Is the Internet Making Culture Worse?(asteriskmag.com)

30 points by Luc 1 year ago | 40 comments

Language birth(asteriskmag.com)

24 points by mitchbob 8 months ago | 3 comments

Beware the Permanent Periphery(asteriskmag.com)

28 points by m-hodges 3 months ago | 35 comments

Yes in My Bamako Yard(asteriskmag.com)

52 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 8 comments

Why We Shut Down(asteriskmag.com)

17 points by yorwba 2 years ago | 4 comments

The Universal Tech Tree(asteriskmag.com)

125 points by mitchbob 1 year ago | 54 comments

Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?(dynomight.substack.com)

543 points by jbotz 1 month ago | 277 comments

A Dynomight newsletter essay asking why the human liver is so regenerative compared with the rest of the body.

Why are most sofas so bad?(dwell.com)

712 points by jtsnow 2 years ago | 695 comments

Dwell article examining why most modern sofas, especially direct-to-consumer models, are poorly made.

Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop(resobscura.substack.com)

463 points by benbreen 3 months ago | 222 comments

Benjamin Breen's Res Obscura essay arguing quality non-fiction books counter AI slop, introducing a vibe-coded tool indexing prize-winning books.

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.

Is Curiosity Good for Us?(lrb.co.uk)

39 points by NaOH 10 days ago | 20 comments

London Review of Books essay by psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on the superego, guilt and shame, and whether curiosity about ourselves is good for us.

Why I love NixOS(birkey.co)

411 points by birkey 7 months ago | 277 comments

A personal blog post explaining why the author loves NixOS, focusing on the deterministic, reproducible Nix package manager rather than the Linux distro itself.