Links of Interest for November, 2024

December 2, 2024

Interesting & Educational How It Went IMG_0416 Full of Themselves: An analysis of title drops in movies Technology & Code Frosted Glass from Games to the Web...

Links of Interest for October, 2024

November 4, 2024

Interesting & Educational Some thoughts on the real-world by one who glimpsed it and fled Conspiratorial Thinking A very deep history of Halloween Technology...

Links of Interest for September, 2024

October 6, 2024

This issue was delayed due to extended power outages caused by Hurricane Helene. Donate to help support WNC. Interesting & Educational In Booming Asheville,...

Links of Interest for August, 2024

September 3, 2024

Interesting & Educational Diffusion Models Are Real-Time Game Engines Did you lose your AirPods? How to avoid losing items? Holding pens. Technology & Code...

Links of Interest for July, 2024

August 2, 2024

Interesting & Educational Mystery oxygen source discovered on the sea floor All the World’s a Staged False Flag How the Brain Can Rewire Itself After Half of...

Links of Interest for June, 2024

July 1, 2024

Interesting & Educational I adore you sweetheart A Cult of Personality Bouba/kiki effect Technology & Code Photoshop for text What do GenZ software engineers...

Links of Interest for May, 2024

June 3, 2024

Interesting & Educational How Might We Learn? How Actors Remember Their Lines Sal Khan is pioneering innovation in education…again Technology & Code SpecLang...

Links of Interest for April, 2024

May 2, 2024

Interesting & Educational The Food Expiration Dates You Should Actually Follow New Aztec Codices Discovered Mentally stimulating work plays key role in...

Links of Interest for March, 2024

April 6, 2024

Interesting & Educational “Dune” and the Delicate Art of Making Fictional Languages Why Children Need Risk, Fear, and Excitement in Play The baffling...

Links of Interest for February, 2024

March 4, 2024

Interesting & Educational Mind Reader I Am a Boomer’s iPhone and I Will Not Be Silenced Bill's World Technology & Code File over app An Interactive Guide to...

Links of Interest for January, 2024

February 5, 2024

Interesting & Educational Who Goes Nazi? How To Learn Chess As An Adult Infinite Craft Technology & Code The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again The Two...

Links of Interest for December, 2023

January 2, 2024

Interesting & Educational A National Evil How We Turned the Tide in the Roach Wars The effective altruism delusion Technology & Code A Chain Reaction When...

Links of Interest for November, 2023

December 1, 2023

Interesting & Educational The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot? One sleepless night can rapidly reverse depression...

Links of Interest for October, 2023

November 3, 2023

Interesting & Educational Tetris used to prevent post-traumatic stress symptoms Enhancing Self-Therapy with Internal Family Systems and AI Teaching iteration...

Links of Interest from September, 2023

October 4, 2023

Interesting & Educational Why Don’t Americans Eat Mutton? The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection Category Theory Illustrated - Sets Technology &...

Links of Interest for August, 2023

September 2, 2023

Links of Interest for August, 2023 Interesting & Educational How Modernity Made Us Allergic How to See Bright, Vivid Images in Your Mind's Eye Inside the...

Links of Interest for July, 2023

August 2, 2023

Interesting & Educational A visual book recommender Wake Up and Smell the Coffee It’s very unlikely we’re observing alien aircraft Technology & Code The Rise...

Links of Interest for June, 2023

July 2, 2023

Interesting & Educational Social learning amplifies moral outrage on social networks Maps Distort How We See the World The Will to Believe Technology & Code...

Links of Interest for May, 2023

June 3, 2023

Interesting & Educational Rooms.xyz Will Wright: Interfacing to Microworlds (1996) How social learning amplifies moral outrage expression in online social...

Links of Interest for April, 2023

May 5, 2023

Interesting & Educational If we already understood the brain, would we even know it? Sal Khan: The amazing AI super tutor for students and teachers...

Links of Interest for March, 2023

April 3, 2023

Interesting & Educational What Isaac Asimov Can Tell Us About AI—And Robots That Love The Age of AI has begun Plane Lands/Takes Off In Only 20 Feet...

Links of Interest for February, 2023

March 2, 2023

Interesting & Educational The Machines of Mastery The Last Question It’s time to rethink our entire approach to pre-K Technology & Code What Is ChatGPT Doing...

🤔🔗 Links of Interest - January 2023

February 4, 2023

🎓 Interesting / Educational Patterns, culture and theft We live in the era of mids The DIY Scientist, the Olympian, and the Mutated Gene ⚛️ Development /...

🤔🔗 Links of Interest - December 2022

January 1, 2023

🎓 Interesting / Educational The Mechanical Professor Reversals in psychology How to Cook for Odysseus ⚛️ Development / Technology Draw SVG rope using...

🤔🔗 Links of Interest - November 2022

December 5, 2022

🎓 Interesting / Educational Underrated reasons to be thankful How mud boosts your immune system Emperor Charles V’s secret code cracked after five centuries...

🤔🔗 Links of Interest - October 2022

November 2, 2022

🎓 Interesting / Educational How Far Can a Cat Fall and Survive? The Limit May Not Exist. A List of Things People Blamed on Bicycles My Top 10 Tips for Doing...

🤔🔗 Links of Interest - September 2022

October 3, 2022

🎓 Interesting / Educational Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, I Deserve More Than All The Eye of Providence: The symbol with a secret meaning? Power Causes Brain...

🤔🔗 Links of Interest - August 2022

September 1, 2022

🎓 Interesting / Educational Old jokes Put down devices, let your mind wander 50 Minutes of 80s Daytime TV Commercials ⚛️ Development / Technology Optimized...

🤔🔗 Links of Interest - July 2022

August 1, 2022

🎓 Interesting / Educational Pizza Sceptisicm in the 1950s (Twitter thread) The most notable people from every city New Tolkien book: The Fall of Númenor to...

🤔🔗 Links of Interest - June 2022

July 2, 2022

🎓 Interesting / Educational ‘Blade Runner’ at 40: Why It’s Still the Greatest Sci-Fi of All-Time America Is Growing Apart, Possibly for Good Books Around...

🤔🔗 Links of Interest - May 2022

June 2, 2022

🎓 Interesting / Educational The Real Reason America Doesn’t Have Gun Control How Frank Peretti’s Christian horror novels shaped today’s moral panics Taking a...

🤔🔗 Links of Interest - April 2022

May 1, 2022

🎓 Interesting / Educational 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known Why I Walk Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid ⚛️ Development...

🤔🔗 Links of Interest - March 2022

April 1, 2022

🎓 Interesting / Educational Why Is Every Movie Poster Orange and Blue? Tolkien’s Paintings Small subgroups of the population seem much larger to many...

🤔🔗 Links of Interest - February 2022

March 2, 2022

🎓 Interesting / Educational Magic circles The Ultra-Introverts Who Live Nocturnally Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News ⚛️ Development / Technology...

🤔🔗 Links of Interest - January 2022

February 2, 2022

🎓 Interesting / Educational The Royal Game of Ur The forgotten medieval habit of ‘two sleeps’ The Scientist and the Psychopath ⚛️ Development / Technology...

🤔🔗 Links of Interest - December 2021

January 2, 2022

🎓 Interesting / Educational Omicron Is the Beginning of the End People mistake the internet’s knowledge for their own Is internet addiction eradicating the...

🤔🔗 Links of Interest - November 2021

December 1, 2021

🎓 Interesting / Educational “Dune” (the movie), annotated Spiders are much smarter than you think Those Bullet Effects In Terminator 2 Weren’t CGI ⚛️...

🤔🔗 Links of Interest - October 2021

November 2, 2021

🎓 Interesting / Educational An Art History of The Bad Concept Video Flowers make a nice gift Tony Soprano’s Decadent Society ⚛️ Development / Technology...

🤔🔗 Links of Interest - September 2021

October 1, 2021

🎓 Interesting / Educational Why Is Every Young Person in America Watching ‘The Sopranos’? Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light? Old Video Game...

🤔🔗 Links of Interest - August 2021

September 2, 2021

🎓 Interesting / Educational Why Is It So Hard to Be Rational? How We Live With the Coronavirus Forever Eyes wide shut: How newborn mammals dream the world...

🤔🔗 Links of Interest - July 2021

August 3, 2021

🎓 Interesting / Educational First You Make the Maps The House That Vanished Welcome to the Modern Age of Cults ⚛️ Development / Technology Coding with...

🤔🔗 Links of Interest - June 2021

July 1, 2021

🎓 Interesting / Educational The Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces Political trolling twice as popular as positivity Conspiracy: Theory and...

🤔🔗 Links of Interest - May 2021

June 1, 2021

🎓 Interesting / Educational I’ve had the same supper for 10 years Meet the marine worm with 100 butts We Become What We Behold ⚛️ Development / Technology...

🤔🔗 Links of Interest - April 2021

May 2, 2021

🎓 Interesting / Educational Let Us Now Praise Tiny Ants The Last Prank Before PR Ruined Everything Fish Sticks Make No Sense ⚛️ Development / Technology The...

🤔🔗 Links of Interest - March 2021

April 1, 2021

🎓 Interesting / Educational Nothing Breaks Like A.I. Heart Is the Western way of raising kids weird? How Can You Tell if Someone Is Lying? ⚛️ Development /...

🤔🔗 Links of Interest - February 2021

March 2, 2021

🎓 Interesting / Educational The man who produced Steve Jobs’ keynotes for 20 years A single cell slime mold makes decisions without a central nervous system...

🤔🔗 Links of Interest - January 2021

February 2, 2021

🎓 Interesting / Educational Maps, the territory, and meta-rationality The Antipope of Mar-a-Lago The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class ⚛️ Development /...

🤔🔗 Links of Interest - December 2020

January 3, 2021

🎓 Interesting / Educational The economics of Christmas trees Building an antilibrary: the power of unread books Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine ⚛️ Development...

🤔🔗 Links of Interest - November 2020

December 1, 2020

🎓 Interesting / Educational On Learning Chess as an Adult I should have loved biology The Cactus and the Weasel ⚛️ Development / Technology Programs are a...

🤔🔗 Links of Interest - October 2020

November 3, 2020

🎓 Interesting / Educational A Celebration of the Syllabus Amish Community Not Anti-Technology, Just More Thoughtful Thirteen Virtues ⚛️ Development /...