Structured Procrastination
via gwern.net
[W]hat could be more noble than using one character flaw to offset the bad effects of another?
Thinking about the Land: A Personal Perspective on the Origin of Organic Farming – Rachel Laudan
Rachel Laudan is promising a personal look into some of the history of the organic farming movement in England. Looking forward to the rest of her series.
Tim Harford — Article — How the Brexit debate was flushed down the drain
Far too reasonable to be taken seriously.
Hearsay Festival is the Coachella of creative audio
I don't know what Coachella is (well, not directly) but I do know that Hearsay is the business.
We Built a (Legal) Facial Recognition Machine for $60 – Theoreti.ca
A particularly interesting take on a topic that most people have mostly reacted to with horror or naivete.
What counts? | The Enlightened Economist
Very interesting ideas on how classification systems affect the way we think, rather than vice versa.
"People can’t see what they take for granted until there is an alternative version not taking the same things for granted."
The research agenda we really need
Colin Tudge at the Campaign for Real Farming points up just a few of the ways in which the current approach to research into food and food production lets us all down.