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The Bad Seed and the Problem of Blame
2 days agoA conversation with behavioral geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden about the heritability of vice The post The Bad Seed and the Problem of Blame appeared first on Nautilus.
'I've seen the movies. What a horrible way to die': What it's like to be sucked into a tornado and survive
2 days agoPerry Samson was helping students conduct field experiments on supercell storms in Kansas in 2008 when one suddenly turned into a tornado and dragged him in.
Memory, a Terrible Sound
2 days agoby TJ Price I For years after an abrupt departure from college, I floated around, aimless and pathless. It was only a matter of time before I lost any buoyancy and began to drown, most likely in one or any of the bars I had begun to frequent. Seasons slid by without any notice, as…
This sci‑fi twist on Moby-Dick will blow your mind
2 days agoAlexis Hall reimagines Melville’s classic with space whales, AI intrigue and a bold queer twist that launches Moby-Dick into an entirely new sci‑fi universe
The Husband and Wife Team Who Spent 10 Years Writing a Financial Thriller about Globalization
2 days agoFall 2008. The Waldorf Astoria, New York. Two armed men storm the hotel’s famed bar and hold the occupants hostage: an American corporate raider, a Chinese tycoon, a British hedge fund manager, a Japanese housewife-turned-celebrity, a Mexican undocumented worker, a Wall Street bond salesman, and a N...
Over-optimizing your life is making you fragile, not better
2 days agoMost people chasing excellence are chasing the wrong thing entirely. Brad Stulberg argues that the 4am routines, optimization stacks, and recovery scores are just elaborate performance passed off as “excellence.” Stulberg breaks down the biology, philosophy, and psychology behind genuine excellence ...
An Interview with New York Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien About Betting on Humans With Expertise
3 days agoAn interview with New York Times Company CEO Meredith Kopit Levien about human expertise as a moat against Aggregators and AI.
Can Driftwood Determine?
3 days agoMaybe we ought to use our being and thinking not to decide what our lives should be “for” or “against,” but rather what we would like our lives to define.
The Electrified Future Is Already Here. Canada Just Needs to Build It
3 days agoThis transcript, lightly edited, is a recorded conversation with a Canadian citizens action group where I walked through a practical, systems-level view of Canada’s decarbonization pathway, grounded in technologies that already work at scale. I focused on what is deployable now, not hypothetical bre...
Reflections on Writing for 20 Years
4 days agoThoughts on writing, as the blog passes its two-decade anniversary. The post Reflections on Writing for 20 Years appeared first on Scott H Young.