Testimonials are coming in from teachers about their newly phone-free schools, and the amazing things that students are now doing. Like taking notes, completing their assignments, then talking to each other. "Was it this easy of a solution the whole time?"

The internet unites in outrage when someone slaughters a majestic jungle animal. Yet billions of sentient, emotionally and intellectually complex animals are tortured by industrialized factory farms. Here's Dwarkesh Patel with Lewis Bollard on how to help improve conditions:

Interesting proposal to help root out fraud and improve trust in science with bounties for those who find serious malfeasance fas.org/publication/bo…

Good thread. I agree this is low-probability, but there haven't been any serious attempts to make it happen.

A “camera lucida” is a device that uses a prism held by a metal armature to project an image of the scene in front of it onto a piece of paper below it, sort of like a modern-day projector hooked up to a live camera stream. These were probably invented in the early 1400s,

Just created a "how to dance" flashcard on my spaced repetition app.

Congrats Joe Gebbia ! What our country deserves

Half way through, but this is one of my favorite Dwarkesh interviews in a long time.