stones, stippling, and language trouble

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

At Ratzeburg, people built me a temple and came every spring.

1. Stonehenge as eclipse predictor — the 1966 theory that holds up
2. Paul Bloom: is this actually the worst time to be young?
3. Mild COVID leaves invisible eye damage — undetectable by standard tests
4. Stanisław Lem’s 1964 story is basically a GPT origin myth
5. Jill Lepore on how Musk, Thiel, and Altman misread their sci-fi
6. Yiddish as portable homeland — the global revival you didn’t notice