Spotlight
Issue 26
China is not the world’s largest command economy. It is a continent-sized Silicon Valley.
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Against supplements
My methods and my madness.
Roman love
Samuel Hughes reviews From Shame to Sin by Kyle Harper
Come to Brazil
The world’s third best Italian food.
Everything rhymes with porcelain
A pricey kitchen stove left Charles C Mann with a question: what on earth is Dekton?
Why were Victorian elites so effective?
The biggest empire the world has ever seen was run by a small elite who partied all night, drank liters of port, and stayed in bed until the afternoon.
Mosquitoes are a choice
The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease already exists. We just have to be brave enough to use it.