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New book from Patrick Radden Keefe (Say Nothing, Empire of Pain): London...

Yes, this exactly: “The government is already shut down, and has been...

An oral history of Deltron 3030’s stupendous debut album....

Huh, the original version of the Goldilocks and the Three Bears fairy...

A Tour of the New David Bowie Archive

They’re bringing back Reading Rainbow, hosted by Mychal the Librarian....

Mussolini: Son Of The Century

Natalia Newsome is a 5’11” sophomore volleyball player for SMU; she’s got...

Bisa Butler, Hold Me Close

Ismail Ibrahim worked as a fact checker for an unnamed magazine (it...

In post-Soviet Russia, Sauron is good actually? “It became a story about...

M. Gessen: This Is the Feeling of Losing a Country. I Know...

Nikole Hannah-Jones on the bipartisan tributes of Charlie Kirk & the mainstreaming...

An asteroid discovered in 2024 has a small chance of hitting the...

Taking the Day

For more than a century in the 18th & 19th centuries, an...

A four-year-old mystery finally solved: who was the awkwardly tall stranger at...

Engineering Lego Cars to Climb Increasingly Tall Walls

From Eater, a list of the 38 most essential & influential US...

How to Be a Good Literary Citizen (in Seven Easy Steps). “The...

The Black Hole That Could Rewrite Cosmology. Astronomers may have found a...

Former NBA star Reggie Miller’s neighbors got him hooked on mountain biking....

The Music of the Everyday

Zadie Smith: “In my experience, every kind of writing requires some kind...

The Hummingbird Bike

New issue of Laura Olin’s newsletter, full of good stuff. “I had...

Two Slice is a bitmappy font that’s only two pixels tall and...

Fantastic essay by Roxane Gay: Civility Is a Fantasy. “Calling for civility...

Steamed Hams but It’s a Critically Acclaimed Feature Film. The classic Simpsons...

Generative Design

Why Do Wind Turbines Have Three Blades? Why not two? Or five?...

Huntington’s disease successfully treated for first time. “An emotional research team became...

Hybrid ASCII Art

Historian Thomas Zimmer has left academia, Substack, and the US; now he’s...

Using Cesium-137 testing to find counterfeit wine. “Cesium-137 did not exist on...

Is the New York Times finally getting real about Trump? “In the...

Everyone Was Wrong About Maximum Siphon Height

In Jimmy Kimmel’s words: What the late-night host said upon his return...

McSweeney’s didn’t even need to lampoon Trump’s comments about vaccines, autism, &...

An excerpt from Patricia Lockwood’s new book Will There Ever Be Another...

Wild Cats, Bored Cats, Sleepy Cats

A tantalizing peek into the massive 90,000-item archive left behind by David...

Carbon Dating: Cold War Nukes & Art Forgeries

Conservative White Christians Will Worship Anyone But Jesus. “Seeing White Evangelicals build...

Didn’t think I was interested in a profile of Dwayne “The Rock”...

I’m Heading to Japan. What Should I Do?

The 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years, including Extra...

Little, Big, and Far

This morning’s music selection while working: this 1h23m mix by German DJ/producer...

Some advice: “finishing creative projects is a skill in and of itself....