RIP to another Giant your favorite MC’s MC .. MF DOOM!! crushing news...

The Cistercian monks invented a numbering system in the 13th century which meant that any number from 1 to 9999 could be written using a single symbol

can't say i had particularly strong intuitions on this one

German forecasters c. mid 1970s on what our energy future would look like...

Pity the poor Ottoman cartographer who had to figure out how to transliterate Worcester

Congrats to Moderna and my client Metagenomi on their major in vivo gene editing collaboration! Two companies with big visions and ambition. Looking forward to seeing how this story unfolds and what diseases could be cured. #CRISPR

The results from the largest ever psilocybin study on depression are OUT and they reinforce all those positive smaller studies. V good news for the psychedelic field statnews.com/2021/11/09/lar…

Happy birthday to Herbie Hancock, born on this day in 1940 in Chicago. Here he is demonstrating his Fairlight keyboard and computer recording setup to Quincy Jones in 1984.

italy spent the 19th century very hard at work on developing aperitif and digestif technology and the rest of the world has never caught up

good analogy of API to interdisciplinary

Thought that Greene would come up earlier in this story, since "Our Man in Havana" was inspired by Garbo. Greene appears later on tho, since the dude based his made-up life on "England Made Me." newyorker.com/books/page-tur…

Fascinating update from @jtemple on geothermal power startup Fervo Energy. The company says it has drilled wells in Northern Nevada that show geothermal plants can ramp up and down to match solar and wind output, and also serve as long-duration storage: technologyreview.com/2023/03/07/106…

An Irish literary archive treat for #StPatricksDay Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney encounters an ancient and mysterious pagan statue on Boa Island in Lough Erne and imagines what the old gods in Ireland were like, before the arrival of St Patrick.

I just love this figure of Colorado River water usage from the NYT Climate today. I want a poster of it. Water law is animal law, at least in the West.

Nearly a decade ago, frankpasquale.bsky.social or [email protected] coined the phrase "black-box society" to refer to the way tech platforms were growing ever more opaque as they increased their influence. Now we accept this secrecy when, in the age of AI, we need to resist it the most. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Researchers say they have developed technology that can imitate a person's handwriting based on just a few paragraphs of written material trib.al/4mJTO8s