The Snail Shell

Andreas Wannerstedt is the instagram 3d Bees and bombs . I love this diagram of land use in the US. This, pretty much . Quit doin...

How is cooking like other arts? - people have taste, which differs - people can enjoy making it - you can pay someone to do it, or get ...

three posts about how we can deal with being different levels of rational at different times, or how we can (and should!) be ok with having...

Got thinking about "fairness" today. Most of the conversation I've heard has been pointing out things that are obviously an...

I joke that I spend half my time worrying about where to live, and half my time worrying about having kids. Hah! It's really more like ...

Magic cards! (background: I loved Magic cards ( wiki ) when I was a kid. In college, I stopped because I didn't want people to think ...

Whenever I try to debate most anything, if I'm being honest, I haven't a dang clue. It requires learning details of how a law works...

Predictive drawing with neural networks This is one of these things that I saw once and can't seem to find the exact same gif. It was ...

( here's part 1 ) Hard to find guides for CA-wide races! Here's the  Chronicle . Here's  one from Planned Parenthood . Here...

Having feelings is hard. Making decisions is hard because having feelings is hard. Reasoning in ways that will be good to your future feeli...

I mostly follow these, from SF Yimby . I also try to follow these, from SPUR . The SF Bike Coalition is mildly important to me. And if I...

Let's assume, for this conversation, that Mozart > Bieber: For this post, I'm going to assume a simplified account of musical t...

Name of the Year is going on now, down to the Sweet Sixteen. Current status: - Bulltron Regional is a powerhouse. Looks like Salami Bless...

You can too, if you're so inclined:  https://samharris.org/podcasts/123-identity-honesty/ . If you're not, please ignore this whole...

Podcast interview with Dan Pink, pop-psych author; mentioned how he finds writing a book proposal really helpful because it helps him think...

In this case, it's Annihilation. Sci fi/horror movie about an area in Florida that has become kind of shimmery, and nobody who goes in ...

Like, I sweat Gilliam's movies pretty hard. Ask Tati about Brazil. I like it much more than I should. I'll go out of my way to tell...

I heard him on Sam Harris's podcast (who I also  have mixed feelings about but often agree with) and Harris had basically the same iss...

Being an adult has a lot more upsides than being a kid. It's kinda harder too, and in different dimensions than being a kid was hard. L...

There should be a code you can adhere to in order to signal "I am sincere, and probably not going to make things worse." Somethin...