Must Read

Books

Ministry for the Future
By Kim Stanley Robinson
Alien Clay
By Adrian Tchaikovsky
Project Hail Mary
By Andy Weir
Elder Race
By Adrian Tchaikovsky
Velocity Weapon Series
By Megan O O'Keefe
Murderbot Diaries Series
By Martha Wells

Articles

I've been saying that engineering management goes in cycles, and this article does a great job of explaining the evolving nature of engineering management.
Nicole has been complaining about the lack of scientific rigor in Jonathan Haidt's work for years. This article sums it up nicely.
The fact that a sweet treat is called pizza suggests that it is very old. During the Renaissance... people called almost anything that was baked in an oven pizza. Jewish cuisine and local Roman cuisine are so intertwined that it’s almost impossible to distinguish one from the other. Almost any Roman dishes fried in oil have Jewish roots—Jewish people were forbidden by kashrut rules to use lard, which was the most common fat for cooking until the 1900s.
Scary things are happening in the U.S. right now. This article explains how the Republican Party is weaponizing the Constitution.