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Shishufeng episode 22: Chongqing and Hanyang discuss the gaokao and university choices.

Content creators are not alone in becoming vulnerable through their desire for validation.

Exploring what creation means through fifty years of musical trash.

Finding a lost song calls for a different kind of curiosity—and rebuilding a different kind of internet.

Crossing a spiritual wilderness to find a small town.

Making the most of everything is neither a good ethic for living nor a benefit to creative work.

Chongqing joins teachers and students from the Curiosity Learning Community to discuss growing up, education, creative work, and sustaining curiosity amid the challenges young people face.

Ten years to tenure in the United States; civil engineering, small-town life, BIM, intelligent buildings, meritocracy, and the challenges of academic institutions.

Five conversations from a U.S. road trip with Hanyang, Chongqing, Xiaobaimian, and Keda.

1. 没人能在钢铁厂想小事儿：伯利恒
2. 我们以为它会永远存在：阿特拉斯水泥厂
3. 这是杀人现场，这是呈堂证供：九号煤矿
4. 前互联网时代的挡风玻璃相当于今天的显示屏：美国废墟与新奇建筑
5. 美国表面

Xuliang reflects on his experience of quitting smoking, discussing changes in perspective, action, and the desire for freedom.

Zhao Dingxin reflects on his journey from factory work and biology to sociology, discussing shifts in research perspective, social movements, and The Confucian-Legalist State.

• 游戏圆桌丨游戏宣发玩法变了，所以我们聊不明白《原神》
• 游戏圆桌 | 只有服务型游戏需要服务，吗？
• 圆桌辩论：好玩，是不是一款好游戏的必须条件

• 上：经典往往一般化
• 中：噪起来～
• 下：从历史中萃取的活力

人类在追求公平公正的道路上不断前行

不只是“能不能”，更是“要不要”

To escape the chaos of her Russian childhood, Lili Infante became an American law enforcement prodigy. She pioneered the DEA’s investigations of the dark web—never suspecting who she’d find hiding there.

Back then, nudity could appear openly in mainstream media.

Everyone knew what happened at Cornell was wrong.

Traditionally, a major source of high-quality pirate releases has been retail discs, such as Blu-ray or DVD. Today, torrent and streaming sites are regularly fueled by content culled from streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon. Known online as WEB releases, these files are the product of a decryption process using tools mostly not intended for public use. Recently, TF spoke with a person involved in the secretive WEB scene.

Reflecting on his childhood experiments with an old iMac, Sam Henri Gold argues that an inexpensive computer can open a path to discovery when its software platform leaves room to experiment.

The shutdown of Kindle China may have hurt readers of pirated ebooks most of all.

Hard as it may be to believe, Playboy was the world’s most important cultural catalyst in the second half of the twentieth century. Its contribution to promoting culture far surpassed that of any respectable magazine.

Link coming soon.

First-prize winning work in the inaugural National New Concept Writing Competition (1999).

I learned English—and Western culture—watching American movies in smoky minibuses. An Object Lesson.

On the meaning of education.

What would the world look like if microwave ovens replaced stoves?

Identifying as someone who categorically rejects books suggests a much larger deficiency of character.

Those committed to the fight for equal opportunity in hiring should reconsider the movement’s rhetoric, but not the principle that everyone should get a fair shot.

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

The loneliness crisis comes to campus.

Successive, overlapping crises reveal that American higher education makes no sense.