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4/8/2022 3:14:27 PM
Desert Daddy
Planning For Desert Storm William Sayers | Mystics & Statistics | 6th April 2022 Retired Pentagon analyst recounts how much work went into war-gaming and computer-modelling the US invasion of Iraq
4/7/2022 3:14:27 PM
Sublime Forgiveness
Forgiving Someone Who Isn't Sorry Rachel Wilkerson Miller | Vox | 25th March 2022 Advice from experts in reconciliation on how to move past a conflict when the other party isn't willing or able
4/11/2022 3:04:28 PM
Unfollow War
The Last Great War Richard Overy | Literary Hub | 8th April 2022 Historian argues for a more expansive view of the causes and effects of the Second World War, giving more weight to events in Asia.
4/6/2022 3:14:27 PM
Magical Reality
Human Kind Cannot Bear Very Much Reality Amit Chaudhuri | n+1 | 28th March 2022 Reflections on TS Eliot's 1936 poem "Burnt Norton" and its interactions with the Bhagavad Gita, a Sanskrit
4/5/2022 3:04:27 PM
Realist Mushrooms
Thucydides Was A Realist Patrick Porter | Engelsberg Ideas | 1st April 2022 Modern scholarship has "nuanced" the work of Athenian historian Thucydides to death. Attention to detail has
4/22/2022 3:24:27 PM
Over Heart
The Unfathomable Heart Stephanie Krzywonos | Dark Mountain | 19th April 2022 Notes on a short walk in Antarctica, visiting "Nukey Poo", a leaky nuclear reactor abandoned by the US Navy in
4/25/2022 3:04:28 PM
Handy Talk
When We Talk About Holes Evelyn Lamb | Scientific American | 25th December 2014 Yes of course one knows what a hole is ... Or so you might think until you read this attempt to arrive at a satisfactory
4/27/2022 3:04:27 PM
Lost Polyester
How Polyester Bounced Back Virginia Postrel | Works In Progress | 21st April 2022 On the rise, fall and rise again of polyester. In the 1960s, it was a wonder-fabric that "freed women from their
4/28/2022 3:14:26 PM
Historic Friction
Defending History Maurice Earls | Dublin Review Of Books | 20th April 2022 It is worth studying the cultural and political landscape of Ireland post 19C famine precisely because it is now part of the
4/29/2022 3:04:27 PM
Insomniac Fantasia
Barneys Fantasia Adrienne Raphel | Paris Review | 27th April 2022 Anatomy of a departed department store. Barneys was a Manhattan institution that endured for almost a century before its demise in 2019
4/21/2022 3:14:28 PM
Exile Underground
Ship Them Into Exile Joan DeJean | CrimeReads | 19th April 2022 Extract from a book about how early 18C "money madness" in France resulted in the first transports of enslaved African people
4/20/2023 3:04:38 PM
Memory King
Do you feel like it's important to be aware of everything it's possible to be aware of? Memory King By Sylvia Bishop • 20 Apr 2023 View in browser View in browser Publisher's note: Browser
5/1/2023 3:04:30 PM
Medieval Metaverse
Monetizing The Metaverse // When Policy Goes Medieval Medieval Metaverse By Sylvia Bishop • 1 May 2023 View in browser View in browser Monetizing The Metaverse Nat Rubio-Licht | Patent Drop | 27th
5/9/2023 3:14:29 PM
Ancient Coincidences
Ancient Greek Terms Worth Reviving // Are Coincidences Real? Ancient Coincidences By Sylvia Bishop • 9 May 2023 View in browser View in browser Ancient Greek Terms Worth Reviving Anya Leonard |
5/15/2023 3:24:38 PM
No Conversation
How Tokyo Says No To Cars // Patrick Collison In Conversation With Sam Altman No Conversation By Sylvia Bishop • 15 May 2023 View in browser View in browser How Tokyo Says No To Cars Daniel Knowles |
6/20/2023 7:14:56 AM
Olfactory Years
Olfactory Overload // Snowden Ten Years Later Olfactory Years By Sylvia Bishop • 14 Jun 2023 View in browser View in browser Olfactory Overload Kim Crowder | Polyphony | 13th June 2023 How it feels to
6/20/2023 5:35:07 AM
Nothing Giant
Nothing, Forever // Three Days With A Giant Nothing Giant By Sylvia Bishop • 17 Jun 2023 View in browser View in browser Nothing, Forever Aharon Schrieber | Seinfeld Law | 13th June 2023 Quite apart