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