* “Cancer expert given experimental treatments for incurable brain tumour describes ‘phenomenal’ results.” Vague article but also indicative of how much faster we can and should be moving in terms of treatment: let people with fatal diagnoses, like mine, try.

* “The Evolution of Tunnel Boring Machines.” A topic important for human flourishing, given how antithetical sitting in traffic is to human flourishing. Interestingly, in American cities, only L.A is serious about building out or expanding a mass-transit system. New York is too dysfunctional to accomplish much.

* Schadenfreude, but: “How Rupert Murdoch Decided to Dump Tucker Carlson.” It’s like watching orcs fighting orcs.

* Exclusionary colleges don’t want the poor, which is obvious, and much of the chaff exclusionary colleges blow into the information ecosystem helps to obscure that idea and focus on other debates.

* On Larry McMurtry. Notice: “McMurtry can seem like a figure from another era. He came of age in a literary economy that allowed for the slow building of a career.”

* “September was the most anomalously hot month ever.” For another take, see “World breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of days.” And the collective response is to…shrug, it seems.

* New Zealand proposal to allow medical treatments approved by other countries. The U.S. should do the same: we need faster pharmaceutical research. If we had it, the treatments that might save my life would already be here.

* Andrew Weeks’ ALS diary. Interesting in general but especially for someone facing a deadly disease.

* You’re not going to like what comes after Pax Americana.

* When Hamas tells you who they are, believe them.

* Unmasking Malevolence: On Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty. This was, I believe, published before the Hamas terrorist attack.

* “America Needs to Build More (and Better) Ships.”

* “Radical Energy Abundance.” It’s good, and possible to imagine this in the near future, thanks primarily to solar and batteries.