Bird brains (2023)(dhanishsemar.com)
331 points by DiffTheEnder | 208 comments
Personal blog essay on bird intelligence, prompted by a video of New Zealand kea parrots moving traffic cones near a tunnel by Milford Sound.
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Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools(larr.net)
373 points by todsacerdoti | 482 comments
A blog essay arguing that software developers name tools after random nouns and mythology instead of descriptive names, citing Stallman's EmacsConf 2022 talk.
I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens(sethpurcell.com)
1028 points by arch_deluxe | 338 comments
Personal essay arguing that science museums like the Franklin Institute rely too heavily on screen-based exhibits instead of hands-on physical experiences.
Language birth(asteriskmag.com)
24 points by mitchbob | 3 comments
Sins of the Children(asteriskmag.com)
159 points by maxall4 | 72 comments
Quicksilver and Clay(stevenscrawls.com)
23 points by surprisetalk | 0 comments