Destroying the misconception of fan fiction | Samara Duff | TEDxMercedes College Youth — A lot of people think that fan fiction is a rip-off of other people's talent. Some people have never even heard of fan fiction. This talk aims to destroy some of the common myths associated…
Introducing Lost Kite Editions, the Indie Press Bringing “Insurgent” Work to Minneapolis. — Rejoice, friends! The great city of Minneapolis is getting a new indie press. Lost Kite Editions (LKE) is a new nonprofit publisher specializing in poetry and literary prose. The press aim
Mathematicians still don’t know the fastest way to multiply numbers — A 23-year-old student overturned an ancient conjecture about one of math’s simplest operations
This 1950s Airplane Disaster Prompted the Flight Safety Demonstrations Passengers Know Today. Searchers Just Found the Wreckage in the Atlantic Ocean — A team of explorers used an autonomous underwater vehicle to locate the remains of the Pan American ‘Clipper Endeavor’ about…
Roughly 100,000 Years Ago, This Man Got Stabbed in the Face—and Survived. He's Likely One of the First Known Victims of an Attack by a Sharp Weapon — Researchers who investigated the remains of a young adult male found in the Qafzeh cave say the injury healed over time, which…
Will lab-grown sperm let infertile men have children of their own? — Men who do not produce sperm can’t be helped by existing fertility treatments, but a start-up is now claiming it can grow their sperm in the lab. Columnist Michael Le Page suspects this technique will have to be
Lit Hub Daily: August 7, 2026 — Should you judge a book by its cover? Probably! Ed Simon looks at the history of book cover trends. | Lit Hub Design James Spooner remembers finding community and belonging in New York’s Blac…
Why Toddlers Make The Best Adults | Lara Oyedele | TEDxHeaton — Lara Oyedele has built an impressive career as a housing leader, social entrepreneur, and former President of the Chartered Institute of Housing. A landlord, advocate for community, and passionate believer in…
For 50 Years the Major Oil Companies Have Known They’re Destroying the Planet — Near the end of the first century AD, in the highlands of northern Spain, the Roman governor, philosopher, and naturalist Pliny the Elder watched as mining cleaved a landscape. “What happens is far…
Mangrove forests are healing after decades of human destruction — Swampy mangrove forests are staging a surprise comeback - which is good news for coastal communities and the climate.
Environmental plan is largely off track, warns watchdog — A report says many of the measures are "well within the reach" of government and it was a matter of "moving away from planning into delivery".
British Hewing Championships — Hewing is the ancient art of cutting logs into beams or planks for timber frames.
How Jean-Paul Sartre Attempted to Marry Marxism and Existentialism — It’s hard to overstate the enthusiasm of French intellectuals for Marxist theory in the 1950s and ’60s. If Sartre was the most important living philosopher, Marx was the most important dead one. An…
The True Cost of War — War costs far more than weapons and destroyed buildings. It leaves countries poorer, disrupts education, drives migration, and passes trauma to future generations. Some of its highest costs are paid decades later. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell…
The Weight of Becoming. | Ayaan Sood | TEDxYouth@OIS — Every child carries a future waiting to unfold. Yet for children in economically vulnerable communities, disasters can put that future on hold, leaving education as one of the last pieces of life to be restored. In his…
A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Beginnings — “Our very life here depends directly on continuous acts of beginning.”
UK heatwave approaches two-week mark — All UK nations have experienced recent heatwave conditions but in southern England, the heatwave has now continued for 13 days. Sarah Keith-Lucas looks at how unusual this spell of heat is, and when we might see it easing.
Iran MOU Expires With Diplomacy Still in Play — Bloomberg News Middle East Reporter Dan Williams is on Bloomberg This Weekend discussing how the expiration of the US-Iran memorandum of understanding is unlikely by itself to trigger a return to all-out fighting, with diplomatic…
US appeals court rejects Trump expansion of mandatory migrant detention — Appeals court rules that the Trump administration cannot deny detained migrants the chance for release on bond.
Apple Defeats Liability for Not Scanning iCloud for CSAM, But the Judge Was Not Pleased-Amy v. Apple - Technology & Marketing Law Blog — This case involves Apple’s handling of user-uploaded files hosted in private iCloud storage. Instead of adopting PhotoDNA to scan hosted…
Software for One - Adam Waxman — Robin Sloan wished for a HyperCard that could build a family app in a day. That world showed up.
Your 3rd Place; Rebuilding belonging, 1 conversation at a time | Kalinda Fisher | TEDxFranklin — Community can be established and enhanced through communication with one another. Kalinda Fisher is the founder of Advocate Market Research and Executive Director of The Great Reset.
Jim Irons, Former Landsat Project Scientist, Wins Pecora Award - NASA Science — Landsat’s Jim Irons won the prestigious William T. Pecora Award. Irons, now an emeritus scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, played an integral role in shaping the Landsat program into what
A Woman’s Right to Vote Was Secured After Work That Was Inspired by Mothers and Driven by Maternal Instincts — In a poignant pattern, many of the most important contributions to suffrage were enacted—or inspired—by mothers
Hubble Captures Star-Studded Cluster - NASA — This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases Messier 3 (M3), one of the Milky Way galaxy’s most massive globular clusters, or
Muck spreading ban to protect rivers doesn't work, new minister says — The regulations were championed by river campaigners but angered many farmers across Wales.
Wordle today: The answer and hints for May 17, 2026 — Here are some tips and tricks to help you find the answer to "Wordle" #1793.
When Life Doesn't Go as Planned, Keep Going | Divija Pandey | TEDxSSCBS — What do you do when the path you've carefully planned suddenly disappears? In this heartfelt TEDxSSCBS talk, Divija Pandey opens up about her journey through rejection, online harassment, uncertainty,…
Numericana: Answering Scientific Questions Logically. — Final answers to scientific questions. Numeracy and numerical culture. Mathematics and physics. Physical measurements and Units. Weights and measures. Historical metrology.
These Shark Look-Alikes Have Long Confounded Fishers and Scientists on the East Coast. Tracking Where They Migrate Could Help Clear the Confusion — Researchers are tagging and tracking spinner sharks to map out their geographic distribution, because they've seen that the range…
Cuando la música en colectivo se vuelve catarsis | Enkelé | TEDxBucaramanga — Hacer música juntas ha transformado la vida de las siete mujeres que hacen parte de Enkelé, de formas que ni siquiera ellas creyeron posible. En esta charla, que es a la vez palabra hablada y letra…
the arxiv preprint server logs every physics paper submitted in the last 30 years... with timestamps. you can watch fields explode into existence in real time.
In pictures: 3,000-mile journey to save rare horses — Przewalski's horses were once listed as extinct in the wild, with only a few remaining in captivity.
India Weighs Sugar Import Duty Cut to Curb Record Local Prices — India, the world’s second-largest sugar producer, is considering cutting its import duty on the commodity to help curb domestic prices that recently climbed to a record.
Now What? | Rinaaz Sulthana | TEDxUniversity of Birmingham Dubai — What happens when the finish line disappears before you cross it? This year, the CBSE board examinations were cancelled in the Middle East. Overnight, months of preparation had nowhere to go. What followed…
Rehab centre among projects from Florence Institute of Design International — <p>Dezeen School Shows: a rehabilitation centre for young people struggling with addiction is among projects from Florence Institute of Design International. Also featured is a recovery centre for victi
The Listening Museum: “36 mechanical keyboards and switches, curated and sound-mapped. From IBM Model M (1985) — The Listening Museum: “36 mechanical keyboards and switches, curated and sound-mapped. From IBM Model M (1985) to Topre to thocky modern customs. Click any card
Liverpool sign Araujo on loan from Barcelona — Liverpool sign Uruguay defender Ronald Araujo on a season-long loan from Barcelona, with an option to buy.
Madurai Roots, Bold Ideas, Lasting Impact | Venkatesh Rajendran (CRV) | TEDxKharadi Salon — From a small city in South India, Venkatesh has spent 27 years turning curiosity into companies. Inspired by his grandfather who built a textile empire at 60, he chose a different path,…
How Angry, Out-of-Work Fishermen Saved the Patriots During the American Revolution — The British punished rebellious New Englanders by depriving them of their livelihood. This led unemployed mariners to enlist in the patriot cause
Stop Telling Me To Ask An LLM — I already did.
A desire for a loud car with a modified muffler is predicted by being a man and higher scores on psychopathy and sadism — Background: Although people are familiar with loud automobiles, equipped with modified mufflers to increase the volume, it is unclear who is most attracted t
found a library copy of a book with all the passages someone highlighted in the margins still there. their taste was terrible but i kept reading just to see what they'd underline next.
The U.S. just approved a giant space mirror to test ‘sunlight on demand.’ Low Earth orbit is getting weird — From space hotels and artificial meteor showers, to a new giant mirror that reflects sunlight to Earth — low-Earth orbit is getting weird.
Our Favorite Backpacking Knife Ever Just Got Better — The Benchmade Bugout Vapyr is lighter, stronger, and more ergonomic than the original.
Taking Flight to Prepare for Space - NASA — NASA astronaut Adam Fuhrmann (right, in yellow) prepares for a training flight aboard NASA’s WB-57 aircraft in this July 16, 2026, photo.
Boston's Revolutionary Idea for Fossil Fuel Freedom | Lindsey Butler | TEDxBoston — Looking back at the last 250 years Boston has utilized many different fuel sources and had many successful transitions from one energy source to the next. From candles, wood, and whale oil, to…
'Playful Youngster': See the Rare, Endangered Przewalski's Horse Born at the Bronx Zoo — The foal was born on April 21 and is now romping around with the rest of the herd in the zoo's seasonal Wild Asia Monorail exhibit. It belongs to a species whose members are often considered
UK heatwave delivers exceptional sunshine and persistent 30C temperatures — The current heatwave has been hot, dry and exceptionally sunny with some locations seeing double the number of sunshine hours usually recorded at this point in the month, as Darren Bett explains.
Climate.gov was destroyed. Open data saved it. — "After losing their jobs at NOAA, Rebecca Lindsey, her sister and another colleague teamed up to rebuild a pivotal resource the Trump administration took offline."
Why I started my sci-fi novel with a world-ending supernova — Claire North, whose space opera Slow Gods is the July read for the New Scientist Book Club, discusses how a population might deal with knowledge that their planet will be destroyed in 100 years
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs approach to bioresilience — Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs approach to bioresilience, using AI models to support prevention, detection and response.
Epic dreaming is leaving people exhausted and distressed — Some people experience vivid, incessant dreams that leave them feeling exhausted the next day, with researchers calling for this "epic dreaming" to be classed as a sleep disorder
Lit Hub Daily: August 3, 2026 — Carly Mattox considers Jennette McCurdy’s Half His Age and reckons with the long literary history of age gap relationships. | Lit Hub Criticism What should your kids read this August? Try one…
Tropical Storm Bertha threatens US Gulf coast — Storm surges up to 4ft are possible along parts of the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts, officials say.
Global warming already causing crop losses of over $20 billion a year — Climate change is already having a big impact on crop yields, and the subsequent financial losses will continue to rise as the world keeps warming
A Love Letter to My Hometown: On Revisiting Rural New Hampshire in Fiction — As a teenager in my hometown of Newport, New Hampshire, with a population of around 6,000 people, weekend nights began by driving through town. My friends and I would pile into a car, roll the wind…
3 clés pour poursuivre l'ascension face au défi climatique | Antoine DE JUBECOURT | TEDxSaclay — Les obstacles qui freinent l'action face au changement climatique sont nombreux. Alors, comment se mettre en mouvement lorsque l'ampleur de la tâche semble si immense ? À travers…
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, …
Google Pixel Watch 5 review: What's new? — The Pixel Watch 5 looks familiar, but new Gemini features could make it a compelling upgrade.