participation, in this context, is a kind of alignment: the Vanity Fair photo shoot of Trump’s cabinet
escape velocity: a super-massive runaway black hole has been ejected from its home galaxy and is careening through space—via Kottke
that thoth over there: a guide to the messy divine family of Egyptian mythology
beyond the last-minute gift guide: the year of Tedium wrapped
no-one comes to casablanca for the waters—you were misinformed: every drink in the 1942 classic (see previously, oddly no gin)—via MetaFilter
capital allocation: on the social uselessness of finance, creating winners and losers
homecoming: a preview of Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey—see also
intraterrestrials: subsurface microbes have geological lifespans unreliable narrator: Epstein and company as Nabokov’s Humbert Humbert
