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worth reading: june 8-21, 2024
JJ
June 21, 2024
lots of links! short on time though so limited commentary :(
animals:
Armadillo Online!
by Joshua Nixon
:)
“'Quite a big creature': Kiwi bird surprises sawmill workers near Whangārei”
by Peter de Graaf
click through for photos of the biggest kiwi I've ever seen
“’If Not Friend, Why Friend-Shaped?’ A Beary Scientific Investigation
” by Carin Leong and Allison Parshall
a couple of very cool websites:
Close.city
Primarium: Handwriting Education in Primary Schools
and everything else:
“Spreadsheet Superstars”
by David Pierce
“Don’t Call It an ‘Ethnic’ Grocery Store”
by Priya Krishna and Tommy Kha
“The Encyclopedia Project, or How to Know in the Age of AI”
by Janet Vertesi
“Adam Curtis on the dangers of self-expression”
by Adam Curtis and Yancey Strickler
“Cormac McCarthy Did Not Talk Craft, With One Surprising Exception”
by Walker Mimms
“What Will Become of American Civilization?”
by George Packer and Ashley Gilbertson (
unpaywalled link
)
this one's
really
good. I opened it intended to skim through but ended up close-reading it in one sitting.
“He Memorized the World With Google Maps. Now He’s Exploring It”
by Tomas Weber
click the last link in the article for the Google Maps easter egg!
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