Grant Sanderson: Compression is Intelligence Part 2

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How a Mellon Grant Fueled Fringe Scholar-Activism in Texas

Loitering towards war

Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

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The Warrior Life of Ancient Egyptian Princesses

Following the questions where they lead

For Workers on Alaska’s North Slope, You “Sleep When You’re Dead”

A Pipeline Company Seized Their Land and Left Them With a $383,000 Bill. What Will the Supreme Court Say?

For Gen Z, periods at the ends of sentences are passive aggressive and “correct punctuation itself is a signal of irony”

Letting Russia Burn

Today in Supreme Court History: July 11, 1921

Open Thread

Open Thread

A poet and a theologian grope towards meaning by mail, trading letters about faith and friendship for two years 

Five graphs that show how heatwaves are getting more dangerous

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Young J. G. Ballard and his family were imprisoned in a Japanese camp for a two and a half years — he called it the best time of his life

New York Becomes the First State To Ban New Data Centers

On the Importance of First Principles