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A map of the best places to see the Northern Lights. “Kuril’s...

CEO Tony Stubblebine shares how Medium went from the brink of shutting...

After dealing with years of “Xfinity’s bullcrap” as customers, a pair of...

Best of Luck With the Wall

“BuildMyTransit is a web app to design, visualize, and simulate New York...

Historical Tech Tree. “The tech tree is an interactive visualization of technological...

The Best Brushes Are the Ones You Make Yourself

Marc Andreessen Is a Traitor. “He has betrayed the very system that...

Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning. “The United States is being...

Good lord, the World Cup is going to be a total shitshow...

This is great: a proposed “poli-sci course that equips one for modern...

How Was the Wheel Invented? “How did an obscure, scientifically naive mining...

“Fed up with big legacy news? Here are 13 independent, worker-owned outlets...

The Media’s Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to...

The Cheese Was Free

A lovely, beautiful, and uplifting obituary of poet and activist Andrea Gibson....

DOJ Removes All Mentions Of Justice From Website. This Onion article got...

Photos From the 2025 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition

America is Losing Its Soul in Brown-Skinned Screams and White-Skinned Silence. “The...

Skater Demarcus James is skateboarding across the entire United States, from Oakland...

Taking Journalism’s ‘Experts Said…’ Chicanery About Facts to Its Natural, Absurd Conclusion

Not a joke: there is a new Commodore 64 coming out. “The...

Maya Ruler’s Tomb Is Unearthed in Belize, With Clues to His Ancient...

Scrappy is a prototype tool for building “little apps for you and...

Mend is a project based in Syracuse, NY that publishes the “creative...

The Best Stunts of All Time, Over Nearly 100 Years of the...

When the Klan Got Kicked Out of Town. “More than 500 Lumbee...

The Art of Roland-Garros. Each year since 1980, the French Open has...

Shortlist for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 Competition

New Sphere-Packing Record Stems From an Unexpected Source. “Sometimes all a sticky...

No One Else Has a Bike Like Mine. “The most elaborately decorated...

The Bayeux Tapestry is returning to the UK for the first time...

A New Genetic Map of Human Disease for the Past 37,000 Years

Craig Mod: Overtourism in Japan, and How it Hurts Small Businesses. When...

“Lately, it has been difficult to ignore a tendency at the NY...

What If You Replaced the Moon With a Black Hole?

When Moderation Becomes Appeasement. “Because reactionary centrists do not really have values,...

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment. “Instead of...

Wow, Apple’s AirPods Pro 2 earbuds are $149. That’s $100 off…the lowest...

Cool Anatomical Sculptures of Lego People

Who Goes MAGA? “His Substack has 10,000 subscribers and a name like...

Something Extraordinary Is Happening All Over the World. “Millions of people from...

“REFLECTIVE URBANISMS: Mapping New York Chinatown is an interactive web project that...

When Your Baggage Goes Through an Insecurity Inspection

On the Expert Generalist. “We’ve seen this capability be an essential quality...

Vintage recordings of J.R.R. Tolkien reading (and singing, in Elvish) selections from...

Social media can support or undermine democracy — it comes down to...

I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of...

From Marcin Wichary, a history of Mac settings (1984-2004). The article includes...

A Masterclass on Status, Power, & the Economy with Tressie McMillan Cottom....