NYC’s Upper East Side Explored & Explained
an insightful walking tour of the Upper East Side with architect Nicholas Potts. From Central Park and The Metropolitan Museum of Art to Duke Mansion and the Art Deco Carlyle…
Turtles all the way down
"Turtles all the way down" is an expression of the problem of infinite regress. The saying alludes to the mythological idea of a World Turtle that supports a flat Earth…
How The Upper West Side Revolutionized NYC Apartments
Architect Nick Potts in New York City for a walking tour of the Upper West Side. At the turn of the century, apartment hotels such as The Dakota and The…
The Golden Arm
The Golden Arm is a folktale, a story appearing in multiple cultures through oral tradition and folklore, most famously told by Mark Twain and also used by him to instruct…
Radium Girls (Curie Eleison) // Rachel Sumner
A song about the radium girls
Medieval violence
one anti-recommendation and two actual reading recs
U.S. has billions of dollars to wage war, but not for anything else
Colombia's President Petro at the UN General Assembly
Did a 1912 Newspaper Article Predict Global Warming?
A newspaper clipping from 1912 that anticipates the global warming potential of burning coal is authentic and consistent with the history of climate science.
Blood in the Machine
Brian Merchant on the Luddites and their view on technology and work.