She invented the term “mansplaining” (btw. who invented “germansplaining”?).

The Philosopher Queen: Rebecca Solnit.

The Post-Human World.

What really happens is that the self disintegrates. It’s not that you understand your true self better, but you come to realize there is no true self. There is just a complicated connection of biochemical connections, without a core. There is no authentic voice that lives inside you.

The Psychology of Human Misjudgment by Charles T. Munger.

Prima Idee.

Text-Quiz als kreativer Anti-Troll-Test: Der norwegische Rundfunk lässt Leser Fragen beantworten, bevor sie Artikel kommentieren dürfen.

Beautifully done for a lot of music that won’t go anywhere.

25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going.

Interact With a Hologram Made from Super-Thin Water Particles.

Interview with Håkon Wium Lie.

If you could have one print-related wish come true, what would it be?

Can I have three wishes? We need solid support for sidenotes, baseline alignment, and top/bottom-floating figures with snapping to nearest edge.

It's Official: Time Crystals Are a New State of Matter, and Now We Can Create Them (via reddit.com).

(…) Wilczek proposed that it might be possible to create an object that achieves an asymmetrical ground state not across space, like ordinary crystals or magnets, but across time.

That’s not news to me.

The Biggest Trend in Sneakers Is Ugly.

Not just a footnote of history: EUMEL.

The Extendable multi user microprocessor ELAN system (EUMEL) is a microkernel operating system. Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (GMD) and Hochschulrechenzentrum (HRZ) of Bielefeld University created and developed it between 1978 and 1990. L3, EUMEL’s successor, is still in use by a few legacy systems as of 2016.