Happy Friday,
We are back! After an extended break, Five for Friday returns. Here are five things I found interesting this week.
Author, poet, farmer Wendell Berry died this week. Berry’s Standing By Words continues to be a formative text for me, underscoring the lack of meaning behind so much of the chatter in modern society.
We can not let AI slop take over the Internet, writes Derek Thompson. This little website is one such holdout.
“Politics is making academia stupid.” Every time I read Ian Leslie’s current events analysis I am relieved that common sense hasn’t yet been killed off.
How Kudzu went from a ‘miracle vine’ to invasive species, or “How good intentions fail without solid knowledge”.
On the weirdness of the word ‘weird’.
Currently reading: Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther by Roland H. Bainton
Image: “A Still Life With Grapes And Peaches In A Basket, An Open Pomegranate, Plums, Black Grapes And More Peaches, All On A Marble Ledge”, Jan Frans van Dael.
