FYI #149
There are some interesting sounding events in the line-up for the Powerhouse Parramatta’s opening festival
Reclaiming our dark skies with Megan Eaves-Egenes, via Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith. I’ve been wondering about the effects of light pollution in the context of the number of bogong moths around at the moment. How urban lights disrupt Australia's unique wildlife and food webs at night, via the ABC (2024).
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2026 - Anne Carson (media release). I have not read Carson’s work so I appreciated this short episode of The Secret Life of Books podcast, Small-talk emergency kit: who the heck is Anne Carson?
The research given the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine sounds very interesting, Light-seeking algae gave us a switch for nerve cells. Navi Pillay was awarded the Peace Prize.
Interesting to see how Vanity Fair tried to make sense of the choices in their 2026 New Establishment list.. ‘We set some ground rules: We would not present an idealized version of the world as we’d like to see it but rather document reality as it is’
Socialism after AI, a lecture by Evgeny Morozov, via LSE
"We're Breaking Up": On Communication Before and After the New Tech, Rebecca Solnit shares an essay she wrote in 2013.. ‘Right now we need to articulate these subtle things, this richer, more expansive quality of time and attention and connection, to hold onto it’
Noli Timere Socks, by Maira Kalman
Priya Parker in conversation with Sherry Turkle about her new book, Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines