Stories by vo2maxer

From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man

The Electronic Symphonies of Video Game Scores

On the Study of Great Books

Adjaruli Khachapuri: Economists use this bread as a metric for cost of living

The Ghost of a Flea

Is AI overhyped? Researchers weigh in on technology's promise and problems

Why Have Humans Always Loved Beans?

‘The Phantom of Ninth Street’: A Bon Vivant’s Lonely Decline

Common Mental Shortcuts Can Cause Major Physician Errors

Russia’s Dr. Seuss

Fellini’s ‘8 1/2,’ and the dream scene that unlocks secret to human creativity

1066: Rationality Spring 2020 taught by Steven Pinker [pdf]

The Biggest Prize in E-Sports: Talent

Oil and Gas May Be a Far Bigger Climate Threat Than We Knew

Ex-YC partner Daniel Gross rethinks the accelerator

Virus Cuts China’s Carbon Emissions by 100M Metric Tons

Visual Chronology of Science and Discovery (According to Asimov’s Book)

DeFiance: Billion-dollar finance, million-dollar hacks, and little value

We’re Reading the Coronavirus Numbers Wrong

The lethal legacy of early 20th-century radiation quackery

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