fandom

squidgeworld

https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/671/545 academic analysis of school shooter fandom

http://ohtori.nu/creators/actualsexuality/ Disturbing, Traversing, Borderless, Shaking Sexuality: The Place where Revolutionary Girl Utena was Born

data vis

https://medium.economist.com/mistakes-weve-drawn-a-few-8cdd8a42d368

https://datashader.org/user_guide/Networks.html pretty data vis

architecture and city planning

https://youtube.com/@stewarthicks nice architecture yt channel

notjustbikes

https://cherwell.org/2020/10/26/oxfords-eyesores-brutalisms-place-among-the-dreaming-spires/

https://www.yellowtrace.com.au/alex-schoelcher-plato-1-brutalist-architecture-tbilisi/

Learning, memory, brain

https://drmaciver.substack.com/p/how-to-do-everything?s=r

https://nautil.us/weird-dreams-train-our-brains-to-be-better-learners-12405/ Maybe dreams are not just a way to get extra training in but to combat overfitting!

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/02/20/magazine/mind-secrets.html?_r=

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/obviously-wrong/ Studying something in a new domain changes what’s obvious to you.

other

List of many places to DL stardict dictionaries: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/Dictionary-support

cn-en stardict dictionary: https://simonwiles.net/projects/cc-ced

https://www.bl.uk/medieval-literature/articles/love-and-chivalry-in-the-middle-ages

https://jdh.hamkins.org/what-is-the-game-of-recursive-chess/ I won’t lie, I only skimmed, but I love when I dismiss something as ridiculous and arbitrary and it turns out to be full of depth

https://jessmahler.com/voices-should-be-customizable-and-they-can-be/

https://thagomizer.com/blog/2017/09/29/we-don-t-do-that-here.html setting culture

https://www.audubon.org/news/the-fascinating-and-complicated-sex-lives-white-throated-sparrows Birds with 4 sexes. Birbs

https://transcription.si.edu/ Volunteer to transcribe old texts

http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/why-do-people-who-have-all-the-time-in-the-world-get-nothing-done/ Why we don’t get things done when suddenly having free time - we overestimate how much more time we have and are out of practice at utilising it

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/ Better perspective on salary negotation. Probably useful someday, haven’t read now.

https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/vol22-2/the-new-lucas-plan/ lucas plan - defense tech workers came up with ideas for how their work could be applied to help society and keep them employed