Psilocybin Might Make Your Brain Live in the Moment — Psychedelics are often associated with disconnecting from reality, but a recent neuroimaging study found that psilocybin can actually make our brain activity more connected to the world around us.
Mic Drop | Play Grab the Mic Online — The free online version of Grab the Mic: get a word, buzz in, and sing a real song containing it — your friends vote. No app, no mic needed, 2–8 players.
On the Populist Parallels Between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump — If you tuned in at just the right time on June 16, 2015, when Donald Trump announced his campaign for the presidency, you might have thought he was reading one of Bernie’s stump speeches. From a ma…
Nick Cave on the Antidote to Our Existential Helplessness — Stepping up to the subtle gestures that can redeem a day, or a life.
My quest to see all of Tetris | Antithesis — We're just trying to keep up with the teenagers.
Love After Life: Nobel-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman’s Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife — Where the hard edge of physics meets the vulnerable metaphysics of the human heart.
ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Reaches The Milestone Of Being Able To Run Half-Life — ReactOS, the open-source operating system working for binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows computer programs and drivers, has reached the milestone of being able to enjoy the classic game
Dave Eggers on Writing a Sprawling Novel of Art and Artists — Dave Eggers’s new novel, Contrapposto, transmits a deep understanding of the impulse to make art—to study, practice, commit to making art on a regular basis, to exhibit and sell your work (or your …
Liux's Big microcar bets on sustainability to take on Chinese rivals | TechCrunch — The Liux Big microcar is made in Spain. The startup thinks it can compete in a crowded market with its tiny electric car built around sustainability.
NBC is turning Wordle into a TV show - Engadget — The NYT's word game has been pretty much everywhere else.
Divers find 162-year-old Guinness in shipwreck off the English coast — Samples from the bottle have been sent for analysis, with researchers hoping to learn more about what the stout would have tasted like.
Wordle: Savannah Guthrie to host TV adaptation of New York Times puzzle — The online word game from the New York Times will hit the small screen in the UK and US from next year.
How to Live Fully: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Remedy for Our Resistance to Change — The most assuring thing about life is that we can change, that things can change, that they are always changing. The most maddening is that despite living in a universe that is one constant transmu…
Jim Jones and Me: On Growing Up Guyanese-American in the Shadow of Jonestown — On July 3rd, The New York Times published an article titled “The Site of the Jonestown Massacre Opens to Tourists. Some Ask Why.” In it, Genevieve Glatsky reports on the mixed reception the tour re…
11 best Bluetooth speakers of 2026: Our top tested picks — These are the speakers you'll find in our homes and our backyards.
Gutenberg Top Books — The most popular free classics.
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launch: How to watch live — This is the next flagship space observatory.
The Other Side of Success | Dr. Nawab Mir Nasir Ali Khan | TEDxKLH Bachupally — A powerful journey through privilege, loss, extraordinary success, bankruptcy, and rebuilding. The speaker reflects on how setbacks, financial failures, and unexpected crises reshaped his approach…
Interactive Warhammer 40,000 Galaxy Map — Explore 52 worlds, switch between M41 and M42, and watch the Great Rift divide the Imperium.
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🐀 ESCAPE THE RAT RACE — A FAANG life sim. One tap = one quarter of your life. Layoffs, lifestyle creep, an AI named Kevin, and Milton the desk rat.
Lit Hub Daily: August 25, 2026 — New data centers are threatening to destroy the natural beauty of West Virginia’s Canaan Valley. | Lit Hub Technology How Christian nationalism rose in the United States: “Those of us w…
How to Get Love Less Wrong: George Saunders on Breaking the Patterns that Break Our Hearts — “We want to believe that love is singular and exclusive, and it unnerves us to think that it might actually be renewable…”
Number Gacha — Can you get all 100 numbers?
Here's a dirty trick for speedrunning 'SpongeBob' — It’s called the “gamer gunk theory.”
5 Signs You Own a Project Car — Playing with cars covers a wide variety of activities. From toys to multi-million dollar driving tours, it’s possible to engage with the automotive hobby at whatever level you like. For a lot of us, the hobby eventually ends up with a…
Man charged after fire in which woman and girl died — A girl, 7, and her aunt died in the blaze in Grangetown, near Middlesbrough, on Wednesday.
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Andreessen Horowitz is shaping AI policy — while investing in a bleak vision of the future - Model Republic — The firm’s investment portfolio is full of companies that have exploited legal loopholes, created disturbing products, and broken the law.
Flock says its cameras make US safer - so why are they being sabotaged? — The AI-powered cameras have been vandalised across the US, as citizens object to the growing surveillance network.
Mario meets Pareto — Discover how to find the best Mario Kart 8 build using the Pareto frontier method. This interactive guide explores multi-objective optimization of speed, acceleration, and other key stats to help you beat your friends on the race track.
“when the army comes, the men disappear…” New Poetry by Fatimah Asghar — in indian-occupied kashmir, there are mass graves of an estimated 8,000-10,000 unidentified men & boys, dragged from their homes & never seen again. despite photos documenting their lives, …
‘The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer’ Review: A Photographer’s Portrait of Two Argentine Cousins Poignantly Captures the Passage of Time — Telluride: Alessandra Sanguinetti chronicles the shared and separate lives of Guillermina and Belinda from childhood into their…
Beyond All Reason ★ RTS — Beyond All Reason is the ultimate epic-scale RTS game for Windows and Linux. Command colossal armies in battles with thousands of units in fully simulated environments. Wage war across land, sea, and air with 2 factions and 400 unique units. Enjoy…
Wordle is turning into a primetime TV game show on NBC — It’s set to debut in 2027.
NYT's Wordle to become a TV game show | TechCrunch — The popular mobile puzzle game will become a TV game show next year.
Cursor ditches VS Code, but not everyone is happy... — Try Blacksmith for free to run your GitHub Actions 2x faster - https://www.blacksmith.sh/ Cursor 3 just introduced its own frontier model that's been suspiciously dominating all the trust me bro benchmarks. But it turns out
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Antidotes to Fear of Death: Astronomer and Poet Rebecca Elson’s Stunning Cosmic Salve for Existential Tremors — “Sometimes as an antidote to fear of death, I eat the stars.”
Planning for privacy – Increment: Planning — A look at the proactive practices and perspectives that can help companies center privacy in product development.
Apple Vision Pro was just used in a first-of-its-kind surgery - 9to5Mac — We’ve seen several stories about Apple Vision Pro being used in healthcare settings. This week, Stryker announced the completion of...
Daily Cartoon: Monday, August 24th — A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
Read the Tape — the daily chart game — Five real hidden charts a day, same for everyone. Call each one, stake your share of the bonus pool, post your daily P&L.
Lawsuit Challenges Authorities Which Used Drones to Photograph Homes Without Warrants — 'No-one should have to be afraid... because a government drone might be watching.'
A content creator tried to trademark “Hot Girls Read.” BookTok clapped back. — In a bit of unhinged book news, an influencer has come under fire this week after attempting to trademark the slogan “Hot Girls Read.” Allie Mitrovich, the content creator behind Allie …
The end of IPFS at Shipyard — We have some difficult news to share with the IPFS and wider peer-to-peer community. Our IPFS funding was cancelled
I Built an AI Companion That Actually Plays With You — How Varkos was built: a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with you, follows complex instructions and evolves through shared experiences.
This Week in Literary History: Dante Alighieri is Named Prior of Florence — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. On June 15, 1300, the poet Dante Alighieri was named one of the six priors that formed the Signoria of Florence, the city’…
Rare Pokémon TCG deal: Scarlet and Purple Prismatic Evolutions Elite Trainer Set dips under $200 — Your chance to save cash on this mega Pokémon box.
'Mini-Rodri' Gonzalez shown he will be loved at Newcastle — Nico Gonzalez is given a rapturous welcome before Newcastle's Carabao Cup win against West Brom following the £52m midfielder's arrival from Manchester City.
Rocket Report: Europe splashes some cash on launch startups; Pallas-1 nears debut — From here on, Starlink missions out of Florida will fly on Starship."
Announcing tale.fyi: read (or listen) to an entire book from a single link. — Announcing tale.fyi: read (or listen) to an entire book from a single link. by samuel cole, as one long readable page.
Anne-Marie Slaughter — 'Unfinished Business.' Why women still can't have it all, and what we'd need to change. https://www.annemarieslaughter.com/
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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction — Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. …
On Alt Text Image Description as Literary Practice — My first experience with AI image description was both mundane and profound. I was reclining on the bed in our East Village sublet, writing and drinking afternoon coffee—”Prousting,” as my pa…
Wendell Berry on Solitude and the Two Great Enemies of Creative Work — “True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner voices become audible… In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.”
OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally - OpenClaw Blog — How a push for simpler setup and a first-class browser experience grew into OpenClaw 2.0.
Best Magic The Gathering deal: Secrets of Strixhaven Play Booster Box hits record-low price — That brings down each pack to around $4.66.
Dezeen Awards 2026 Regional Showcases spotlight 50 projects in the Americas — <p>Dezeen has announced the 50 projects featured in the Top 50: Americas list as part of the Regional Showcases for Dezeen Awards 2026. Launched as a new initiative for the 2026 edition of the awards…