Cabinet of Wonders

☞ Interesting Regional Maps of the United States

There are many ways to divide up the USA

Nov 12 • 

Samuel Arbesman

14

3

2

October 2025

☞ Building a Historical Sense in Computing

Unearthing weird and fun facts from computing history

Oct 16 • 

Samuel Arbesman

10

September 2025

☞ I Want More Risk-Taking in Philanthropy

More crazy bets please!

Sep 11

14

5

1

August 2025

☞ The Conspiratorial Mindset and AI's Latent Spaces

Vonnegut, Pynchon, and Artificial Intelligence

Aug 6 • 

Samuel Arbesman

18

3

3

July 2025

☞ Musical Perception in Fiction

Diegetic Music and its Delights

Jul 7 • 

Samuel Arbesman

9

5

June 2025

☞ "The Magic of Code" and the Humanistic Computation Project

More on the Humanistic Computation Project...

Jun 9 • 

Samuel Arbesman

13

2

5

May 2025

☞ Creating Organizational Edge Cases

Plus, "The Magic of Code" is out next month!

May 6 • 

Samuel Arbesman

18

3

5

April 2025

☞ "The Phantom Tollbooth" Was Supposed to Be a Nonfiction Book About Cities

Unexpectedness in Funding and Grant-Making

Apr 8 • 

Samuel Arbesman

28

3

5

March 2025

☞ The Orthogonal Bet: Season Two

And now on its own RSS feed!

Mar 5 • 

Samuel Arbesman

13

1

4

February 2025

☞ Milton's Rainbow

Colors, Language, and How We See the World

Feb 19 • 

Samuel Arbesman

13

2

1

January 2025

☞ The Humanistic Computation Project

A reading list for computing as liberal art

Jan 7 • 

Samuel Arbesman

20

1

December 2024

☞ Creating a Typeface: Humanist Computer

Type Design as Hobby and Tool Creation

Dec 11, 2024 • 

Samuel Arbesman

16

8

4