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Bill chill
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New design
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Digital relationships
I will read it
Rock music from 1984
Religious intolerance in India
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Galileo’s letter to Duchess Christina
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Good and bad things on the internet
Daylight saving time explained
Review: Trek Dual Sport 2 hybrid bike
How I organise and manage my e-mails
To complain is human
Mythos by Stephen Fry
Stop calling it ‘Barbenheimer’
Barbie’s world should not be dreamland
How time could shift the world’s economic balance
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Against the NOTA vote
Why Silicon Valley Bank failed
Superhero fatigue or poor screenwriting?
On legality and morality
Choosing a body typeface
The White Lotus: Season 2
The White Lotus
Artificial Intelligence has finally learnt enough to end society as we know it
Where did our dreams go?
Countries have stepped into 2023 carrying their COVID-19 baggage with them
Why is tech starting to look right-wing?
Dispatch from Rhûn is now Confluence
The Twitter Files
Mastodon: the future of the internet
Traffic in Mumbai
Talking to strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
Why some of us like true crime
Conscious eco-capitalism
Tune out of your default settings
Status anxiety by Alain de Botton
Lessons in familiarity
Against some animal sports
Euro 2020—the fantastic way
Mastering Focus on iOS 15
Educated by Tara Westover
Birthday resolutions
The psychology of money by Morgan Housel
Hunting down the real Aspasia
Getting artsy
The case against nihilism
Leaving home
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Let’s talk about the year 2040
Long-term investments
Jeep Compass
Stop reading the news by Rolf Dobelli
Three people you should meet
Random acts of kindness
Star Trek: Picard
Balance is key
Dispatch from Rhûn
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Man’s search for meaning by Viktor Frankl
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The art of meditation
The future of our world—I
Incendies
The unbearable lightness of being by Milan Kundera
COVID-19 and the bright side of humanity's capacity for survival
The trouble with FIRE
Attention Management
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U and non-U english in the 21st century
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Tame your tech
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The iPad-only experiment, redux
Random approaches to better living
Dispatch From Kozhikode
On dynastic politics in India in The Indian Express
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Google should turn off AMP
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Apple Watch Series 4
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The GitHub experience
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Hamlet’s Blackberry by William Powers
Accusation should not prevent election participation
Instagram co-founders to step down from the company
India strikes down law against gay sex
Cold turkey, part 2
Prison should be for rehabilitation, not confinement
Reading 50 books at once
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
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macOS for physicists
The trouble with Google Search
On entropy, randomness and shuffling a playlist
The mathematics of a medical second opinion
A drive through China–Lanka
How the far right became popular
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A new LaTeX class for lecture notes
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P. Chidambaram at Mysore Literature Festival
A criminal defense by William L. Myers, Jr
Quiet reflections on unplugging from society
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Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Internet pollution
Neuschwanstein
The purpose of a photograph
Pollution, by the people, against the people
Information overload and an overly social web
Lying becomes easier with time
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Saying Julius Caesar
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Inbox zero: updates
Greenpeace freeze
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Practise web introversion
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The other face of oil
Cold turkey
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We live in a pinball machine
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