Several days of snow have brightened the place up quite a lot and open the possibilities for some snow fun!
You Should Read These
Seven handpicked articles to round out one year and start off the next.
- Two Pastoral Realities Known This Year
- Top Ten Discoveries in Biblical Archaeology in 2025
- More silly scientism. Brad East went off on a rant and it’s great.
- On deathbed advice/regret
- During and after wars, the birth sex ratio skews decisively towards boys, as if to make up for lost men and we don’t know why.
- A map of the best places to see the Northern Lights (HT: Kottke)
- 52 Things I Learned in 2025. This one is full of brilliant nuggets from start to finish.
You Should Look At This
Beauty from the air and DRONES!
Winners of the 2025 Drone Photo Awards Explore the Beauty of the World Above
You Should Listen To This
An appropriately upbeat and optimistic song to start the year with
I also made a Curiosity Index playlist from all the songs of 2025.
You Should Watch This
A little dive into classics from ages past – Friday night in Mumbai, go for an English!
And here’s a Youtube playlist for 2025
This Week’s Postings
Holidays and roundups work well for increased posting!
- Everyone Else’s Favourite Books Of The Year Lists (2025 Edition)
- My reading year (2025 edition)
- My favourite films of 2025
From The Archives
Water is amazing, don’t take it for granted!
One of the fun things about winter in Sweden is going for a walk on a frozen lake. The first time this happened we were incredibly anxious, until we noticed the snowplough making a skating track on the lake. We were less worried about falling in after that. And right there is the thing: ice is on the top and there is water underneath. And that is a bigger deal than I realised.
Hoping you’ve had a good new year and that 2026 is one of growth, peace, joy.
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