Links for June 2026

Vesuvius Challenge: An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time Prove You Are Worthy to Post About Diets: People make a lot of claims about digestion, nutrition, and diet on the internet. … It is helpful, then, to have a heuristic to tell the iconoclastic geniuses apart from the grifters and bullshitters. I end up with a pretty similar strategy to what I do when I see or hear random claims about finance (e.g. on Twitter.) I keep some questions in my head that test basic understanding, then either ask the person or, if I feel like I have enough data, imagine how they would answer. … Some of these questions have objectively correct answers, others are more of an opportunity to say something stupid that hopefully, the person you’re talking to will pass up. “I don’t know” is a wonderful answer. SovietRxiv — Translating forgotten Soviet research papers into English. “Kevin Smith dropped a wild story on Joe Rogan: After his heart attack, he tried the extreme ‘just…