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Montreal’s Ice Surfer

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Thoughtful lessons from a Google software engineer. “The punchline isn’t ‘never innovate.’...

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Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about this 2015 observation on Tumblr...

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The America That Could Be

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

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

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

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

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An Optical Compass Inspired by Bee Vision

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

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

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A Logistical Matter

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Train Wreck

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Abolish ICE

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

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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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