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words.zip is “an infinite collaborative word search where anyone can find and...

There’s a shark called the cookiecutter shark because it leaves bite marks...

Burn Harry Burn: Reckoning With My Harry Potter Fandom as a Trans...

A soaring US vs a stagnant EU? “Europeans benefit from more leisure...

Alexandra Petri: I Tried to Be the Government. It Did Not Go...

What You’re Watching Isn’t What You’re Really Watching. “You think you’re watching...

Abolish ICE

An ICE agent murdered a woman in Minneapolis today. Mayor Jacob Frey...

How Did We Map the World Before Satellites?

WikiFlix is a streaming site for movies in the public domain, including...

“South Korea imports more kimchi than it exports, and the gap has...

A group of students at a New Mexico college (mostly) gave up...

MTV Rewind

The proliferation of hummingbird feeders has become a “major evolutionary force” for...

Lost episodes of Star Trek from the 70s. They were going to...

Robin Sloan asserts (provocatively) that AGI is already here (and has been...

The Story of Czech Graphic Design

“Norman Rockwell was antifa”, says Daisy Rockwell, Norman’s granddaughter. “So you’ll understand...

A Collection of Unreleased Boards of Canada Tracks

This sucks: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is no more. “Its board...

The Detectorists — A Short Film About Otters and Detection Dogs.

Tiled.art: “Discover great tessellation art, understand how it works, and create your...

Anna’s Archive (“the largest truly open library in human history”) is backing...

When Two Filmmakers Make the Same Movie — and One of Them...

From Book Riot’s Zero to Well-Read podcast: How to Read More (and...

The Mystery Of The Samurai In Venice

A Year of Clean Energy Milestones. “Wind, solar, and electric vehicles made...

A number of studies show that various vaccines (shingles, RSV, flu) are...

Why I Left Substack. A combination of “a good deal of gross...

What We Will Use as Weapons: A List of School Supplies

M. Gessen on the new world order the Trump regime seems eager...

The Media Refuses to Call Trump’s Venezuela Attack an Act of War....

We Are the Bad Guys. “What do we call it when a...

Isaac Chotiner interviews Oona Hathaway, an expert in international law, about the...

Evergreen: No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We...

Variety has a list of 50 great movies from 2025 that are...

Investigating a possible Daft Punk Easter egg: is the tempo of Harder,...

360-degree panoramas of the interiors of several Star Trek ships (Enterprise, TNG’s...

Core Memories With the Swiftie Dads

Things I Learned While Looking Up Other Things! “Thermochauvinism is the (often...

It Will Continue to Grow Except at That Point

Stewart Cheifet died last weekend at age 87. Those of a certain...

“America is no longer a democracy. That doesn’t mean authoritarianism has won....

NeatoCal is a tiny JavaScript app that outputs a printable calendar with...

Kottke Wrapped 2025

Nancy Friedman: 52 Things I Learned in 2025. Incl. “Seventy-one percent of...

Kent Hendricks: 52 Things I Learned in 2025. Incl. “Birders in the...

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