🔗 Finds #4

Hello everyone, and welcome to issue #4 of Finds — the articles, sites, and rabbit holes I bookmarked this week:

🌐 Websites / blogs

excelfrog.comExcelFrogClear, free Microsoft Excel tutorials that build from the basics — formatting, cell references, conditional formatting — up to VLOOKUP, INDEX MATCH, and full financial models. Short, up-to-date, and added to weekly.

gastronomica.orgGastronomicaUC Press's quarterly 'Journal for Food Studies' — peer-reviewed essays that treat food as a lens on culture, history, labour, and politics, from wine microbiomes to cultivated meat. Scholars, chefs, and activists in the same table of contents.

bulletpsych.comBullet Psych'Your daily dose of psych knowledge' — a psychiatry curriculum by board-certified psychiatrist Marcus Hunt, written to be read in order from Day #1. Covers mood, anxiety, psychosis, child psych, and more, with review quizzes along the way.

thonyc.wordpress.comThe Renaissance Mathematicus — A self-taught historian of science writes rigorous, myth-busting posts on the history of maths, astronomy, and navigation — happily setting the record straight on al-Khwārizmī, Ibn al-Haytham, and Newton.

philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.comPhilosophical Disquisitions — John Danaher's blog on the ethics of technology — AI, autonomy, digital duplicates of people, and how new tools quietly reshape our values — argued in careful, diagrammed detail. "Things hid and barr'd from common sense."

📚 From Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org6-Chloronicotine — A research chemical that's essentially nicotine with a chlorine swapped in — and it turns out to be about twice as potent as nicotine at its receptor, with painkilling effects in animal studies. A tiny structural tweak, a big change in behaviour.

en.wikipedia.orgDPP6 — A brain protein that looks exactly like a protein-cutting enzyme but has lost the one residue it would need to actually cut anything. Instead it moonlights as a regulator of potassium channels — a protease shell repurposed for wiring up neurons.

🌱 Filed in the wiki: every link this week has a topic page you can find it in later — Spreadsheets · Food · Psychology · Blogs · Philosophy · Chemistry · Genetics. 🗂️ Catch up on past issues.