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12/16/2022
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Becoming Scientists

Becoming a scientist isn't easy Becoming Scientists By Sylvia Bishop – 14 Dec 2022 – View online → Becoming A Chatbot Laura Preston | Guardian | 13th December 2022 Account of a year working as the
12/16/2022
9 : 14

Elective Anonymity

A weekly letter from the founding editor of The Browser. Topics may vary. Correspondence and criticism welcome: robert@thebrowser.com This week: The uses of anonymity, with particular reference to
12/16/2022
9 : 4

Peer Year

Already thinking about your 2023 reading? Peer Year By Sylvia Bishop – 15 Dec 2022 – View online → The Rise And Fall Of Peer Review Adam Mastroianni | Experimental History | 13th December 2022 Peer
12/13/2022
16 : 4

Soul Searching

How's your soul searching going? Soul Searching By Sylvia Bishop – 13 Dec 2022 – View online → All Souls Politics Exam All Souls College, Oxford | 2016-2022 | PDF Past paper for the last six years
12/12/2022
16 : 14

Making Hackwork

Fancy reading some writing that transmits levity? Making Hackwork By Sylvia Bishop – 12 Dec 2022 – View online → History In The Making Stephen Davies | Work In Progress | 8th December The study of
12/9/2022
16 : 14

Clinical Weirdness

From biotech to beavers, this free edition has got you covered. Clinical Weirdness By Sylvia Bishop – 09 Dec 2022 – View online → Clinical Trials And Biotech Innovation Matthew Herper | STAT | 3rd
12/8/2022
16 : 4

Ugly Poetry

Ugly poetry getting you down? Ugly Poetry By Sylvia Bishop – 08 Dec 2022 – View online → Why Is Everything So Ugly? The Editors | n+1 | 7th December 2022 You can walk for hours across New York City
12/6/2022
16 : 4

Internet Brain

Do you want to be an internet person? Internet Brain By Sylvia Bishop – 06 Dec 2022 – View online → Finding Language In The Brain Giosuè Baggio | MIT Press Reader | 25th November 2022 Mathematical
12/5/2022
16 : 4

Honeybee Gentleman

This free Browser has a sting in the tail. Honeybee Gentleman By Sylvia Bishop – 05 Dec 2022 – View online → How To Speak Honeybee Karen Bakker | Noema | 2nd November 2022 Bees communicate mainly by
12/2/2022
16 : 14

Learned Head

Make your head a learned head Learned Head By Sylvia Bishop – 02 Dec 2022 – View online → 52 Things I Learned In 2022 Tom Whitwell | Magnetic Notes | 1st December 2022 Tom Whitwell's annual
12/1/2022
16 : 4

Complete Whales

Autocomplete Richard Hughes Gibson | Hedgehog Review | 23rd November 2022 Artificial intelligence writing tools are still far from being at a level where they might convincingly replace a human writer,
11/30/2022
16 : 44

You Are The Somebody

A weekly letter from the founding editor of The Browser. Topics may vary. Correspondence and criticism welcome: robert@thebrowser.com This week: Novels about politics First, an admission of my own
11/30/2022
16 : 4

Taste Cola

Too much sugar is bad for us. It's sad. Taste Cola By Sylvia Bishop – 30 Nov 2022 – View online → When You Can Taste Everything You See Julia Skinner | Atlanta | 2nd November 2022 A food critic
11/29/2022
16 : 4

Airport Art

The Vatican wants to subtly influence what critics write; The Browser wants to very unsubtly influence what you read. Airport Art By Sylvia Bishop – 29 Nov 2022 – View online → Deconstructing Brian
11/28/2022
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Building Credit

Speedily constructed and beautiful? Building Credit By Sylvia Bishop – 28 Nov 2022 – View online → Social Credit In China Zeyi Yang | MIT Technology Review | 22nd November 2022 How China's "
11/25/2022
16 : 14

Key Quettabyte

A yottabyte of data? Key Quettabyte By Sylvia Bishop – 25 Nov 2022 – View online → The Death Of Key Change Chris Dalla Riva | Tedium | 9th November 2022 For 30 years or so until 1990 there was a pretty
11/24/2022
16 : 4

Lethal Hounds

Please enjoy this comprehensive list of names for your dog Lethal Hounds By Sylvia Bishop – 24 Nov 2022 – View online → When Lethal Weapons Grew On Trees Kris De Decker | Low-Tech Magazine | 23rd
11/23/2022
16 : 4

Toxic Reputation

Copies of texts keep them alive Toxic Reputation By Sylvia Bishop – 23 Nov 2022 – View online → The Toxic History Of Colour Whitney Bauck | Atmos | 21st November 2022 Colour has always been deadly. The
11/23/2022
11 : 14

Trust Me To Do This

A weekly letter from the founding editor of The Browser. Topics may vary. Correspondence and criticism welcome: robert@thebrowser.com This week: Books about business and finance When a finance company
11/22/2022
16 : 4

Reading Kick

Do you get a kick out of reading, too? Reading Kick By Sylvia Bishop – 22 Nov 2022 – View online → Choice Reading Denise Gigante | Lapham's Quarterly | 21st November 2022 New York in the 19C was so