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Astronomers have discovered an “almost-galaxy” called Cloud-9 (no, really), a failed galaxy...

Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a...

Discover the 100-Year-Old Self-Playing Violin, One of the Most Complex Music Players...

“I feel stuck and sad and I don’t know what else to...

An Optical Compass Inspired by Bee Vision

Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection. “This page contains a collection of small...

Out of the 1000 most-discussed books on Hacker News, it looks like...

A Logistical Matter

Train Wreck

I loved watching this quick video recap of how Penguin designer Elisha...

Using lidar, scientists discovered a 400-foot-long wall composed of “60 massive granite...

words.zip is “an infinite collaborative word search where anyone can find and...

There’s a shark called the cookiecutter shark because it leaves bite marks...

Burn Harry Burn: Reckoning With My Harry Potter Fandom as a Trans...

A soaring US vs a stagnant EU? “Europeans benefit from more leisure...

Alexandra Petri: I Tried to Be the Government. It Did Not Go...

What You’re Watching Isn’t What You’re Really Watching. “You think you’re watching...

Abolish ICE

An ICE agent murdered a woman in Minneapolis today. Mayor Jacob Frey...

How Did We Map the World Before Satellites?

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

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

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

MTV Rewind

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

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

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

The Story of Czech Graphic Design

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

A Collection of Unreleased Boards of Canada Tracks

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

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

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

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