August 24, 2025

Weekly Distractions for August 23, 2025

🧠 Links

• Sci-fi

  • I really need to read more Ted Chiang

  Biology

  • A microbe that is almost a virus

  Education

  • Blue books are making a comeback as a reaction to AI

  Health

  • Brain aging protein discovered!

  AI

  • A historical AI from 1834 actually produces facts from 1834

  From My Brother-In-Law

  • US Water Consumption

📖 Currently Reading

• A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
• The Mercy of Gods by James A. Corey
• A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

📚 Recent Book Commentary

• Rogue Male by Geoffery Household
• Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart
• Unworld by Jayson Greene