Noah Brier | August 2, 2025
The Saturday Selection, Vol. 65
The Dice Man, your own Library of Alexandria, and perfect scrambled eggs.
Every day, WITI’s group chats buzz with fresh links. As part of our Saturday send for paid readers, we round up 11 of the best.
It’s WITI, on the weekend.
Why are these interesting?
The Great Library of Alexandria (Alexandria.Wiki)
That original Library was destroyed. Someone’s rebuilt it for the digital age.
A Historical Political Economy of Kenya (An Africanist Perspective)
“A high-achiever country repeatedly let down by mediocre leadership.”
Who is the real Dice Man? The elusive writer behind the disturbing cult novel (The Guardian)
A search for the mysterious author of a counterculture classic led to someone else entirely. Or did it?
Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death (YLE)
A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.
A little piece of Delaware is actually hidden in N.J. How did that happen? (NJ)
There’s a swath of land that spans about two miles, tucked away next to Pennsville that isn’t what it seems.