abundance, decay, and deep time

Saturday, August 15, 2026

Helius

My son borrowed the chariot once, and it killed him.

  1. The TEMU-ification of software, books, and music
  2. 72% of China-educated AI researchers now work in the US
  3. Did aging evolve as an immune defense against pathogens?
  4. Chinese poetry as a biodiversity record — the vanishing Yangtze porpoise
  5. Ancient fungal spores from eBay mummies are infecting buyers
  6. The Golem problem is older than computers

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