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5/24/2022
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Even Crit
Join us this Sunday for our London walking tour "The Sublime and the Ridiculous: Guildhall and the Barbican". Details here. Even If You Beat Me Sally Rooney | Dublin Review | Spring 2015 | U
5/23/2022
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Trolley Truths
A Passenger's View of The Trolley Problem Tyler Gooch | McSweeney's | 18th May 2022 Should you let the trolley race ahead and kill five people? Or should you switch the points and have the
5/22/2022
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Enemy Music
On Sundays, Browser readers receive a special edition with puzzles, poems, books, charts, music and more – here's a little taste of this week's edition. ----------------------------------------
5/21/2022
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Nomen Manifesto
Nomen Est Omen Roger's Bacon | Secretum Secretorum | 19th May 2022 Notes on the power of names, and on nominative determinism, which holds that people are drawn to jobs that fit their names — a
5/20/2022
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Fake Mindsets
Fake Journals And Critical Reading Gwern | 23rd April 2022 Reading and evaluating academic journals demands a "fundamentally predictive" approach. You need enough prior understanding of the
5/19/2022
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Rainbow Philosophy
Philosophy For Passengers Michael Marder | MIT Press Reader | 12th May 2022 Passengerhood provides a "privileged perspective" on the passage of time. On a journey, we experience the finitude
5/18/2022
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Einstein Biscuits
Who Owns Einstein? Simon Parkin | Guardian | 17th May 2022 Einstein earns more dead than he ever did alive, making an average of $12.5ma year in image licensing fees. Although image conscious, during
5/17/2022
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Bootlegger Mansion
So You Want To Be A Bootlegger Jeff Nilsson | Saturday Evening Post | 10th May 2022 Tips from 1922 for starting a Prohibition era liquor distribution business. The risks were great but the potential
5/16/2022
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Tower Schopenhauer
Why Not Let The Leaning Tower Of Pisa Collapse? Daniel Snowman | On History | 12th May 2022 | U The Leaning Tower Of Pisa sank lopsidedly soon after construction began in the late 12th century. Despite
5/15/2022
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Sixteen Puzzles
On Sundays, Browser readers receive a special edition with puzzles, poems, books, charts, music and more – here's a little taste of this week's edition. ----------------------------------------
5/14/2022
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Newsletter Of The Week: Recomendo
💡Our friends at Recomendo send a weekly newsletter with 6 brief personal recommendations of all kinds of cool stuff – it's like the Browser but for everything. Here's a sample of last
5/13/2022
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Bear Earth
🚶♀️Readers in London are warmly invited to join us on tomorrow's walking tour through Sir Christopher Wren's Churches in the footsteps of The Great Fire of London – 10.30am on Saturday, book
5/12/2022
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Parasite Factoy
A Visit To The Human Factory James Vincent | The Verge | 4th May 2022 Inside a workshop where a company interested in both entertainment and engineering is building the most human-like androids ever
5/12/2022
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Paper Song
Paper, Cut Caroline Jones And Staff | Washington City Paper | 5th May 2022 Memories of a newspaper now closing its print operation. It aided in launching the careers of, among others, David Carr, Ta-
5/10/2022
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Hip Hume
Hume's Real Riches Charles Goldhaber | PhilArchive | 4th May 2022 | PDF On David Hume's cheerfulness. His autobiography reveals that he was proud of his "natural temper" and ability
5/9/2022
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Wing Watch
When Animals Shed Their Wings Richard Dawkins | Quillette | 5th May 2022 Who would not want wings? Who would not want to fly? And yet there must be a downside to wings, since some animals genetically
5/8/2022
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Casual Minotaur
On Sundays, Browser readers receive a special edition with puzzles, poems, books, charts, music and more – here's a little taste of this week's edition. ----------------------------------------
5/7/2022
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Jefferson Map
Thomas Jefferson On Newspapers Michael Zuo | MYZ | 3rd May 2020 From Jefferson's letter to a newspaper editor, John Norvell, in 1807: “To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a
5/6/2022
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Light Leak
New Light On Nato Enlargement Klaus Wiegrefe | Spiegel | 3rd May 2022 Declassified German papers clarify who said what about Nato when the Soviet Union was collapsing in 1991. Chancellor Kohl not only
5/5/2022
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Counting Coral
Counting The Dead In Ukraine Sanjana Varghese | New Lines | 4th May 2022 There are three methodologies for monitoring civilian casualties during a conflict. The first is based on available