“Our Damage Doesn’t Define Us.” What We Owe to the Natural World and Each Other — Once a year, I google the name of a man who will always be a stranger to me. In 2008, my former spouse discovered this man lying behind the fast-food restaurant where they both worked, bleeding to …
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A Shelter in Time: John Berger on the Power of Music — “Songs are like rivers: each follows its own course, yet all flow to the sea, from which everything came.”
How to Write an Effective Software Design Document — Best practices for writing a design doc based on my experience working as a developer at Google and Microsoft.
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But We Had Music — How, knowing that even the universe is dying, do we bear our lives? Most readily, through friendship, through connection, through co-creating the world we want to live in for the brief time we have…
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The Golden Rule for Becoming a Better Writer - T.R Napper — I’m obsessed with the craft of writing. I write every day, I read about the craft often, and in my...
Tunisia fuel strike highlights growing economic and political anger — A 48-hour strike in Tunis adds to mounting public frustration over worsening living conditions and basic services.
Tech Bros Utopia — A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes
Celebrations in Ethiopian city after reported Eritrean ‘incursion’ — People in northern Ethiopia are celebrating after a reported withdrawal of Eritrean forces accused of an incursion.
Sally Rooney just defeated a data center. — Here’s a rare piece of heartening tech news to buoy you toward the weekend: A West of Ireland data center objected to by novelist Sally Rooney has just had its planning permission overturned …
Dramatists Guild — Why a Guild and Not a Union?
The Markdown Database Pattern | The Way of Markdown — Treat a folder of markdown files as records in a database — the pattern behind Obsidian Bases, Notion-style workflows without lock-in, and more.
WALS Online - Home — The World Atlas of Language Structures.
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Lula bans fixed-odds sports betting a week before Brazilian elections — President’s ‘hard, drastic and necessary measure’, likely to attract widespread public support, polls suggest
Seven Novels That Explore the Lives of Wayward Youth — The “Wayward Girl” in fiction—and unfortunately, in reality—is defined less by her own actions and more by a society determined to “correct” her. The “waywardness” is usually a symptom of being too…
An unofficial guide to markdown-ts-mode on Emacs 31 | Rahul's Blog — Rahul's Blog
Who Were the Mayflower Puritans? (And Did You Know They Came From a Town Called “Scrooby”?) — The Mayflower Pilgrims believed that they were freedom seekers, escaping centuries of bondage. William Bradford, a Mayflower passenger who served as Plymouth’s longtime governor, began h
Retracing the Steps of Sylvia Plath in Paris (and Rome, and Cape Cod, and Wellesley…) — The train pulled into Nice at 11:20pm. It was December 31st, 2021, and after I had found my small pension-hotel to drop off my bag, I went out into the streets. There was a flurry of excitemen
Unboxing Other People's Lost Mail — Today we unbox unclaimed mail and see what treasures we can find. Watch today's GMMORE: https://youtu.be/aU3a4iEnrfA Subscribe and click the bell icon so you'll know when we add a new episode! Sign up for Mythical newsletters to stay up to…
SpaceX launches crew to ISS successfully: ‘Thanks for an amazing ride’ — Jessica Watkins, the first Black woman to lead a crew to orbit, is making her second trip to the space station
Looking in the Mirror of My Past as a Korean Adoptee in the United States — “A second surface mirror, also known as a standard or regular mirror, creates a ghosting effect (double image).” ______________________________________________________________ “Displaced peo…
Sources: NCAA denies reinstatement for Texas Tech QB Sorsby — The NCAA has denied Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby's request for reinstatement for eligibility for the 2026 season, sources told ESPN's Pete Thamel on Tuesday.
Peter Hessler on the Implications of a Chinese Education — Acclaimed nonfiction writer Peter Hessler joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about his new memoir, Other Rivers: A Chinese Education. Hessler, a New Yorker staff writer …
Google Patents — Search and read the full text of patents from around the world with Google Patents, and find prior art in our index of non-patent literature.
How We Render Reality: Attention as an Instrument of Love — “Since our consciousness plays some part in what comes into being, the play of attention can both create and destroy, but it never leaves its object unchanged.”
Dinosaur Comics! — it's a very useful word to say on a first date. speed dating is SO much faster for dinosaurs; this is canon
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…
Thanks, I’m Just Looking — The New York art fairs, the worst of the Venice Biennale, Taryn Simon’s incomplete detective story, and Damien Hirst’s gay hole.
Eleven killed in mass shooting at house in South Africa — One of those killed is believed to be a pregnant woman, police said.
Accidental Historian - Longreads — "With little fanfare, Ray Di Pietro has attracted tens of thousands of devotees. His images are artfully composed, spontaneous, honest, and, well, kind."
Motorola Signature 27 confirmed to support GrapheneOS — It’s confirmed: The mysterious Motorola phone getting support for the privacy-focused GrapheneOS will be the Motorola Signature 27 that was...
Beyond Cli-Fi: Why Every Story is a Climate Change Story — I started my second novel, The Emilys, with a single sentence: “What did I love about going to get the vaccine?” All I knew was that a mom was leaving her house before dawn. I knew she was so happy…
Rana Begum Sees What You Don’t — “Art became a tool to communicate, at first,” she told Hyperallergic. "Then it became an obsession.”
Scribophile: The writing group and online writing workshop for serious writers | Scribophile — The online writing group, writing workshop, and writing community where writers exchange critiques and feedback on their writing.
Learning From Shame: R.F. Kuang on Diaspora, Language and Writing Young Protagonists — R.F. Kuang is, in the best sense, a literary chameleon. Each one of her novels presents a different setting and dynamic, but her oeuvre is unified by careful thought, sharp style, and an…
Is Meta’s new AI agent easier to trust because it’s cute? — <p>Muse comes with an avatar you design and a keyring gadget. Few people would hand Meta their passwords, yet it topped the US App Store.</p> <br/><br/>
Write Like It's 1866: LLMs Relearn Telegraphese — Instructed to answer in cablese — the telegraph operators' compressed dialect (drop the articles and filler, keep every fact) — a single one-sentence instruction, no examples and no codebook, elicits 40–49% fewer billed output…
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theyrule.net — Explore the boardroom connections of the largest US companies.
Lit Hub Weekly: July 27 – 31, 2026 — D/Annie Liontas, Sara Nović, Chet’la Sebree and Maria Adelman discuss the literary world’s unacknowledged class system. | Lit Hub In Conversation Jane Ciabattari gives all of Colson Whitehead’s wor…
Mental Floss - History, Trivia, Interesting Facts, and More — Learn weird, interesting facts about history, entertainment, language, geography, and more topics. Test your knowledge with our quizzes and other trivia.
theory11 — Learn Magic Tricks, Card Tricks & Cardistry — theory11 is the largest producer of premium, designer playing cards - and the best place to learn incredible, mind-blowing magic tricks and cardistry.
Glottolog 5.3 - — A catalog of the world's languages.
Grammar Girl — Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing and feed your love of the English language - Quick and Dirty Tips.
England vs. Spain 2026 livestream: How to watch Nations League for free — Live stream select fixtures from the UEFA Nations League without spending anything.
This writer's tool literally just removes every adjective for you. The sentences that survive are either genius or completely hollow — no in between.
Lit Hub Daily: August 31, 2026 — “Terror wasn’t the only weapon the Nazis used against the American prisoners. Sometimes, they used propagandistic persuasion as well.” On the myths and facts of Dresden in Slaughterhous…
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'Stay humble' - Hurzeler's plea to Brighton after huge Arsenal win — Brighton manager Fabian Hurzeler highlights his team's intensity, togetherness and squad depth following their resounding 3-0 win against Arsenal in the Premier League.
The AirPods Pro 3 are a fantastic deal at $179 — Great sound, great fit, $70 off.
NASA ORBIT Challenge 2027 - NASA — The NASA ORBIT (Opportunities in Research, Business, Innovation, and Technology for the Workforce) Challenge invites university and community college students
sandspiel — Sandspiel is a falling sand game that provides a relaxing and creative place to play with elements like sand, water, plant, and fire. Enjoy on your phone, tablet or computer, and share your creations with your friends!
Babbel Magazine — Stories about language.
At least 109 dead, over 100 missing as migrant boat capsizes off Djibouti — Search and rescue operations conducted after vessel carrying more than 300 people capsizes near Guhere.
The Fascinating Science of How We Think Not with the Brain But with the World — “By reaching beyond the brain… we are able to focus more intently, comprehend more deeply, and create more imaginatively — to entertain ideas that would be literally unthinkable by the …
Hermann Hesse on How to Hear the Wisdom of the Inner Voice — “If you are now wondering where to look for consolation, where to seek a new and better God… he does not come to us from books, he lives within us… This God is in you too. He is m…
Nietzsche on How to Find Yourself and the True Value of Education — “No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life.”