Weekly Filet

This piece gave me a new perspective on the human body – and on cancer.

Freshly crowned winner of the 2026 Tiny Awards which celebrate «the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web».

Who needs prediction markets and superforecasters when you can ask a bunch of kids?

Every time this video starts making the rounds again, it’s for a terrible reason.

What Ethan Mollick addresses here is likely to be one of the key challenges with AI in the coming years: the gap between what current AI models are capable of and what most people are using them for is large, and growing.

A personal essay on optimisation, in the broadest sense.

Prediction markets – platforms where you can bet money on whether specific events in the near future will happen or not – have a bad reputation.

«This is the discomfort that comes from the virtual and real worlds overlapping.

As someone who has been building with AI extensively over the past 12 months, I found this very reflective of my experience.

New addition to my most precious collection: in-depth profiles of stuff our modern world runs on (favourite nerdy sub-genre).

There has been a lot of talk lately – not for the first time – that we might be losing control of AI and thus need to slow down development at the frontier.

Sweden’s centre-left opposition may have narrowly won this week’s election.

How is it that machines can build apps, create songs and solve the hardest maths problems, and yet a robot still struggles with folding laundry?

In recent years, there has been no shortage of shocks to the economy – Russia’s attack on Ukraine, rising inflation, Trump’s tariff tantrum, and, most recently, the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

If you’re looking for an exhilarating escape from…erm…reality, this ten-part audio drama is perfect.

Scientists are trying to figure out what it would take for humans to hibernate, or at least how similar states could be medically induced.

My kids are growing up with AI the same way I grew up with personal computers.

Interesting short explainer on why your headphones can cancel out jet engines but not screaming kids or talkative co-workers.

Today marks the 25th anniversary of 9/11, the defining global event of my generation, when «terrorists hijacked not just airplanes but also the direction of U.S. foreign policy.»

A new UN report makes clear that the Paris climate target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C is now out of reach, and that all our ambitions must focus on «limiting overshoot».

«The more you know about the past, the better your chances are of seeing which futures are possible.»

An interesting art project with responses worth exploring.

Fascinating: Only in 2005 did researchers discover how tens of thousands of birds can speed through the air without colliding.

«I’m building my dream house without predicting – by living in a bare cabin in the woods, then adding only what I find I actually need.»

«If you love them, tell them they’re wrong.»