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3 Quarks Dailyby Thomas Fernandes27 Aug 2026
by Thomas Fernandes One of my favorite thought experiments is the Library of Babel. Imagine an infinite library where the first book would contain only the letter A, the following book the letter...
3 Quarks Dailyby Scott Samuelson26 Aug 2026
by Scott Samuelson During our disturbingly subdued celebration of the Declaration of Independence’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary, one of the many things I’ve been thinking about is our...
3 Quarks Dailyby John Allen Paulos26 Aug 2026
by John Allen Paulos Here is a very simple notion that is astonishingly powerful. It’s called the multiplication principle and states that if some action can be accomplished in M ways and another...
3 Quarks Dailyby Jim Culleny25 Aug 2026
Immigrant Confession The Cherokee are not originally from Oklahoma. Settlers forced them to disappear west, into air and sky, beyond buildings, beyond concrete, beyond the rabid land hunger.
3 Quarks Dailyby Dilip D'Souza25 Aug 2026
by Dilip D’Souza August 15 is India’s Independence Day – this year, it was our 80th (1947, our first).
3 Quarks Dailyby Steve Szilagyi25 Aug 2026
by Steve Szilagyi I was cleaning my office the other day and came across some notes for a book I’d been commissioned to write many years ago. The topic was remarkable surgical cases.
3 Quarks Dailyby Mark Harvey24 Aug 2026
by Mark Harvey Time gets compressed as you get older. When you’re a kid, a month waiting for summer break can seem like an eternity, whereas later in life, you marvel that just yesterday our...
3 Quarks Dailyby Mary Hrovat24 Aug 2026
by Mary Hrovat Burnham’s Celestial Handbook, by Robert Burnham, Jr., is a classic text. Its third and final volume was published in 1978.
3 Quarks Dailyby Robin Varghese23 Aug 2026
Aruna Chandrasekhar in Equator: For anyone maintaining an extreme weather checklist, Mumbai’s got it all.
3 Quarks Dailyby Bonnie McCune23 Aug 2026
by Bonnie McCune “The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.” —Robert Louis Stevenson Over what is slowly becoming a lengthy session of being alive...
3 Quarks Dailyby David Hoyt23 Aug 2026
by David Hoyt Had the historian of California, Mike Davis, lived long enough to take in the spectacle of the AI boom, he very well may have seen a through line to earlier hybrids of unvarnished...
3 Quarks Dailyby S. Abbas Raza21 Aug 2026
Dwight Garner at the New York Times: Carlos the Jackal, the international terrorist, was vain. He wore nipped-waist suits, Italian loafers, fine neckties and sometimes, in a nod to his hero Che...
3 Quarks Dailyby S. Abbas Raza21 Aug 2026
Christine Kozobarich at Asterisk: A little over a year ago, a group of researchers asked: What would happen if we created an AI society?
3 Quarks Dailyby Morgan Meis21 Aug 2026
Janique Vigier at Bookforum: THE PERSONAL AD is a tried-and-true deus ex machina for novelists who write about desperate figures.
3 Quarks Dailyby S. Abbas Raza21 Aug 2026
Francis Fukuyama at Persuasion: Ever since the year 2016, when Britain voted for Brexit and Trump was elected president, social scientists, journalists, pundits, and almost everyone else have been...
3 Quarks Dailyby Morgan Meis21 Aug 2026
Clare Clark at The Guardian: In this post-saturation era of social media exposure, the intersection of appearance and authenticity has been exhaustively picked over.
3 Quarks Dailyby Jim Culleny21 Aug 2026
Buddha I used to sit under trees and meditate on the diamond bright silence of darkness and the bright look of diamonds in space and space that was stiff with lights and diamonds shot through, and...
3 Quarks Dailyby Azra Raza21 Aug 2026
Dan Sinykin in Substack: In May I was invited to write an essay on the short story. I said yes and then asked myself what I know about the genre.
3 Quarks Dailyby Azra Raza21 Aug 2026
Mariella Cariaga in The Scientist: In today’s world, food hunger and insecurity are not due to lack of food.
3 Quarks Dailyby S. Abbas Raza21 Aug 2026
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