I read too much dense nonfiction and burned out the book reading part of my brain, and it massively impacted on my ability to read for pleasure, but do you know what immediately fixed that and led to my current 2-5 book a week reading spree? Reading old middle grade and YA novels I loved as a kid.

The number of good points per minute in this video is extremely high, which is wild because it is 2 hours and 40 minutes long.

youtu.be/teqkK0RLNkI?...

hubble’s recent images 🌌

can’t believe this telescope is almost 35 years old and still giving us these BEAUTIFUL images of our universe 🥹

"I do think universities churn out *knowledge workers* because intellectual life has been commodified. Students and workers are caught in the same system that wants us to live lives of total work....

I am <24h into a week off Twitter and my brain feels....much, much, much (much much much) better.

I missed being on a platform with scientists. Holy shit.

Murukami’s latest works with this idea of “adjacent worlds”, and comes in two covers as a lovely homage. My local bookshop gave me both dustjackets—I think this is a delightful omen for 2025!

Green illustration is Takaya Katsuragawa; indigo is Jialun Deng.

A relatively concise list of the best things I read, watched, listened to, and cooked in 2024. More for my record-keeping than anything!
clarebir.ch/my-top-reads...