‘I’ve deliberated many times about discussing grief in a food column – you’re possibly here to read about new ways with couscous – yet the two topics are more linked than one might imagine’

— via The Guardian (thanks to linkmachinego)

 

‘What then are we to take from the distinct and quite public fascination of the two richest men in the world—Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, together worth more than $375 billion—with the sci-fi works of Iain M. Banks, an avowedly socialist author who set his far-future fiction in what might best be described as a post-scarcity, anarcho-communist utopia; a world where your Bezoses and your Musks are not just irrelevant, but actively sought out and disempowered by a society comprised of property-less workers and all-caring, mostly-benevolent A.I.s? …’

— via Blood Knife

‘Over the last year, the scientific community has been reluctant to openly discuss its missteps. But coming clean could help prevent the next pandemic….’

— C. Brandon Ogbunu via WIRED