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A ~90% chance of a record-setting event: "The Strongest El Niño Ever" @zekehausfather.com
(Plus- Martha Reeves)
Sweat it: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/07/18/what-dreadful-hot-weather-we-have-it-keeps-one-in-a-continual-state-of-inelegance/
Go deep: "Holes" @xkcd.com @kottke.org (Plus- Little Feller I, detonated)
Spelunking: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/07/17/a-mouse-never-entrusts-his-life-to-only-one-hole/
How one genius fathered both the canning and paper industries: "The Lives of Bryan" @jasontoon.bsky.social
(Plus- Dan Bricklin)
Devise: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/07/16/invention-my-dear-friends-is-93-perspiration-6-electricity-4-evaporation-and-2-butterscotch-ripple/
The Soviets did it, and it didn’t end well: "Here’s what happens when you put politicians in charge of science," @thsaey.bsky.social @sciencenews.bsky.social
(Plus- the Spanish Inquisition)
Remembering the past so as not to repeat it: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/07/15/when-you-mix-science-and-politics-you-get-politics/
Judge a book by its writing- an endless stream of free book samples: "Uncovered Ink"
(Plus- David Mitchell)
Browse: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/07/14/you-cant-judge-a-book-by-its-cover/
What does it mean to be alive? Purpose? Goals? On the idea of 'biological agency': "Is Life Just Different?" @philipcball.bsky.social @quantamagazine.bsky.social
(Plus- Ernő Rubik)
Wondering why: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/07/13/this-was-not-that-the-subject-was-simple-enough-to-be-explained-without-mathematics-but-rather-that-it-was-much-too-involved-to-be-fully-accessible-to-mathematics/
A trio of perspectives on the U.S. economy as compared to others around the world @voronoiapp.bsky.social
(Plus- Kett's Rebellion)
Compare and contrast: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/07/12/its-the-economy-stupid-2/
Fewer places to relax and socialize, steeper prices for entry: "The Fun Shortage Is Real, and It’s Making America Miserable" @bloomberg.com, with @garrettbucks.bsky.social
(Plus- swimming pools)
Recreate revelry: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/07/11/it-is-fun-to-have-fun/
The importance of building foundational technology in ways, like open source, that encourage its diffusion-- AI for all of us: "Ordinary Engineers, Not Heroic Inventors" Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social
(Plus- Nikola Tesla)
Amplifying impact via access: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/07/10/technology-doesnt-force-us-it-merely-opens-the-door/
On not letting the perfect-- and the urge to perfect-- be your enemy: "The Cult of Optimization" @philtinline.bsky.social
(Plus- Clifford W. Beers)
Internalize externalities and celebrate slack: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/07/09/if-you-optimize-everything-you-will-always-be-unhappy/
What America's earliest restaurants can teach us about America: "A History of Menus is a Menu of History" @luriethereal.bsky.social and @pudding.cool
(Plus- Wolfgang Puck)
Dig in: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/07/08/food-culture-people-and-landscape-are-all-absolutely-inseparable/
100 years ago, we were obsessed with technology, immigration, women, work, and money. Sound familiar? "America, 1926: What a Forgotten 100-Year-Old Report Says About Who We Are" @dkthomp.bsky.social
(Plus- sliced bread)
hear the echo: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/07/07/the-present-is-the-past-rolled-up-for-action-and-the-past-is-the-present-unrolled-for-understanding/
How the fossil fuel industry turned the plan to solve climate change into a plan to save itself: "Carbon Captured" @propublica.org @drilledmedia.bsky.social
(Plus- Raspberry Beret)
Face facts: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/07/06/you-can-have-a-healthy-fossil-fuel-balance-sheet-or-a-relatively-healthy-planet/
We've been underestimating fungi: "Earth’s Underground Fungus Network Is So Gigantic That If You Stretched It Out, It Would Reach to Other Star Systems" @futurism.com
(Plus- Spam)
Muse on the mycorrhizal: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/07/05/i-thought-a-forest-was-made-up-entirely-of-trees-but-now-i-know-that-the-foundation-lies-below-ground-in-the-fungi/
As our beleaguered country celebrates its 250th birthday: “The USA’s Stars and Stripes In Found Photos”
When parties go way wrong: "America’s 150th Birthday Celebration Was Deemed the Nation’s ‘Greatest Flop.’ What Went Wrong With the Sesquicentennial?" @smithsonianmag.bsky.social
(Plus- the Second Atlanta International Pop Festival)
Rethinking recreation: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/07/03/it-is-generally-understood-that-a-party-hardly-ever-goes-the-way-it-is-planned-or-intended/
On what Trump could-- and should-- learn from Marcus Aurelius: "Of Stoicism and Stupor" @timothysnyder.bsky.social
(Plus- "Don't Be Cruel")
Back to basics: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/07/02/if-it-is-not-right-do-not-do-it-if-it-is-not-true-do-not-say-it/