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Old Windows 3.x Games on the Internet Archive

A wildlife photographer “discovered thousands of dinosaur footprints preserved in the vertical...

Listen to the Cassandras

Oh this is devilish…a game where you have make to 45 groups...

Rian Johnson Breaks Down a Scene From Wake Up Dead Man

ProPublica launches Rx Inspector database. “We’ve launched a first-of-its-kind app to help...

From Lit Hub, the best audiobooks of 2025. (It’s not new, but...

The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025, incl. Signal Hill (“this inventive program...

The Imperfect Homework Machine

Conservatives are trying to roll the Constitution back to the pre-Civil War...

One of America’s Most Successful Experiments Is Coming to a Shuddering Halt....

Ultracold atoms observed climbing a quantum staircase. (Relatable: the upstairs of my...

Underscore: Now Slightly Less Random

Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life. “A thick desire is one that...

The Internet Archive has a playable version of the NY Times Crossword...

The Iconic First Lady of NYC

Good morning! Just wanted to let you all know that Rian Johnson...

My new favorite description of Christianity’s God is from Vince Staples (~16:05):...

It’s Time to Accept That the US Supreme Court Is Illegitimate and...

The Anthony Bourdain Reader

Digging the soulful jazz + drum & bass energy of Chanpan. Hard...

Clean Energy Is Still Winning. These 10 Charts Prove It. In March...

Martin Scorsese remembers his friend Rob Reiner. “He had a beautiful sense...

Adam Serwer: “The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so...

Are We Still Loving Pluribus?

The data is clear: congestion pricing in NYC has been a “huge...

Infinite Ball Drop: what if the Times Square NYE ball started dropping...

Santa Tracker Shows Sleigh Stopped For 40 Minutes Outside Old Girlfriend’s House....

Muppet Versions of Xmas Movie Posters

Reminder: NASA’s holiday yule log fireplace video is delightful — it’s a...

Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean

Bookshop’s Bestselling Nonfiction Books of 2025

The Truth Physics Can No Longer Ignore. “To truly understand living systems...

Allspice is a single spice?! “Allspice is the dried fruit of the...

We Asked Four AI Coding Agents to Rebuild Minesweeper… “Cloning Minesweeper isn’t...

The Case for a Public Social Media Platform. “What if the United...

If Stayin’ Alive Had Been Written in 16th Century

Finland uses a progressive scale for speeding tickets; the fine amount is...

From Sight & Sound, a list of the best video essays of...

200,000 Years Of Human History In One Hour

Why Japan’s internet looks weird — unless you live here. “Japanese customers...

Underneath a Breaching Humpback Whale

American Classmates Having Difficulty Understanding Better Educated Foreign Exchange Student. “Kids say...

Trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey

Runaway supermassive black hole? Did not know this could be a thing....

A full archive of The Hairpin (iykyk)....

Wallace & Gromit’s Cracking Christmas

“The embrace of the unitary executive theory by both the president and...

On reading Proust vs experiencing the world intermediated by screens (even when...

If you want to see the future of clean energy, you have...