Monday Morning Link Dump: 6 Californias, Anarchist Author Grows Up, Luxury Scientific Journals, and more

It’s Monday again! Here is a selection of interesting links that I have run across that I never got around to sharing:

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur proposes splitting California into six new individual states

The author of The Anarchist’s Cookbook grew up, married, had kids, renounced radicalism, and became a confirmed Anglican Christian who wishes his book would be taken out of print.

Nobel Prize winning scientist Randy Schekman criticizes the way “luxury” scientific journals like Nature, Cell, and Science create incentives that distort good science.

An amazing 240 year old programmable automaton capable of writing any custom text up to 40 letters long.