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Biiiiig Stretch

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VC Isn’t VC Anymore — Understanding the Rise of Cancer...

The Simpsons Switcheroo

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From the Internet Archive: Vanishing Culture: A Report...

Vintage Eastern European Matchbox Labels (1950-1980s)

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Teaser trailer for You Can See Everything from Nathan...

Autumnal Open Thread

Writer, journalist, and feminist activist Gloria Steinem...

Trump Is in Open Revolt Against the Constitution

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2 Odysseus 2 Ithaca: Emily Wilson is completely...

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Emptying the Tabs…

Dolly Parton and Kermit the Frog Sing Everyday People (1987)

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RIP Dolly Parton, a gem and a hero. She died today at...

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More Fucked Today than Yesterday . “I keep wanting...

Flock banned Benn Jordan from their recent convention...

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Opinion columnist Karen Attiah won her arbitration...

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Weird Al Yankovic’s Tiny Desk Concert

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Ring of Fire in the Sky

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In Bourgogne, they’ve been recording grape date harvests...

Post-pandemic vaccination rates of US kindergarteners...

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The area known as Tornado Alley continues to shift...

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A.J. Jacobs recently interviewed “the Papa Bear of...

Unwinding the Great Tech Power Grab . “If tech seeks to...

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Ozu in Color (Every Frame a Painting)

Two new episodes of Ric Burns’ 1999 documentary...

Yale study : “A single-payer universal health care...

Tressie McMillan Cottom on AOC’s presumed presidential...

Open Thread for August 2026

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The Moral Unseriousness of Centrist & Conservative Pundits

A recently unearthed conversation with Anthony Bourdain...

Supersonic Trebuchet

Craig Mod wrote about his recent adventures using LLMs:...

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G.P.S. and the Lost Art of Getting Lost . “G.P.S....

Some of the most storied problems in mathematics, those...

The Art of the Copyist

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I’m Done Using AI . “It made me lazy. It made me...

Why weren’t bicycles invented sooner? “Why...

Death Cab for Cutie’s Tiny Desk Concert

Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting...

A Collection of Eclipse Glasses (1793-2019)

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“Widely regarded as the most complicated board...

New vocabulary term: “soft secession” .

Good sentence : “The market’s most lavish...

“ Your brain is a gambling addict that bets on...

I’ve felt this for years (blogs have global context):...

“An Absolute Climate Catastrophe”

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Stories of “people finding weird, wild and defiant...

Crocs Has a Trick for Dodging Taxes: a Tiny Office in...

The Doulas Who Help Us Die . “Instead of assisting...

NASA has provided some early-stage funding to explore the...

Tron: Legacy (Recording Sessions) by Daft Punk

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If You Haven’t Recently Used Claude Code, You Might Not...

Socialists Are Winning Because They Listen to People...

Thing that I am now invested in: this woman has spent 30...

The video rental store as “third place” . “Decades...

The End of Google Search . The internet giant is...

Media Matters : “ABC, CBS, and NBC aired a...

Fun little review by Marcin Wichary of a 1984 flying...

I love this little video of burbling pasta sauces...

I’d Be Lead Harpooner on the Pequod If It Wasn’t for...

25 things that explain America , including personal...

How Does an Enigma Machine Work?

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This guy hooked his hamster’s wheel up to Strava —...

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The Computer That Helped Win World War II . “…it...

How to Store Ebooks in Instagram Reels and Other Covert Data Storage Tricks

Lidar and other discoveries continue to show that the...

Heading On Out…

This is an old list but still interesting: the 12 most...

Tressie McMillan Cottom’s reading list for fighting back...

Emily Wilson takes another crack at a critique of...

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Huh, here’s the trailer for a new director’s cut (of...

Are You Good at Mowing Lawns?

“ poetry camera is a new way to see your world....

The Phone in Your Hand . “A layer-by-layer teardown of...

An 8K Cinematic Tribute to the Artemis II Mission

The Past Catalog Archive is a throwback to fun & modest...

Reading Maps : Journeys from books & films (Moby-Dick,...

Work vs gym: a simple way to decide whether to use AI...

“Long live Hyrule jazz!” The Z Suites is “a...

How Podcasts Ruined America . This is an odd claim and...

Pilcrow, Dagger, and Octothorp, Oh My!

What Climate Science Can Tell Us About the Lost World...

This is fun: BoxSquad . Limbs & borders are all draggable.

“A Los Angeles Costco parking lot [has] become a...

Does Christopher Nolan Consider Himself a Bard for a Civilization at Dusk?

Google Earth stupidly launched an AI image-gen feature...

The Listening Museum : “36 mechanical keyboards...

The Onion: Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem...

What Are the Most Untouchable Records in Sports?

A Telegram Arrived — And I Had to Choose Between My Head...

“ A new Airbus passenger jet completed an...

The Drawing Room With Mo Welch

The Beauty of Doing Nothing Together . “What...

The Hell Mouth

The legacy of the Luddite movement changes when you zoom...

The trailer for Wicker (starring Olivia Colman,...

The coffee shop where 162 regulars have their own mug...

It’s Cool to Be Weird

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A terrarium iPhone case that houses actual growing...

“ Zugunruhe is a German term describing the...

Some Interesting Apples

Participants in a recently published study spoke 28%...

The Thomas Crown Affair? Directed by and starring...

OnlyMarms: Funding Science Research on OnlyFans

Study: Dinosaurs Were Charbroiled After Chicxulub Impact...

Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary?...

On the experience of the long haul flight . “The...

“ The Booker Prize 2026 longlist has now been...

Please Use AI . “Be sure to use AI when planning that...

Where Do European Country Names Come From?

30 notable sales of rare books by AbeBooks over the past...

19th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints Creatively...

All US Cities Which Used to Have More Than 100,000 People But Don’t Anymore

How the Words We Teach English Language Learners...

Don’t use AI until you’re 40 . “We have been so...

We Used to Be Able to Buy Things in This Country ....

A Shortlist of Potential Future Euro Banknote Designs

“ Datatype is an OpenType variable font that turns...

The Batman Effect : people in an experiment acted more...

Once Upon a Time in Space

An Uncomplicated Man , Emily Wilson’s review of Nolan’s...

Astronauts returning from long missions report a “jet...

Trump’s Assault on Science Continues

Welp, right at the top of the CDC page on autism and...

New orca behavior unlocked. They’ve been known to sink...

It’s our ethical duty to understand large numbers ....

A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the...

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“In extreme cases, it can create a phantom...

Rebecca Solnit on the Tate brothers, The Odyssey, and...

What’s On the Sandwich Named After You at the Local Deli?

Why are American ambulances so expensive? In part...

We’re Squandering LEDs’ Potential to Save Our Night...

A Matter of Form (1984)

An online edition of all 85 of the Federalist Papers ,...

“ This map shows the predicted density of...

Oh wow, The Verge made a 70-minute video on how The...

Frozen Polygon Waves

What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us...

A list of Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail...

There is nothing more I love in this world right now than...

Unclassifiable Artists

A digital museum of video game levels …you can move...

I have lived more than two score and twelve years on this...

The Cassette Tapes of the Great Migration , a collection...

“ Researchers let AI models run a simulated society...

Brian Eno on the Cherished Sounds of Failure

Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It...

Elephants May Hear Ground Vibrations Through Their...

I’m a Scholar of Genocide. We’re Entering a Terrifying...

What to Read & Listen to After Seeing The Odyssey

The trailer for Behemoth! , a forthcoming film written...

On the use of AI for creative work (type design in this...

“No CGI” Is Really Just Invisible CGI

The official trailer for Avengers: Doomsday . They’ve...

New lecture series from authoritarianism scholar Timothy...

The Lost Joy of Music Piracy . “Still to this day,...

Goofy Oversized Wicker Costumes

Excerpt from a longer (podcast) conversation with John...

Filmmaker Ava DuVernay is making a documentary about the...

On Japan’s visible evidence of care . “American...

Watch 1969’s Apollo 11 Moon Landing “Live!”

I love the 1-bit aesthetic of this story-driven city...

The Meaning of Nolan’s The Odyssey

From BBC Earth, the trailer for Evolution , a...

What Training My Chaotic Dog Taught Me About Power,...

Building a World Map With Only 500 Bytes .

How Are Memories Stored Inside Your Brain?

From the Brooklyn Public Library, a list of “the...

New-to-me podcast that looks really interesting: Time...

Amazing Newspaper Ad Highlighting Period Poverty

Uncovered , a site for judging books by their first...

The Resonant Computing Manifesto . “We can now build...

What would a rainbow look like if we had two suns (like...

A few highlights from a collection of lovely...

The Naturalist’s Library (1833-43)

Legibility of effort in the LLM age . “What...

Lionel Messi Bathing a Baby Lamine Yamal

Ted Gioia : “Works like the Odyssey are...

Good interview with Craig Mod about how he uses LLMs :...

The Moist Towelette Online Museum . Live moist and...

The Types of People to Keep Around

100000% this: I Hate The Way We Talk Online ....

Robert Eggers continues his run of One Word Title Films...

Trump Dismantled a Federal Climate Website. These Women...

A short, hypnotic video by Matthew Wilcock of the music...

Swiss project proves the viability of solar panels...

Beautiful Hand-Drawn Guide to The Legend of Zelda

The LGBTQ+ Legislation Tracking Project , tracing &...

On the Britishisms & grammar imported into American...

Clipart Studio lets you cut up magazines sourced from...

If Other Jobs Were Like a U.S. Senator’s . “You...

“A star located about 1,300 light-years from Earth...

Digger

TIL about Fredkin’s paradox . “With this kind of...

The Universe of Short Film is an amazing site for...

Earth’s Holes

Ocean Vuong has a photograpy show opening at The...

When A.I. Is a Member of the Family . How a family of...

The Best Shots From the 2026 Aerial Photographer of the Year Contest

A list of the new foods on offer at the Minnesota State...

Once Unimaginable, Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out...

Exploring NYC With Next Generation Skaters

Can we agree to pause the AI race? “If we can’t,...

This ancient Egyptian painter’s palette from 3000 years...

Fun thread: “sodas with a doctorate” (e.g. Dr. Pepper).

VoiceDot : “Every dot on this globe is a real...

Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art ....

How — and Why — to Cull Your Book Collection . “6....

Dancing Boston Dynamics Robot Knows Its Revenge For This...

The official trailer for Dune 3 . I am so looking...

The Amble One is perhaps the world’s best-designed golf...

Taffy Brodesser-Akner: I Survived a Cold Plunge and All...

MapTap is like a quicker, easier version of GeoGuessr:...

We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t...

Do you believe that everybody should have fun or that...

Stacks : “Run HyperCard stacks directly on your...

XKCD: What if chess included the offside rule? (If...

This is a fun and really well-done triple mashup of...

A sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. NES cartridge...

This is neat: Robin Sloan is rewriting his 2009 short...

Stop chasing life goals and start trying tiny...

What’s the Point of Sex, Anyway? “There is yet...

The Open Source AI Gap Map shows the current...

The End of Reading Is Here . “The decline of...

Why The Best Player Alive Barely Runs

Inventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future...

British political news: Nigel Farage is facing...

City’s Beautification Initiative Hamstrung By Commitment...

Medieval Wound Man

If Only There Had Been a Sign That the Face-Melting Nazi...

Interviews with some of the dwindling number of...

World Cup Wallpapers for Your Phone

How to talk about “AI” without adding to the...

Mister Rogers visits Eric Carle’s studio and paints with...

Over the past few centuries, humans have decimated bird...

Hans Zimmer: Live in Concert

Sloan on Fable : “This is literally the core...

New Patricia Lockwood for the London Review of Books: A...

Just dropped a couple of days ago: Lane 8’s Summer 2026...

Our Lives Are “an Orchestrated Shuffle of Technology”

👀 Craig Mod interviewed by Debbie Millman on Design...

The Fun Shortage Is Real, and It’s Making America...

I love this short little video montage of actresses...

One of the great things about the World Cup and the US:...

America: Birth Of A Nation

In 1937, the NYT ran a piece about the last living son...

Five young descendants of Frederick Douglass read his...

Openish Thread (Testing a New Feature…)

As it was foretold: the Trump regime gutted the NOAA and...

Something for the digital crate-diggers: The 40 Best...

“ Dictionary of the Illegible proposes...

“ The average paid newsletter costs $10 per month...

Hank Green interviews Ze Frank , who kind of invented...

Parker Molloy on why the panic about trans women in...

Will America Ever Give White-Man Rights to Everyone...

The US Constitution Is for Simple Folk Still Burdened by...

Rebecca Solnit: What Is the United States of America...

Report from a cruise full of celebrity impersonators ....

Erling Haaland “brings the intensity of a raiding...

My Family Has Been Here Since 1621. That Is Not What...

There’s been so much crazy to pay attention to over the...

Four-Byte Burger

I love the aesthetic of Fresco , a video game where you...

How Do You Prove Arson When the Evidence Burns Away?

You know sometimes you learn some ancient lore and...

Saya Irie’s Intricate Sculptures Recomposed from Eraser...

The Last Astronomers . “Many fear that if...

Idris Elba DJs a House Party

Playwright Georgica Pettus has written a play called...

What is queer typography? “I think that covers a...

Gah, this is another thing I’m completely fucking pissed...

Great piece by Andrea Pitzer on how lost Ezra Klein is...

I found this AI Compass quiz genuinely useful for...

There’s a Grocery Price Emergency in America....

A tour of some playgrounds in NYC designed by kids ,...

On decision fatigue : “Why are you so tired? The...

If you’ve never seen it (or even if you have), Christian...

Phyllis the GOAT and the Senior League Wii Bowling Champions

A Retro 70s TV Intro for Andor . “Get ready to...

Maybe It Will Happen Today

The Writers Who Wrote The Most in History . “Corin...

Who wins the 2026 World Cup if “not football” decides?...

From last month but relevant as Europe is seeing record...

A story about what being neighborly is all about ....

The Boeing 747 Begins Its Final Descent . The 747 is...

It’s America’s Birthday. What Are We Celebrating? Some...

A Bob Ross painting of a mountain summit is being...

“Turn your site into a place people can bump into...

Sad news: long-time tech journalist, blogger, and...

“Although fleeting, [sports] have the enduring power to...

Deep dive: An interactive introduction to the terrific...

Criterion’s Massive Stanley Kubrick Box Set

Apple Just Raised Prices. But Deals Are Still Available.

2000-Year-Old Roman Amphitheatre Hosts World Cup Watch Party

Good headline from the NYT for a change: President...

Mentioned this in passing a few months ago, but wanted to...

Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley’s comet, twice?...

How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans...

Lifts in Film : a collection of movie & TV scenes...

Gerrymandle is a daily game where you “draw electoral...

Kelly Hayes interviews Rebecca Solnit . “There is...

Cow Trip: A Retired Dad Agrees to Rescue a Baby Cow

Tesla Launches New Model Of Explosions . “What’s...

How We’ll Fight the Platform War Against Big AI ....

Not surprising to KDO readers and I don’t really know who...

Yet another unsurprising article about how bigger SUVs...

Room Tone

Giant Banana Pulled Over in Montana: Driver Says Cops...

Some Great Deals on Tech Stuff

Brexit vote: 10 years on . “‘Absolute...

I love this playable 3D-rendered reel-to-reel player...

Step into a virtual Criterion Closet . “A walk-in...

Scientists have found evidence of mass death due to the...

A long oral history of Steven Spielberg and his career ....

Meet the Man Behind the Most Beautiful Books in the World

The trailer for Klara and the Sun , directed by Taika...

AI Economics for Dummies . “The Wall Street...

Great piece by Ta-Nehisi Coates on how “the portrait of...

A new seismic phenomenon: seismic waves from the 2011...

America vs Europe: Two Ways to Build a City

Are You in the Weights? “LLMs encode their...

Human brains were not designed to deal with an endless...

“Henry v Lalas Is the World Cup’s Most Compelling Battle”

This is probably the definitive post about web browsers...

The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books...

Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over...

Monty Python: The Philosophers’ Football Match

“The prevailing emotions among scientists right now...

The Founding Story Behind Japan’s Oldest Whisky Maker ....

Supermountains, the Boring Billion, and Their Connection to Life on Earth

Due to FIFA’s poor security practices, this guy...

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark has given away half a...

Inspired by Ukraine, and Worried by China: Taiwan...

Assume You Will Be Hacked . “As AI tools have...

Why Lionel Messi is a genius on the football pitch .

Watch Baseball Games in Realtime in 8-Bit View

Full set of Underworld playing live at EDC Las Vegas...

A digital clock where the numbers are made from dozens...

Book 1 of the Iliad, Read in Ancient Greek

The Black Jeopardy Misses YouTube channel catalogs just...

Two Huge Collections of Leonardo’s Codexes Digitally Reunited After 400 Years

A searchable archive of the almost 5000 TV episodes that...

How Errol Morris’s The Thin Blue Line Solved the Crime

Andrea Pitzer writes about the forced labor happening in...

Proposed UI rule of thumb : “If I take a...

Is this the sloppiest AI slop video of all time? The...

If I lived in LA, I would go to this concert at the...

Disclosure Day surely sets a world record for the number...

Walter White’s Big Hat

“Film posters inadvertently photographed by...

“If Platner’s past rhetoric about and treatment of...

A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night...

New Ambient Album From Marconi Union

The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech . Like:...

Commodore (you know, the 64 folks) is releasing a flip...

How The Heck Do Solar Panels Work? “Every hour,...

Mad Max creator George Miller wants to make one more Mad...

Randomly thought of Brendan Dassey today. He’s...

The SpaceX IPO Is A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By...

Telescope Ranchers

How to get out of bed . “There is no 28 point shot...

DJ Shadow and the BBC Symphony Orchestra will be...

On Inherent AI Risk: “Extinction-Level Capitalism”

Paul McCartney on Song Exploder . I think he was with...

The Knicks Starting Five Painted on One Dollar Bills

Sports but make it wealth inequality :...

The world’s first trillionaire is a killer . “A...

Two competing (?) thoughts kept going through my head...

Joe “Handyman” Negri, a Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood...

US Authorities Investigate Huge Etching of ‘8647’ on...

David Hockney, iconic British artist known for his...

Ian’s Shoelace Site Is Still The Best Site For...

“This song has no instruments in it.” This is cool: a...

This is clever & depressing: the Apocalypse Early...

A Hand-Drawn Visual Guide to Chili Peppers

John Thomson’s photos of China (1860s-70s) ....

A close-up look at some of Spain’s oldest & most...

For the first time on record, solar overtook coal in the...

Becoming by Max Cooper

“It’s so dumb!” I quote this line from Benoit Blanc in...

Billionaires’ Billions Are Increasing Faster Than Ever ....

The White House’s Top Science Goal Is Ignorance . “The...

The Last Surviving Japanese Porsche 912 Police Car

Your Search Results Are Getting Sloptimized . SEO (and...

The Best Headlights in the World Are Illegal in America...

Grappling With the Existential AI Threat

Unsurprising open corruption from FIFA & the Trump...

75-Minute DJ Set From Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake ....

The Social Reckoning

Every time I see a link to one of of Car Pal’s BeamNG car...

Anthropic has launched a streaming music video on...

CrankGPT . “Just a hand crank, a little computer,...

On the Difference Between Rest and Idleness . “The...

Paintings of an Architectural Apocalypse

Everything Wrong With the 2026 World Cup . “By far...

Yesterday Was a Good Day

TIL about variant sudoku puzzles , “sudoku with...

The excellent Scene on Radio podcast is back with a new...

“For the first time, wind and solar generated more...

A lovely story by Mary H.K. Choi about her husband and...

From the New Yorker, a long and difficult-to-read report...

The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate ....

Nominations are open for this year’s Tiny Awards ....

Interesting question and resulting thread: have you...

The New Mister Rogers YouTube Channel

My Students Can’t Read . “There is a measurable,...

Yeah, I’ll read the hell out of a Wesley Morris profile...

Summer Fridays, Open Thread

Illustrated break-downs of how common objects work ....

“Descartes Against Humanity” and Other Games Designed by...

Chipotlai Max is an AI agent that runs on “stolen...

The Life and Death of Sports Fans

The official trailer for season three of Silo . Looks...

On this date in 2004, the Killdozer rampage took place ....

Jamelle Bouie: The cruelty is still the point of the...

We Are Manipulating the Weather Every Day

As time passes, efforts to document the Tiananmen Square...

“ Cameron’s World is a web-collage of text...

USPS Reissues Popular Mister Rogers Stamps

Ted Chiang is emphatic: LLMs are nowhere close to being...

Marjane Satrapi, author of the excellent Persepolis, has...

Can you go 82-0? “The objective of 82-0 is to...

Early Live Performance by Talking Heads (1976)

Paul Giamatti appears on The Tommy Tiernan Show ....

Haiku is a generative music album for MacOS....

Tony Gilroy Accepts Award for Andor: “Fuck the Empire!”

“As far as artist signatures go, Jan van...

Good news! As of June 1, a transmission line is...

The Three Ways to Make a Living

TIL that Muji once sold a car . “The Muji Car 1000...

The 100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time , including...

The Best Thing About The Satanic Panic . “There’s...

JS Crossword . “This crossword uses some...

Daft Punk, Medieval-Style

Frozen To -22 Degrees, BYD’s New EV Just Charged To 97%...

They’re doing a film adaptation of Tomorrow, and...

The Birds of Palestine

TIL that Andreessen Horowitz owns/runs the NYC Tech Week...

If You Take the Weasel Job Then You Must Be the Weasel ....

Re the Patagonia vs. Pattie Gonia case : the company...

Why Wildfire Experts Are So Worried About This Year’s...

I’ve probably featured this before but always worth...

Star Wars Influences: Dam Busters

“Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support...

In Post-War Japan, the US Used Quiz Culture to Help...

Meet the Ukrainian Stunt Pilot Who Shoots Down Russian Drones

Power Lines: Maps That Shaped the Way We See the World ....

“ Serena Williams has announced her sensational...

The Illuminated Windows of NYC

Legendary film editor Marcia Lucas died last week ....

Roost is a messaging app where messages aren’t...

Slow blogging day today; I spent some time on the KDO...

Pope Releases Encyclical On Perils Of Disney’s ‘Star...

Radiohead’s OK Computer reimagined as Nintendo 64...

Andor Gave Us One Of TV’s Best Monologues

Infinite Jeffs is an actual physical book you can buy...

How Should a Book Sound? And What About Footnotes?...

Out now: new Boards of Canada album. Get it wherever you...

From The Mandalorian and Grogu, an extended loop of...

Not a surprise but nice to have the data: the Federal...

The Backward Index

On The Fuel Efficiency of Launching My Enemies Into The...

The Rise & Fall Of ‘Petty Tyrants’ . “The energy...

Down with -maxxing! Searching for the absolute best...

There are no lightsabers in The Mandalorian and Grogu, a...

100 Iconic Moments From Sir David Attenborough

Consider the Sister : an interview with Amy Wallace....

I, Sisyphus, Am Ninety-Five Percent of the Way There ....

Make Way for Beavers

American Wealth, Sliced Up

As part of the Ocean Census project, “scientists...

Caught In Joy: Music for Flow, Rest, and Reset

A recent study of 2.5M scientific papers found ~146,900...

To Land a Job in AI, Try Reading Kant . “If a...

“Observe the moth in its monumental fight for life,...

Going Focaccia Crazy

My Son’s Math Homework Is Essentially Just Pokémon ....

The first-ever Enhanced Games (open to those using...

Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence

250 to 250. We Are America.

Tenderly Tracking My Husband . “Knowing when to...

Great title for a book: Fascist Yoga . “Ever...

Pinterest Has Become Unusable . “When I started...

Stephen Colbert Hosts Only in Monroe

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