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An unreasonable attempt to compress human civilization into something that fits between your coffee and your lunch break.

Teaching You A Little Bit About Everything

teach me a little bit about everything

The utilitarian math where preserving the future makes the present a rounding error.

What Longtermism Thinks Happens After Superintelligence

how longtermism philosophy thinks about a future with RSI/ASI.

The formal mathematics behind picking the dinner spot nobody loves and nobody vetoes.

How The Median Voter Theorem Runs Your Social Life

how the median voter theorem applies to social life

Everything alive runs on the same few machines, and most of it is still unexplained.

All Of Biology, Starting Inside Your Own Cheek

educate me on all aspects of biology

The industry calls them sophisticated because someone left the back door wide open and nobody checked.

Day Zero Attacks Are Not Clever, They Are Just Unpatched

day zero attacks in hacking

Stereoscopic vision built into a neck that cannot turn in its socket.

Why Owls Bob Their Heads

why do owls bob their heads

Tracking systems that change over time when you only know the odds.

Stochastic Processes For Normal People

stochastic processes for dummies

An argument between steel under tension and bedrock fighting back

How A Suspension Bridge Stays Up

how does a suspension bridge stay up

You know how to take a derivative, but now someone is asking you to show why the number line doesn't have holes in it.

Mathematical Proofs For People Who Survived College Calculus

i want to learn about mathematical proofs. The extent of my math background was a couple calculus and statistics courses in college. Barely remember anything from it but the high level details.

The tree grows easily; racing the three-day shelf life with industrial freezers is the actual business.

Starting A Pawpaw Farm That Sells Past September

give me a the general plan for starting a pawpaw farm, which through freezing and processing is able to sell pawpaw products year-around

Where to find coffee and burnt toast before the city decides to wake up.

Early Morning Cafes Open In Philadelphia

What cafes open early morning these days in Philly?

An ecosystem of trillions that dictates your mood, your weight, and your cravings while you pretend you are running the show.

The Three Pounds Of Bacteria Living In Your Gut

what is the gut microbiome

Translating your mild competence into the dialect of venture scale.

How To Get Into Y Combinator

how to get into y combinator

The high-speed mechanics of an animal operating constantly at the edge of cardiac arrest.

How A Hummingbird Stays Suspended In Mid-Air

how a hummingbird hovers in mid-air

Patties that refuse to taste like compressed lawn clippings.

Veggie Burger Recipes Using Farmers Market Produce

Veggie burger recipes with farmers market produce + spices

Your brain fires your cleaning crew, paralyzes your limbs, and starts hallucinating on purpose.

What Happens When You Fall Asleep

what happens whe you fall asleep

Plain ways to keep going when the news and the future both feel heavy

Hope Without Pretending Things Are Fine

How to have hope in an age of existential dread

It gets you under fast, then spends the night taking apart the sleep you paid for.

Your Nightcap Knocks You Out Then Wakes You Up

How does alcohol affect sleep ?

The quiet economics of survival for the last independent grocery stores in New York, Mumbai, and London.

How Corner Shops Outlast Supermarkets And Delivery Apps

I want to understand how small neighbourhood grocery stores in big cities survive when large supermarket chains and quick delivery apps open nearby, what pricing tricks they use, how they build loyalty with regular customers, how rent and zoning rules affect them, and whether there are real examples from New York, Mumbai and London where a corner shop managed to stay open for decades despite all this pressure from bigger players.

The room, right now

Learning for the attention deficit.