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A podcast hosted by physicist Sean Carroll featuring conversations on science and philosophy.

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In Hilbert space, all things are quantumly possible
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Praised as one of the best podcasts, with standout episodes featuring David Wallace and Jody Azzouni.

Radiolab ↗Learning & books
A science podcast from WNYC Studios.
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Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value Learning & books
A book by William Poundstone on the psychology of how people perceive value and prices.
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How I Became Stupid ↗Learning & books
A novel by Martin Page about a man who deliberately tries to become less intelligent to be happier.
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Journey of the Mind ↗Learning & books
A book about the evolution of mind and intelligence.
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Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins Learning & books
A book by Garry Kasparov on his matches against computers and on human-machine collaboration.
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Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It? ↗Learning & books
Paul McKenney's book on parallel programming drawn from Linux kernel experience.
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Axiomatic ↗Learning & books
A short story collection by Greg Egan.
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Basic Concepts of Quantum Mechanics ↗Learning & books
An introductory book by L. V. Tarasov using dialogues between the author and personas.
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Careless People
A memoir by former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams about the company's leadership.
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Forvo ↗
A website with crowdsourced audio recordings of how native speakers pronounce words.
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1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled ↗
A 2019 Slate Star Codex essay by Scott Alexander on von Foerster's hyperbolic population model.
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A Perfect Vacuum
Stanisław Lem's collection of reviews of nonexistent books.
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ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English ↗
A controlled English standard originally developed for aerospace maintenance documentation.
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Accelerando
A Charles Stross novel about accelerating technological change and autonomous AI agents.
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Ashton Manual
A guide by Heather Ashton describing slow benzodiazepine tapering schedules, often via diazepam substitution.
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Atomic Physics for Everyone
An introduction to atomic physics, quantum mechanics and precision spectroscopy with no college prerequisites.
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Axiomatic ↗
A short story collection by Greg Egan.
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Basic Concepts of Quantum Mechanics ↗
An introductory book by L. V. Tarasov using dialogues between the author and personas.
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Big O Speedrun ↗
A website tracking successive improvements to algorithmic complexity bounds, including integer multiplication.
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Bridge of Waves
A book by W.A. Mathieu about what music is and how listening changes the world.
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