10/14/2023 Assorted Links

Assorted links from today’s online reading

1. Marked by Stars: Agrippa’s Occult Philosophy (Public Domain Review)

2. The Long, Sad History of American Attempts to Build High-Speed Rail, Part I (Construction Physics)

3. Growing Forests (Notes on Progress)

4. John Gray (philosopher) (Wikipedia)

5. Can We Live the Good Life? (New York Review of Books)

6. Large parts of Asia are getting old before they get rich (Economist)

7. First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by 21yo computer science student (Vesuvius Challange)

8. OpenAI has quietly changed its ‘core values’ (Semafor)

9. What is an Emergency? The Case for Rapid Malaria Vaccination (Marginal Revolution)

10. Vital Energy in a Disenchanted World (Law & Liberty)