July 13, 2025

Weekly Distractions for July 13, 2025

🧠 Links

• Nature

  • Cucumber seeds as a weapon?

  Tech

  • The Chinese can apparently refuel satelites in orbit.

  Medicine

  • Mighty Mitochondria

  Stuff From My Brother-in-Law

  • Evil Business

📖 Currently Reading

• Dawn by Octavia Butler

• The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon

• The Fraud by Zadie Smith

• A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

• Sentimental Education by Gustav Flaubert

📚 Recent Book Commentary

• The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley