Category: Deep Dives


  • My first foray into taking a term and adding the current year to it yields some interesting results, although it seems NotebookLM focused on the term “umwelt” instead. Still then, it’s worth looking at what it found for me. The sources it found revolve around an exploration of “the evolving role of the organism as…

  • I decided to query NotebookLM with the question “how intellectual joy can be a form of self care.” I got the idea from a Prose and Petticoats video on Emelie Du Chatelet, and it was a comment that Emmelie Arents made as an observation of Emelie’s work.  There are a lot of great sources on…

  • In the world of Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow (Generation I), one type oozes through nearly every corner of the Kanto region: Poison. From the very first routes to the Elite Four, players are inundated with noxious creatures – purple sludge monsters, smog-spewing orbs, venomous plants, and Zubat swarms. It turns out almost 22% of…

  • A Deep Dive into a Modern Pop Masterpiece Sabrina Carpenter’s latest single “Manchild” might just be one of the most brilliant pop songs of the 2020s. Beyond its catchy beat and sassy lyrics, the track doubles as sharp social commentary, and its music video unfolds as a pastiche of classic film moments that enrich the…