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“ Sand temperatures above 29°C now produce 95–99%...

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

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

We live in a world of ordinary abundance & luxuries...

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

NOAA: Contiguous US Breaks Its Record for Hottest Month...

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:...

“Draw any shape and hear it as a drum.”...

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

Here’s how Rocky’s musical language from the Project...

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)

Stories that the authors of the Bible borrowed from...

“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”

“ Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million...

“Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likely than...

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

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

How to Give a Eulogy

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

Subaru Socialists and the Great Disappointed . “A whole...

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...

Europa or Frying Pan?

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...