AI

Matters Of Scale:

• Anthropic Fable (Zvi)

• “Writing Code versus Shipping Code: Productivity Effects Across Generations of AI Coding Tools”, Demirer et al 2026 (pipeline model—little gain until you automate everything and “close the loop”)

• “Why New Zealand is an Overlooked AI Hyperscaler Opportunity: ‘Flops in the wop-wops’”, Alethios 2025

• “zork-bench: An LLM reasoning eval based on text adventure games” (are humans that much better at text games than LLMs?)

• “StoryScope: Investigating idiosyncrasies in AI fiction”, Russell et al 2026

• “Programmer Science Fiction: My case for a new sub-genre”, Sam T. Oates 2026

Genetics

Everything Is Heritable:

Recent Evolution:

Engineering:

• “Efficient base editing and development in human embryos without chromosomal alterations”, Jerabek et al 2026

• “More top horses are being cloned, rattling the world of equestrian sports”

Statistics/Meta-Science

Politics/Religion

• “Waiting For The Miracle”, Scott Alexander 2026 (investigating the Medjugorje sun optical illusion)

• “The Short, Swift Time of Gods on Earth” (the strange mythology of the Pueblo Indians)

• “Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death”, Charlotte_Stant 2025

Psychology/Biology

• “Review: The Full Facts Book Of Cold Reading”

• Chris Burden

Technology

• “An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time”

• “Hans Peter Luhn and the Birth of the Hashing Algorithm” (hashing is shockingly recent given how utterly pervasive it is)

• “L’Affaire Siloxane: How antiperspirant fumes nearly got NASA to evacuate the space station”, Maciej Cegłowski 2026

• “Thirty-Two Rats from Casablanca: Vermin of the waterfront and beyond”, Mitchell 1944

• “Dangerous Light: On a lost effect from the analog film era” (on the iconic spot/headlight effect from Akira, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Bubblegum Crisis etc.)

• “Communal fridges are broken. Here’s the fix. TLDR: Label your stuff and eat what you can”, Philip Harker

Economics

• “What Big Medicine Can Learn from the Cheesecake Factory”, Gawande 2013

Philosophy

Fiction

• “Lena”