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Surprise meMaker's Forge
Baltimore public artist Graham Coreil-Allen works to make cities more inclusive and livable through placemaking and civic engagement. New Public Sites explores the history, design and poetry of place while inviting you to practise 'radical pedestrianism' — travelling on foot through infini
Surprise meWild Margin
A deep, wide-ranging interview with educator and futurist Zak Stein, who argues that all our present global crises have their roots in a crisis of education. Long but engaging throughout — highlights include how 'testing ruins lives,' why our broken system depends on heroic teachers, the v
Make senseEntangled Vale
Nature published an in-depth study of toxicity in online conversations across multiple platforms and decades. The patterns are strikingly consistent: regardless of platform or era, the biggest factor shaping the health of discourse is how polarised people's opinions are. Toxicity doesn't s
Move meSoma Isles
A thriving collection of hundreds of great poems, lovingly curated by Manila-based poet T. De Los Reyes. Each selection draws from experiences of gratitude and joy, grief and loss, and the deep well of being human — with annotations and ruminations from a curator who finds herself 'in conv
Bi-weekly newsletter for grokkists who insist on relating to the world with curiosity and care. Each edition contains the latest from the Grokkist Press, events and highlights from our community, and a care package of snackable outside links selected to nurture your curiosity.
Surprise meEntangled Vale
It's getting easier and easier to reconstitute an entire AI person from digital scraps of our speech, faces and communication patterns. For philosopher Daniel Dennett, the problem is like counterfeit money: just as fake currency undermines trust in a financial system, artificial personas e
ImagineEntangled Vale
A large-scale analysis of 73,921 films from the last 80 years on how often, and when, they do a 'title drop' — a character saying the title of the movie they're in. About a third of all films do it in some form; 11.3% do a 'real' one where the protagonist looks at the camera and declares t
Move meEntangled Vale
Transcendent. Taut harmonies and sparse instrumentation give way to swelling orchestral accompaniment as the crowd gets involved in a big way. As one commenter puts it: 'Jacob Collier plays his two favourite instruments — the guitar and the audience.' A reminder of what live music can do w
Surprise meEntangled Vale
Most nuclear states name their weapon systems with alphanumeric codes or technical acronyms (B61, THAAD). South Asia's strategic arsenal is different — its nomenclature intertwined with the region's religious, historical and cultural context, a linguistic choice deployed by elites to shape
Move meSoma Isles
The BBC gathered vox pops from the public about why they love David Attenborough, then handed them to Aardman Animations, who put the sentiments in the mouths of the animals who appear in his nature documentaries. Very cute — a small, warm tribute to a life spent helping us love the living
Bi-weekly newsletter for grokkists who insist on relating to the world with curiosity and care. Each edition contains the latest from the Grokkist Press, events and highlights from our community, and a care package of snackable outside links selected to nurture your curiosity.
Move meEntangled Vale
'In the roots of words we find a portal to the mycelial web of invisible connections undergirding our emotional lives' — the way 'sadness' shares a Latin root with 'sated' and once meant a fullness of experience; the way 'holy' shares a root with 'whole.' The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows