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Forthcoming book from Bill McKibben: Here Comes the Sun. “Energy from the...

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Bill McKibben: Rooftop Solar Is a Miracle. Why Are We Killing It...

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Rebecca Solnit: The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology. “It...

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The End of America as a Center of Science

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Side effect of the Tour de France: pro riders gobbling up all...

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How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent...

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The Wirecutter’s list of the best canned cocktails. Very interested to hear...

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How to Leave Substack. “Unfortunately, Substack willingly platforms, and allows bad actors...

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“Israel has deliberately starved the people of Gaza. It couldn’t have done...

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Photos: Starvation and Chaos in Gaza. “Israel’s blockade of most food and...

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A compilation of super hero landings from the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

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Covid safety measures drastically reduced flu deaths, but the fatality rate has...

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Weird & Wonderful Historical Photos From the 20th Century

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Zim&Zou’s ’80s-Inspired Paper Cassettes and Boombox Radiate with Color. Strange, now I...

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Someone Played a Perfect Game of Tetris

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Note to self: spend some time checking out Tapestry, Iconfactory’s universal feed/social...

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Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog. “Substack is primarily...

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Trailer for Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse, a documentary film on...

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Archaeologists Discover a 2,400-Year-Old Skeleton Mosaic That Urges People to “Be Cheerful...

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I’m Giving My Kids a ’90s Summer — the 1890s. “Just like...

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Macbook Air M4s Are on Sale

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Video Mashup Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne

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Auto? Polo! Auto? Polo! Auto? Polo! Photographs of Auto Polo (ca. 1912)....

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XKCD: Kite Incident. “I don’t know. Lemme look up a map of...

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Oooh, George Saunders’ next novel comes out in January. “Vigil transports us,...

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Science Is Winning the Tour de France. Data, nutrition, equipment, and training...

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The Set Design of Sesame Street (Feat. Jane Jacobs)

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An analysis of every word that’s visible on NYC’s streets (from 18...

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Season 4 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is going to feature...

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A list of the top 100 “most innovative, influential, and informative” podcasts...

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Is This the Best Downhill Mountain Biker in the World?

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Is starvation in Gaza really Israel’s fault? The facts are clear. “Israeli...

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Another piece from Hitler scholar Timothy Ryback that is uncomfortably resonant today:...

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José Andrés: The World Cannot Stand By With Gaza on the Brink...

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TIL the etymology of boycott. “When Boycott set about evicting 11 tenants,...

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All the Dogs, Explained

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Watch this: Chinese EV maker BYD built a driverless car that can...

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New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for “The President Violated the Constitution”....

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“Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel, B’Tselem and Physicians for...

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Is this the beginning of the end of HIV/AIDS? Lenacapavir “offers 100%...

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“Alto turns your Apple Notes into a website.”...

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Hard Things Are Supposed to Be Hard

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Carbon chauvinism, perhaps coined by Carl Sagan, refers to the narrow-minded view...

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Gorgeous New Covers for Nabokov by Na Kim

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The full official trailer for Tron: Ares. I want this to be...

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Artist Amy Sherald has canceled her solo show at the Smithsonian’s National...

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Slow Light

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Six Films Better Than the Books They’re Based On. Including Jurassic Park,...

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They’re Made Out of Meat, a classic sci-fi short story by Terry...

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Glacier funerals have been held in countries like Iceland, the US, and...

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