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Aubrey Hirsch is an eternal optimist. In her latest comic, she writes/draws...
You Need to Be Bored. Here’s Why.
“A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may instead...
Listers: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching
An interview with Rebecca Solnit. “It feels like part of this horrible...
Colorful Surf
Without looking it up, what’s the longest single-syllable English word you can...
It’s getting to be that time again: The 2025 Fall Foliage Prediction...
This is what could happen to a child who doesn’t get vaccinated....
Drunk Jeff Goldblum
A clicker game where the click reloads the page in your browser....
An Electro-Acoustic Instrument Made Out of an Old Singer Sewing Machine
‘It’s Just a Mess:’ 23 People Explain How Tariffs Have Suddenly Ruined...
The great Ray Hudson is retiring from broadcasting. “His commentary was a...
Wake Up Dead Man Trailer
Congress Plays Keep-Away With Child’s School Lunch. “‘If you want to eat,...
I’m a High Schooler. AI Is Demolishing My Education. “The dominant worldview...
“A new volunteer-led organization called Grandparents for Vaccines launched Sunday on National...
Zohran Mamdani’s social media team is operating on all cylinders: A Dramatic...
How a Deaf Quarterback Changed Sports Forever By Inventing the Huddle. “Concerned...
The Casual Archivist’s Short History of the Business Card, From Versailles to...
How to Make Rope the Old-Fashioned Way
49 Literary Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Fall. That seems...
Code Rush, a 2000 Documentary About Netscape/Mozilla
USGS Unveils New National Geologic Map. “In a significant advancement for geoscience,...
John Candy: I Like Me
Yesterday, Jackson Goldstone won the 2025 Downhill Mountain ike World Championship. Here’s...
Forthcoming book by Bernie Sanders: Fight Oligarchy. “Sanders explains how the United...
Why more and more people are tuning the news out: ‘Now I...
Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children. “Florida is the first state...
How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer....
The Persisters
“I almost admire the confidence it must take to tell people what...
Meet the Man Doing a 10-Day, Self-Supported Swim Across a 140-Mile Lake
The Rise of the Traveling Third Space. “Traveling third spaces are not...
The Official Map of the Star Wars Galaxy
A thoughtful essay about e-bikes as a metaphor for AI, augmentation vs...
From Lewis Hine, a photograph of Clyde Bradford. Hine’s photos of child...
U2 and a Harlem Choir Sing ‘I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For’
A list of 29 heroes and interesting people that few people have...
The Baltimore Museum of Art is exhibiting Amy Sherald’s American Sublime show...
The Thousands of Atomic Bombs Exploded on Earth
3books, a site that features the books recommended by guests at the...
Great interactive feature on how former world record holder Max Park solves...
I loved this: The History of The New Yorker’s Vaunted Fact-Checking Department....
The Baseball Photographer Trading Cards, 1975
How the Richest People in America Avoid Paying Taxes. “The country’s billionaires...
Abstract Popular Science
Thetrusize.com, by James Talmage and Damon Maneice, is a website that lets...
One Teen’s Incredible “Mental Time Travel” Memory System
Oh wow, after 26 years and 1000+ episodes, Melvyn Bragg is stepping...
Apologies: You Have Reached the End of Your Free-Trial Period of America!...
This video features a number of scientists who were working on stuff...
We’re All in the Network of Time
“New York City is marking its 400th birthday this year and almost...
In tribute to Ozzy Osbourne, a choir of 7000+ people sang Black...
Hamnet
Scientists Have Found the First Branch on the Tree of Life. “The...
Alexander Chee: How Can I Write At A Time Like This? “We...
We Already Know a Way to Save a Bunch of Lives. (Giving...
Eels Shouldn’t be Able to Exist
Here’s the trailer for Bugonia, dir. by Yorgos Lanthimos & starring frequent...
I Am An AI Hater. “But I am a hater, and I...
Dan Wang on his forthcoming book, Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the...
A group of 15-20 families in South Portland, Maine have installed landlines...
These contact lenses give their wearers the ability to see infrared light,...
A collection of kooky-but-rideable bikes (treadmill bike, pull-up bike, etc.)...
Light pollution has lengthened birds’ days. “Their day is almost an hour...
Hear a Prehistoric Conch Shell Musical Instrument Played for the First Time...
Kevin Kelly recently published a guide called “Everything I Know about Self-Publishing”....
Werner Herzog doesn’t use a cell phone, but he has joined Instagram....
“The world’s biggest frogs build their own ponds” is art as a...
“More than 80 years after it was looted by the Nazis from...
Just wanting to let y’all know the cops have never had to...
Are the AirPods Pro 3 coming soon? Here’s what the rumors say....
This hilarious commercial for a 90s mail-order punk CD is for a...
McSweeney’s Author Cards, Collect ‘Em All!
Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal...
“The evidence for millionaire tax flight is scant. If high earners were...
A thoughtful post by Philip Bump on the careful use of your...
Rock guitarist Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine) has made a playlist...
Artist Amy Sherald: Censorship Has Taken Hold at the Smithsonian. I Refused...
“Welcome to the Atlas of Space — an interactive visualization to explore...
Silicon Valley is full of wealthy men who think they’re victims. “I...
The Art of Street Typography
The New Yorker’s Alexandra Schwartz profiles Patricia Lockwood. Regarding her forthcoming novel:...
The Armed Takeover of US Cities by the President Is Not a “Distraction”
Dan Froomkin of Press Watch: “The top story of the moment is...
I disagree with Quentin Tarantino on what his best film is. “So...
TMAP is a screen reader-friendly tool for creating tactile street maps. Raised...
Did Lead Poisoning Create a Generation of Serial Killers? “Ted Bundy, Charles...
Video: “Environmental police in Rochedo, Brazil stumbled on an unexpected sight: thousands...
Christian Marclay, Doors
American Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate. “In 2023 there were...
21 Ways People Are Using AI at Work. A high school music...
Still one of my favorite McSweeney’s articles: E-mail Addresses It Would Be...
From John Ganz in Nov 2024: “a list of things I thought...
“We’re seeing an escalation of authoritarian power on many fronts that has...
How to Make Sense of Trump’s Voting Rights Chaos. “It matters that...
Full Match: Barça 5-0 Madrid (2010 El Clásico)
James Dobson Is Dead, Was A Monster. “The world is a much...
Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad. “It is worth taking the time, in...
“For many, the idea of a ‘frog sauna’ might sound bizarre,” but...
Has anyone tried these replacement memory foam ear tips for AirPods Pro...
The Four Players That Span the Entire History of the NBA
Is It Time to Move On From Dr. Seuss? “Isn’t 65 years...
Cognitive resistance training is the defense against slop and brainrot. “Every hard...
The Hand-Painted Storefront Signs of Detroit by Ron Miller
John Roberts and the death of rule of law in America. “The...
Israel Says It Killed a Hamas Commander. It Killed a Pulitzer-Winning Journalist....
Daniel Day-Lewis stopped acting in 2017 after Phantom Thread. He’s unretired to...
Much Ado About Vibe Coding
I love stats like this: LeBron James has played against 35% of...
I Made a Floppy Disk from Scratch
Lauren Groff: “In mid-April, I flew to Japan because I’d become obsessed...
NIN’s Closer & the Ghostbusters Theme, Together at Last!
This is cool: Internet-in-a-Box. “Up to 32 users who are within about...
An incomplete list of things Jane Austen disliked, including “people who pretend...
How NASA’s Juno probe changed everything we know about Jupiter. And also:...
Yoyo Elevated to Performance Art
Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies (ProPublica). “Food and...