GOLLIWOG, by billy wood. dark. 4/5
Orbital, Samantha Harvey. Contemplative, meditative, beautiful. 5/5
Year-End Lists, “A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists”. It is that time of the year…
How Not to Waste Your Life, by Maria Popova. Good reminder as we head into 2026.
Artemis, the goddess of the moon, the arrow- pouring goddess of the hunt. Strange how the most cutting-edge science brands itself with the gods and goddesses of myth.
— Samantha Harvey, Orbital
Practical Typography by Matthew Butterick made with Pollen. Now, that is classy.
The Iranian Poetry Culture Edition. “Political isolation has accidentally preserved something we’ve abandoned: the idea that an entire society can share not just values, but an actual vocabulary for the inexpressible. Censorship has forced poetry to carry impossible weight, making it simultaneously more vital and more subversive than anywhere else.”
Taboo, limited TV series from 2017. 4/5
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering, by Richard W. Hamming. Thank you for the reprint, Stripe (did skip a fair bit of the maths as I did not come fo that). 4/5
Global Control / Invisible Invasion, by AMMAR 808. “Ranging from trance temple sounds to rap-like street theatre performance and ending with the mathematical richness of Carnatic music.” Yup that sums it up. Revelatory. 4/5