Friday Links!
A tremendous long read: It Was Already One of Texas’s Strangest Cold Cases. Then a Secretive Figure Appeared.
AI: I highly recommend watching Total Pixel Space (which won the festival). Curated realities: An AI film festival and the future of human expression.
A fantastic concept: Statistical physics reveals how ‘condenser’ occupations limit worker mobility.
Coffee nerd alert: Experience coffee culture in 9 different countries (video).
An excellent long read: Changing Lanes America’s most popular declining sport.
And another one: Injury and inhibition: The misunderstood story of Phineas Gage shows that we need a new way of understanding the experiences of brain injury survivors.
Very appropriate in our current environment: Simply Don’t Be A Shithead.
From Jonathon W., and it's remarkable: Two new species of ancient sharks identified through research at Mammoth Cave National Park.
From Wally, a long but accessible interview: Interview with Robert Phaneuf Designer of Secession 1861: The American Civil War and The Armada from Fortress Games Currently on Kickstarter. A tremendous explainer of a common fallacy: Base Rate Neglect. Additionally: Misuse of Statistics in the Courtroom: The Sally Clark Case. A terrific long read: Merveilleux-scientifique: With brain swaps and death rays, a little-known French sci-fi genre explored science’s dark possibilities a century ago.
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