Why Children's Books?(lrb.co.uk)
74 points by ferman | 49 comments
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74 points by ferman | 49 comments
19 points by lermontov | 4 comments
22 points by diodorus | 2 comments
537 points by _ihaque | 237 comments
London Review of Books essay by Jonah Goodman on the history of endemic goitre in Switzerland and the campaign against it.
3 points by prismatic | 0 comments
6 points by feltsense | 1 comments
A London Review of Books essay by Ian Penman about the novelist and composer Anthony Burgess.
83 points by surprisetalk | 13 comments
Blog essay on 'curiosity traps': reverse honeypots like Easter eggs and footnotes that reward attentive readers and help writers find like-minded people.
59 points by luu | 31 comments
An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.
453 points by bx376 | 663 comments
An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.
463 points by benbreen | 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.
768 points by themgt | 300 comments
An informal research essay by Nick Cammarata at Goodfire arguing polysemanticity stems from fixable issues, not superposition, making neurons interpretable at scale.