Portland folks — Monica Murphy and I will be doing an event at Powell’s tonight at 7pm, with the incomparable Rebecca Skloot (she/her). Come out to hear us talk about the animals of the 19th century! powells.com/events-update

This interview by Ezra Klein of (my ex-editor) Adam
Moss about his new book The Work of Art may be the best, most lucid, earthbound & maybe even useful conversation I’ve heard about the creative process. Wanted the book before, now getting it ASAP. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

Final copies just arrived.

On sale May 14. Available for pre-order now.

'Bomb-hurling anarchists square off against cops and their newfangled scientific sleuthing in this action-packed history... A captivating saga.' Publisher's Weekly. (Starred review.) publishersweekly.com/9780593443958

Final copies just arrived.

On sale May 14. Available for pre-order now.

'Bomb-hurling anarchists square off against cops and their newfangled scientific sleuthing in this action-packed history... A captivating saga.' Publisher's Weekly. (Starred review.) publishersweekly.com/9780593443958

Heads up: the brilliant series finale of a haunting new HBO docuseries “The Synanon Fix: Did The Cure Become A Cult?”—directed by my friend and award-winning director Rory Kennedy—streams tonight on @hbo & @streamonmax at 9pm ET/PT.

funny/sad that autocorrect thinks the phrase 'what has gone right with today's generation' must be wrong.

She’s obviously talking about the events of “Middlemarch.” She wants to live amid the thrilling rural ferment that produced the 1832 Reform Act.

NYC! Tonight @ 7PM, we're doing a book launch for 'Our Kindred Creatures' at Community Bookstore in Park Slope — come see us in conversation with Steven Johnson about the history of animals in America. (There will be wine.) communitybookstore.net/events/35685

FINALLY got Google's Notebook LM to work and it's incredible! A personal ChatGPT for all of your notes, text, whatever!

For some reason it would never work all the times I tried it before, but today it does!

blog.google/technology/ai/…

Now through Friday 4/19, when you preorder my new book The Infernal Machine, B&N Rewards and Premium Members get 25% off. Premium Members get an additional 10% off physical books. Coupon code PREORDER25 Pre-order here: barnesandnoble.com/w/the-infernal… #BNPreorder Barnes & Noble

To build back stronger, public health’s past must inform its future.

In this Los Angeles Times essay Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦 and I present the moral and economic imperatives for investing in public health.

We explore where the field came from.

And where it must go. ⤵️
latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Whether it is research for a class one is teaching, or reading a long book and trying to find particular passages, summarising knowledge from multiple sources, or hunting for insights across papers — NotebookLM is worth a try.
tomorrowsteaching.substack.com/p/help-me-read…

Google's new AI tool allows you to have an ultra-productive second brain

You no longer need to organize, format or search for your notes with NotebookLM.

Here's how to use it and how you can benefit from it 🧵

The history of penicillin's discovery has:

1) classic mad scientist origin story
2) daring escape from war-torn Europe
3) brilliant scientists assembled for a top-secret military project
4) heroic D-Day ending

Why isn't it a blockbuster film too?
adjacentpossible.substack.com/p/why-is-there…

On sale May 14. Available for pre-order now.

'A fast-burning fuse of a book, every page bursting with revelatory detail.'

-- Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City, The Splendid and The Vile

On sale May 14. Available for pre-order now.

'A fast-burning fuse of a book, every page bursting with revelatory detail.'

-- Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City, The Splendid and The Vile

I am a Steven Johnson completist and will definitely be reading this!

Only halfway through the advance copy of the new book from Steven Johnson, but I can already say this will be on a bunch of people’s “must read” lists at the end of the year. Coming soon!

Emoticons were born on this day in 1881 on the pages of Puck Magazine under the heading 'Typographical Art,' depicting four emotions: joy, melancholy, indifference, and astonishment . Without typewriters, there would be no emoji. themarginalian.org/2012/12/21/100…

Ship logs from the 18th/19th century compared to ship logs in 1945