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Abbott Handerson Thayer, Richard S. Meryman, Peacock in the Woods, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom
It’s a dark and confusing world out there, and sometimes the hardest part is trying to figure out what’s going on...
The unacknowledgeable work of pastors’ wives
This article originally appeared in Issue 15: Work. Subscribe to the print magazine by September 30 to receive our upcoming issue, Flourishing.
Before I was interested in pastors’ wives,1 I was interested in pastors. Specifically, I...
The rise and fall of the world's best curriculum
This article originally appeared in Issue 15: Work. Subscribe to the print magazine by September 30 to receive our upcoming issue, Flourishing.
By Alec Thompson
In 2011, Scotland destroyed its secondary school curriculum, once rank...
We need an AI adverse event reporting system
ChatGPT was released on November 30, 2022; the subreddit r/ChatGPT was created just one day later. In a recent paper, Jessica Dai, a PhD candidate in computer science at UC Berkeley, and her coauthors analyze three years of posts from r/Cha...
Behind the scenes: After Work, We’ll Have Each Other
In this behind-the-scenes interview, Asterisk managing editor Angela Chen interviews editor in chief Clara Collier about her essay After Work, We’ll Have Each Other. The two discuss why meaning is such a slippery concept, why European salon...
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A magazine dedicated to clear writing and clear thinking, published from inside the worlds shaping the Bay Area. Subscribe in print: https://store.asteriskmag.com/.
The gradual supplanting of the natural by the just.
I'm the author of The Dignity of Dependence, as a well as Arriving at Amen and Building the Benedict Option. My substack, Other Feminisms, is about how to advocate for women as women in a world that treats us like defective men.
Designer and writer from California. I write about literature, design, fashion, technology, phenomenology, perfume, and Proust
Politics and the Internet. Chair of Computational Social Science at EUI in Florence.
Optimistic takes on why things cost so much, why institutions make mistakes, and what AI is actually changing. Ex-diplomat. I lead DC Abundance. Views my own.
I'm a journalist, editor at Asterisk, and author of Ace, but this is just my blog.
Editor in Chief of Asterisk Magazine
I write about the political economy of advanced AI.
A writer in DC
What if we understood more things? Freelance Research Analyst @ North Sea Analytics
I write about economics, housing, and whatever interests me at the moment.
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