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The 13 Best Book Covers of June — Another month of books, another month of book covers. This month was all about the art choices—and a couple clever tricks, too. My favorite book covers of June are below; as always, feel free to ad…
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Mail Between Heaven and Earth: On Japan’s Post Office For Letters to the Dead — It is called the drifting post, he explained, because the letters drift between heaven and earth. Set within a stretch of coastal woodland, in rural Japan, this post box receives letters written to…
Reflections on an Angelheaded Hipster: Celebrating Allen Ginsberg’s 100th Birthday — Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark a century ago today. He is totem as much as poet, arguably the most famous American writer of verse in the twentieth-century. There’s the Ginsberg dancing like a
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A TV critic spent three years documenting every continuity error in The Office. Some are brutal. 😅
Chef Nephi Craig on the Power and Importance of Preserving Native Cuisines — The sun hung low in the sky as I turned on to the path leading from Whiskey Flats to the neighborhood we’d always called Nobody’s Home. It was barely eight o’clock, a frigid morning in February, an…
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Raspberry Pi shares its official tutorial for making a cyberdeck — The portable homemade computers have gone viral this year.
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My Sister Thinks Everything I Write is About Her… Is She the Literary Asshole? — Hey there! It’s time for another installment of your favorite advice column, Am I the Literary Asshole? It’s a place where we can all agree on one thing: people have a lot of questions about blurbs…
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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
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watched my friend explain his joke for five minutes straight. turns out the punchline was that there was no punchline... bombing builds character i guess
Germany’s Market-Friendly Pension Overhaul: Q&A — Germany is turning to capital markets to help fix its creaking retirement system.
Compiled every joke setup that actually has a mathematically optimal punchline length. The data is weirdly convincing.
A Culture of Collaboration: The Legacy of Lunigiana’s Traveling Booksellers — In certain borghi (small medieval villages) in Lunigiana several centuries ago, some impoverished mountain people, pushed by necessity, began climbing the arduous paths of the Apennines and then de…
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Chris Kraus, Relational, and the Moon — The acclaimed writer sits down with artists Shirley Tse and Dana Berman Duff for a dialogue on breath, the universe, and the ephemeral forces that carry us.
A ‘bananas’ order for 5,000 obscure titles from a bookshop in Galway fuels suspicion — Independent retailers are receiving vast orders for obscure titles, fuelling suspicions that AI companies are quietly building the next generation of chatbots
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How Do You Create Surprise When Your Story’s Ending Is Inevitable? — It’s a fairly conventional belief in fiction writing that the strongest structure of a short story is one in which a character changes over the course of that story. But what to do if you have a ch…
The Man Who Thought with His Heart: George Forster and the Birth of Sensitive Science — Every mind, even the greatest, is a product of its time and place. The true visionaries are those unwilling to mistake the figments of their culture for facts; those daring enough to look at…
macOS 26.6 now available, here’s what’s new - 9to5Mac — Following an extended developer and public beta period, Apple is now rolling out macOS 26.6 to all users with compatible Macs.
Tokyo Used Condo Prices Drop for Third Month in Correction Sign — Used condominium prices in central Tokyo fell for the third straight month in July, suggesting to some experts that the market is in a correction stage after a period of record gains.
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Google Messages will let you customize the shortcuts grid — As we wait for Chat themes to widely roll out, Google Messages is getting the ability to customize the grid of shortcuts.
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REI, Backcountry, and Patagonia Are All Having Sales at Once. Here's What to Buy. — Stock up on backpacking and hiking gear for less with these late-summer sales.
Two dead and evacuation under way as fires break out on Greek island — Nearly 200 firefighters are trying to keep the two fires on Salamina apart, Greek media report.
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The Stories We Become | Abhilash Sudheesh | TEDxChinmaya Vidyalaya Attukal Youth — Stories do more than entertain us. They influence how we understand the world, interpret our experiences and imagine our possibilities. This talk explores how the narratives around us—and the…
Russian paramilitaries in Mali kill nine, including children: HRW — Human Rights Watch alleges that the killings by Africa Corps troops took place in the presence of Malian soldiers.
UEFA asks US court for FIFA documents for criminal case against Infantino — European football's governing body considering criminal complaint against Infantino over World Cup selloff plans.