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What It’s Like to Be a Professional Card Counter. “Suddenly, I get...

Typically interesting thoughts about AI from Neal Stephenson. “I see parallels between...

Future Ruins is a one-day music festival featuring film and TV composers...

Color Photography of Paris From 1914

U.S. Military Bans Men With Girl Names From Combat. “Suppose your special...

The true story of how a deep-cover KGB spy living in the...

Power Houses, a photographic look “inside the living rooms of notable New...

A Longevity Expert’s 5 Tips for Aging Well, e.g. strength training, better...

“British researchers have discovered that a ‘copy’ of Magna Carta owned by...

Astronaut Don Pettit’s Marvelous Photos From Space

10,000 Drum Machines is a growing collection of web-based drum machines. I...

Nine Rules for Evaluating New Technology

The End of Rule of Law in America. “After these first three...

Three Fascism Experts on Why They’re Leaving the US

When the world is going to shit, people need music; they need...

How to Sniff Out ‘Copaganda’: When the Police and the Media Manipulate...

Lololol: Max is changing its name back to HBO Max. It’s a...

It’s Interesting How the Past Can Make You Think About the Present....

Alchemists rejoice! Scientists have turned lead into gold using the Large Hadron...

New Report Finds Vacationing Sources Habla Un Poquito De Español. “We discovered...

What I Learned at My First Tree-Climbing Workshop. “For many, climbing also...

A cute Minecraft-y clicker game. Big plus: finishing it doesn’t take forever....

Forget Psychedelics. Everyone’s Microdosing Ozempic Now. (In Hollywood, at least.) “They are...

“ICE has become Trump’s private militia. It must be abolished.” Reminder: ICE...

Eminem’s Lose Yourself, Sung by 331 Movies

A Young Readers Edition of Ed Yong’s award-winning An Immense World is...

I somehow missed this: after a federal judge in VT ordered her...

Scientist Kseniia Petrova came to US to study aging. In Feb, she...

How Trump’s Anti-Trans Policies Mirror the WWII Persecution of Japanese Americans. “Of...

“Boredom: the great engine of creativity. I now believe with all my...

In Poland, We Know All About Fighting Illiberal Regimes. Here Are Our...

I am cautiously optimistic about F1. (The Brad Pitt movie — there’s...

The Three Types of Specialists Needed for Any Revolution

In Shanghai, “a new crowd-sourced transit platform allows riders to propose, vote...

The Trumpist assault on the federal government is a “civil war by...

“The Trump administration’s policy ideas to incentivize women to have more kids...

On Male Social Isolation

OMG! The universe is going to decay into nothingness 10^1022 times sooner...

Enjoying the Lane 8 Spring 2025 Mixtape this afternoon....

This is a little bit genius: an analysis of OpenAI based on...

Here Is Everything That Has Changed Since Congestion Pricing Started in New...

Jimmy Carter for The Onion: You People Made Me Give Up My...

4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere. “Twitter became 4chan, then...

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...