Iran accuses US of striking critical infrastructure as war intensifies — The conflict has been escalating since US President Donald Trump declared 10 days ago the peace deal with Iran is over.
You can now turn off Google Gemini’s visible watermarks — A new “Media watermark” setting is coming to Gemini and Flow.
Simone de Beauvoir on How Chance and Choice Converge to Make Us Who We Are — “My life… runs back through time and space to the very beginnings of the world and to its utmost limits. In my being I sum up the earthly inheritance and the state of the world at this …
Anne-Marie Slaughter — 'Unfinished Business.' Why women still can't have it all, and what we'd need to change. https://www.annemarieslaughter.com/
Lula’s Lead Over Bolsonaro Narrows in Brazil Election Poll — President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s lead over right-wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro narrowed ahead of Brazil’s October presidential election, according to a new poll published Friday.
Stacey Yu Recommends Books About Cats (and Their Owners) — Joy Williams wrote that one of eight essential attributes of the short story is “An animal within to give its blessing.” When I first came upon this wisdom, I was on the seventh draft of my debut n…
Open Source Resistance — A direct-action manifesto for maintainers keeping open source alive on company time.
The Memory Heist — How I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets
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…
“Wild Light” — I wake up on a Tuesday cloaked in light. The light isn’t simply radiating off me. It is spitting and sparking. It feels like a second skin. My husband begins to stir next to me. I can tell he is an…
Madhuri Vijay Reads “Hidden Life” — The author reads her story from the August 24 & 31, 2026, issue of the magazine.
Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts — “We're not necessarily building in a dogmatic fashion towards full autonomy.”...
Spent three hours optimizing my writing setup. Deleted it all and went back to a napkin and a pen. Turns out friction was the feature I needed
Today's Hurdle hints and answers for August 15, 2026 — Everything you need to win.
Chinese Companies Slow FX Sales in July as Yuan Support Fades — Net sales of foreign exchange by Chinese companies fell to a eight-month low in July, suggesting a key source of support for the yuan is fading.
Sigrid Nunez, Julie Buntin, Pamela Colloff, and more: 20 new books out today! — The July fiction continues: Julie Buntin’s much anticipated follow-up to Marlena is out today, Sigrid Nunez’s new collection drops, along with Jem Calder’s I Want You To Be Happy.…
This is How People Die — Scoot, Exhibit 06, Two-Handed Gogi Dodging cars that didn’t even attempt to slow down, I made my way across the four-lane highway, along which Pig-licker and I had been running, coughing, and about…
Why does this place get the most Total Solar Eclipses? — What does an eclipse look like from the edge of space? We travelled to Spain for the 2026 total solar eclipse to find out. Sponsored by 80,000 Hours - Head to http://80000hours.org/veritasium to start planning a career…
Belgian Pocognoli frontrunner to be Scotland boss — Former Monaco head coach Sebastien Pocognoli is identified by the Scottish FA as their prime candidate to replace Steve Clarke.
Do Monkeys Keep Pets? Study Finds Widespread Primate Interactions With Other Animal Species, From Mice to Deer — This social behavior might reveal the evolutionary roots of traits that underlie pet-keeping in humans, scientists say, from caregiving to tolerance and curiosity.…
The Power of a Thin Skin — “To be thin-skinned is to feel keenly, to perceive things that might go unseen, unnoticed, that others might prefer not to notice.”
Czech Rate Hike in June a ‘Real Possibility,’ Governor Says — Czech central bank Governor Ales Michl said he sees a stronger argument to raise interest rates in June to contain inflationary pressures. While the global cost pressures from the energy shock may abate, the Czech econ
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…
Writing As Spiritual Practice: Inside the World of Medieval Scribes — Because monastic life depended on books, it was natural that monks and nuns came to produce them. Many monasteries included a scriptorium, a dedicated writing room where books were meticulously cop…
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week — Our feast of fabulous reviews this week includes Niela Orr on Colson Whitehead’s Cool Machine, Lily Meyer on Valeria Luiselli’s Beginning Middle End, Jonathan Derbyshire on Emily Eakin’s The French…
Watch the chic, menacing trailer for Bret Easton Ellis’s new FX series. — Oh, Bret Easton Ellis. You old lightning rod. The Gen X nihilist known for anchoring the literary Brat Pack and depicting depraved superficial youth is shifting his talents to television. With the …
Lit Hub Daily: August 12, 2026 — When a wealthy university donor can silence one of the world’s leading genocide scholars, it exposes the problem with for-profit higher education. | Lit Hub Politics The best way to get peopl…
The Bridge Back to You: A mediation experience by Amelia Mei | Amelia Mei | TEDxWorthington Women — Our breath and our heart are the two most important tools we will ever use. This talk explores how we can connect deeply with our subconscious and discover the highest, most…
Celtic's Engels poised for West Ham transfer — Belgium midfielder Arne Engels is having a medical pending a transfer to West Ham United, Celtic manager Martin O'Neill has confirmed.
Sea Monster Villages and Soul Traders: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books — This month’s list comes to you from smoky orange skies and toxic lettuce, so what better time to distract ourselves with haunted seaside villages, mysterious salt pillars, and demon hunters? Robert…
These forgotten operating systems were decades ahead of their time — These systems had slick UIs, multiprocessor support, multitasking and MIDI. What happened?
The Four Buddhist Mantras for Turning Fear into Love — “When you love someone, the best thing you can offer that person is your presence.”
Gaza City police chief killed as Israel pushes on with deadly strikes — Latest Israeli attacks kill police official Jamal Abu Kamil in Gaza City and another person in Khan Younis.
Foxes beat Notts to reach One-Day Cup final — Leicestershire reach a second One-Day Cup final in four years as they overcome Notts Outlaws by 23 runs in their semi-final at Grace Road.
The Ability To Try Again | Samhita Narayanan | TEDxFCSIA Youth — All paths face roadblocks at some point; Samhita faced hers when she reached a turning point in her gymnastics career last year and discovered the true value of second chances. Samhita Narayanan loves music and…
Did 'Euphoria' Season 3 really just kill off Rue? — "Euphoria"s latest cliffhanger has some pointing to a grim fan theory.
The Kiln and the Quantum of Relationships — Anything you give your time to and polish with attention will become a lens on your search for meaning, will lavish you with metaphors that become backdoors into the locked room of your most urgent…
McIlroy admits concerns as Scheffler regains winning feeling at St Jude — Rory McIlroy says "he felt lost" as he toils to a 66th-place finish - 25 strokes behind champion Scottie Scheffler - at the St Jude Championship in Memphis.
UK-made drones strike targets inside Russia — The drones have been used for the first time in mainland Russia to hit military and industrial targets.
What's going on at Cadillac and Haas? F1 Q&A — BBC Sport F1 correspondent Andrew Benson answers your latest questions before the season resumes with the Dutch Grand Prix.
To Think the Unthinkable: On the Work of Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska — “Don’t bear me ill will, speech, that I borrow weighty words / then labor heavily so that they may seem light,” Wisława Szymborska writes in “Under One Small Star.” Szymborska kept her litera…
How Howard Zinn’s Hard Lessons in WWII Shaped His View of the World — Royan is a resort town in the southwest of France right on the Atlantic Ocean. Home to twenty thousand residents, a vibrant fishing community, and five beaches, it transforms over the summer when n…
Spurs' Vicario set to join Juventus on loan — Tottenham accept a loan offer from Juventus for goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario, which includes an option to buy.
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.
Over 8,000 affected by water supply disruption — South East Water says its teams are exhausted as it tries to restore water to areas in Kent.
Pixel 11 ads show a mysterious screen-equipped tracker that's not Pixel Watch 5 or Fitbit Air [Gallery] — Google might have another fitness tracker in the works, as a pair of new ads online show off a mysterious...
US Ends Solar Tariff Dodge, But Boosting Local Industry Looks Tough — The White House is moving to better safeguard its solar industry, while facing an uphill battle to become competitive with China.
Lit Hub Daily: July 21, 2026 — Why more retellings of the Odyssey should center women: “We are like Penelope, unraveling Homer’s tale for our own purposes.” | Lit Hub Criticism How Jean-Paul Sartre and other Fr…
‘The party of the Cubans’: How Republicans courted a key South Florida vote — Polls suggest Cuban American voters in Florida remain largely Republican, despite frustration over immigration.
The Responsible Party — By the time Irv and Kath met, the Oberbach Corporation was ankle-deep in concrete, middle-manning the cheap Chinese labor the city needed to build its demonic underground highway along the river. I…
The Papers: 'Water cheek' and 'Queen Amy's gold rush' — Water companies being allowed to increase prices during droughts and Amy Hunt's gold medal run dominates Monday's papers.
Write.md | Your words. Your space. — A free, open-source Markdown editor for macOS with customizable appearance profiles, optional Vim keys, and local writing corrections.
Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Is Retiring Its Name After Trademark Dispute — In the fall of 2020, riding high off the success of her pandemic-era classic Punisher, Phoebe Bridgers launched Saddest Factory Records, a new imprint operating under the umbrella of Dead Oceans,…
'Hellcat' ending, explained — Let's dive into the secret of Brock Bodell's buzzy horror film.
Small-scale projects offer hope for Gaza farmers rebuilding lives — Greenhouses and rented plots are lifelines for Gaza farmers, helping them grow crops despite the extensive destruction.
Mirrorless vs DSLR: Which camera type is better? — The industry seems to be moving on from DSLR technology, but is it time to ditch your DSLR camera yet?
The American Sports Plutocracy Is Bullshit — American sports laws amount to a kind of out-in-the-open conspiracy to help a lucky few billionaires get much, much richer
Who are the Chawinga sisters leading Malawi's bid for Wafcon glory? — Sisters Tabitha and Temwa Chawinga are the undoubted stars of Malawi's unexpected run to the final of the 2026 Women's Africa Cup of Nations.
ChatGPT is getting a dedicated mode for teens — How is this not called ChatGPTeen?
The Gentle Giant: Oliver Sacks and the Art of Choosing Empathy Over Vengeance — An existential lesson gleaned from a brush with death and foolishness.