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How Did We Map the World Before Satellites?

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WikiFlix is a streaming site for movies in the public domain, including...

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“South Korea imports more kimchi than it exports, and the gap has...

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A group of students at a New Mexico college (mostly) gave up...

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MTV Rewind

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The proliferation of hummingbird feeders has become a “major evolutionary force” for...

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Lost episodes of Star Trek from the 70s. They were going to...

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Robin Sloan asserts (provocatively) that AGI is already here (and has been...

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The Story of Czech Graphic Design

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“Norman Rockwell was antifa”, says Daisy Rockwell, Norman’s granddaughter. “So you’ll understand...

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A Collection of Unreleased Boards of Canada Tracks

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This sucks: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is no more. “Its board...

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The Detectorists — A Short Film About Otters and Detection Dogs.

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Tiled.art: “Discover great tessellation art, understand how it works, and create your...

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Anna’s Archive (“the largest truly open library in human history”) is backing...

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When Two Filmmakers Make the Same Movie — and One of Them...

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From Book Riot’s Zero to Well-Read podcast: How to Read More (and...

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The Mystery Of The Samurai In Venice

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A Year of Clean Energy Milestones. “Wind, solar, and electric vehicles made...

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A number of studies show that various vaccines (shingles, RSV, flu) are...

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Why I Left Substack. A combination of “a good deal of gross...

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What We Will Use as Weapons: A List of School Supplies

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M. Gessen on the new world order the Trump regime seems eager...

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The Media Refuses to Call Trump’s Venezuela Attack an Act of War....

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We Are the Bad Guys. “What do we call it when a...

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Isaac Chotiner interviews Oona Hathaway, an expert in international law, about the...

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Evergreen: No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We...

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Variety has a list of 50 great movies from 2025 that are...

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Investigating a possible Daft Punk Easter egg: is the tempo of Harder,...

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360-degree panoramas of the interiors of several Star Trek ships (Enterprise, TNG’s...

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Core Memories With the Swiftie Dads

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Things I Learned While Looking Up Other Things! “Thermochauvinism is the (often...

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It Will Continue to Grow Except at That Point

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Stewart Cheifet died last weekend at age 87. Those of a certain...

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“America is no longer a democracy. That doesn’t mean authoritarianism has won....

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NeatoCal is a tiny JavaScript app that outputs a printable calendar with...

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Kottke Wrapped 2025

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Nancy Friedman: 52 Things I Learned in 2025. Incl. “Seventy-one percent of...

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Kent Hendricks: 52 Things I Learned in 2025. Incl. “Birders in the...

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Old Windows 3.x Games on the Internet Archive

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A wildlife photographer “discovered thousands of dinosaur footprints preserved in the vertical...

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Listen to the Cassandras

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Oh this is devilish…a game where you have make to 45 groups...

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Rian Johnson Breaks Down a Scene From Wake Up Dead Man

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ProPublica launches Rx Inspector database. “We’ve launched a first-of-its-kind app to help...

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From Lit Hub, the best audiobooks of 2025. (It’s not new, but...

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The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025, incl. Signal Hill (“this inventive program...

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The Imperfect Homework Machine

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Conservatives are trying to roll the Constitution back to the pre-Civil War...

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One of America’s Most Successful Experiments Is Coming to a Shuddering Halt....

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