This might be iPhone 18 Pro’s best camera feature for most users - 9to5Mac — iPhone 18 Pro packs lots of camera upgrades, like variable aperture—but there’s another change that some users might deem their favorite.
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, and with Fangs: The Alchemy of Unrequited Love and the Story Behind Emily Dickinson’s Most Famous Poem — This essay is adapted from the nineteenth chapter of my book Figuring. In the first autumn of her thirties, Emily Dickinson wrote to her confi
How Medieval Doctors, Christian and Muslim, Treated the Black Death — Many physicians sought to treat patients struck down by the Black Death. These doctors typically turned to the extant body of medical knowledge, derived from the ancient world and Arabic texts writ…
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How Nature Imagined the Figment of You — It is there like a constant whisper, like a ceaseless gust of thought rustling through the canopy of the collective mind: the haunting sense that ours is a particularly difficult time to be alive, …
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Fans Will Always Argue About Who Is the Best James Bond, but ‘Live and Let Die’ Makes the Answer Clear — The 1973 cross between spy movie and Blaxploitation thriller, coming to Quentin Tarantino's Vista, was the eighth Bond movie and one of the finest.
Inside The Manufacture: Making A Tudor: A Behind-The-Scenes Look, From Raw Material To Finished Product [Video] — In this video, we spend multiple days inside Tudor's Swiss manufacturing network, watching the case, dial, and movement of a single watch come together.
Sonia Feldman Recommends Books About the Thrilling Dynamics of Girls’ Friendship — Internet rumor holds that manga artist Naoko Takeuchi created the beloved classic Sailor Moon about a group of girls she wished were her friends because she was lonely. Memes periodically circulate
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BBC World Service - CrowdScience, Why does paper fold so well? — Origami is the art of folding paper, but what makes paper remember its creases?
"The Day I Stopped Using Soap". | Devendra Jani | TEDxSAGEUniversity — What if something as ordinary as soap could make us rethink our relationship with nature? In “The Day I Stopped Using Soap,” Devendra Jani, founder of Bee The Lead, shares his personal journey of questioning…
Sigrid Nunez, Julie Buntin, Pamela Colloff, and more: 20 new books out today! — The July fiction continues: Julie Buntin’s much anticipated follow-up to Marlena is out today, Sigrid Nunez’s new collection drops, along with Jem Calder’s I Want You To Be Happy.…
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Assembled By Me: Inside Studio Underd0g's Watch Assembly Experience — Going to see a man about a d0g, and his newly opened UK-based assembly workshop and showroom.
Been hand-binding journals for three months and just realized I've been gluing the spine backwards the entire time. They still work though
watched someone spend 6 hours hand-sewing a leather wallet only to realize they'd been using the wrong needle the entire time... came back to this when my own project went sideways 💔
Homemade Juggling Beanbag Guide — Download my full guide/technical treatise, including patterns, for sewing fabric juggling beanbags and footbags/Hacky Sacks in over a dozen different designs.
Curiosity as an Instrument of Love: Thoreau’s Touching Account of 24 Hours with a Tiny Owl — “If you would learn the secrets of Nature, you must practice more humanity than others.”
This Week in Literary History: Ira Aldridge Debuts as Othello on the London Stage — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. When Ira Aldridge was a teenager, he fell in love with the theatre. But he was a Black kid born in Manhattan in 1807, whi
Why AI’s Inference Boom Is Forcing a Rethink Of Chips and Memory — Today’s tidal wave of queries is forcing hardware makers to pivot
How to build a circular LCD clock — In our kitchen, the only device that displays the time is our oven! :D Looking at it was always a bit annoying.
meditation app told me to focus on my breath for ten minutes. spent nine of them convinced i was doing it wrong.
Ingebrigtsen withdraws from 1500m showdown with Kerr — Jakob Ingebrigtsen will not contest the men's 1500m final at the World Athletics Ultimate Championship, putting his reunion with rival Josh Kerr on hold.
Nvidia Shield TV (2019) appears to have been quietly discontinued, maybe — It seems that the 7-year-old but still-latest Nvidia Shield TV model has been quietly discontinued, but one still remains. The...
watched someone sit in complete silence for 40 minutes and describe it like they'd solved a math problem... turns out the whole point was admitting they couldn't solve anything 🧠
“The Figure a Poem Makes,” a Poem by Donna Masini — It’s a slow start. Notice the way she’s holding the pen. Four-beat line to open, leaning blue, and—synesthesia—right at the jump. If she can shift to the conditional—yes! She lands clean on an …
This guy meditated every day for a year and documented what actually changed about his brain using real scans
The Cell Phone Novel Craze of Early 2000s Japan Did Not, in Fact, Destroy Literature — Once upon a Y2K, technology still felt like it could fulfill some human need: our drive for connection, perhaps, or just external recognition of our internal monologue. In the early aughts,…
Trump says Iran war will continue for as long as necessary — Trump says Iran war will continue for as long as necessary
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On Group Portraiture and the Secret Histories of Art: Paul Elie and Julia Cooke in Conversation — A decade and change ago, Paul Elie taught a class that I found formative. Its focus was first books, and he talked about each assignment in revelatory terms, prodding us graduate stu
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Argentine leader says oil firms working off Falklands face sanctions — Javier Milei reiterates his country's claim on the British overseas territory, saying the "winds of change" favour it.
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Repair Café - Fixing Together, Worldwide — Repair Café is a global initiative that promotes the culture of repair. Join us in fixing things together and contribute to a more sustainable future.
Elves Against Capitalism: How the Earth Liberation Front Came to America — The fires began with a gentle Midwestern boy who loved animals. Kevin Tubbs grew up in a comfortable suburb outside Omaha, Nebraska, in a canary-yellow ranch house filled with dogs. Tubbs’s mother,…
How a Childhood Bookmobile Sparked My Love of Reading — When I was a child, the public library in my small Alabama town, a one-story frame building that had once been the train depot, was off-limits to me. This was the early 1960s, more than a decade be…
The Unexpected Joys of a Geriatric Debut — If I were 26 years old, full of piss and vinegar and had a debut poetry collection, I’d fancy myself a modern-day troubadour. I’d live out of my car, which would likely be a beat-up Volvo station w…
How 9/11 helped Israel sell its war on Palestinians to America — The 'war on terror' made Israeli repression easier to present as part of a shared struggle against a common enemy.
Jaissle claims first Premier League win at lacklustre Spurs — Second-half goals from Anthony Elanga and Yoanne Wissa give manager Matthias Jaissle his first Premier League victory, as Newcastle United win 2-0 away at Tottenham Hotspur.
iFixit: The Free Repair Manual — iFixit is a global community of people helping each other repair things. Let's fix the world, one device at a time. Troubleshoot with experts in the Answers forum—and build your own how-to guides to share with the world. Fix your Apple and Android
Suzanne's Buchla Cookbook — ECHO is an online, open access, peer-reviewed journal that exists to share creative work and understanding in the common space at the intersection of music, thought and technology.
Fun, Feminine and Fundamental: In Defense of Frivolity — It will be the Year of Perfect Skin, I told myself. I had arrived at my mid-forties, and the mirror suddenly gave me a face crosshatched with creases. I was Portrait of a Woman Aging. I was a cubis…
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“The Forest is the Therapist.” On the Art of Noticing — Near the summit of Volcan Mountain, Janice Bina-Smith sits with a group of us in a circle on crunching oak leaves. The red ants don’t seem to be in a biting mood. Patches of sky above are clear. Gu…
“Drinking the Bees,” a Poem by Christian Wiman — As if in moments lay plummets down which a puttering soul might stunningly plunge to a sun-splashed terrace in Marrakesh: tea so thick with mint it conjures kelp in a cylinder of sea but for the be…
New Hall of Famer Roger Craig reveals dementia diagnosis — New Hall of Famer Roger Craig revealed during his taped acceptance speech Saturday that he has been diagnosed with vascular dementia.
US, Iran Agree to Halt Attacks Ahead of Talks — The US and Iran have agreed to stop attacking each other before peace talks resume this week over the Strait of Hormuz and other issues, paving the way to end days of tit-for-tat attacks that tested a fragile truce. (Source:…
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ChatGPT and Codex now support multiple Gmail and Google Calendar accounts - 9to5Mac — OpenAI confirmed today that ChatGPT and Codex users can now add multiple Gmail and Google Cal accounts. Here are the details.
Tiananmen Square vigil organisers in Hong Kong found guilty of ‘inciting subversion’ — UK Foreign Office condemns use of national security law to convict activists Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung
Rachel Cusk, Liane Moriarty, Jill Lepore, and more: 20 new books out today! — We’ve all been reading about it for months, and now finally it’s time to read the thing itself: Life of M by Rachel Cusk is available today! And that’s not all: a long awaited seq…
Activist Tests Samsung Affiliate Directors With Unusual S-1 Bid — An activist investor has offered a 45% premium for Samsung affiliates’ stakes in S-1 Corp., setting up an early test of how board directors handle their expanded fiduciary duties under South Korea’s revised…
I've been weaving on the same loom for three weeks and just realized the tension knob was backwards the entire time. Everything I made is slightly crooked and I'm keeping all of it.