to live without your phone - by Sam Kriss6 savers
- Rethinking High-School Science Fairs—Asterisk10 savers
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- The importance of stupidity in scientific research | Journal of Cell Science | The Company of Biologists7 savers
- Maggie Appleton26 savers
- This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web12 savers
- Sebastião Salgado’s View of Humanity | The New Yorker2 savers
- smallweb2 savers
- Cooking Up Mehran’s Steak House - by danielle (raw & feral)4 savers
- Book Review: Seeing Like A State | Slate Star Codex6 savers
- Hovers, Cursors and Cute Interactions - Awwwards2 savers
- Peter Thiel on what works at work - The Washington Post2 savers
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second feature of this monoculture is a kind of counterfeit contrarianism
Intelligence is not the main bottleneck - by Ruxandra TesloWhen I finish a great novel, film, or videogame, I don’t feel dispirited and hollowed out by the experience. Instead, it feels as if I’ve lived with and through its characters. Often, I want to relive that
Is the Internet Making Culture Worse?—AsteriskNichols was also friends with Moses’s other opponents; she and Jane Jacobs often brought their children to the park together, and she helped a young Robert Caro, who was struggling to break a major story about Moses, obtain access to the city planner’s files
Is the Internet Making Culture Worse?—AsteriskSo psychedelics, desperation, exposure to high-agency people. I think those are the standard things. And then there is just grace. Sometimes people wake up one day and they're like, oh, I don't like the way that I'm living. And that happens
Can You Just Do Things?—AsteriskWhen art does transparently aim at moral guidance or social progress we dismiss it as dogmatic, pedantic and servile
Art Is for Seeing Evil | The Point Magazinethere are times when the poet’s power to confront what the rest of us turn away from marks such a dramatic escape from the confines of ordinary humanity that we find ourselves drawn to describing them with the language of “a divine spark.” God is, after all, the one who sees the unseen.
Art Is for Seeing Evil | The Point MagazineIn life, we are looking for all the various ways to make our marriages succeed; in fiction, we are fascinated to observe all the possible ways a marriage could fail. That is the insight behind Tolstoy’s opening sentence: it is true of fiction, even if it is not true of life.
Art Is for Seeing Evil | The Point Magazinenight, ghosts, a castle, a lobby where a man can walk four hours together, a willow-fringed brook and a sad lady drowned, a graveyard and a terrible cliff above the sea, and amidst all these a pale man in black clothes
Art Is for Seeing Evil | The Point Magazinethe dead cadences of the machine
If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you1) There is an unhappy minority, whose unhappiness diminishes with rising income up to a threshold, then shows no further progress; 2) In the happier majority, happiness continues to rise with income even in the high range of incomes
Income and emotional well-being: A conflict resolved | PNASFor the happiest 30% of people in the various income categories, happiness rises with log(income) at an accelerated rate beyond 100k
Income and emotional well-being: A conflict resolved | PNASthere exist combined estimators more accurate on average (that is, having lower expected mean squared error) than any method that handles the parameters separately
Stein's examplecameras deliver you from time, GPS abstracts you out of space, and an all-consuming screen that keeps you a constant safe distance from yourself.
How to live without your phone - by Sam Kriss. The horror of simply existing, sitting alone with nothing to look at, nothing to do with my hands, no bright lights to briefly flood my brain.
How to live without your phone - by Sam KrissHuman consciousness as a brief, lossy interface between the navigation app and the steering wheel.
How to live without your phone - by Sam KrissValentine’s is, of course, an instrument for transforming the singularity of romantic love into a predictable annual stimulus for the wood-pulp industry.
How to live without your phone - by Sam KrissThe new always comes shrouded in the sense that old ways were much better, simply by virtue of being old
How to live without your phone - by Sam KrissI just want Zohran’s nonbinary praetorians to march across the country and put all these guys in cuffs
Child’s Play, by Sam KrissI kept a notebook where I jotted down things I wanted to google and twice a week I’d go down to the local library, look at the list, and say, why on earth did I want to know Justin Bieber’s net worth?
Relationships are coevolutionary loops - by Henrik KarlssonThere was no public life, only private morality in its most naked form, namely, your character.
Reading Lolita in the Barracks—AsteriskThis wasn’t so much anti-intellectualism as a form of deprivation grounded in a clear understanding of education's value
Reading Lolita in the Barracks—AsteriskSubstantial scholarships and cash bounties are awarded to findings that are judged to merit retraction
Rethinking High-School Science Fairs—Asteriskpart of the education I received in a professional lab was how much the scientific process was dominated by anxiety, not curiosity.
Rethinking High-School Science Fairs—AsteriskFairs were structured with the goal of identifying the next generation of powerhouse researchers, instead of — as Meister originally hoped — forming a broad swathe of students for thoughtful citizenship
Rethinking High-School Science Fairs—Asteriskdrawing flowers on the corner of your screen
batteries - by vincent huang - a slice of my mindhow to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out
This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio) - Farnam Streetturns down, in order to work on something that no one cares about.
Being creative requires taking risks - by Henrik KarlssonAnd on the reading, at least some of the time you need to be sampling from places you wouldn’t normally look.
Being creative requires taking risks - by Henrik KarlssonEvery state, whether via legislators or ballot initiatives, has the authority to amend its laws to no longer grant domestic and out-of-state corporations the power to spend in the state's local, state, and federal politics.
Transparent Election Initiative - Our Fight Against Corporate Money in PoliticsThis is authority every state possesses but no state has used in more than a century.
Transparent Election Initiative - Our Fight Against Corporate Money in PoliticsTang explained that she worried less about military invasion and more about the PRC winning the battle over hearts and minds—persuading the Taiwanese public that they’d be happier, richer, and more secure if they gave up their rights for centralized single-party control.
garbage in, garbage out - by Jasmine Sun - @jasminethere is some disposition where tech, because it is the industry of innovators and disruptors, is just like: Anybody who's super effective and hacks the system, whether it's from the inside or the outside, whether it's in tech or in politics, they get that respect.
builders vs. prigs (ft. arjun ramani)I still think social media is an underrated analogue to consumer AI—information and intimacy are now too cheap to meter. A good civic citizen should read newspapers instead of Twitter, but it’s hard to resist feeds perfectly tuned to my interests and tilt
AI friends are already hereThe really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day
This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio) - Farnam StreetIf you’re automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won’t consider possibilities that aren’t annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options
This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio) - Farnam StreetA great performance is one in which the player has absorbed the music so deeply that their choices seem not like choices, but inevitabilities
Opinion | The Quest for Perfection Is Stunting Our Society - The New York Times“you’re going to encounter a lot of pressure to work for the State Department to work at a military contractor to work as a” — I think what he said was — “a pragmatic planner of the American empire.” Right? “And every single incentive is going to point towards you doing that. And it's up to you, whether you want to succumb to that or not.”
⚡ MIT: Progressions & Regressions - by jessica dai - RebootHusband runs off with a politician? Make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by mutated boa constrictor? Make good art. IRS on your trail? Make good art. Cat exploded? Make good art. Somebody on the Internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil or it's all been done before? Make good art.
"Make Good Art" by Neil Gaiman speech transcriptThey turn humans into this hyperefficient terrestrial locomotor because they make being on land more like swimming
A Human on a Bicycle Is among the Most Efficient Forms of Travel in the Animal Kingdom | Scientific Americanin music as in language, the medium shapes the message
Do You Actually Know What Classical Music Is? Does Anyone? - The AtlanticIf we let ourselves be guided by this basic question—which musical artists regard the score as a creative starting point?—we arrive at the broadest and most welcoming definition of “classical” music
Do You Actually Know What Classical Music Is? Does Anyone? - The Atlanticjazz lovers would agree that the genre is not defined by the worship of specific studio recordings. Fans are more likely to value the evanescent moment of live performance, with its potential for spontaneous expression, for the very reason that a familiar tune can sound different every time it’s performed
Do You Actually Know What Classical Music Is? Does Anyone? - The Atlanticin pop music, the studio album typically possesses an authority upon which all subsequent iterations—whether live performances or written transcriptions—are based
Do You Actually Know What Classical Music Is? Does Anyone? - The AtlanticThough all music can be documented and experienced in multiple ways—scores, recordings, live performances—one approach to distinguishing musical traditions is to ask which form a given tradition treats as authoritative
Do You Actually Know What Classical Music Is? Does Anyone? - The Atlanticlike the cosmic equivalent of a ball of molasses
Oddly viscous stars could be impersonating black holes | New ScientistBut also the careful and meticulous craft in how these songs are made: undergirded by the images and objects that prove a life has been lived fully, the detritus around the human body as we traffic through time is marked (in this album and elsewhere), not merely as texture, but as effervescent naming and expanding personhood via memory.
“The Songs Prove That We Were Here”: Ocean Vuong on Sufjan Stevens ‹ Literary Hubsometimes my emotions lived at the edge of my consciousness for months, lurking in half-remembered dreams and phrases on the tip of my tongue, and i had to hunt them down like wild animals to make sense of what they were
ALIGNMENT - by vincent huang - a slice of my mindThe nation’s troubles could be understood and explained — not as a result of impersonal forces or distant enemies, but of the concrete actions taken by its own leaders. And in a democracy those leaders can be held accountable and replaced.
The 50th Anniversary of “The Power Broker,” by Robert Caro - The New York TimesThe overarching theme of “The Power Broker” is New York as a latter-day Rome dragged into decline by its imperial rulers
The 50th Anniversary of “The Power Broker,” by Robert Caro - The New York TimesMartin’s demos are the missing originals of our musical age—the blank space at the center of the past two decades of pop music.
Blank Space: What Kind of Genius Is Max Martin? | The New Yorker