Sed Intelligere 009

December 2021 Issue

The Concert (1623) by Gerard van Honthorst

A Graph is Worth a Thousand Words

• Graphics of the Year

• A Year in Four Charts

• If It Spreads, It’s Read

2021 in Retrospect

• Biology

• Physic

• Math & Computer Science

• And, Chinese Language

• Together with Opinions

  

  Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters (c.1608) by Hendrick Avercamp

“Vivere Pericolosamente!”

• The Office Is an Efficiency Trap

• The Innovation that We Call “The Deadline”

• The Bulldozer vs Vetocracy Political Axis

• The Deep Roots of Vaccine Hesitancy

Man Is A Thinking Reed

• Three Types of General Thinkers

• Individuals Differ in Information-seeking

• The Rise and Fall of Rationality in Language

• Between Wakefulness and Sleep

The Burning Tower

• Are We All Really Burning Out?

• Squaring Up to Defend Mathematics

  

  The Rescue by Sir John Everett Millais

The Grand Chessboard

• Is China More Democratic than the US?

• Can We Actually "Brain-drain" China?

• 修昔底德与“修昔底德陷阱”

Alice in Wonderland

• A Great Vertical Migration

• To Ride A Winged Cretaceous Beast

Time Present and Time Past

• A Conversation with E.O. Wilson

• Dennett on the Richard Rorty Factor

Towards the Future

• The James Webb Space Telescope Wants to See It All

• The Human Story Is Not A Cosmic Tale

• Too Much Future Makes the Present Miserable

  

  The Rocky Coast by Constantin Westchiloff