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Preventing WWIII in Europe’s New Cold War — The cross of the Church of All Saviors is black against a pale winter sky. Inside, between pink stone walls, a young priest swings frankincense in a silver thurible. Fragrant curls of smoke rise th…
Vessel hit by ‘unknown projectile’ in Strait of Hormuz, UKMTO says — British maritime agency says the incident caused one casualty and damaged the vessel's engine room.
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, …
Gemma 4's quantized models finally made local AI practical in my homelab — I finally have the speed and accuracy I need.
Lit Hub Daily: July 31, 2026 — July’s best book covers center stretched, blurred, and otherwise distorted images. | Lit Hub Design Books by Jamaica Kincaid, Samanta Schwebelin, Eimear McBride and more are arriving in paper…
Nature Mapping — Citizen wildlife science.
Home | Wildlife Photographer of the Year | Natural History Museum — Explore the world's best nature photography. See galleries of images, find out more about the competition and about how to visit this year's exhibition.
The Annotated Nightstand: What Serena Chopra is Reading Right Now — “Our tongues tie trying / to articulate the knot,” writes Serena Chopra in her simultaneously tender and exacting new collection A Catalog of Future Mercies. When she writes, later, “I pry this int…
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week — Isabel Waidner’s As If, Danielle Allen’s Radical Duke, and Amitav Ghosh’s Ghost-Eye all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s …
The Investors Scrambling to Keep SpaceX - and Elon Musk - Out of Their Portfolios — Christopher Bejnar has spent the last couple of months combing through the fine print of exchange-traded funds, emailing financial advisers and moving money into European stocks – all to keep…
Malaysian Defense Minister Says Won’t Rush Spending — Malaysian defense chief Mohamed Khaled Nordin told Bloomberg that the country will not rush to increase its defence budget despite US pressure for partners to become more self-reliant. Khaled spoke with Haslinda Amin in an exc
Lit Hub Daily: July 22, 2026 — Why writing alt text image descriptions is an act of literary translation. | Lit Hub Technology April Dávila explores the neuroscience of writer’s block (and what we can do to conquer it). | Lit Hu…
See David Hockney’s odd and lovely illustrations for his favorite Brothers Grimm fairy tales. — The beloved British artist David Hockney, who died last week at the age of 88, is celebrated for his vibrant paintings, his innovative techniques, and his joyful kookiness. He also, li
The Bible is now required reading for Texas public school students. — You win, Veggie Tales. The Bible is officially making its way into the Texas public school curriculum. This decision comes after the Republican-led State Board of Education approved a new mandatory…
Deals: AirPods Pro 3, AirPods Max 2, MacBook Pro, more 9to5Mac — If you’re still looking to land a set of AirPods Pro 3, Amazon’s particularly notable 25% price drop is still...
Lit Hub Daily: June 9, 2026 — How remaining unmarried allowed Muriel Spark’s “intellectual monster” to run free. | Lit Hub Biography Dave Eggers talks to Jane Ciabattari about writing a novel that understands visual artists (as…
Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning — “Everything depends on the individual human being, regardless of how small a number of like-minded people there is… on each person……
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Conservation International | Conservation International — Since 1987, Conservation International has worked to improve the lives of people everywhere by protecting oceans, forests and other living ecosystems.
Both University of Chicago Press and Hachette Book Group have voted to unionize. — At presses small and large, it’s another great week for the labor movement in publishing. As of this afternoon, the University of Chicago Press Workers Guild (UCPWG) has won their union elect…
The Bird in You, the World in You, and the Art of Trusting Time: A Ceramics and Serpentine Raffle — One December afternoon, I arrived in Patagonia with a big blue backpack, a small bilingual edition of Pablo Neruda’s love poems, and a broken heart. (Though a heart, of course,…
Five Anti-Colonial Travel Narratives You Should Read Before Your Next Trip — I am on a personal campaign to give the travel sphere something no one asked for but definitely—and desperately—needs, an Indigenous perspective. Whether European newcomers know it or not, tribal p…
Explore 1,300+ Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century, Now Restored and Available Online — Today, if you want to know about any of the flora or fauna that surround us, you have only to look it up online.
A Culture of Collaboration: The Legacy of Lunigiana’s Traveling Booksellers — In certain borghi (small medieval villages) in Lunigiana several centuries ago, some impoverished mountain people, pushed by necessity, began climbing the arduous paths of the Apennines and then de…
Deb Olin Unferth on Our Apocalypse Now World — Writer Deb Olin Unferth joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and Christian Barter to discuss the enduring power of apocalyptic narratives and her new novel Earth 7. The novel follows the life of Dylan, t…
The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece — “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Nate Bukaty on World Cup 2026 and the Heart of American Soccer — MLS commentator Nate Bukaty joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about Kansas City’s influence on American soccer and how the city came to host the World Cup. Bukaty, the …
The Ocean and the Meaning of Life — “Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp… the ultimate mystery of Life itself.&…
Encountering the Ghost of Ted Hughes in His Childhood Home — During my tempestuous teenage years, I was attracted to the work of Sylvia Plath. I voraciously read her poems, as well as The Bell Jar and Paul Alexander’s 2003 biography, Rough Magic. Her work re…
The Losses that Carry Us: A Tribute to Marjane Satrapi — On Thursday morning, June 4, I woke to the tragic and shocking news of Marjane Satrapi’s death. It was not the first time I had learned of a loved one’s loss in exile in the most mundane, alienatin…
Earth Rangers - Inspiring the next generation of conservationists — Earth Rangers is the charity that transforms children’s concerns about the environment into positive action.
Agnes Lives! — SEPTEMBER 16, 2014 6:30 a.m. I’m covered in sweat, rolling it out with very little resistance on the knob. Flushing that lactic acid. Shoulders lowered, triceps and biceps spiraling. Toward me, the…
Why Do We Keep Murdering Our Darlings? — Why is everyone killing off their main characters? In the academic year 2021-2022 at the liberal arts college where I teach, I was startled by the trend. A plot contagion. Nothing is off limits, I …
On the Public Historians Reminding Us How Easy It Is to Repeat the Mistakes of the Past — A recent essay in The New Republic asks why historians have become such visible public voices during the Trump era. Katherine Kelaidis argues that figures such as Heather Cox Richardson,…
Oliver Sacks on the Necessity of Our Illusions — “We need detachment… as much as we need engagement in our lives… transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear.”
How to Bear Your Sorrows: Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life — Few things in our culture are more wounding than the concept of healing — as if the pains and losses that we suffer are an illness, a malfunction of the psyche to be…
When Someone Wants to Publish Your Correspondence With a Famous Writer — For most of my life I didn’t read books of letters. I wanted what I read to be deliberately shaped. I wanted art. And in middle age, I lost some vision. I read more slowly, so every word had to be …
Jenny Jackson on the Literary Potential of Gossip — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. I am an unapologetic collector of gossip. Bring me your tales of accidental reply-all, familial faux-pas, sartorial misadv…
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…
How to Refute an Antivaxxer (And Why RFK Jr. is a Danger to Us All) — We don’t know their names. We almost certainly never will. But beginning on February 11, 2022 108 healthy adults from across the United States performed an act of selfless generosity. Twelve went f…
In private call, Education Dept. tried, but failed, to reassure disability advocates — The disability community has long worried about what would happen if special education oversight moved from the Education Department to another agency. Now, those moves are becoming more real.
How water becomes a weapon of war — A Palestinian spring now fills a swimming pool that belongs to Israeli settlers. AJLabs on how water became a weapon.
What Writing About Bobby Kennedy Taught Me About Male Power — A few summers ago, while the Supreme Court was deciding whether or not abortion would remain legal, I was writing a novel about Bobby Kennedy. During the day, I was a woman in the twenty-first cent…
There’s a New Coalition in the Democratic Party—and the Price of Membership is Criticizing Israel — A little over a week ago, Brad Lander—fresh off his recent ousting of incumbent Dan Goldman as the Democratic Party candidate for New York’s 10th congressional district—endorsed…
The dynamics of e^(πi) — A fuller version of this explanation, also including the reason we care about complex exponents in the first place: https://youtu.be/-j8PzkZ70Lg
What Happens When You Show Your Parents Your Debut Novel? — I gave my book to my partner before I gave it to my parents, figuring it was better to conquer one gut-churning fear at a time. I refused to watch him read it, but I was aware when he reached the s…
This Is Still English | Yaesuh Ashley Kang | TEDxSeoul Youth — Growing up in a digital world shaped by online humor and internet trends, Yaesuh Ashley Kang noticed a new kind of language barrier emerging within the same language when she found herself struggling to truly…
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name — “Despite what dictionaries would have us believe, this world is still mostly undefined.”
Wordle today: The answer and hints for July 28, 2026 — Here are some tips and tricks to help you find the answer to "Wordle" #1865.
Organized Rebellion: How Nightlife Evolved Throughout the Ages — There are times in a person’s life when the end of the week brings a welcome flurry of messages or phone calls: about parties, club nights, secret gigs, off-beat theatre shows, or just a cheesy but…
The Hidden Advantage Behind Success You Were Never Taught | Farida Yahya | TEDxMaitama — What if talent isn’t the problem? Around the world, countless talented people never get the opportunity to prove what they can do—not because they lack ability, ambition, or ideas, but…
How Phrenology Queered Language: Walt Whitman and the Evolving Lexicon of Love — This essay is adapted from Traversal and continues the story of the making of Leaves of Grass. With Leaves of Grass already printed — by a Brooklyn friend, at the poet’s own expense — W…
Newly described Australian ballista spider builds a spring-loaded snare to catch a single ant species — An international team of researchers has discovered a remarkable new spider species in the rainforest of North Queensland that spins an ingenious and powerful spring-actuated…
Is This the Strangest Soccer Novel Ever Written? — This piece was published in collaboration with Golden Goal, a literary magazine about the intersection of politics, culture and sport at the 2026 World Cup. To read more, visit their website: golde…
The Unreleased Rollable Smartphone! — This phone never came out. But they got really close to dropping a rollable phone JerryRigEverything teardown: https://youtu.be/vDMpANNGND4?si=ks0m5gQBYJkiiEVZ MKBHD Merch: http://shop.MKBHD.com Playlist of MKBHD Intro music: https://goo.g
Turns out bears have been raiding this one cabin for 20 years straight—the owner just compiled every photo. The progression is depressing.
From influencers to queens of women's boxing - five years of MVP — On Saturday, Most Valuable Promotions celebrates its fifth anniversary. One of the feistiest upstarts in modern boxing has given a new platform to the world's best female fighters.
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…
Tarik Skubal fights tears in emotional farewell to Tigers — An emotional Tarik Skubal recounted his nine seasons with the Tigers on Saturday night and said it was something he'd "never take for granted" after it was reported that he was being traded to the Dodgers.