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June 16, 2026

Letter to the World, version 1

June 15, 2026

How to Win: OG Anunoby, Game 4 Knicks

June 14, 2026

This week’s selected media, June 14, 2026: Progress, History of the World (semester 1)

June 13, 2026

The 5 greatest flaws I see in environmentalism

June 12, 2026

A silly post I couldn’t help posting

June 11, 2026

853: Kate Williams: CEO, 1% for the Planet

June 10, 2026

“Are we running out of land for landfills?”: A Richard Feynman view from the 1986 Space Shuttle disaster

June 9, 2026

Some of my favorite solo podcast episodes

June 8, 2026

“Could Switzerland Become the First Country to Cap Its Population?” asks the New Yorker, and I comment.

June 7, 2026

This week’s selected media, June 7, 2026: The Greatest Sentence Ever Written, Slavery–Summary on a Map,

June 6, 2026

NYU’s president breaks NYU’s rules, to pollute and deplete of course

June 5, 2026

More roots: an ancestor who worked with George Washington and on the Continental Congress

June 4, 2026

What I love about expensive gyms

June 3, 2026

More Personal Bests: floor press, single-arm row, Turkish get-up

June 2, 2026

The Timeline for Pollution and Depletion’s Effects on People

June 1, 2026

The Scale and Pollution and Depletion’s Effects on People: Here, now, not future projections

May 31, 2026

This week’s selected media, May 31, 2026: Gulag, American Citizenship and Its Decline, Live Avant Garde music

May 30, 2026

The Hanford Nuclear Site

May 29, 2026

852: Steven Pressfield, conversation 2: His new book, The Arcadian (and A Man at Arms)

May 28, 2026

About the comments to yesterday’s NY Post article about not using air conditioning

May 27, 2026

Read about me in today’s NY Post: “No AC? No sweat! Meet the New Yorkers sweltering through summer — by choice”

May 26, 2026

There are many ways to meditate

May 25, 2026

Did you know Stalin was Asian? As were other historic figures including Jesus, Abraham, and Muhammad.

May 24, 2026

This week’s selected media, May 24, 2026: The Gulag Archipelago volume 3, All the Vermeers in New York, Fetishized

May 23, 2026

This Sustainable Life again named one of the top environmental leadership podcasts

May 22, 2026

Year 5, Day 1 with my apartment disconnected from the electric grid

May 21, 2026

What artificial intelligence does to our minds

May 20, 2026

Most people don’t realize how much stupid stuff they do every day that they consider critical

May 19, 2026

Should I fear posting concerns about artificial intelligence?

May 18, 2026

851: J. Eric Oliver: How to Know Yourself

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