Explain it with quadrants? Translate it into Spanish? It’s easy to memorize a few words that purport to explain something, but all they do is relabel it. If you truly understand something, you can use different modalities to help someone else understand it. The magic of a good
A herd of elephants has arrived in Newport, Rhode Island, on the first leg of their 3,500-mile journey across the U.S. Jointly organized by two nonprofits, Elephant Family and CoExistence , the monumental public work draws attention to the relationships between people and
Here’s what the web looked like in 1994 , including the likes of Yahoo!, GNN, Pathfinder, IBM, The Amazing FishCam, and Pizza Hut. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Interesting convo about AI . “Working with AI has made me even more impressed with the kinds of things that every two-year-old is doing. It has also made the intelligence of octopuses, brine shrimp, and all the other creatures around us more vivid.” 💬 Join the discussion on
Hello, Edith here! I usually post from six months ago, but I can’t resist sharing something from the other day. Tags: diary comics 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Archaeologists have discovered that Denisovan humans survived for at least 100,000 years on the Tibetan plateau . And they may have survived there as late as 32,000 years ago, meaning they could have mixed with modern humans. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Season three of The Bear “struggles to make its point about the abuses and toxicity of the restaurant industry because it is willing to absolve the real-life chefs who have actually engaged in that kind of demeaning behavior.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
For New York magazine, Mary H.K. Choi writes about her family and her recent autism spectrum disorder diagnosis: I Was Diagnosed With Autism in My 40s. It Gave Me a Lot of Answers. For Sam, the diagnosis altered everything. Provided a sense of relief that was oceanic. The
A 4000-year-old Minoan structure with labyrinthine walls has been uncovered in Crete. (Could this be the legendary maze of King Minos? (Probably not…wrong location.)) 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
"Harrowing “solidarity tours” of Israel are reinscribing American Jews’ sense of victimhood."