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Art But Make It Sports is now available in book form....

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“A three-month national investigation by Beyond...

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Water World

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The Secret to Winning on Jeopardy . “To win on...

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Paul Brown’s iPod . This is a lovely remembrance &...

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What Number Was Stephen Colbert Thinking Of?

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This is impressive: an AI model has disproved an...

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Three Hours of Unbelievable Moments From Nature, Narrated by David Attenborough

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“US is ‘simply choosing not to stop’ Ebola...

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Trump Destroyed USAID. Now People Are Dying....

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Free admission to Canadian national parks this summer!...

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All the Star Wars Lightsaber Designs

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My friend Adriana wrote about her story game based on...

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How to Make a Living as an Artist

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From Universe Today, an ongoing series of articles on A...

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You Can Make an App for That . “The most important...

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Our Mob Boss President

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Mariame Kaba’s letter to young activists :...

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Our World in Ten Buildings: How Architecture Defines Who...

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India’s Hottest District Shuts at 10 AM as Mercury...

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New-to-me vocabulary: oneshotted , “a term that...

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Cookie Queens

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Interview with the guy behind the great Art But Make...

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The Banality of the Video Podcast . “The sets,...

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There’s No Earthly Way of Knowing Which Direction We Are Going…

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No reparations for Black Americans. No student loan...

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On the heels of turning Orwell’s Animal Farm into a...

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“Somewhere between ‘Let’s catch up...

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The fake courtesy machine is a wooden hand-cranked...

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Marcin Wichary on how to get more fun and utility from...

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Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise . The Pudding...

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Watching an Art Conservator Restore a Damaged Painting

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Marbles Squared is a puzzle game 30 years in the...

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Perhaps businesses are collecting too much data for...

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Mike Monteiro on how to deal with your suddenly grown-up...

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What’s Your Favorite Recipe?

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I have always liked Steve Kerr, but I did not expect to...

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Handy app: “Point your camera at anything (a dress,...

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“In 2014, the Dutch scholar Hans Corneel de Roos...

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Quaker principles line up quite well with modern...

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The Revolt Against the Girl Bosses…...

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The Night Witches: The Female Nazi Hunters of WWII

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25 Books That Capture This American Moment . They...

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Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains ....

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On “rich guy has an opinion” journalism ,...

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World History Timeline

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New York’s Neue Galerie Will Merge With the Metropolitan...

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The Neanderthal dentist: archaeologists found evidence...

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How Russell Vought Became the Shadow President

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Omg, Amazon Prime inserted an ad for Febreze in the...

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A very good, very 2026 headline: Japan Runs Out of Robot...

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When Your Participation Is Decoration

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“I believe in myself. That’s why I...

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Shape of Dreams (Zendaya × Spike Jonze)

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The Guardian asked authors, critics, and academics to...

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The 2026 National Recording Registry inductees were...

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This Tiny Celestial Body Past Pluto Shouldn’t Have an...

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A Moment That Changed Me: I Saw My First Total Solar...

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What Childhood Folklore Did You Learn As a Kid?

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I Want to Live Like Costco People . “Embracing the...

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Robin Sloan writes about the personalized, AI-written,...

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What Would J.R.R. Tolkien Think of Palantir?

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Meet the Sad Wives of AI . “Princess Diana...

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Just dropped: Foo Fighters’ Tiny Desk Concert ....

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Stop-Motion Lego Dr. Strangelove

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Adam Serwer : “Violence serves an authoritarian...

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A map of the regions of the US , as voted on by Reddit...

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“So, at about 14, I became the team’s...

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The World Press Freedom Index at Global 25-Year Low

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Sounds of the 60s: the IBM 1401 (punchcard collation,...

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Jamelle Bouie thinks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is...

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Being Fed Content

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Study: “A few weeks of X’s algorithm can...

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Can You See the World When You Close Your Eyes?

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We’re Diversifying the University by Hiring More...

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Digg has (sorta) relaunched (again) and instead of an...

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How NASA Built Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant...

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Remember Desktop Tower Defense ? I played it for a bit...

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Taken : this is a web page that shows how much data your...

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Mesmerizing 4K Video of a Cat-5 Super Typhoon

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Interesting thread about why rural towns don’t...

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Wallace & Gromit 24/7 Livestream

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People Who Don’t Like People Are Making All of Our...

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Grandma Stand

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Where are the public benches on the internet?...

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Now open in NYC: a pop-up called The Donald J. Trump and...

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The Hidden Cassettes . “This is going to sound...

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In 1951, the Civil Rights Congress submitted a petition...

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Someone in a private forum I belong to mentioned fountain...

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Wowsabout!

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An analysis of 18 years of Guardian blind dates ....

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Pioneering abstract artist Hilma af Klint’s...

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The Design Evolution of Screwdriver Handles

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What Can We Do About Partisan Gerrymandering? Jamelle...

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Nolen Royalty : “My latest project is Marc...

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The 2025 Alaskan Tsunami That Measured 1578 Feet Tall

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Prophecy At 1420 MHz is the first single from Boards of...

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It’s David Attenborough’s 100th birthday...

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“In nine experiments involving 1,800 participants,...

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Rogue One: The Andor Cut

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A brief history: lessons from the rise and fall of...

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The Abolitionist Map of NYC

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Chess Peace is an iOS puzzle game where you have to...

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One of the coolest things about honey is its...

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Animated Artemis II Photos Reveal Satellites Buzzing Around Earth

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“Podcast sloplords” are flooding the zone...

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Lines, Ranked . “2. Assembly. It’s not glamorous,...

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A supercut of context-free intertitles from Adam Curtis...

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New episode of Great Art Explained on Francis Bacon ....

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20 years ago: a guy interviewing for an IT job gets...

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Jon Krakauer writes about what has changed about...

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Infants are dying because parents are opting-out of...

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My pal Matt Haughey recut the first season of Apple...

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This is nuts: Fred Again has uploaded a video of every...

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Movie Posters by Eric Rohman

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The official trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The...

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What now-familiar domain names looked like before they...

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Pocket forests . “The Miyawaki method of...

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Could This Fish Be a Notebook? “David Byrne...

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A24’s Young Anthony Bourdain Movie

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Star Wars: The Phantom Menace in black & white with the...

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Microshifting . “From a creativity standpoint,...

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The Booksellers is a 2019 feature-length documentary film...

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New Banksy: Blinded by Nationalism

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Designer Jenny Volvovski’s collection of...

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I’m not a fan of the first part of this music...

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According to this peer-reviewed paper, the...

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NASA has released some 12,000 unseen photos from the...

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The Contiguous 41 States

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A 55-minute mix of Boards of Canada B-sides and rarities .

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“They Would Never Use the Death Star on Us”:...

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The Visual Comedy of Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs

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How Sylvester Stallone Rescued the First Rambo Film With...

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Ohhhhh dear, Richard Dawkins: Is AI the Next Phase of...

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Unruly Play : “A collection of 169 works of play...

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Ada Palmer & Bruce Schneier: AI Learns Language From...

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Who Merits the Longest NY Times Obituaries?

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Am…am I “alternatively influential” ?...

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The Supreme Court Is Corrupt. This Is What We Can Do About It.

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I fixed a few bugs on the Rolodex yesterday — some of...

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“Since 1900, scientists have observed more than 20...

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On the futility of border walls . “The Ozymandian...

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The Secret to Success Is ‘Monotasking’ ....

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Farewell, Voting Rights Act

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Come on everyone, we’re going to Cursor Camp !

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Winners of the GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2026 .

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The Angine de Poitrine Argument for UBI . “If...

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Who Are the Unexpected Friends in Your Life?...

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“There is a feeling I search for: being in good...

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“Trump did not cause the attempts on his life. But...

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On May 22, Boards of Canada is doing a handful of...

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Holy moly, DJ Shadow is doing a 30th anniversary tour...

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I Bought Friendster for $30k — Here’s What...

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A Georgia teen diagnosed with a rare cancer used his...

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The intelligence of LLMs is “a function of the...

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Teaser trailer for season four of Ted Lasso . Looks like...

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Remembering Roberto Clemente’s 3000th Hit

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Five great book critics writing today (and where to find...

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This is interesting: Talkie is a vintage LLM , trained...

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Some Cool Movie Explosions

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“A half-century after it was published, The Soul...

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Do I Belong in Tech Anymore? “Why am I here? Does...

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“British energy major BP on Tuesday reported that...

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I Love Boosters

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I Love Boosters

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On the Propaganda of Early Nazism, and How We See it in...

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The Era of AI Malaise . “The AI has learned to...

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It’s the Age of Electricity and America...

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Elizabeth Kolbert’s profile of EPA head Lee Zeldin...

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The Self-Defeating Both-Sidesism of the US Press

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on magical thinking and elite impunity...

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Crocheted Technology

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Livestream of the Big Bear bald eagle nest (perched 145...

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Presidents Can Be Impeached Because Benjamin Franklin...

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Thoughtful thread on the armed man who rushed the WHCA...

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“Endocrine-disrupting chemicals, often found in...

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Teaser trailer for season four of Star Trek: Strange New...

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Sombrero Galaxy: The Universe’s Dusty Brimmed Hat

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Gunfire of the Vanities: Trump Dinner Shooting Defines a...

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Daredevil Michelle Khare ran 7 marathons on 7 different...

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Moderna developed an mRNA Covid-flu combo vaccine and...

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Paul Ford: This Is How We Get Moral A.I. Companies ....

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Wow, Sabastian Sawe set a world record with a 1:59:30...

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Vintage Weekly Bus Passes

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A papyrus of part of the Iliad has been discovered in a...

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“We had the idea to make a Bodoni interpretation...

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Tenfold Knottiness

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Instead of Losing Democratic Elections, What If We Just...

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How The Heck Does Shazam Work? “By throwing away...

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It’s Friday, Let’s Do an Open Thread

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1D Chess . “You might initially find it more...

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Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed on the Michael...

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Twin Peaks × LCD Soundsystem: a video mashup of Dance...

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ProPublica explores what a future without vaccines would...

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The earliest-known recordings of whale songs (from 1949)...

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Eye Contact With a Humpback Whale

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Worried About Teens Today? So Were Adults in the 1920s....

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Peak Cherry Blossoms

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If you want to surf elsewhere in the galaxy, it...

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Traitors to the Project of Patriarchy

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I love the chutzpah of this: all 35 of...

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A group of “unauthorized users” have...

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“Even the Weather Felt Expensive”

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Wow, this interview! “I’ve never had an...

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“In a new book called “Israel: What Went Wrong?,”...

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Lessons from a 1969 documentary on Nazi-occupied France...

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A new short story from Jeff VanderMeer (Annihilation,...

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Finally! The Trailer for the Coyote vs. ACME Movie.

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Well, here it is at last: the new Boards of Canada album...

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Jamelle Bouie on the truly unprecedented open corruption...

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Is the best literary film adaptation of the last 50...

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A French corporation was recently found criminally...

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The Leaf Sheep Slug: The Animal That Eats Sunshine

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Everyone Is Blaming AI for the Water Crisis. We’re...

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The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock . “This clock...

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Criterion x Every Frame a Painting: The Edges of Wuxia

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Teaser Trailer for Silo Season Three

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Trials for a pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine :...

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“ NASA’s Curiosity rover has detected organic...

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It’s Getting Harder to Spot AI in Contemporary...

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ReciproCard : “Start by searching for your home...

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“ The Extrapolated Futures Archive is a...

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Nancy Friedman notes the decline in quality in movie...

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The 16th season of the Dissect podcast is a deep dive...

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Bodega Cats of New York

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A few years back, the Mini Cooper’s taillights were...

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Oh my gosh, look at these tiny snow leopard cubs from...

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The Astronomy Picture of the Day , in which the...

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Project Plowshare: Nukes for Peace!

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“ Here are some things that have been found in...

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Historian Eric Cline, author of 1177 BC, explains how...

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Hollywood’s World Map of California

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Researchers have found that some aspects of sperm...

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What Was the Very First Plant in the World?...

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The Brennan Self-Balancing Monorail

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I mentioned this book in a previous post but it deserves...

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The People’s Clock: a Timepiece Made of People

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The Great American GLP-1 Experiment . In the last few...

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A rare event to capture on video: an underwater volcanic...

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From a few weeks ago: Bush’s Tiny Desk Concert ....

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Your Backpack Got Worse On Purpose . “From a...

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Two Japanese aquariums have released their 2026...

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Vintage Pan-Am Luggage Tags

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Fun trompe-l’œil graph paper drawings .

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Don’t Just Replace Chavez — Rethink Monuments ....

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The Testaments TV Series

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Listen to the NYC Subway play some Train Jazz ....

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The Engineer Guy Bill Hammack has written a book based on...

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It’s Happening: More Signs of Life From Boards of Canada

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If Every Congressman Facing Credible Rape Allegations...

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Authoritarian Megalomaniacs Love Gaudy Buildings

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This looks interesting: Quiche is a highly customizable...

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“ The internet known within China is a very...

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Now Online: a Treasure Trove of 1000s of Secret Concert Recordings

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On the network effect of the weekend : “The...

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A Collection of Transit Tickets

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The Death of the Basic American Car . “Today,...

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An AI bot created by Andon Labs is running its own...

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“Gerontocracy has always thrived in undemocratic...

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An interactive explainer on the physics of GPS ....

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Media companies are increasingly blocking the Internet...

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The Christophers

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We love a slime mold around here. “From mottled...

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This is incredible: Google Has a Secret Reference Desk....

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The Crystal Skull

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Great new Patrick Radden Keefe piece on a New Orleans...

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Fred Again’s Tiny Desk Concert

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Why Japan Has Such Good Railways . “Their system...

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Rebecca Solnit: “ The United States is being...

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Hungarian Opposition Ousts Viktor Orbán After 16 Years...

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Interviews with five novelists (Jesmyn Ward, Joyce Carol...

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From Daphni (aka Caribou), a 7hr DJ set . 7 hours!

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The trailer for Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the...

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Ultimate Online Phreak Box . “This is a free...

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A tour of the mannequin storage room at FIT . Each...

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An interview with Ronald Wayne , Apple’s forgotten...

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Radiohead Covers Joy Division’s Ceremony

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Oh wow, this is a trippy game inspired by MC Escher . My...

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A short analysis of what makes Mark Antony’s...

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Using wiki software, old photos, family stories, bank...

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“Stalin’s task in building what Senior calls...

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Charcuterie is a visual Unicode symbol explorer. Click...

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Diary Comics From the 1940s

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Well, this blows: FSG has shuttered their MCD imprint &...

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This tiny e-ink reader is small enough to attach to...

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The Headless Mary Magdalene by Artemisia Gentileschi

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Between the Impossible and the Inevitable: The Case for...

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Hostile Volume is a simple and maddening game where you...

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International Chess Federation Adds Race Car Piece ....

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The Fabulous Engineering and Design of Duct Tape

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Someone ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii ....

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“Working with agents feels much less like classic...

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How to Guess If Your Job Will Exist in Five Years ....

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Post-Digital Digital Glitch Collages

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Farmers won their right-to-repair fight against John...

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This sounds like an interesting podcast series from M....

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Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S....

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A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator

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What it’s like to take an 11-day filmmaking...

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Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize are releasing a...

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The Most Beautiful Moment of the Artemis II Mission . It...

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The Sunshine Recorder

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Oh, about that story you may have read about one guy...

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The latest big exposé on the identity of Satoshi...

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Stunning Artemis II Phone Wallpapers

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“I have a feeling that everyone likes using AI...

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Resident Advisor: there are signs that Boards of Canada...

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A guide to which Apple chargers to use with which Apple...

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Solar Eclipse From the Far Side of the Moon

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I missed that author Tracy Kidder died a few weeks ago ....

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