Winter Window — A cozy winter scene.
'Momentum' Driving Record Credit Sales: Hobbs — Milwood Hobbs, deputy CIO of Oaktree’s Strategic Credit platform, and Meghan Robson, head of US credit strategy at BNP Paribas, join Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Real Yield." They discuss the record credit issuance for high-grade US…
James Turrell creates subterranean Skyspace in Aarhus that "holds the sky close" — <p>American artist James Turrell has created As Seen Below, a 40-metre-wide Skyspace, for the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum in Aarhus, Denmark. Opening today, the domed extension realised in…
Arkemia tiles by Cristacer — Paper pulp is turned into a concrete-like flecked surface in the Arkemia porcelain stoneware tiles, made by Spanish brand Cristacer.
Colorado house by Studio B and Studio Brother John appears to "hover over the land" — <p>Local outfit Studio Brother John has collaborated with Studio B Architecture + Interiors for a house in Boulder, Colorado, USA making the most of its mountainous site and replacing a…
Spent three weeks meditating to fix my anxiety. Turns out I was just holding my breath the entire time.
Wild Form designs with "no straight lines" for bar next to New York's Stonewall Inn — <p>New York-based Wild Form Design Studio has crafted a sculptural interior for a bar called Love Thy Neighbor, which "celebrates the queer community" next to The Stonewall Inn in the…
There's a site where you just watch a fire crackling for however long you need. No timer, no guided voice, just embers. I've lost entire afternoons to this!
“I Love Boosters,” Reviewed: A Socialist-Surrealist Shoplifting Fantasy — Boots Riley’s new film is an exuberantly inventive but overstretched comedy about the redistribution of luxury goods.
meditation app that makes you sit through ads before you can start your breathing exercise.. the irony is almost impressive
How to Exist — Here’s an experiment for a true daredevil. Sit there for a three minutes, following two rules:
handwritten.blog — blogs, but handwritten — Some thoughts deserve more time. Writing by hand slows us down. A place for authentic thinking. No algorithmic feed. Every blog has RSS. No likes. Just your pag
I've been sitting with the same cup of tea for twenty minutes and just now realized it got cold hours ago — but I wasn't thinking about the tea. That might be the whole thing.
Dezeen Agenda features the stadiums hosting the 2030 World Cup — <p>As part of our Future Stadium series, the latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features a roundup of all 23 stadiums set to host the 2030 World Cup. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. The next…
Taylor Knights designs responsible Melbourne coffee roastery to "reveal rather than replace" — <p>A stripped-back interior of concrete surfaces and timber joinery lets sustainable production practices take centre stage at Melbourne's Contraband Coffee cafe and roastery,…
WilkinsonEyre completes Toronto skyscrapers linked by elevated park — <p>Architecture studio WilkinsonEyre has completed the second and final phase of the CIBC Square development in Toronto, which includes a second skyscraper and an elevated park spanning train tracks. Located in
A cartoonist mapped out every panel transition technique used in comics — turns out there are patterns nobody talks about.
How 2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up · jkm.dev — In 2004 I played too much RuneScape on a 56k modem that died the moment Mum picked up the phone. A 3D world, up to a couple of thousand players on a server, dozens on screen at once - in the browser, on 5…
UNESCO adds works of Aino, Elissa and Alvar Aalto to World Heritage List — <p>UNESCO has updated its World Heritage List with 13 modernist buildings in Finland designed by architects Aino, Elissa, and Alvar Aalto. Collectively known as Aalto Works, the group of buildings is one…
feat(pkg-state): disable by default · Issue #1426 · Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation — Describe the feature you want The "Disable mode" ("Freeze" in AppManager) should be the default. "Uninstall" causes too much problems Acknowledgements…
There's a tea ceremony guide that walks you through the actual pauses — where to breathe, where your mind wanders, why that matters. It's so sweet 🍵✨
The Quail Honors Route 66’s Centennial — The Quail by The Peninsula, A Motorsports Gathering, is one of the most exclusive shows of Monterey Car Week. The gathering celebrates the engineering and design of the finest automobiles, which often means those built in…
SoFi Stadium in California set the standard for integrated stadium technology — <p>Continuing our Future Stadium series, we take a close look at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. Designed by US studio HKS, it has one of the world's largest videoboards and the highest price…
Moon phase today explained: What the Moon will look like on September 3, 2026 — It's almost a new phase in the lunar cycle.
Making the internet boring — I once overrode my own website blocker for 444 minutes. After that I stopped relying on willpower and started making the internet boring: app deletions, LeechBlock, grayscale mode, and a custom userscript.
Snarkitecture creates "unexpected" playground in DC's National Building Museum — <p>Design studio Snarkitecture has designed an expansive playground in the Great Hall of the National Building Museum in Washington DC, USA, the largest indoor installation ever at the…
Every building in Los Angeles — Every building in the City of Los Angeles, one box per structure, colored by the decade it was built. Watch the city fill in from 1880 to today.
Hannah Cole Shares New Song “Mechanical Bull”: Listen — Last month, Nashville’s Hannah Cole announced her debut album Switchbacks and unleashed the gritty lead single “MMA.” Now, she’s sharing the grungy, frustrated anthem “Mechanical Bull.” “I wrote ‘Mechanical Bull’ about the…
Why Fed Cuts Beat Rate Hikes — Markets may be pricing yesterday's economy. iCapital's Dan Suzuki joined Bloomberg Open Interest to explain why slowing job growth and cooling inflation make Fed rate cuts more likely than hikes, why higher Treasury yields haven't broken the stock…
We saw signs of domestic abuse, but we didn't know how to protect Stacy — Stacy Hunter was killed by her estranged husband weeks after he was released on bail - her family wish the authorities had intervened further.
Root 'hacked off' and 'disappointed' at Carse incident — England captain Joe Root says he is "hacked off" and "disappointed" at the incident involving fast bowler Brydon Carse at a Derby nightclub.
What will the future stadium look like? — <p>For our Future Stadium series, we asked nine of the world's top stadium architects to predict the biggest shift in stadium design over the next 10 years. To determine how stadium design will shift over the next decade, we asked each…
Clear to Engage: The Weight of Three Words | Arnaud Bourguignon | TEDxRivesdeMoselle — Des opérations en Libye à la sécurisation aérienne des Jeux Olympiques, le Général Arnaud Bourguignon a passé 34 ans à décider sous haute tension. Loin des théories managériales classiques,…
"Women are living in a physical world that is too often designed without them in mind" — <p>Product design desperately needs to drop the notion that things can be made based on an "average-sized" human being, writes Karen Korellis Reuther. Female firefighters arrive at the…
Watched someone rebuild a motorcycle engine with zero power tools — just hand files, patience, and a guy who could hear when a bearing was .002 inches off. The precision was SO good.
This person mapped out the exact moment their mind wanders during meditation — and made it into an interactive visualization. It's weirdly calming to see your own scatter-brain reflected back at you.
Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation | TechCrunch — The round came together after the data center developer reportedly secured a $13 billion contract with Jane Street.
It's getting harder to focus every day — I’m feeling it right now. I had to set a timer for 15 minute on my computer and block all distractions to write this. If I didn’t force myself to focus I would easily get distracted by something after few minutes. Even when I’m doing…
Spent ten minutes watching my coffee cool instead of drinking it hot. That's apparently the whole thing.
Giannone Petricone Associates "weaves" glass addition into 1820s Toronto house — <p>Local studio Giannone Petricone Associates has renovated a 200-year-old Toronto house with a contemporary interior and a wavy glass addition. Snider House was originally constructed in 1828 as a…
Meridian rugs by Armadillo among six new products on Dezeen Showroom — <p>Dezeen Showroom: a series of rugs that foreground weaving patterns and fibres over colour and print are among six new products featured on Dezeen Showroom. Meridian rugs by Armadillo Rug brand Armadillo…
Microsoft snuck a flight simulator into Excel 29 years ago, and there's still a way to play it today — Excel 97's flight simulator is one of Microsoft's strangest Easter eggs, and getting it running today is easier than you might expect.
Two days left to enter Dezeen Awards 2026 — Hurry! There are just two days left to enter Dezeen Awards 2026 before the entry deadline, 27 May at 23:59 London time.
Five innovative smartphones and dumbphones that put design first — <p>For this roundup, we've collected five smartphones and dumbphones with exciting designs, ranging from a phone with a robot arm to a keyboard phone built for messaging. For many people, their phone is their…
I Miss My Bar — Recreate the sounds of a bar.
HYAN renovates 70s home in Japan around "single, continuous" living space — <p>Local architecture studio HYAN has renovated Green Sandwich House, a 1970s home in Japan, using a palette of timber, plaster and tiles to bring "warmth and texture" to a flexible, open living space.…
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Dezeen debate features "refuge for the uncreative" — <p>The latest Dezeen Debate newsletter features the transformation of a historic Spanish bank into the Faro Santander museum by David Chipperfield Architects. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Scheduled to open in September,…
Anker's MindBase: Your Smart Home's Secret Brain! — Can an AI brain really take over your smart home? The truth about Anker's latest hub will surprise you.
10 things under $10 that’ll instantly improve your PC desk setup — Give your desk a budget-friendly makeover.
@stagas wrote on textlog — Made another important decision to remove all counters — notes, replies, following, followers — from both people and hashtags, so you focus on the content not the numbers. It was creating competition which feeds the dopamine system, which we have…
Peaked volumes top Los Angeles house by Allprace — <p>Local design-build studio Allprace aimed to create a feeling of "warmth and permanence" in a house called Hargis, which features gabled roof forms and earthy materials such as wood and stone. Set within a creative district…
Stop photographing the landmark. Start photographing the trip — Years from now, you won't care about your version of the shot everyone else has. You'll care about the one only you could take.
Former Cambridge professor accused of plagiarism found dead — Jason Arday's body was found in south London just a week after he resigned from the University of Cambridge.
Eleven innovative collections from Chicago Design Week — <p>An office chair by Foster + Partners made with reused fishing nets and lightweight aluminium benches designed by Naoto Fukasawa were among the objects displayed at this year's Chicago Design Week. This year's Chicago Des
England's Dean storms to British Masters title — Former supermarket delivery driver Joe Dean fires a nine-under-par final round to come from seven shots back to win his first DP World Tour title.
European founders and VCs urge lawmakers 'to get EU Inc right' | TechCrunch — Amid negotiations for a new EU-wide corporate status, an open letter signed by unicorn founders and investors warns that 'EU Inc' shouldn’t be watered down.
Girl, 6, dies days after Shoreham sea tragedy killed three family members — She is the fourth person to die after her family got into difficulty in water in Shoreham.
Hundreds arrested over French wildfires, but who is to blame? — The government is trying to attribute blame for the unprecedented fires which tore through the country last month.
Calmsound - Free Nature Sounds — Calmsound bring you a collection of the finest nature sounds which are ideal for sleep, relaxation and helpful for tinnitus sufferers. Listen for free now!