A Beijing-based PhD historian who reads Chinese-language history news so you don't have to: new scholarship on the Han historian Ban Gu, rediscovered Tang calligraphy, patriotic museum shows, and how Chinese journals are handling AI-forged sources, each with a dry line of context. The best single feed for how history is being done, and used, inside China today.
February 16, 2026
An EconTalk episode on America's WWII production miracle, Gwern's scaling hypothesis revisited, and Scott Alexander introduces the AI 2027 scenario.
July 13, 2026
Scott Alexander's team publishes its plan for AI going well, Joel Mokyr defends his Nobel thesis, and Ted Gioia argues the Odyssey belongs in the music department.
March 30, 2026
Veritasium tells the story of antimatter's discovery, PBS Space Time asks if we can test quantum gravity, and Experimental History on why being serious matters.
