On the critical importance of what we share-- the commons (of so many important sorts)-- and the painful price of their privatization: "The Enclosure of the Human Psyche"
(Plus- Alaska, purchased)

Cherish commons: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/03/30/the-enclosure-of-the-commons-inaugurates-a-new-ecological-order-enclosure-did-not-just-physically-transfer-the-control-over-grasslands-from-the-peasants-to-the-lord-it-marked-a-radical-change-in-t/

From cooperation to conflict: the evolutionary grammar of social interactions: "The fascinating insights of Robert Trivers" @lionelpage.bsky.social
(Plus- Ludwig Büchner)

Lingering over legacies: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/03/29/unhappy-is-the-land-that-needs-a-hero/

On technologies and paradigmatic change: "Why ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did"
(Plus- Sir Joseph William Bazalgette)

Musing on metamorphosis: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/03/28/technological-change-is-not-additive-it-is-ecological-a-new-technology-does-not-merely-add-something-it-changes-everything/

The Louvre has the Mona Lisa. but what is the "most treasured" holding of other museums? "It’s Their Mona Lisa" @ironicsans.com
(Plus- Tiepolo)

Hitting the highlights: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/03/27/the-pieces-i-chose-were-based-on-one-thing-only-a-gasp-of-delight-isnt-that-the-only-way-to-curate-a-life/

Our democracies depend on our picking up the pace of learning: "Can Democracy be Rehabilitated?"
(Plus- Beethoven erases Napoleon)

Devoting ourselves to democracy: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/03/26/you-live-and-learn-at-any-rate-you-live/

From 18th century bar trick to scientific staple: "The Math That Explains Why Bell Curves Are Everywhere" @quantamagazine.bsky.social
(Plus- Norman Borlaug)

Noodling on the normal distribution: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/03/25/its-the-bell-curve-again/

Comparing and contrasting wealth and expenses: "$Billions" (and "$Trillions") @infobeautiful.bsky.social
(Plus- the Exxon Valdez spill)

Pondering the pecuniary: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/03/24/a-billion-here-a-billion-there-and-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-money/

Printed comics as a genre long preceded the Sunday Funny Pages:"'Lost Literacies' Strips Down the Dawn of Comics" @jstordaily.bsky.social
(Plus- TMNT)

Tell *and* show: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/03/23/in-comics-at-their-best-words-and-pictures-are-like-partners-in-a-dancer-and-each-one-takes-turns-leading/

An explication of one of the most fundamental of all human needs: "Mattering"
(Plus- Goethe)

Wondering about worth: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/03/22/what-matters-to-you-defines-your-mattering/

Living faithfully a hidden life: "The Moral Beauty of Middlemarch" @plough.bsky.social
(Plus- The Mill on the Floss)

Valuing virtue: https://roughlydaily.com/2026/03/21/the-growing-good-of-the-world-is-partly-dependent-on-unhistoric-acts/