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"Ideas para repensar el alto rendimiento" | Leandro Antonelli | TEDxBarrioSanNicolasSalon — Leandro Antonelli es líder del negocio de Agencias de Publicidad de Google en Argentina, además dentro de la compañía lideró el equipo regional de Plataformas de Marketing y también las…
Coursera and Udemy are now one company, creating the world’s most comprehensive skills platform — Today, I’m excited to share that we have completed the Coursera-Udemy combination, bringing together two mission-driven companies to create one of the world’s most comprehensive skil
J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children” — “Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else (make something new), may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like
What Makes Us...Us? | Angel Rose Saetta | TEDxEISP Youth — A closer look at what makes each one of us unique and special. My name is Angel Rose. I am nine years old and I am half Filipino and half Italian. I like drawing, singing, dancing, reading and travelling. This talk was gi
How World War I Foretold Our Current Age of Competing Nationalisms — Close to Thiepval, a small French village in Picardy with about a hundred inhabitants, stands one of the most poignant memorials to the millions killed in World War I. More than fifty meters tall, …
TRADING ECONOMICS | 20 million INDICATORS FROM 196 COUNTRIES — View more than 20 million economic indicators for 196 countries. Get free indicators, Historical Data, Charts, News and Forecasts for 196 countries.
Aaron Rai biggest long-shot major winner in at least 20 years — DraftKings Sportsbook had Aaron Rai at 290-1 to win the Wanamaker Trophy on Thursday morning, which made the biggest long shot to win a major in at least the past 20 years.
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, and with Fangs: The Alchemy of Unrequited Love and the Story Behind Emily Dickinson’s Most Famous Poem — This essay is adapted from the nineteenth chapter of my book Figuring. In the first autumn of her thirties, Emily Dickinson wrote to her confi
Its Okay Not To Be Okay | Constance Wong | TEDxIGBIS Youth — Most of us have said "I'm fine" when we were anything but, and Constance knows exactly how exhausting that pretence can be. She explores why we feel pressured to mask our emotions and why dropping that mask is not weakn
We Should All Be Autodidacts: The Case For Reading the Great Books at Your Own Pace — There’s a set of books that you’ve probably already heard of. These are the ones that’ve been extolled by professors and critics. They’ve been referenced in countless speeches and essays. And in
Why Everything Starts With Health | Tanuka Haldar | TEDxIIT Mandi — Health is often treated as one part of life, when in reality it is the foundation of everything else. This talk explores the hidden causes behind today's health challenges and examines how physical and mental wel
Zeiss Is Still Making These Six DSLR Lenses Because They're So Popular — Not quite the end of Zeiss' DSLR days yet.
Christina Anderson on Wallace Shawn’s The Fever — The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast features a series of conversations with past and present Windham-Campbell Prize winners about their favorite books and plays. Hosted by Michael Kelleher. Christi…
Leander Schaerlaeckens Recommends 5 Books to Better Understand the World Cup — Soccer derives its beauty from its simplicity. Twenty-players and a ball on a rectangle of grass; put the ball in the other team’s goal; don’t use your hands. What makes soccer popular, I believe, …
How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love — “We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come… We live everything as it comes, wi…
The spaces we create become the lives we live | Joseph Specter | TEDxUWMadison — The spaces around us quietly shape how we think, feel, and connect—an idea at the heart of Frank Lloyd Wright’s approach to organic architecture. Drawing from Wright’s work, the world of live perform
19 Novels You Need to Read This Summer — The days are getting longer. The weather is—well, unpredictable, but trending warm. The children are becoming restless. Summer is nearly upon us, and you probably need something to read. (You signe…
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Why does catnip make cats go crazy? - Jaap de Roode — Explore the fascinating reason why cats go crazy for catnip, and what evolutionary purpose the plant served to feline species. -- Of the many bewildering behaviors cats display, one of the strangest is their obsession with a
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…
The Only Three Distinctions Between People — It may be that consciousness evolved to sieve the relevant from the incomprehensible allness of all there is, to parse the world into concepts and find an organizing principle for the chaos of them…
I tested every Windows optimization tip—these 3 actually matter — I followed every popular Windows optimization tip, and these were the only 3 worth doing.
Lit Hub Daily: June 16, 2026 — Sophie Lewis examines the phenomenon of heterofatalism. | Lit Hub Politics If you want a job as an astronaut, you need to nail the interview. | Lit Hub Memoir Erin Maglaque contextualizes her own e…
Maris Kreizman’s Best of Books of 2026 So Far — I’m no fool. I know that lists are not the most intellectually rigorous form of book criticism but I also know they get lots of clicks. And given that I spend a great deal of time in this column gr…
Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life — We are the survivors of immense and minute events — violent cosmic collisions and subtle genetic mutations, the deaths of innumerable suns and the births of innumerable cells, the splitting o…
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NASA tests an in-orbit refueling device for deep space missions — NASA is testing a 'cryocoupler' developed by L3Harris for in-orbit refueling.
The dark origins of Disney fairy tales - Claudia Schwabe — Dig into the infamous tales of the Brothers Grimm, and explore how these gory stories evolved as they spread around the world. -- An evil stepmother demands a maiden’s lungs and liver; a girl is ripped from a wolf’s sto
Swimming and the Meaning of Life — One of my earliest and most vivid childhood memories is of swimming in a cool pool bounded by boulders in the middle of a river in the mountains of Bulgaria, the late-afternoon sun casting komorebi…
Streeting suggests NI cut and North Sea drilling — The former health secretary has been distancing himself from policies pursued by Sir Keir Starmer's government.
A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W — “The letter W is a child of the fall of Rome. In the fifth century CE, the western half of the Roman Empire disintegrated into a patchwork of new kingdoms and new rulers. The reasons behind this co…
AI Can’t Make Nature | Pedro Marques | TEDxUniversity of Montana Western — As artificial intelligence reshapes our world, conservation leader Pedro Marques argues that our greatest resource isn't technology—it's our connection to the land and the people who know it best. Drawing
Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI — “With your permission, your child’s lead teacher may wear a small teacher-worn camera that captures the teacher's approximate first-person perspective, and/or we may place a fixed video camera in the classroom,”
The Game You Can't Win | Feruza Luqmonova | TEDxBukhara PS Youth — What if the reason we feel behind is because we were never meant to run someone else’s race?", in her talk she discusses how comparison quietly controls our confidence, choices, and growth — and why real…
How popular culture will shape the future of office work | Nicola Bishop | TEDxDeMontfortU — The future of office work is at a critical junction. Post-pandemic, the tide is turning on the work from home generation and employees are returning to a more formally structured working
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week — Our flock of fabulous reviews this week includes Scaachi Khol on Jill Biden’s View From the East Wing, Lincoln Michel on Deb Olin Unferth’s Earth 7, Michael Faber on M. John Harrison…
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We made stones think. Now what? | Rammi Dgham | TEDxUlica Mińska — Десятилетиями прогресс ИИ был открытым вопросом; теперь это неоспоримая экспонента. Рамми Дгхам показывает, как закон Мура превратил кремний в "думающие камни" — и как способности ИИ теперь удваиваются не за 6,…
Fear to Fearless: Composing My Own Symphony | Shail Yadav | TEDxMPS Shalimar Bagh Youth — Mindset Matters found a youthful and inspiring voice through the compelling address by Shail Yadav, a student of Modern Public School, who shared her personal journey of growth, courage, and
Existentialist Embroidery — The summer I turned forty, my maternal grandmother, then ninety, gave me an astonishing embroidery she had completed it when she was my age after, having worked on it for years. The cascading geome…
Nine Fabulous Books by Drag Performers Who Were Never Featured on RuPaul’s Drag Race — There are some dazzling books by drag queens who have risen to stardom, either through social media like TikTok or reality shows like RuPaul’s Drag Race. Of course I attended Bob the Drag Queen
Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life During Seven Months on a Small Alaskan Island — “These are the times in life — when nothing happens — but in quietness the soul expands.”
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“Expatriate’s Pantoum.” A Poem by Maria Nazos — Today, we’ll wake again and drink pineapple juice spiked with Bacardi, then curl up in a hammock. We’ll do another line, then you’ll play me more Bruce, then we’ll cash another unemployment check. …
1,000 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free — Download 1,000 free audio books, mostly classics, to your MP3 player or computer. Includes great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
Holder Coco Gauff dumped from French Open as big-name exodus continues — Gauff's exit leaves four-time champion Swiatek and world number one Sabalenka as top contenders for the women's title.
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. …
Moonlight and the Magic of the Unnecessary — Every night, for every human being that ever was and ever will be, the Moon rises to remind us how improbably lucky we are, each of its craters a monument of the odds we prevailed against to exist,…
Dead Matter: On Writing From and Beyond the Archives — I’ve read that the American crow will gather around their dead, seemingly performing a kind of funeral rites, looking at the fallen crow and calling out to it in improvised sequence as though enact…
This Week in Literary History: Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita premieres in New York. — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita was first published in 1955, after many rejections from American publishers, by the Paris-based …
OpenAI now wants ChatGPT to access your bank accounts — What could go wrong?
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Building Digital Everests | Sanvi Kurade | TEDx10X International School Youth — This talk explores how technology can reshape mountaineering by making risk visible rather than eliminating it. Drawing from virtual reality work, personal climbing experience, and examples from…
On Homecoming (and Leaving), Jakarta to New York — Scenario 1 I land in Jakarta just in time for Chinese New Year. I can smell the cigarette smoke and rain before the plane even touches the tarmac; my body retrieves memories faster than my mind can…
Villa Coco — Dinner was very late for American tastes: eight thirty. I took the Baronessa’s comment to mean I was to wear my best clothes; of course I had packed only one jacket and tie, and that only because I…
Out of Line adds playful ADU with "absent gable" to New Jersey house — <p>Brooklyn-based studio Out of Line has completed an attached accessory dwelling unit that extends a New Jersey suburban home by extending its colours and creating a gable form in the negative for the entrywa