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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

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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

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

Rian Johnson Breaks Down a Scene From Wake Up Dead Man

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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

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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

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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