Archive - Telescopic Turnip

Links for Spring 2024

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

Mar 24 •

January 2024

There is way too much serendipity

Roses are red, violets are blue, acesulfame-K is sweet and so are you

Jan 19 •

The Mariotte bottle – or how I replaced my roommate with a silicone sandwich

As we all know, the turn of the year is when apartment plants die. As everyone, I went on vacations, leaving my little plants – who are already at…

Jan 12 •

Links for Winter 2024

In which I defend critical theory

Jan 8 •

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. Sex is about clonal interference." – Oscar Wilde (kind of) As we all know, sexual reproduction is not…

Sep 18, 2023 •

July 2023

Links from Spring 2023

Darwinian evolution of prion proteins, no DNA involved (h/t Eukaryote) Claims on inflation: producer prices are decreasing but consumer prices are still…

Jul 2, 2023 •

April 2023

Interlude: tiling the dinner table with aperiodic cookies

Epistemic status: delicious As we all know, you are a total nerd. So you probably already know all about aperiodic tilings. You’ve also heard about the…

Apr 9, 2023 •

March 2023

Links from Winter 2023

Social scientists do no better than the wisdom of the crowd or simple methods like random walks at forecasting social changes. Suicidal chemotaxis…

Mar 23, 2023 •

February 2023

Reverse-correlation: how to summon the ghost of your mental imagery

As we all know, humans brains can be used to solve all kinds of problems, like classifying images, generating text or even taking important policy…

Feb 14, 2023 •

December 2022

It's time to worry about Internet privacy again

Stallman was right for the wrong reasons

Dec 25, 2022 •

Links from Autumn 2022

Neuronal cages and cauliflower mysticism

Dec 25, 2022 •

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