Being bored over the summer holiday, I decided that I would document the cool things I ran across on the Internet. Over the last week, there have been many of these. If I see anything particularly amazing, it’ll go in one of these aggregation posts.

• Neurons are surprisingly beautiful
• A rather neat and very short story, Time Loop by qntm
• A bit less short but just as good a short story: I don’t know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility by qntm
• A rant with which students can all identify, in The Cambridge Student magazine: now lost from the Internet.
• An Easter Island word “tingo” means “to borrow objects from a friend’s house one by one until there are none left”: Link to the Internet Archive
• Musings on free will: Is God a Taoist?
• A thing that I just have to share again: Technical hurdles have been overcome for the first human head transplant
• The human brain is a really weird piece of kit: The Apologist and the Revolutionary
• We have to make one of these at some point: the Creme de la Creme Egg
• This is quite soothing in a weird kind of way: Things Fitting Perfectly Into Things
• It is possible to be deficient in arsenic. (Link to the Soylent Discourse forum is permanently defunct.)
• A really useful website for when you don’t want to have to spin up Wolfram|Alpha to work out time differences: Every Time Zone
• Why never to talk to the police (seriously, never talk to the police): Don’t Talk to the Police
• A fascinating book about the power of positive and negative reinforcement, and why they’re often done wrongly: Don’t Shoot the Dog
• The Church of England really took its time, but at last they’ve done it: Church of England makes Chichester child abuse apology
• The Hawkeye Initiative, for the liberation of women in comics: The Hawkeye Initiative