2025-04
[science] Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science
The story of Paul Ginsparg
[food] Saffron, the World’s Most Expensive Spice, Is Now Grown in the U.S.
[world] New Lives in the City: How Taleban have experienced life in Kabul
To be honest, every time I go with them, they pressure me to play and listen to music in the car. At first, I was resisting, but now I have given in, with the one condition that they turn it off when passing through security checkpoints because many other Taleban don’t like it, and it’s bad for a Taleb to be seen listening to it.
[world] How a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son
The Americans irl
30 Hours in a Hurricane, on a Race With No Course - The New York Times
[science] Do Insects Feel Pain? - The New Yorker
[culture,tech] Chimes at Midnight - Asterisk Magazine
[world] The far-left kidnapping plot that reads like a real-life thriller
[education] Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its tech-heavy schools
[food] Robots Squeezing Lemons
think about the poor lemon squeezers
[health] ‘We are not afraid of death’: how Denmark is changing the way we die
[culture] The Alabama Landline That Keeps Ringing - Oxford American
[art] Girl with a Pearl Earring | 108 Gigapixel | Mauritshuis | Hirox
Super high-res scan