On Joan Didion and the Art of Looking Back — In Thomas Wolfe’s posthumously published novel You Can’t Go Home Again (1940), protagonist George Webber finds himself in Germany amid the rise of Nazism in the 1930s and “face to face with somethi…
A physicist found that octopuses have neurons in their arms that let them think independently — their limbs are basically solving problems while the brain's busy elsewhere 🧠
Metamorfosa | Harleyava Princy Maryadi | TEDxUniversitas Brawijaya — What if growing doesn’t always mean we’ve reached our destination? Through "Metamorphosis", Harleyava Princy invites us to reflect on the journey of becoming ourselves amid expectations, changes, losses, and…
How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really? | Quanta Magazine — Plausible answers range from 17 to — in all seriousness — 995.5.
Scientists Discover the World's Largest, Deepest Whale Graveyard, Where Cetacean Remains Have Been Piling Up for Five Million Years — The massive necropolis, located deep in the southeastern Indian Ocean, is teeming with marine life supported by the whale carcasses, including man
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine — Preserving 78 RPM recordings.
Planeta saudável, gente saudável | Dr. Pedro Andrade | TEDxGuarulhos — E se a crise climática não fosse só um problema do planeta, mas um diagnóstico sobre o seu próprio corpo? O Dr. Pedro Andrade é médico e pesquisador, e viaja o mundo investigando o encontro entre a ciência e…
What really happened when ancient humans migrated out of Africa — The out-of-Africa migration, in which ancient humans went on to inhabit every other continent except Antarctica, may not have been one moment in time, but a long and slow process. Columnist Michael Marshall examine
'Our nature project has been amazing for wildlife' — Residents have spent the past year sowing wildflower meadows and encouraging no mow areas.
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How a visit to Stonehenge reminded me of deep time — On a visit to the UK, Sydney-based reporter James Woodford visited an archaeological site that was on his bucket list – and experienced a very special moment as the sun set
The Simple Mindset to Getting Over Setbacks | Rishabh Natarajan | TEDx10X International School Youth — This talk shares a personal story of injury, loss, and recovery after a severe knee ligament tear at thirteen, reflecting on how a painful setback reshaped his mindset and…
Announcing Box3D — I’m happy to announce the release of Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine. It is now available on GitHub. Box3D repository You can think of Box3D as a fork of Box2D, extended with many features needed for 3D games. Some additions: Triangle mesh collision…
3Blue1Brown Topics — Visual intuition for math.
‘Widow’s Bay’ Star Stephen Root on Cooking Up a ‘Witches’ Brew’ with Katie Dippold and Hiro Murai — IndieWire Honors: Our Visionary Award recipients have built one of the season's most delightful series. Star Root can't believe his good fortune.
Russia threatens more Kyiv strikes and tells foreign nationals to leave — It comes after the Ukrainian capital suffered one of the biggest aerial assaults of the war overnight on Saturday.
NASA Names Sean Gallagher as Chief Information Officer - NASA — NASA has selected Sean Gallagher as the agency’s chief information officer (CIO). In this role, he is responsible for the agency’s entire portfolio of
South African leader warns anti-migrant protesters ahead of unofficial deadline — Thousands of people from other African countries have left South Africa ahead of Tuesday's deadline set by anti-migrant groups.
Asteroid set to fly very close to Earth — Asteroid 2026JH2 has enough mass to wipe out a city and will zoom past Earth next week
NASA Hosts SpaceX Crew-11 Astronauts for Public Event at Headquarters - NASA — NASA will host a public event featuring three crew members from the agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission at 11 a.m. EDT Monday, June 1. The event, which takes
“The Forest is the Therapist.” On the Art of Noticing — Near the summit of Volcan Mountain, Janice Bina-Smith sits with a group of us in a circle on crunching oak leaves. The red ants don’t seem to be in a biting mood. Patches of sky above are clear. Gu…
The Quiet Numbers Station: Decoding Nineteen Years of GPS Cryptography — The Global Positioning System (GPS) relies on its primary L1 frequency to broadcast precise timing and orbital data, allowing receivers on Earth to calculate their exact location. Because the L1 C/A signal t
You are more creative than you think! #TEDTalks — Elizabeth Gilbert was once an "unpublished diner waitress," devastated by rejection letters. And yet, in the wake of the success of 'Eat, Pray, Love,' she found herself identifying strongly with her former self. With beautiful ins
this guy turned his marginalia from 20 years of reading into a searchable database, so you can see what random thoughts people scribbled in the margins of their favorite books 📚✨
AcuRite admits new app falls short, delays old app’s May shutdown to fix problems — The old app "still needs to be retired," AcuRite tells us.
Tom Hardy Made An Indie Rap Album With Czarface — Tom Hardy is one of our best, weirdest movie stars — the type of guy who manages to convey sweaty insanity even in an otherwise pedestrian IP blockbuster like Venom. Hardy is also a rap head to makes music in his spare time. Way…
Federal money for workforce training begins, but few programs qualify — July 1 marks the official opening of a program that allows federal dollars to go toward short-term workforce training programs. So far just 11 states have created roadmaps for colleges to apply.
No young women have died of cervical cancer in England for years — We already know the vaccine against human papillomavirus, or HPV, greatly reduces infections and cases of cervical cancer, and now we have the first evidence it prevents deaths too
the OED has a whole section for words that appear in exactly one book ever written. some of them are pretty good
Europe’s heatwave is the hottest and most humid ever — The current temperatures in western and central Europe would have been virtually impossible 50 years ago, and unprecedented humidity levels make this heatwave especially dangerous
Joshua Project - Reaching the Unreached | Joshua Project — Joshua Project is a research initiative seeking to identify the ethnic people groups of the world with the fewest followers of Jesus. Join us in reaching the unreached.