anarbadalov

Wed Aug 9, 2017 12:47pm PST

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about

Publishing guy by day (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/explore), aging amateur boxer and musician (hourloupe.bandcamp.com, newdog.bandcamp.com, arananar.bandcamp.com) by night.

personal email: anar.e.badalov@gmail.com professional: thereader@mit.edu

submitted

Wed Jun 11, 2025 2:27pm PST

Will the Fear of Being Confused for AI Mean That We Will Now Write Differently?

Sun Jun 8, 2025 1:36pm PST

The Many Sides of Erik Satie

Fri Jun 6, 2025 7:50pm PST

Pirates of the Ayahuasca

Thurs Jun 5, 2025 2:44pm PST

How Accurately Are Asian Americans Cast in Hollywood?

Thurs May 22, 2025 3:08pm PST

The Weird World of Animal-Robot Research

Tues May 20, 2025 7:15pm PST

Alone and Adrift in the Pacific

Mon May 19, 2025 3:43pm PST

The History of Now

Thurs May 15, 2025 7:36pm PST

'My Words Are Like an Uncontrollable Dog': On Life with Nonfluent Aphasia

Wed May 14, 2025 4:27pm PST

Our narrative prison

Tues May 6, 2025 1:54pm PST

'The Silver Bridge': Gray Barker's Psychic Travelogue

Fri Apr 11, 2025 7:04pm PST

The End of Roadside Attractions

Mon Apr 7, 2025 1:18pm PST

The Long History of the Human Aura

Mon Mar 31, 2025 2:09pm PST

I Made a Video Game of "The Artist Is Present." Marina Abramović Walked Out

Fri Mar 28, 2025 8:36pm PST

Suffused with Causality

Thurs Mar 20, 2025 1:28pm PST

The Last Drops of Mexico City

Mon Mar 17, 2025 1:30pm PST

Flagellomania and Fatherhood: Roald Dahl, My Father, and Me

Tues Mar 11, 2025 4:55pm PST

The city that forgot itself

Fri Mar 7, 2025 6:07pm PST

Coming up with an alternative Silicon Valley canon

Fri Mar 7, 2025 2:09am PST

The highly sensitive person

Mon Feb 24, 2025 8:03pm PST

'Event Scripts' Structure Our Personal Memories

Thurs Feb 13, 2025 8:01pm PST

Otto Dix: The painter who captured the true hell of war

Wed Feb 12, 2025 8:20pm PST

Lifetimes of the Soviet Union

Mon Feb 10, 2025 1:11pm PST

The hallucinatory thoughts of the dying mind

Tues Jan 21, 2025 3:36pm PST

The Late 2020s Survival Guide

Tues Jan 7, 2025 8:53pm PST

Hackers Claim Breach of Location Data Giant, Threaten to Leak Data

Mon Jan 6, 2025 11:08pm PST

The Plagiarism Plot Is Having a Moment. Copy That

Thurs Jan 2, 2025 8:13pm PST

It's Time to End Our Subscription Addiction

Sat Dec 28, 2024 3:18am PST

Making friends with your past and future selves

Mon Dec 16, 2024 6:31pm PST

Consider the Shipwreck: Ten Books on Maritime Disasters and Ecological Collapse

Mon Dec 9, 2024 1:50pm PST

Kafka's Screwball Tragedy: Investigations of a Philosophical Dog

Sun Dec 8, 2024 6:30pm PST

A cultural history of McGruff the Crime Dog

Wed Dec 4, 2024 5:03pm PST

When it comes to life expectancy, there are 10 Americas

Fri Nov 15, 2024 7:59pm PST

Signed Away: Against the commodification of deaf communication

Fri Nov 8, 2024 9:10pm PST

Alexander Bogdanov: Immortality Day (1912)

Thurs Oct 24, 2024 7:17pm PST

The rollercoaster king: the man behind the UK's fastest thrill-ride

Wed Oct 23, 2024 7:06pm PST

Statistical Significance–and Why It Matters for Parenting

Wed Oct 23, 2024 4:23pm PST

17th Century Death Roulette

Thurs Oct 10, 2024 4:49pm PST

Tues Oct 1, 2024 1:49pm PST

'Eliminate the Nonessential' and Other Advice for Artists

Tues Sep 24, 2024 1:03pm PST

Is Discovery Inevitable or Serendipitous?

Fri Sep 13, 2024 3:45pm PST

My Life with the Horror (on the author vanquishing motion sickness) (1987)

Thurs Sep 12, 2024 8:21pm PST

Plato's Cave and the Stubborn Persistence of Ignorance

Thurs Sep 12, 2024 1:45pm PST

Complete Delete: In Practice, Clicking 'Delete' Rarely Deletes. Should It?

Sun Sep 8, 2024 7:48pm PST

The Harms of CPR

Thurs Sep 5, 2024 1:25pm PST

The Deep Religious Roots of American Economics

Tues Sep 3, 2024 10:41pm PST

Where Inflation Comes From

Fri Aug 16, 2024 3:04pm PST

A Texas "moth man" photographed 550 species in his own yard

Tues Aug 13, 2024 8:08pm PST

Billionaires and the Evolution of Overconfidence

Thurs Aug 8, 2024 3:02pm PST

Welcome to the Anderscene (On Günther Anders)

Thurs Aug 8, 2024 2:55pm PST

The Psychology of the Psychic

Thurs Jul 25, 2024 4:01pm PST

An Abundance of Beasts

Mon Jul 22, 2024 3:36pm PST

The Rich History of Ham Radio Culture

Wed Jul 17, 2024 9:04pm PST

An introduction to philosophy through The Twilight Zone

Sun Jul 7, 2024 1:48pm PST

A.S. Hamrah on reality TV, "Cue the Sun!," and working in television branding

Wed Jul 3, 2024 7:39pm PST

Ismail Kadare Obituary

Wed Jul 3, 2024 4:25pm PST

The impact of Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" on Noam Chomsky's path to anarchism

Mon Jun 24, 2024 1:46pm PST

Moshe Safdie: My Steps and Gardens and Bees

Sun Jun 16, 2024 5:25pm PST

Dad Brain Is Real, and It's a Good Thing

Thurs Jun 13, 2024 7:21pm PST

Compensating Compassion

Mon Jun 10, 2024 5:18pm PST

How David Bohm and Hugh Everett changed quantum theory

Fri May 31, 2024 3:00pm PST

Alone Again, Unnaturally: Thoughts on Solitude

Fri May 24, 2024 7:04pm PST

How to Craft a Eulogy When All You Want to Do Is Crawl in a Hole

Wed May 15, 2024 8:06pm PST

Hidden letters reveal love, lust, scandal in 1920s Baltimore society

Mon May 13, 2024 2:26pm PST

Sci-fi writer JG Ballard's computer poems predicted ChatGPT

Mon May 13, 2024 2:15pm PST

The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt? (Peter Watts and Dan Brooks Convo)

Fri May 10, 2024 5:49pm PST

Last Hours of an Organ Donor

Mon May 6, 2024 12:21pm PST

Daniel Dennett: 'Where Am I?'

Tues Apr 16, 2024 7:02pm PST

Everything we can't describe in music

Wed Apr 10, 2024 3:13pm PST

Write down your thoughts and shred them to relieve anger, researchers say

Tues Apr 9, 2024 5:33pm PST

A Reader's Guide to Microdosing

Fri Mar 29, 2024 8:36pm PST

Will the Phone-Free Movement Work?

Thurs Mar 28, 2024 6:46pm PST

Who Do We Become When We Talk to Machines?

Tues Mar 26, 2024 2:26pm PST

"No Nights Off." and Other Grown Up Lessons from Reading to My Kids

Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:01pm PST

For Brilliant Color: Packaging the First LSD Blotter

Tues Mar 12, 2024 5:40pm PST

What Deathbed Visions Teach Us About Living

Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:32pm PST

Generative AI Tries to Learn Cosmology

Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:59am PST

The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it

Fri Mar 8, 2024 7:39pm PST

Tripping on LSD at the Dolphin Research Lab

Fri Mar 8, 2024 4:31pm PST

The Dark Side of Awe

Tues Mar 5, 2024 4:04pm PST

The Brink (on the threat and horror of nuclear war)

Fri Mar 1, 2024 8:38pm PST

The scientific integrity sleuth taking on research misconduct

Thurs Feb 29, 2024 3:07pm PST

The divers trying to figure out how deep humans can go

Tues Feb 27, 2024 8:48pm PST

An Antarctic base got its own accent

Mon Feb 26, 2024 8:52pm PST

Quanta Relaunches Hyperjumps Math Game

Mon Feb 26, 2024 3:57pm PST

How Fear of Regret Influences Our Decisions

Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:49pm PST

Indexing the Information Age

Thurs Feb 8, 2024 5:18pm PST

J.G. Ballard: My Favorite Books