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The best recent long-form reads from soz6's journal shelf — science, culture, essays. No one hand-picks this list: a scoring pass ranks by real depth, a strong cover and recency, and it refreshes on its own.
#1
themarginalian.org
The Dandelion and the Meaning of Life: G.K. Chesterton on How to Live in Wonder
Recovering the "forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence" alive in the back of our modernity-deadened minds.
#2
bigthink.com
Google CTO: A unifying theory of life, intelligence, and technology
From von Neumann’s blueprint, which predated the discovery of DNA, to viral genes that now help form our memories and placentas, Blaise Agüera y Arcas argues th
#3
noemamag.com
The AIs Are Not Going Rogue
The post The AIs Are Not Going Rogue appeared first on NOEMA.
#4
themarginalian.org
The Three Elements of the Good Life
To be a true person is to be entirely oneself in every circumstance, with all the courage and vulnerability this requires. And yet because a person is a confede
#5
technologyreview.com
An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at based on a brain scan
A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and recreate that image with remarkable precision. It can go the other way too
#6
bigthink.com
Francis Fukuyama on why we’re better than our ancestors
In 1675, Madame de Sévigné wrote a letter to her daughter about a musician “broken on the wheel.” This meant being strapped to an X-shaped cross, where an execu
#7
themarginalian.org
The Weasel and the Meaning of It All: Annie Dillard on How to Live
Suppose we answer the most important question of existence in the affirmative. There is then only one question remaining: How shall we live this life? Despite a
#8
nautil.us
Do Transplanted Hearts Assume the Age of Their New Host?
Experiments in humans and mice suggest a way to make more organs available for transplant, but may squash a theory of rejuvenation The post Do Transplanted Hear
#9
nautil.us
Where Did the “Social Magic” Go?
A conversation with an Icelandic sociologist about the paradox of connection in our digital age The post Where Did the “Social Magic” Go? appeared first on Naut
#10
aeon.co
Reason is more than a tool
If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us why human reason is so much more- by Sasha MuddRead on Aeon
#11
bigthink.com
Everyone in the room thinks they’re the only one struggling
The connective ritual behind my closest friendships and the best teams asks the same question: What are you working on that you need help with? During my PhD, I
#12
atlasobscura.com
Queen’s Surf Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii
In the 1970s, Queen’s Surf Beach in Waikiki became a popular gathering and organizing space for members of Hawaiʻi’s diverse LGBTQ+ Māhū communities. It was a p
#13
bigthink.com
Quantum fields carry energy. Does that prove that they’re real?
One of the biggest questions that appears right at the intersection of physics and philosophy is as simple as it is puzzling: what is real? Is reality simply de
#14
technologyreview.com
Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason
On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board in what looked like a gift to its human o
#15
atlasobscura.com
Queer Arts Featured in San Francisco, California
The storefront where Harvey Milk sold film and strategized his historic run for San Francisco supervisor has found a fitting second act. Today it's home to Quee
#16
themarginalian.org
How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust
"The alternations between love and its denial, suffering and denial of suffering … constitute the most essential and ubiquitous structural feature of the human
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