Archive - Telescopic Turnip

Links for Summer 2025

Jul 2 •

March 2025

Links for Spring 2025

Phage beats bacterium beats AI apocalypse beats human beats crocodile

Mar 18 •

January 2025

Mechanisms too simple for humans to design

Does a bacterium fit on a floppy disk?

Jan 22 •

October 2024

Links for Autumn 2024

Last time I mentioned how the US army secretly sprayed bacteria over the city of San Francisco in the 1950s, so this time it seems appropriate to…

Oct 20, 2024 •

July 2024

This is already your second chance

And the sky opened, and from the celestial firmament descended a cube of ivory the size of a skyscraper, lifted by ten thousand cherubim and seraphim.

Jul 28, 2024 •

June 2024

Links for Summer 2024

A method to recycle cement without greenhouse gas emissions. I await the inevitable “I’m a cement nerd and here’s why it won’t work” Xitter thread.

Jun 23, 2024 •

March 2024

Links for Spring 2024

A philosophy professor describes his experience with having schizophrenia for 30 years without telling anyone at the workplace.

Mar 24, 2024 •

January 2024

October 2023

Links from (late) Summer 2023

Bacterial eyeballs and medieval puns

Oct 15, 2023 •

September 2023

The talk: a brief explainer of sexual dimorphism

"Everything in the world is about sex, except sex.

Sep 18, 2023 •

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