Rethinking High-School Science Fairs(asteriskmag.com)

57 points by surprisetalk 8 months ago | 49 comments

Beware the Permanent Periphery(asteriskmag.com)

28 points by m-hodges 2 months ago | 35 comments

The Unbearable Loudness of Chewing(asteriskmag.com)

61 points by k2enemy 1 year ago | 39 comments

Ideas aren't getting harder to find(asteriskmag.com)

100 points by mitchbob 10 months ago | 46 comments

Sins of the Children(asteriskmag.com)

159 points by maxall4 9 months ago | 72 comments

How to make a great government website(asteriskmag.com)

83 points by wormold 2 years ago | 56 comments

So you want to parse a PDF?(eliot-jones.com)

369 points by UglyToad 1 year ago | 199 comments

Blog post by Eliot Jones explaining how PDF parsing should work per the spec, covering headers, cross-reference tables, object offsets and trailers, and its real-world pitfalls.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.

Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video](youtube.com)

582 points by matthewsinclair 1 month ago | 77 comments

A Big Think YouTube video in which mathematician Terence Tao explains six essential concepts of mathematics.

Troubleshooting: A skill that never goes obsolete(autodidacts.io)

351 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 117 comments

An essay on The Autodidacts blog arguing that troubleshooting, systematically finding and fixing causes of unwanted system behaviour, is a domain-agnostic skill.

The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it, not the tech itself(aisnakeoil.substack.com)

530 points by nickwritesit 3 years ago | 407 comments

An AI Snake Oil essay by Seth Lazar, Jeremy Howard, and Arvind Narayanan arguing that AI extinction risk is overstated and the real danger lies in who controls the technology.

Electrification Special Report 2026 [pdf](iea.blob.core.windows.net)

9 points by gmays 25 days ago | 0 comments

A PDF of the International Energy Agency's 2026 special report on electrification of the global energy system.