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A blog series in which I reread LOTR 50 years after I first read it, age 10, over the winter of 1975-76. Pippin and Merry come as a double act (not exactly ‘dumb and dumber’, but not a million miles from that either) in the Jackson film version of LOTR, providing both light relief and…
Mark Zuckerberg built a future that nobody wanted. Tech bosses are repeating his mistake
This blog post takes us back to 2010, retracing and incident where a statistical anomaly led to the discovery of a subtle flaw in the way we were using a security-critical library.
World War II has faded into movies, anecdotes, and archives that nobody cares about anymore. Are we finally losing the war?
Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.
Why did Joan Didion love Barry Goldwater but hate Ronald Reagan? Historian Sam Tanenhaus helps make sense of Didion's conservatism.
I work in a sector that speaks out on racism and human rights, yet on this issue I have felt the boundaries of acceptable speech narrow around me
A list of unheralded improvements to ordinary quality-of-life since the 1990s going beyond computers.
The violent response to an attempted murder would have happened regardless of Musk, Lee Hurley writes.
Experts analyze why Covid severity has declined, who still benefits from booster shots, and if a once-feared virus is now more like plain old colds or flu.
William Shatner was excited to go to space last year. He didn't realize he'd be overwhelmed with sadness and go through "the strongest feelings of grief" that he'd ever experienced.
Woke 2 is Woke 1 with an honest relation to power.
Brainstorm - Richard Scolyer