- Video: The redesign of Pakistan’s rivers created the world’s largest irrigation district — and many problems.
- Read: Which matters most: Many bikes or good infrastructure?
- Listen: Should academics forsake peer review for public discussions?
- Read: Disney is harvesting data from you and your kids.
- Read: How counterfeit fabric slips into a complex supply chain
- Read: Musk’s destruction of Twitter should push legislators to regulate algorithms. My idea? Make any company with x% market share disclose its algorithm (even if it’s in a black box), so that civili society can find its bias.
- Read: Heat pumps are amazing. Have you got one? (I’m waiting for a smaller one for my flat.)
- Read: You can now pay social media companies for more prominence, account security and more followers. What could possibly go wrong in a world already known for fakes, lies, and counterfeits?
- Read: “I was struck by how many people said that their present age was their favorite one. A reassuring number of respondents didn’t want to trade their hard-earned wisdom—or humility, or self-acceptance, whatever they had accrued along the way—for some earlier moment”
- Whelp, that’s peak libertarian!