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interactive map of every bike commute route in a city overlaid with accident data — you can see exactly where the near-misses cluster 🚴
J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children” — “Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else (make something new), may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like
How to Navigate Amazon’s E-Reader Monopoly — I made a promise to myself (and my partner) after we were forced to find a new apartment unexpectedly and had to deal with moving all of my books: from now on I would make an effort to read more di…
Is It Even Real? On the Conflation of Money and Things — Walk down any street and look around. The buildings you see will vary in their construction: one, two, or many stories; made of wood, brick, concrete, and steel; heated with oil or gas, cooled with…
Lit Hub Daily: July 7, 2026 — How Joyce Carol Oates, queen of the literary internet, examines “the dispiriting effects of technology on contemporary life” in her new collection, The Frenzy. | Lit Hub Criticism Bryan…
4 Simple Steps to Change Your Life — Don't set goals. Do this instead.
“The Thing About You” — When they were little, Netty and G spent their prayers asking God why he made them cousins instead of sisters. Why had he made them suffer the cruelty of returning to their separate homes alone aft…
Finding My Place in NYC’s Black Punk Scene — Back in 1991, on the corner of Bleecker and Broadway, under the VG restaurant, was Pool Bar, a short-lived dive that also served as an unofficial, all-ages venue. A few weeks after school started, …
How Bees Came to the United States and Changed Our Landscape — Over the past 150 years, honey bees have become the cornerstone of US agriculture. Beekeepers now crisscross the country in semi-trucks to pollinate our crops, towing thousands of bee colonies from…
Pythagoras on the Purpose of Life and the Meaning of Wisdom — Abiding insight into the aim of human existence from the man who revolutionized science and coined the word “philosopher.”
Artist Louise Bourgeois on How Solitude Enriches Creative Work — “You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love.”
Tony Tulathimutte has won one America’s largest (and newest) literary prizes. — Tony Tulathimutte, the dark wizard behind 2025’s seismic Rejection, has won a new (and massive!) literary prize. As the inaugural recipient of the Jack Galef Literary Arts Award, Tulathimutte…
Google wants to release 32 million sterile mosquitoes. Our Australian tests offer a valuable lesson | Nigel Beebe for the Conversation — Google’s ‘Debug’ project in California and Florida aims to reduce mosquito numbers by releasing millions of sterilised males
Jumbo tidal wave cascades through Louis Vuitton show in Paris — <p>Louis Vuitton creative director Pharrell Williams designed a 37-metre-wide wave structure as the scenography for the French fashion house's Spring Summer 2027 menswear show, which was powered by water from…
Who Is America’s Homer? | Plough — If England has Shakespeare, Spain has Cervantes, Italy has Dante, and Russia has Pushkin, then who do we have? Do we have a great poet who captures the American spirit, the American story, the American identity? We asked a posse of authors and…
Norway Should Buy OpenAI — The Long Arc of History Bends Towards Social Democracy
Your wired Android Auto connection secretly still uses Bluetooth for one important thing — Not everything can go through the USB cable.
Saudi Arabia vs. Uruguay 2026 livestream: How to watch World Cup for free — Live stream all the action from the 2026 FIFA World Cup without spending anything.
The Artist Who Colored Ghibli — Plus: news.
A octopus in an aquarium learned to open jars by watching other octopuses do it once. Now it teaches the new ones and they're all escaping 🐙
There Is No ‘Hard Problem Of Consciousness’ | NOEMA — Consciousness is not separate from the physical world — our “soul” is of the same nature as our body and any other phenomenon of the world.
Proof Of Care in the Age of A.I. – Jacob Filipp
Studio Ghibli Collection - Madman Entertainment — Studio Ghibli is one of the most acclaimed animation studios in the world, and the home of some of the most revered and beloved animated works to have ever graced the screen.
Life Is a Story That Begins in the Middle: Bayo Akomolafe on the Rewilding Power of Obstacles — Whenever there is a will, there are two things: a way and an obstacle in the way — that place midway between desire and destination where one’s will collides with the will of the…
Oliver Sacks on Memory, Originality, and Why Forgetting is Necessary for Creativity — “Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.”
The Bird in You, the World in You, and the Art of Trusting Time: A Ceramics and Serpentine Raffle — One December afternoon, I arrived in Patagonia with a big blue backpack, a small bilingual edition of Pablo Neruda’s love poems, and a broken heart. (Though a heart, of course,…
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Ye Hui on the Innovations of Translation, His Writing Process, and the Relief of Finishing a Poem — For this installment in a long-running series of interviews with contemporary poets, contributing editor Peter Mishler corresponded with poet Ye Hui. The poets corresponded using…
Animation World Network — All about animation.
Here are the winners of this year’s Bram Stoker Awards. — The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the recipients of the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement. Named in honor of Bram Stoker (Dracula) and awarded annually since 1988, t…
RFC 8890 - The Internet is for End Users — The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) has published RFC8890, The Internet is for End Users, arguing that the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) should ground its decisions in what’s good for people who use the Internet, and that it…
Why Does Roast Chicken Taste So Good? Inside the Science Behind the Flavors We Love — When we cook our favorite meals, what happens to the carbo-hydrates, proteins and fats? I confess I am a less-than-average cook, but God loves a trier. I remember being about 23 years old and tr
Ben Shelton's shot at history comes Sunday in the US Open final — Can Shelton become the first American man in 23 years to win a major? He'll carry the ultimate home-court pressure into his showdown with Zverev.
The Art of American Sophistication — How striving, self-invention, and charm became a national style.
For AI leaders Doom is a form of hype! - Erkan's Field Diary — Why AI doom rhetoric from Anthropic, OpenAI and other tech leaders functions as hype, regulatory strategy, and a distraction from present harms.
Invisible Vibration: Relearning How to Belong to the Earth | Alex Long Yuan | TEDxWukang Rd — The ecological crisis we face is, at its core, a crisis of perception. Through artificial intelligence, emotion technology, and interdisciplinary artistic practice, Alex Long Yuan…
Panasonic introduces a new L-mount muffin prime, the 20mm F2.5 — It's a match with the 40mm model released earlier in the year, but shoots much wider.
Detecting LLM-Generated Web Fiction with "Classical" Machine Learning (AIGC Text Detection) — .admonition { margin: .75em 0; padding: .6rem; overflow: hidden; font-size: 12px; page-break-inside: avoid; border-left: .3rem solid #42b983; border-radius: .3rem;…
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches to Find Exoplanets and Unravel Mysteries of Dark Matter and Dark Energy — The new observatory will complete three surveys of the universe in five years, although it's designed to function at least twice as long. Its data could…
What happens when quantum mechanics and relativity meet? — Experiment put atoms in a superposition of trajectories to find out.
A Beautiful Theory Falls to Ugly Data - Marginal REVOLUTION — My latest paper, A Test of the Coase Conjecture Using Prices of Electronic Books, with the excellent Tim Groseclose, has just been published. The Coase Conjecture is another one of Coase’s little ideas — the original…
Saudi Arabia, UAE Push Ahead With Data Center Plans — The Persian Gulf’s richest states are pushing ahead with plans for a massive build-out of artificial intelligence infrastructure despite data centers becoming targets in the US-Iran war. Bloomberg's Zainab Fattah discusses…
Why Pride is facing a backlash - from inside and outside the LGBT community — Big companies used to go out of their way to support Pride. Now, there's a nervousness in the air, Darren Milby writes
The overlooked factor driving the childhood obesity crisis — At a specialist childhood obesity clinic, almost all of the children are not in school. Why?
LAION Big Video Dataset — LAION Big Video Dataset - A 10-Million-Hour Open Video Dataset for Multimodal Pre-training
Japan Likely Sold Treasuries to Fund Record Yen Intervention — Japan likely sold a portion of its holdings of foreign securities, including US Treasuries, to finance its record currency intervention over the past month.
Why the USS Lincoln turned up in Thailand looking so rusty — When the USS Abraham Lincoln docked in Thailand this week some people were quick to criticise the condition it was in.
Lit Hub Daily: June 25, 2026 — Anthony Aycock looks back at Island Trees v. Pico, the first (and only) book ban case ever heard by the Supreme Court. | Lit Hub Politics TV writer and novelist Rasheed Newson talks to Spiro Skento…
Forests Didn't Fare Well During an Ancient Global Warming Event, Offering a 'Cautionary' Tale About Today's Climate Change — An intense global warming event 56 million years ago caused a forest in modern-day Wyoming to lose around 60 percent of its canopy cover, and it took…
dBase: 1979-2026 — Litigation, neglect killed dBase. The dBase newsgroup servers went off-line since November 2025. Court-smart dBase vendors and AI accelerated the fall.
Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for almost $13 billion — It was already rumored, but now we know.
Apple unveils a more powerful Mac mini featuring the all-new M6 and M5 Pro — Apple announced the new Mac mini with the all-new M6 and powerful M5 Pro, delivering a dramatic boost in performance and more versatility in its supersmall desktop design.
Morning news brief — The Fed is expected to raise interest rates Wednesday, new reports detail the damage and $30 billion price tag of the Iran war, Kennedy Center board votes to close after judge's ruling.
Someone Was Impersonating Collien Fernandes Online. She Says It Was Her Husband. — The German actress Collien Fernandes set out to discover who was pretending to be her online and sending men sexually explicit material. Her answer ignited a feminist movement.
Is Time Even Real? Does It Even Flow? — You might consider time to be such a fundamental feature of our existence that there really is nothing profound or meaningful that we can say about it. Maybe time, like space, simply is. Many have …
I Asked a Beer Expert If It’s Better to Buy Beer That’s Already Cold — And Her Answer Totally Surprised Me — For your next party.
Patagonia Is Suing Donald Trump over Bears Ears—Again — The outdoor retail giant Patagonia has rejoined tribal nations and conservation groups to fight the administration’s attempt to strip protections from nearly three million acres of public land.
Steven Thrasher on the Killing of Jason Arday — Though I have been mostly offline for my annual summer social media sabbatical, I watched the Jason Arday story unfold with increasing horror over the last couple of weeks. With hundreds of stories…
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro on Harry Belafonte’s Extraordinary Art & Activism — Non-fiction writer Joshua Jelly-Schapiro joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Christian Barter to talk about the life of performer and activist Harry Belafonte, who died in 2023. Jelly-Schapiro, …