This Week’s Selections
Creating a Better Leaf (link)
The Webb Space Telescope Will Rewrite Cosmic History. If It Works. (link)
The Mournful Heart of It's A Wonderful Life (link)
Ghosts (link)
Beyond the State of Exception––A New Atlantis Symposium on the Pandemic and Emergency Powers (link)
On Language Games (link)
Other Noteworthy Links
A walk in Bucharest (link)
Gay Talese on his famous profile of Frank Sinatra (link)
On Kandinsky (link)
David Wallace Wells on Omicron (link)
Trying to forecast Omicron (link)
More on Omicron (link)
And still more... (link)
Omicron game theory (link)
Pfizer's Covid treatment authorized by FDA (link)
The tragedy of the J&J vaccine (link)
A Walter Reed vaccine? (link)
The unvaccinated and the left (link)
A dangerous court order against the New York Times (link)
Malcolm Gladwell on Paul Simon (link)
Octopus farms (link)
A collection of "photos of the year" roundups (link)
Bird photos (link)
On beavers (link)
Messi highlights (link)
Can collectors (link)
The west didn't steal its way to wealth (link)
Six homes (link)
A municipal office of heat (link)
Desmond Tuttu RIP (link)
Joan Didion RIP (link)
Renay Mandel Corren RIP (link)
STUFF I'VE BEEN WRITING
My latest... (link)