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Mohsen Mahdawi: I Was Detained for My Beliefs. Who Will Be Next?...

A series of info visualizations that show how true “based on a...

Swirling Green Aurora Captured From the ISS

60-year-old cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko has spent a little over three full years...

What?! 108-Gigapixel Scan of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring.

Tag and release works with tardigrades now — scientists are using nanotechnology...

The World’s Largest Data Center Rises in Texas

3D-printed Starbucks? Sure, why not. “3D-printed construction is really taking off throughout...

Is This the Best Cover of Radiohead’s Creep?

Some rules for a private dinner party for “Fucked Up Individuals”, including...

A recent survey “shows a steep decline in the number of parents...

Theoretical Gravastars Are Even Weirder Than Black Holes

Retro USAID t-shirts featuring a classic logo from the 50s. “50% of...

Scope of Work’s Spencer Wright on imports, tariffs, and maturity. “I buy...

Ooh, I like this question: “What is the best album released by...

What Is Fascism?

Pirouette Abecedarium at MoMA: “Twenty-six designers, scholars, DJs, photographers, and entrepreneurs will...

Scientists on the Trump regime’s war on science in the US. “However...

Why Lawrence of Arabia Still Looks Like a Billion Bucks

“The Adventures of Tintin officially entered the public domain in 2025. We...

This is cool: Maria Popova & indie bookstore chain McNally Jackson are...

“This Is What a University Looks Like”

From Kirkus, a list of the Best Books of the 21st Century...

Smallpox: Defeating a Virus That Killed Half a Billion People

Our Freedom is Fragile: Lessons From the Jewish Children Who Fled Nazi...

How Photography From the Vietnam War Changed America. “The images changed how...

100 days in, the Trump regime is failing. “We should thank [our]...

They fucked up the kerning on Pope Francis’s tomb. FR A NCISC...

Two weeks ago, ICE detained Mohsen Mahdawi when he showed up for...

The Tide Is Turning. “After 100 days of chaos, I think we...

Trump is a hallucinating LLM. “He answers questions in a manner quite...

“Authoritarian followers share three tendencies: they obey authority figures from their in-group...

On working for Andy Warhol. “The year I worked at the Factory...

IL governor J.B. Pritzker urges resistance. “If it sounds like I’m becoming...

Trump’s Already Lost. “You simply cannot impose an autocracy if a clear...

The 35th Anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope

This is fun: Jacob Collier Improvises the National Symphony Orchestra. “I was...

One Hour of Mon Mothma Dancing

The federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage in 2025. “The...

Vystery is a game where you click/tap to enhance sections of an...

My friend Jodi wrote a pretty thorough crash course on how Canadian...

Hundreds of Free Images From Studio Ghibli Films

I Just Got Into Harvard. My MAGA Grandparents’ 6-Word Reaction To My...

The Snowy Owls of Logan Airport

A new game from the creator of One Million Checkboxes: One Million...

“There are other meat-eating caterpillars that ‘do lots of crazy things, but...

Silenced Science Stories

Scientists have invented (or discovered?) a new color called “olo”. “Verifying that...

Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts. “Social...

A year of hate: what I learned when I went undercover with...