This Week’s Selections
What Happens If We Become Dependent on IVF? (link)
The Holdup Artist (link) ––”To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run.”
Feudalism Is Our Future (link) –– “What the next Dark Ages could look like.”
William F. Buckley at 100 (link)
The Shroom Boom (link)
It’s Time for Liberal Physicians to Rethink American Gender Medicine (link)
FLASHBACK: The French, Coming Apart (link)
Other Items of Note
Graeme Wood on Germany’s most controversial political party (link)
Aella on her childhood and the abuse of children (link)
Surgeons bid for medical first: Removing spinal tumor through patient’s eye (link)
A brief history of tomatoes (link)
The mysterious drop in fentanyl seizures (link)
The search for Planet 9 (link)
Alex Tabarrok on “affordable housing” (link)
George Will on Ukraine’s valor (link)
Britain’s nuclear future (link)
Annie Lowery on the era of thrash (link)
Walking around Japan taking photos (link)
On orange cats (link)
My latest, with something new publishing soon, maybe by the time you get this (link)
Ben Sasse on the populist right’s attack on Harvard (link)
Kevin Williamson: it’s about incentives, not good and evil (link)
On the flower industry and its discontents (link)
A collection of Archeology Magazine articles on various fruits (link)
A eulogy for Skype (link)
The rise of parasitic AI slop (link)
A photographer takes a trip under dark skies (link)
Another professor’s lament about chatbots (link)
Speculation about AI progress (link)
Kat Rosenfield has a free Substack (link)
Tyler Cowen on collecting Mexican art (link)
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