How a Dutch tragedy made people take loneliness seriously 17 December 2023 Claire BatesReporter, People Fixing the World BBC Theo Nienhuijs, 74, says a scheme which paired him with Bickel the dog means people now recognise him, and say hello The discovery of a woman in her home, years after she had…

Personal History Coding has always felt to me like an endlessly deep and rich domain. Now I find myself wanting to write a eulogy for it. November 13, 2023 Artificial intelligence still can’t beat a human when it comes to programming. But it’s only a matter of time.Illustration by Dev Valladares I…

There’s a phrase originating in Shenzhen, China translates to: “Time is money, efficiency is life” — and over the last forty years the city has wasted no time in becoming one of the most productive manufacturing hubs in the world. But along with making 90% of the world’s electronics, it’s also a…

* Remember Richard Manning’s influential 2004 Harper’s essay The Oil We Eat ? I do. Why did the Roman Empire collapse again? Wasn’t it something about the barbarian hordes? Or the rise of Christianity and the inevitable eclipse of the decadent pagans? Wait…maybe it was the lead in the pipes beneath…

Astronomers have detected a rare and extremely high-energy particle falling to Earth that is causing bafflement because it is coming from an apparently empty region of space. The particle, named Amate

You’ve probably heard about Helen of Troy. She’s blamed for starting the Trojan War. Not many people remember Cassandra. She predicted it. In Aeschylus’s tragedy Agamemnon, you get Cassandra’s full st

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“Do you think it’s weird that I tell Nermal I love her multiple times a day?” My sister’s question was muffled, her face stuffed in the fur of her six-month-old kitten (named for the cat from Garfield

There's this moment in Gone with The Wind after Ashley Wilkes comes home from the war. Everything lies in ruins. People are starving and robbing each other food. Nobody has any idea what to do next. W

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As of today it’s been two years since Kim passed. Many people have asked (especially at the beginning) how I was doing. I’m sure in general I appear to be doing okay - I stay busy with work, with home

Can your bestie be a health benefit? Getty Images New research has delved into what friendship in the U.S. looks like, including just how many friends the average American has. Who are they? Friends c

A long time ago, I had this friend. She moved. One day, I went to see her. She drove me around. There was a problem. It would eventually end our friendship. When she drove, she didn't hold the steerin

I've been thinking about all the things that used to be normal. It used to be normal to own someone. It used to be normal to work them to death. It used to be normal for a man to beat his wife and for

Social Health "You Do You," The War on Compassion Jessica Wildfire Aug 21, 2023 Shotprime August 21 2023 9:46 PM 5 min read Share Email Humans don't like feeling empathy. It hurts. Psychologists at Pr

I’ve needed to write this for a long time, for multiple reasons. Lots of people have been asking what the hell I’m doing. Like do I work somewhere? What do I actually do all day? Tons of my friends ar

"So what's the solution?" You get that a lot these days, especially when it comes to public health and the climate crisis. It comes right after they tell you the latest inferno "wasn't caused entirely

Social Health Jessica Wildfire Aug 14, 2023 ShotPrime Studio August 14 2023 10:21 AM 4 min read Share Email Back in the 1950s, this guy named John B. Calhoun built a rat paradise. Actually, he built s

Social Health Jessica Wildfire Aug 14, 2023 Shotprime August 14 2023 1:59 AM 4 min read Share Email There's this play by Eugene Ionesco called, "Rhinoceros." You should read it sometime. It's about an

Eleon Update: Over the next day, I’ll probably be migrating my entire Substack over to the new site. Ghost has a tool that will bring over everyone’s emails and (paid) subscriptions. I talk more about

Perhaps a strong and positive purpose in life can immunize against both Daniel Miessler July 31, 2023 I heard a great thing on a podcast recently. It was a guy saying alcohol addiction is confused bec

The saying “You’re the average of the five people spend the most time with” is still true, but has been redefined by the digital world. The Impact of Digital Influencers The introduction of podcasts,

Lion Design There’s a lot going on, so let’s jump right in. We’re definitely heading into a Covid wave . Wastewater surveillance has shown infections almost doubling over the last month. This wave fol

Grandfailure The California Supreme Court has ruled : If you catch Covid from work and then a family member dies from it, you can’t sue your employer. The ruling was unanimous. Their reasoning might m

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Grandfailure It started with a cough. Now our 4-year-old daughter is lying on the couch with a 100F fever. I started blaming our school. Then my spouse confessed. He took her to a party without a mask

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Grandfailure An immunocompromised woman recently got fired for wearing an N95 mask to work. She can’t prove it. That’s the whole point. They didn’t have to make it official. They simply made her job i

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The whole universe is humming. Actually, the whole universe is Mongolian throat singing. Every star, every planet, every continent, every building, every person is vibrating along to the slow cosmic b

In the throes of a depressive episode, my therapist lobbed a question that detonated in my mind. “What are you avoiding?” A question that seemed innocuous at first, but it was like a grenade, explodin

I joined Google just before the pandemic when the company I had co-founded, AppSheet, was acquired by Google Cloud. The acquiring team and executives welcomed us and treated us well. We joined with gr

Paul Woodruff is a philosopher, translator and poet who has taught at the University of Texas at Austin since 1973. How often do you think about death? “Every third thought,” said Shakespeare’s avatar

Moloch is a strong candidate for the most dangerous idea. If we’re alone in this universe, it’s likely because of Moloch. It’s pronounced MOL-uck . What is it? Practically speaking, it’s something lik

Haroon Meer, founder of Thinkst Applied Research, recently joined Dennis Fisher on the Decipher podcast to talk about recent changes in the security industry, the economic downturn, and how to get val

So much for “ The Jetsons .” Flying cars, floating cities and robot servants never happened. A decadeslong slowdown in “disruptive” discoveries, detailed in a new report looking at scientific studies