Just a reminder that Earth is almost empty of humans, contrary to what many people think
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I couldn’t help myself. The final square would have 286 cubic kilometers of rice on it, or a bag of rice whose height is the cruising altitude of commercial planes.

The trends that Jonathan Haidt & I first highlighted in Coddling have only gotten worse. The data on the mental health consequences of 'social justice fundamentalism' (@waitbutwhy's term) should serve as a stark warning & a call-to-action for a major course correction in higher ed.

This is the quality of humor we want from Grok

History's pretty gnarly

It's exactly one year since the first Win-Win Podcast episode! To celebrate, here's seven of my favourite moments from the show so far:

1) Simon Sinek on infinite games, and why Apple crushed Microsoft in the '00s

According to one of my Chrome extensions I currently have 538 tabs open (most are book research). Just thought you should know.

Here’s an explanation of the colors in my recent Aurora panorama. The color isn’t fancy editing, but a natural product of the collision of solar particles with our atmosphere. The color was faintly visible, but the camera had no issue picking it up.

.Nellie Bowles is hilarious and I'm excited to read this:

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Really solid customer service

X feature request: when you look at someone's feed, an option to hide retweets, so you can just see their actual posts.

I like the iPad ad. I find it thrilling how many things I can do with a little slab of glass.

I've done this. It's the lowest dignity possible thing. You never realize how much force you walk with until your face bones absorb it all at once.

My son hadn’t had a proper graduation since middle school. Here’s my commencement address at Michigan, written for him & Class of 2024.

Please share it — we all need more empathy.

“If you really want to shock the world, unleash your kindness.”

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I assumed this had to be fake so I tried it myself. Same result.

A model of the Neolithic proto-city Çatalhöyük (in modern-day Turkey) in 7300 BC. Around 5,000 people lived there in a dense jumble of homes (most homes could only be accessed by walking across the rooftops). Crazy to me that something this legit was happening 93 centuries ago.

FIRE supporters are a unique breed. A genuinely principled group who thinks the #freespeech rights of both the opinion they love & the opinion they hate must be ferociously defended. I know there are many more of you out there & I hope you will join us. thefire.org/donate