August 3, 2025

Weekly Distractions for August 3, 2025

🧠 Links

• AI

  • Using AI to create generative RPG scenarios ain’t as easy as it seems

  Biology

  • Dual Mode Breathing Bacteria!

  Miracles and Wonders

  • Competing Brain-Computer interfaces

  Medicine

  • How the body routes blood flow to busy parts of the brain

  Religion

  • Probably, if I was gonna be anything, i’d be a secular buddhist.

  Writing

  • An ode to metaphors and similes

  News

  • This is a fun scrolling console thingy

• Discovery

  • Progress towards refrigeration without coolants

  Medicine

  • Super Resolution Microscopy and its medical discoveries

  Games

  • The Sumerian Game - recently rediscovered

  History

  • The Daily Life of a Medieval King

  Food

  • Why do we rest meat after cooking?

  Cool

  • Why are bears boys in children’s stories?

  Depressing

  • A fever dream of Super Porn

📖 Currently Reading

• Mythos by Steven Fry

• The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon

• A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

• Sentimental Education by Gustav Flaubert