A trove of insight and a glorious example of data visualization: "The Seinfeld Chronicles: Digital Edition" @visualisingdata.com (Plus- the Buhner trade) Codify comedy: roughlydaily.com/2026/07/21/i...

Once you learn what the "uni-context" is, you'll see it everywhere: "A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird" @dkthomp.bsky.social @agcallard.bsky.social (Plus- Easier Said Than Done) Muse on milieu: roughlydaily.com/2026/07/20/i...

Dinosaurs have become an asset class for billionaires: "The Bone Rush" @bloomberg.com (Plus- Claws) Ponder possession: roughlydaily.com/2026/07/19/o...

A ~90% chance of a record-setting event: "The Strongest El Niño Ever" @zekehausfather.com (Plus- Martha Reeves) Sweat it: roughlydaily.com/2026/07/18/w...

Go deep: "Holes" @xkcd.com @kottke.org (Plus- Little Feller I, detonated) Spelunking: roughlydaily.com/2026/07/17/a...

How one genius fathered both the canning and paper industries: "The Lives of Bryan" @jasontoon.bsky.social (Plus- Dan Bricklin) Devise: roughlydaily.com/2026/07/16/i...

The Soviets did it, and it didn’t end well: "Here’s what happens when you put politicians in charge of science," @thsaey.bsky.social @sciencenews.bsky.social (Plus- the Spanish Inquisition) Remembering the past so as not to repeat it: roughlydaily.com/2026/07/15/w...

Judge a book by its writing- an endless stream of free book samples: "Uncovered Ink" (Plus- David Mitchell) Browse: roughlydaily.com/2026/07/14/y...

What does it mean to be alive? Purpose? Goals? On the idea of 'biological agency': "Is Life Just Different?" @philipcball.bsky.social @quantamagazine.bsky.social (Plus- Ernő Rubik) Wondering why: roughlydaily.com/2026/07/13/t...

A trio of perspectives on the U.S. economy as compared to others around the world @voronoiapp.bsky.social (Plus- Kett's Rebellion) Compare and contrast: roughlydaily.com/2026/07/12/i...

Fewer places to relax and socialize, steeper prices for entry: "The Fun Shortage Is Real, and It’s Making America Miserable" @bloomberg.com , with @garrettbucks.bsky.social (Plus- swimming pools) Recreate revelry: roughlydaily.com/2026/07/11/i...

The importance of building foundational technology in ways, like open source, that encourage its diffusion-- AI for all of us: "Ordinary Engineers, Not Heroic Inventors" @timoreilly.bsky.social (Plus- Nikola Tesla) Amplifying impact via access: roughlydaily.com/2026/07/10/t...

On not letting the perfect-- and the urge to perfect-- be your enemy: "The Cult of Optimization" @philtinline.bsky.social (Plus- Clifford W. Beers) Internalize externalities and celebrate slack: roughlydaily.com/2026/07/09/i...

What America's earliest restaurants can teach us about America: "A History of Menus is a Menu of History" @luriethereal.bsky.social and @pudding.cool (Plus- Wolfgang Puck) Dig in: roughlydaily.com/2026/07/08/f...

100 years ago, we were obsessed with technology, immigration, women, work, and money. Sound familiar? "America, 1926: What a Forgotten 100-Year-Old Report Says About Who We Are" @dkthomp.bsky.social (Plus- sliced bread) Hear the echo: roughlydaily.com/2026/07/07/t...

How the fossil fuel industry turned the plan to solve climate change into a plan to save itself: "Carbon Captured" @propublica.org @drilledmedia.bsky.social (Plus- Raspberry Beret) Face facts: roughlydaily.com/2026/07/06/y...

We've been underestimating fungi: "Earth’s Underground Fungus Network Is So Gigantic That If You Stretched It Out, It Would Reach to Other Star Systems" @futurism.com (Plus- Spam) Muse on the mycorrhizal: roughlydaily.com/2026/07/05/i...

On the 250th birthday of the USA: "The Stars and Stripes In Found Photos" roughlydaily.com/2026/07/04/i...

When parties go way wrong: "America’s 150th Birthday Celebration Was Deemed the Nation’s ‘Greatest Flop.’ What Went Wrong With the Sesquicentennial?" @smithsonianmag.bsky.social (Plus- the Second Atlanta International Pop Festival) Rethinking recreation: roughlydaily.com/2026/07/03/i...

On what Trump could-- and should-- learn from Marcus Aurelius: "Of Stoicism and Stupor" @timothysnyder.bsky.social (Plus- "Don't Be Cruel") Back to basics: roughlydaily.com/2026/07/02/i...

The bane of unintended consequences: "New Ways to Poison an Entire Planet: The Legacy of Thomas Midgley, Jr." (Plus- the Tunguska Event) Interrogate inadvertent implications: roughlydaily.com/2026/06/30/m...

Diagnosing the disease that threatens us: "Corruption, Defined" @ericries.bsky.social (Plus- Arthur Andersen) Grappling with graft: roughlydaily.com/2026/06/28/o...

On a particular kind of commonplace book and staying centered: "How not to forget what matters" @henrikkarlsson.bsky.social (Plus- Captain Video and His Video Rangers) Contemplate contemplation: roughlydaily.com/2026/06/27/p...

Nostalgia for the new isn't new: "Is the Twenty-First Century a Creative Void?" @yalereview.bsky.social (Plus- Bo Diddley) Rethinking repetition: roughlydaily.com/2026/06/25/s...

Revisiting Neil Postman's painfully prophetic 1992 "Technopoly": "A society that wants to understand itself probably wouldn't act like this" @mattdpearce.com (Plus- Ambrose Bierce) Introspect: roughlydaily.com/2026/06/24/t...

A natural response to antibiotic resistance: "New Type of Maggot Cleared by FDA as Medical Treatment" @medpagetoday.com (Plus- Alice Stewart) Rethinking remedies: roughlydaily.com/2026/06/23/s...

Not natural, not quite unnatural, the strange new rocks of the Anthropocene stretch the boundaries of geology: "What is this rock?" @aeon.co (Plus- William Logan) Ruminate on rocks: roughlydaily.com/2026/06/22/s...

Pending federal bills would fundamentally change the internet as we know it: "Trump Moves to Deeply Censor the Entire Internet" @joeonhere.bsky.social @futurism.com (Plus- the Constitution) Seek sanity: roughlydaily.com/2026/06/21/t...

Alan Jacobs and Erik Larson on Freeman Dyson: will our future be Napoleonic or Tolstoyan? @ayjay.bsky.social @erikjlarson.bsky.social (Plus- Jack Kilby) Contemplating culture: roughlydaily.com/2026/06/20/t...

As we approach the 250th "birthday" of the U.S., one of almost 200 nations, a consideration of "The State of the State" (Plus- Juneteenth) Contemplate "countries": roughlydaily.com/2026/06/19/a...