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Links for August 2026
Shakespeare immortalized particular bear. (Reader discretion for disturbing “descriptions of horses with apes tied to their backs set upon by dogs.”) At least some bears — perhaps the fiercest, longest-enduring ones — were given names: “George Stone,” “Ned Whiting,” and the most famous, “Sackerson.” … Sackerson actually gets his own place in Shakespeare’s plays, having…
For the Love of the Game
Unless you’re stuck in an airport like Tom Hanks in that movie, you’re a citizen of somewhere. So pointing out that someone is a citizen is kind of a non-starter. Yes, they are also made of molecules, they are a mammal, what of it? But for some reason, we keep finding ourselves in conversations where…
Meet the Meetups Czar
Astral Codex Ten (and its predecessor Slate Star Codex) is a wildly popular blog by psychiatrist Scott Alexander about “a sort of hidden node at the center of art and harmony and rationality and the rest”. Scott’s writing has been described by The New Yorker as “delightfully weird” and his arguments “often counterintuitive and brilliant”.…
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