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Many of us have “lost the future” during the radical uncertainty brought...

From XKCD, some common sailing rigs, including the ketch, schooner, offset rig,...

Bread Infographic

“This should be the year you stop trying so hard to turn...

Divers

Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White...

Olive Oil Sculptures

I Was Kidnapped by Idiots. “Later, he tried the ‘good cop, bad...

Jamelle Bouie: “The American public, then, is left not with a president...

Stop complaining about paywalls existing. “These paywalls are attempts to make this...

Donald Trump Is Waging War Against Human Conscience. “The lust for mud...

Zoe Saldaña is now the highest-grossing actor of all time (bc of...

Currently listening to this Thai house mix from Meltmode, played from a...

Lunchtime

North America kind of sucks at elevators. “Elevators cost nearly three times...

How Will the Miracle Happen Today? “Kindness is like a breath. It...

Montreal’s Ice Surfer

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

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

The America That Could Be

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...