gloomy sunday: a neural network could teach humans a thing or two about art appreciation
and seeing beauty in the mundane
civil engineering: experiment with urban transportation and infrastructure planning, via Kottke
orders of magnitude: the quantity of user data scraped by malicious actors grows
tabletop: British Museum Mesopotamian artefacts curator works out the playbook for an ancient board
methuselah-ness: the defining trait of a tree might be in their immortality (lack of senescence) rather than height or woodiness, via Kottke
legend of the overfiend: a nostalgic screening and a look at the spread of anime and manga
thanatosis: a longer version of mongoose horse-play with explanations of their behaviour