The Merchants of Venice – In Code: A nice little review of early cryptology in 1400s/1500s Venice within both trade and politics
Typing Bowl is only barely a game but it’s good for a five minute break to see if you can type faster than strangers on the internet.
I’m not a big discussion forum person, but this massive list of topic-specific forums probably has some great content in here. I wish there was an index of the topic areas at the top of the page to help skim for what’s available.
The recent post Of trashcans and thimbles by Math with Bad Drawings is not only a nice review of an unintuitive statistical phenomenon but makes a connection to a larger life lesson about taking bold chances while also attending to the day to day essentials that will let you be successful if your bold chance comes through. Thematic for a month of talking to students about their education and their goals.
A little bit of navel gazing about the history of the blogosphere as Scripting News turns 30 which pairs well with The Verge’s retrospective on 2004 (a somewhat frightening flashback to internet culture the year I started working at my college)
Thinking about having my AI students read GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models which got a burst of attention. I find myself talking to students about fragility in systems in all my courses these days.