The Epic, the Novel, and Rawls: Precursors to Rawls' a Theory of Justice

Regency Sex Ed: How did women in 19th C. Europe learn about the birds and bees?

French modernists were alarmed, inspired by newspaper's voracious dynamism

I am offering mentoring: In which I help you

FOSDEM and DMA updates and 2025 YH4F and Our visions for 2048

Links for January

The Power of (and the Problem with) Names

The world of 1930s public health posters

Why I'm skeptical of minimum prices for ride-sharing (because they're bad)

War, Bureaucracy, and Divine Commerce

Things to argue about over the holidays instead of politics III

Atoms with Consciousness: Yo-Yo Ma Performs Feynman's Ode to the Wonder of Life

Echoes of Rage: Our new age of violence looks a lot like the Gilded Age

Merry Christmas from the Johnsons

The Myth of Bananaland

There Was No Sorcerer: Box Office Poison, Hollywood's Story in Century of Flops

A Student of the American Character

Melons and Melancholy: "Eating and Being" illuminates the dynamics of dietetics

AI and democracy: Early technologists should have paid attention to John Dewey

Does This Taste Poisoned to You? The perilous lives of food tasters

Metal–organic framework captures CO₂ at industrially relevant temperatures

Texas Asks If Index Funds Are Illegal

Underrated reasons to be thankful IV

Colour-changing textiles for temperature regulation

The Roots of Public Mistrust: Science, Policy and Academic Integrity

UK Research and Innovation harmonises doctoral training cutting 9 programs to 2

Standard Atomic Weights of Three Technology Critical Elements Revised

Gadolinium, lutetium, and zirconium all have new atomic weights

Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess

The race to commercialise nuclear-powered batteries

Attitudes one can take towards people who have behaved badly

Easy to remove tag could make mRNA synthesis for vaccines quicker and cheaper

Skeletal editing technique removes nitrogen atoms from rotaxanes

New database highlights gaps in plastic monitoring efforts

Key stages in the decline of academic Marxism

The Saga of Celebrated Scientist John Calhoun and His Rodent Dystopia

Graphene oxide sponge soaks up gold from electronic waste

Lessons from a Nobel laureate teach us how to think better

Sanofi spins out its consumer healthcare business

Online archive of Humphry Davy's notebooks opens to the public

The Key of Hell: An 18th-Century Manual on Black Magic

Hokusai's five ghoulish prints for the series Hyaku Monogatari (ca. 1830)

A collection of Halloween postcards from "golden age" of picture postcards

Arithmetic is an underrated world-modeling technology

Why protein design and structure prediction won the 2024 Chemistry Nobel Prize

Make It Awkward: Awkwardness is a chance to rewrite the social script

The supersonic dream died in the 20th century. Can the 21st century revive it?

Therapeutic proteins can hitch a ride on parasite to bypass blood-brain barrier

Chemical 'waves' used to encode words as Morse code

Scenes of Reading on the Early Portrait Postcard

Dielectric Breakdown: Imaging study illuminates new type of electrical tree

Chinese-born chemist cleared of last conviction under US’s espionage probe

Computer program 'paints' porphyrin structures in the style of Piet Mondrian

Solzhenitsyn Warned Us

Is DNA the future of digital data storage?

"You Are My Friend": Early Androids and Artificial Speech

Physical chemistry textbook now free to download as a 'gift' to the community

Scrabble, Anonymous

Irresistible Revolution: Remember what waking was like before smartphones?

Jim Simons, Code Breaker Who Mastered Investing, Dies at 86