static, whales, and the mundaneum

Friday, August 21, 2026

I watched him cross the sky until my feet became roots.

1. Static electricity: physicists still have no idea why it works
2. Adam Mastroianni on what makes great art actually great
3. The 12 million index cards that were the 1910 internet
4. Soviet economists spent the 1960s trying to replace prices with algorithms
5. East Greenland is now hosting whale feeding frenzies — a new ecological baseline
6. Did dream interpretation invent the concept of metaphor?