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A streaming music translator: I Don’t Have Spotify. Paste a share link...

A Real Life Version of Wallace & Gromit’s Breakfast Machine

The help desk at Auburn University is still answering questions from the...

I’d never seen this before: a thief does some stretches in the...

A Visual Celebration of Miyazaki’s Weird Little Guys

Bess Kalb: Hooray for Pills. “I hope you shut out the simplistic,...

How to Be a Grown Up: The 14 Essential Skills You Didn’t...

16-bit Intel 8088 Chip by Charles Bukowski

I saw Sinners last night (fantastic!) and loved reading Karen Attiah’s piece,...

Is This Autocracy? “Without a distinction between truth and falsehood, we have...

Bertrand Russell on How Fascism Starts

From Kyla Scanlon, a “brief comprehensive guide” about tariffs. “We call a...

Ye Olde Funny Headlines

A review of the last 25 years of food & dining in...

The Catholic Church has selected Robert Prevost as their new leader, Pope...

A new Lord of the Rings movie will premiere in theaters on...

That Coveted Window Spot

How Cory Arcangel Recovered a Late Artist’s Digital Legacy. “This was his...

A Deep Dive on Daft Punk’s Vocal Effects

“When citizens must think twice about criticizing or opposing the gov’t because...

Personal Raincloud is a trope in TV & comics where a character...

4th Grader to RFK Jr: “I Have Autism and I’m Not Broken”

Defector’s Sabrina Imbler is interviewing civil servants who have been fired/purged from...

WWII Vet Crushes a Tesla With a Sherman Tank

A Popeless Situation: The election of Gregory X in 1271 took 1006...

Gears and Other Mechanical Things

Some of the cardinals tasked with choosing a replacement for Pope Francis...

McMansion Hell on Trump’s gaudy “dictator chic”. “This ruling class nostalgia for...

Graphic Novel Biography of Eadweard Muybridge

Phew, for a Minute There, I Thought the Arts Were Going to...

A guide to staying safe during civil unrest. “Know who you can...

Altair at 50: Remembering the First Personal Computer. “The Altair didn’t survive...

48 Things Women Hear In A Lifetime (That Men Just Don’t)

The invention of the transformer (and LLMs) has upended the field of...

Subtly Geometric Birds

“When we think of love, we think of romance and happily-ever-after fairy...

The Phony Physics of Star Wars Are a Blast. You can’t see...

Things Become Other Things & A Physical Education

A history of music album art. “Before most people owned a TV...

New Language for Slavery and the Civil War

Mr. Beast Saying Increasingly Large Amounts of Money. “The work is intended...

Early 20th Century Advertisements for the Queen City Printing Ink Company

For decades, US companies have “cast aside the goal of addressing a...

How Soderbergh Elevates an Ordinary Scene in Black Bag

Tim Friede has been bitten by 200 poisonous snakes and his antibodies...

The Courts Must Stop Presuming Donald Trump is a Regular President. “Much...

Monty Python and the Holy Grail Turns 50. Watch It Free on YouTube.

“At the heart of [Trumpist] policies is soft eugenics thinking – the...

People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies. “He started telling...

Jia Tolentino: My Brain Finally Broke. “The phone eats time; it makes...