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What Makes a Great Bookshop? Culture Dump (Micael T) Why Every Great Story Follows the Same Ancient Pattern Classical Wisdom (Micael T) Stunning fossil discovery challenges…

The Criminal Enterprise Run by Monkeys Wall Street Journal (Li). No, not OpenAI. We missed this when first ran. Seems to be a product of the…

THE WORLD IN AN HOURGLASS: THE SINGING PHYSICS OF SAND Atmos Why Humans Are Obsessed With Numbers Too Big to Understand Gizmodo The End Of Elsewhere…

In 1998, Terence McKenna predicted that human civilization was speeding toward a perpetual state of strangeness, a future he described as “the Transcendental Object at the…

[We are having a storm. Even though I have a backup connectivity, both are low on juice. This post is pretty much done but forgive any…

Learning to Speak Owl Interlochen Public Radio There Is No ‘Hard Problem Of Consciousness’ Noema “Are We Kind of Being Pricks?” Arbitrary Lines Climate/Environment Carbon dioxide…

Box turtles are back for the summer. Here’s how to help them survive another year Harvest Public Media How One Rescue Mission Turned into the Global…

Word of the day: sonder Richard Murphy 4,000-year-old tablets reveal magic spells, kings feared, and a beer receipt Science Daily (Kevin W) New study in Nature…

Buried electrical pathways across the US reveal new clues about Earth’s interior and power grid risks Phys.org Darkness Can Move Faster Than Light Without Breaking the…

The invention of buses Works in Progress America’s Electricity Gap Apricitas Economics Climate/Environment The invisible force making food less nutritious WaPo After 37 Years, the World’s…