Linkfest #30: Greyscale Gelato, the "Ott Derivimeter", and Vangelis' Ambient Music For Surgeries
Hello again! Time once again for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest “Linkfest”, for which I cruise the endless overpasses of the Global Information...
Linkfest #29: "Methanotropes", Sign-Language Poetry, and Why Saturn's About To Lose Its Rings
Why hey there, fellow prisoners of the Internet. It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — or, my latest “Linkfest”, in which I pan relentlessly for...
Linkfest #28: Neolithic Octopuses, Weeping Trees, and a Forty-Year-Old Snowman
Hello! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — or, my latest “Linkfest”, in which I painstakingly debone the entire Internet to extract its finest...
Linkfest #27: Aztec Death Whistles, "Supercircular" Solar, and Collateralized GPU Obligations
Why HELLO THERE. It’s time for my latest “Linkfest” — or, "the opposite of doomscrolling”: A collection of the best stuff in science, culture and technology...
Linkfest #26: “Cryptophasia”, Wigner Crystals, and How van Gogh Mastered Turbulence
Hello hello! It’s time for my latest “Linkfest” — or, "the opposite of doomscrolling”, crammed full of the finest items of science, culture and technology...
Linkfest #25: The "Third Thumb", Prairie Strips, and Science Proves People Love Spoilers
Hello folks! It’s time for my latest “Linkfest” — i.e. "the opposite of doomscrolling”, in which I ceaselessly roam the Internet’s Plutonian shores to find...
Linkfest #24: Secret Cars, New Euripides, and "The Torino Impact Hazard Scale"
Hello there! It’s time for my latest “Linkfest” — i.e. "the opposite of doomscrolling”, in which I carefully and patiently boil the entire Internet to...
Linkfest #23: Zero-Dimensional Pong, "Null Island", and A Social Network For Whales
Hello all! It’s time for my latest “Linkfest” — i.e. "the opposite of doomscrolling”, in which I harvest the Intertubes for the finest material on science,...
Linkfest #22: Dragon Biology, Soviet Food Kiosks, and Duran Duran's "Rio" Model Finally Discovered
Heyo! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — your latest “Linkfest”, in which I comb the endless glitching stacks of the cyberspace to find the...
Linkfest #21: Wooden satellites, "Post-Binary" Fonts, and A New Way To Dice An Onion
Well hello there. It’s time! Once again! For the best part of the week: "The opposite of doomscrolling”. Here’s your next “Linkfest”, jammed full of the...
Linkfest #20: Pointillist Bubble-Wrap, the Poetry Camera, and Pythons As A Low-Emissions Food
Why hello there! If you're opening this email, you know what time it is. It's time for "the opposite of doomscrolling"! 🎉 It’s been a while, but I’m back in...
Linkfest #19: "Flop Rock", Contranyms, and The Weirdly Violent History of the Michelin Man
What time is it? Why, it's time for "the opposite of doomscrolling"! 🌞 Here's your next Linkfest -- the finest thought-stuff I could find during my...
Linkfest #18: Infinite Crafting, the "Reverse Sprinkler" problem, and A Gearbox That Will Outlive The Universe
It's time for "the opposite of doomscrolling", people! 🌞 Here's your next Linkfest -- the best reading material I could find while scavenging the vasty...
Linkfest #17: Medieval Fighting Snails, "Loud Budgeting", and How To Power A Car With Plastic Garbage
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Linkfest #16: Visible Birdsong, Braille Ambigrams, and the "Extended Groth Strip"
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Linkfest #15: Altruistic pigs, the "Truetown Discharge", and the CIA's guide to wrecking meetings
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Linkfest #14: Indoor Clouds, a Ferrofluid Synthesizer, and Why Left-Handed Badminton Players Have an Edge
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Linkfest #13: 17th-century ChatGPT, the "Merovingian" knot, and CT scans of knockoff Airpods
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Linkfest #12: Tyromancy, "Point Nemo", and Why Movie Villains Never Use Iphones
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Linkfest #11: Oyster Insomnia, the "Mel Spectogram", and Why Antarctic Researchers Are Developing Their Own Accent
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Linkfest #10: The "marshmallow" shot, Reverse Tetris, and why high-fantasy heroes don't use gunpowder
Welcome back to the Linkfest! I had to take a break for a few months -- for my next book (on micromobility) I bicycled across the United States: 4,150 miles....
Linkfest #9: "Kaktovik Numerals", the McDonalds Fries Theorum, and Why Global Warming Means More Home Runs
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Linkfest #8: Orthopraxic robots, "floatovoltaics", and why ancient painters drew impossible shadows
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Linkfest #7: The IKEA guitar, 1.6 Billion Year Old Water, and the "Inverse Jim Cramer Fund"
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Linkfest #6: GPS On The Moon, 8-bit Jane Austen, and "The Museum of Mortal Computation"
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Linkfest #5: "Involution", a 340-Pound Penguin, and the Shifting Language Of Candy Hearts
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Linkfest #4: Infinite AI Seinfeld, "Highway Gothic", and Coding With Joey Ramone
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Linkfest #3: "Cistercian Numbers", Robots That Hug, and Dice That Roll Negative Numbers
1) 🧮 Cistercian numbers I’d never heard of Cistercian numbers before, until I stumbled upon this brief post describing them … Cistercian numbers are an...
Linkfest #2: "Trailerization", the Nokia Risk, and the Mystery of Ancient Rome's Impossibly Strong Concrete
Linkfest #2: "Trailerization", the Nokia Risk, and the Mystery of Ancient Rome's Impossibly Strong Concrete Welcome to the latest edition of the Linkfest!...
Linkfest #1: "New Mannahatta", Spiderweb Cognition, and Novelists Who Use ChatGPT To Plot Their Books
"New Mannahatta", Spiderweb Cognition, and How Novelists Use ChatGPT To Plot Their Books Welcome to the latest edition of the Linkfest! Thank you for being a...