Interesting reads about a variety of topics
- Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism
- We’re going to need a lot of solar panels
- Antifragility
- Transcending capitalism: three different ways?
- Transcending capitalism: three different ways?
- The importance of Taleb’s system: from the Fourth Quadrant to the Skin in the Game
- How Mushrooms Can Save the World
- Ergodicity – The odd word with important implications for investors
- The Art of Research – A History by Vi Hart
- How language shapes the way we think
- Joshua Foer: Step Outside Your Comfort Zone and Study Yourself Failing
- How to speak so that people want to listen | Julian Treasure
- Learning from dirty jobs | Mike Rowe
- How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change | Allan Savory
- Evolving Floorplans
- How China Plans to Feed 1.4 Billion Growing Appetites
- This Tiny Country Feeds the World
- Don’t Eat Before Reading This
- Why Men Love War
- Isaac Asimov Asks, How Do People Get New Ideas?
- The Simple Algorithm That Ants Use to Build Bridges
- The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it
- Reality has a surprising amount of detail
- The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority
- Deep dive: What we are learning from the language of whales | James Nestor
- A Five Minutes Guide to Better Typography
- How to Simulate the Universe in 134 Easy Steps
- Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’
- How language can affect the way we think
- Why We Are Self Publishing the Aviary Cookbook
- Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
- Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting biodegradable solution to plastic pollution
- Why the Industrial Revolution didn’t happen in China
- Argentina On Two Steaks A Day
- The Jelly Bean Problem
- Why Japan’s Rail Workers Can’t Stop Pointing at Things
- Software Engineer Starts Unlikely Business: A Weekly Newspaper
- They Used To Last 50 Years
- How insects like bumblebees do so much with tiny brains
- The story of a designer conquering mathematics.
- Let's Colonize Titan
- Horizontal History by Wait But Why
- Music Theory - An Interactive Guide from First Principles
- The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic
- Oceans and Clay
- When A Stranger’s Heart Beats Inside You: A Heart Transplant Patient Gains Perspective After His Surgery
- The Marriage Decision: Everything Forever or Nothing Ever Again
- How frigatebirds cross entire oceans without ever needing to rest
- Religion for the Nonreligious
- These Students Are Developing Bacteria That Eats Our Plastic Pollution
- The New World Order Is Ruled By Global Corporations And Megacities—Not Countries
- Why Cash Is Worth Fighting For
- Zebra vs Horses
- Today’s teens are better than you, and we can prove it
- From Muhammad to ISIS: Iraq’s Full Story
- How to Raise a Creative Child
- How These Young Rwandan Architects Are Redesigning Their Country
- Basic Income
- This Design For A Dense City Lets You Walk From Roof To Roof
- When Philosophy Lost Its Way
- Engineering A Vegan Steak Even A Carnivore Would Love
- The Deal With the Hyperloop
- The Deal With Solar
- How (and Why) SpaceX Will Colonize Mars
- How Tesla Will Change The World
- Humans should learn maths
- How to Beat Procrastination
- Why Procrastinators Procrastinate
- What You Can Do About Climate Change
- The Lowline, New York's First Underground Park, Is Taking Shape (Slowly)
- This Apartment Is Designed To Pop Up In Parking Lots Or Abandoned Buildings
- Losing sight
- Protecting the Last Homes of the Giants
- Meet The (Other) Musk Brother, Who Wants To Change The World Of Food
- Jeong Kwan, the Philosopher Chef
- It’s Not Climate Change — It’s Everything Change
- The Reign of Recycling
- What Are Traffic Waves and Why Do They Happen So Much?
- These Beautiful Photos Are Fighting Old Stereotypes About Africa
- The Philosopher Who Says We Should Play God
- A Game of Shark and Minnow
- Off the Grid, But Still Online
- This Robot-Run Indoor Farm Can Grow 10 Million Heads Of Lettuce A Year
- Google Is Planning For A Zero-Waste, Circular Economy
- Why Is Art Expensive?
- Schopenhauer on the art of not reading
- The Fermi Paradox — Where Are All The Aliens?
- What Is Life? Is Death Real?
- This London Underground Farm Grows Salad In A WWII Bomb Shelter
- Elon Musk: The World’s Raddest Man
- The Socratic Method
- When the End of Human Civilization Is Your Day Job
- Meditation: Why Bother?
- How Giving Up Refined Sugar Changed My Brain
- This Startup Is Reimagining Shower Design
- The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence
- Ryan Estrada — Learn to Read Korean in 15 Minutes
- Why can’t we readanymore?
- An introduction to economics under capitalism
- Burma's bizarre capital: a super-sized slice of post-apocalypse suburbia
- What is Meditation and How It Affects Our Brains
- How to walk through walls using the 4th Dimension
- The truth behind China’s Underground Wholesale Markets.
- The Day I Stopped Saying 'Hurry Up'
- Lessons from working 6 months on a math problem (and failing)
- News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier