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How Human Civilization Began

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Do you think you could write down the names of 3000...

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10 Years of Kottke.org Membership

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Ted Chiang: “There’s no way to write fiction and...

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Let’s get this out of the way: Olivia Colman will be...

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Are contemporary technologies like GPS, phones, and AI...

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The Collectively Drawn World

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Trailer for season four of The Gilded Age, which started...

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Readwise announces Readwise Books. “We’ve built Readwise...

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The Ten Best Captain Picard Episodes of Star Trek

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Three-Body Orbits

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In a late-stage trial, personalized mRNA vaccines for...

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Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Site Search!

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Listen to a Long-Lost Daft Punk Mix From 1997

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Rest In Peace, Patrick Stewart (1940-2026)

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An Italian farmer planted some decades-old seeds he found...

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Star Wars: The Radio Drama

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Dumpster Archeology. “Lew Blink’s passion for dumpster...

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What’s the largest tweetable number? You’ve got 280...

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Rolling Stone: The 200 Greatest Rock Songs of the 21st...

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The Remarkable Serbian Election

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The NY Times recently asked readers “what they can no...

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Old Newspaper Headlines About the Name Doppelgängers of Current Celebrities

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I made a small tweak to Prometheus (gift link discovery...

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Errol Morris shot ads for Theranos and recently revealed...

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Remember the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game? Turns out:...

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A bunch of items from Stanley Kubrick’s personal archive...

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The Moving Image Archive

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It’s Hard To Be A Rich Radical. “It was disappointing how...

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Scientists are studying whether “many chronic diseases we...

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Paleovirology: How HIV Started a Century Before Anyone Noticed

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They Stopped 57 Shootings. Everyone Was Just Fired. “A...

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Sprout is planning to sell replacement motherboards for...

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Have We Confused Having Good Taste With Being Creative?

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“Local Wikipedia is Wikipedia, but only for things a half...

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John Oliver on the Republican Party and the Far Right...

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Once Upon a Time in Harlem

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