Greek Mythology — Entertaining and authentic information about the heroes, gods and monsters of Greek mythology.
The Man Who Reads Books For a Living (One Every Two Days) — When Clarke Speicher (spike-er) asked how I liked the screen adaptation of Train Dreams, Denis Johnson’s novella following the solitary logger Robert Granier in the early 20th-century American West…
Václav Havel, Writing from Prison, on How to Hold Your Failure — Few things in life are more devastating than to give something your all and still fail. Not the “fail better” of startup culture, not the “fail forward” of self-help, not th…
A bookbinder started lettering spines backwards so they'd read correctly when the book was shelved. Now she can't stop seeing every other designer's choice as a silent scream.
Best gifts for teenage girls in 2026: 35+ unique gift ideas according to teens IRL and online — If they haven't dropped any ultra-specific hints, TikTok definitely has.
The University of Oxford Is Older Than the Aztec Empire and Other Facts That Will Change Your Perspective on History — The historical timeline you keep in your head might not be as accurate as you think
BBC - History: Ancient History in-depth — Ancient History section of the BBC History website
Max Leiter — with apologies to Terry Bisson
Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM — A series of unfortunate agents.
Google Meet rolling out ‘Take Notes’ for in-person meetings on Android, web, & iOS — As previewed in April, Google Meet’s “Take Notes for me” feature can now work for in-person meetings. This Gemini-powered feature...
The Man Who Thought with His Heart: George Forster and the Birth of Sensitive Science — Every mind, even the greatest, is a product of its time and place. The true visionaries are those unwilling to mistake the figments of their culture for facts; those daring enough to look at…
What it's like to have the machine that keeps you alive die while you're on vacation — I'm about to tell you a story about the major disaster which affected much of my decisionmaking on my week-long vacation to Santa Fe. I just got home to LA, ...
How LLMs Actually Work — A from-the-ground-up walkthrough of how modern LLMs work, from tokens to transformer blocks to the next-token loop
Bring Bitcoin mining to your desktop for just $49.99 — Real mining. Tiny footprint.
Marco Polo — Finding a friend with only distance and motion.
Unsolved Mysteries - The Original, Iconic Television Series — Perhaps YOU can help solve a mystery. The original Unsolved Mysteries episodes you know and love are now streaming! See the mysteries and the updates.
A Heron, a Red Leaf, and a Hole in a Blue Star: Poet Jane Kenyon on the Art of Letting Go — The vital force of life is charged by the poles of holding on and letting go. We know that the price of love is loss, and yet we love anyway; that our atoms will one day belong to…
Forgotten Landmines: 7 New Poetry Collections to Read This August — “You see, one can live without having survived,” writes Carolyn Forché. That sounds grim, and indeed it is, but it also points to one of the qualities that makes contemporary poetry so remark…
I used an Excel template to plan my entire vacation—and it beat every travel app I tried — Ditching subscription-heavy travel software means I can manage my entire itinerary inside a single Excel file and travel stress-free.
What a Blighted Beach Town Says About England’s Forgotten North — Blackpool, a vacation spot known as the Vegas of the North, has become a symbol of working-class fun.
Home — The National WWII Museum in New Orleans tells the story of the American Experience in the war that changed the world - why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today.
‘Our new champion’: Philippines swept up in tennis fever after Alex Eala’s historic win — WTA event win earns 21-year-old a presidential reception in the Philippines as interest in tennis surges in home country
At least two killed as magnitude 7.7 quake hits Indonesia — Authorities urge coastal residents to move inland or to higher ground following the quake near Flores Island.
On Waking Up As an American During the Fall of the Soviet Union — On the evening of August 18, 1991, my friend Terry and I were staying at the Pribaltiyskaya Intourist hotel, a huge Soviet hotel complex built in an ugly brutalist style on a windswept island close…
Engelbert: WNBA to continue talks about transgender athletes next week — WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert sent a memo to teams that addresses ongoing discussions around transgender athletes in women's basketball.
4 reasons your networking gear should never be plugged straight into the wall (and what to do instead) — Networking gear isn't cheap, but that's not even the biggest problem
Cool down before you install: give new gems a few days to be vetted — Most supply-chain attacks against RubyGems exploit a narrow window: an account is compromised, a malicious version ships, and any bundle install in the minutes that follow resolves straight to it. ...
Demon Sacrifices and Sailing the Fae Seas: July’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books — There’s nothing like a summer reading challenge to get you into the proper mindset for the season. Many of us grew up on personal pizzas as the reward for reading a certain number of books; these d…
Raft Consensus with a Minority of Nodes
Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server — Kioxia’s LC9 high-capacity QLC SSD has been used by Dell to populate a 10 TB, all-flash, storage ser ...
How we pushed CDC into Postgres — and turned replication into clockwork — Discover Snowflake Postgres Mirroring. Learn how push-based change data capture delivers transactional replication to your data lake with zero lag.
England hopeful Gay will be fit for Pakistan opener — Opener Emilio Gay will have further treatment on a shoulder injury this week in a bid to be available for the first Test against Pakistan.
Trump Will Have to Make 'Bad Deal' With Iran, Says Former National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan — Jake Sullivan, former US national security advisor in the Biden administration, said that at some point Trump is going to have to 'bite the bullet and do a bad deal' with Iran as…
When We Fight, We Win: Why I Am Suing Northwestern University—and the US Government — Yesterday, I filed a lawsuit against Northwestern University and—in his official capacity as Chairman of the US House of Representatives House Committee on Education and the Workforce—Michigan…
God Damn AI is making me dumb — It's so god damn tempting to use AI to write. Whether it is articles, code, or documents. I feel like using AI is diminishing my ability to write myself. ...
Lifetime access to Claude, GPT, Gemini, and 17+ other AI models is $60 with this promo code — All your favorite models, no monthly fees.
Preceden Timeline Maker: Create a Timeline in Minutes — Generate a timeline using AI or from scratch. Perfect for project plans, school assignments, fiction writing, legal matters, and much more.
Rome Fell and Nobody Noticed — A barbarian heretic kept the Roman state running for thirty-three years
Moment Israeli forces storm wedding hall in occupied West Bank — Israeli forces stormed a wedding hall in al-Eizariya town in the occupied West Bank and assaulted Palestinian attendees.
Ten Great Nonfiction Titles to Read in June — If you’re the kind of reader who prefers some heft in your beach reads, than June is the month for you. This month’s picks feature natural histories of American megafauna, domestic memoirs of paren…
A Tiny E Reader — I like books. You’d probably know that if you’ve seen my bookshelf page. But, I don’t like physical books. Yeah they do look good on a physical shelf, and I do like that part of them. I just don’t like reading them. The main issue for me, is that not every book
A recently unearthed conversation with Anthony Bourdain from 2005. “We discuss Tony’s preferred sucker-punch e — A recently unearthed conversation with Anthony Bourdain from 2005. “We discuss Tony’s preferred sucker-punch etiquette, his loyalty to cigarettes & the Chateau
Midjourney, the AI Image Generator Company, is Making an MRI Scanner — Leftfield.
AI-Generated Images Discourage Me From Reading Your Blog — If you’re willing to use AI-generated images, how do I know the text isn’t AI-generated?
Read "Working in Public" — Nadia Asparouhova explains why OSS funding is hard. https://press.stripe.com/working-in-public
24 Latin American Art Scholars Named ISLAA Fellows — New leaders at the Portland Art Museum and Storm King Art Center, a West Coast art magazine closes, and more in this week's Art Movements.
The Gorgeous Nonstick Pan Our Editors Love Is On Serious Sale Today (It’s PFAS-Free!) — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//shopping/tk/2026/2026-08/our-place-always-pan-sale/our-place-pro-pan-lead"> The handy 8.5-inch Titanium Always Pan Pro is on sale…
Matthew Butterick | Extinction-level capitalism — Matthew Butterick
LIV set to cancel season-ending Team Championship — LIV Golf players have been warned that the season-ending Team Championship later this month is set to be cancelled.
人生没有白走错路，每一步都算数 | 铮 庞 | TEDxNanshan — 我们从小被灌输一种“轨道思维”：人生只有一条正确的路，偏离一步就是失误。庞铮曾经是这条轨道上的“优等生”——第一名、第一名、第一名，每一步都踩在标准答案上。 但当她两次偏离轨道之后，她才真正理解了成长——不是永远走在预设的路上，而是哪怕走了岔路、摔了跟头，也能从那段路里长出自己的力量。 回顾那些曾被归为“错误”的选择，她分享了一个简单的答案：人生不是一道有唯一正确答案的单选题。你可以走着走着，走出一个属于你自己的答案。 《令人心动的Offer7》主持季优胜者…
Google Health 5.06 rolling out to control the Coach in Today tab — Google Health 5.06 is rolling out on Android and iOS to let you control what Health Coach guidance appears in the Today tab.
Google Sheets gets a new icon (sort of): Mistake or due to feedback? — The entire Google Workspace family of apps got new icons in May. Three months later, the Google Sheets icon has been updated...
Nick Cave on the Antidote to Our Existential Helplessness — Stepping up to the subtle gestures that can redeem a day, or a life.
SmashingConf Freiburg 2026, September 7-10 | CSS-Tricks — Smashing Magazine’s in-person conferences are back and returning to the wonderful city of Freiburg next month, September 7–10.
Mic Drop | Play Grab the Mic Online — The free online version of Grab the Mic: get a word, buzz in, and sing a real song containing it — your friends vote. No app, no mic needed, 2–8 players.
The best free food deals this week: Save on McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Krispy Kreme, and more — How to eat for free this week using app hacks.
“Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Friendship — “Old friends cannot be created out of hand. Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions.”
Erased No More: A Reading List of BIPOC-Centered Historical Fiction — Through historical fiction, many BIOPOC authors help to reclaim the voices of our past and ensure that these sheroes are finally recognized and celebrated. These works collectively illuminate the m…
Blackie & Co.: A Blackbird’s Lesson in Friendship — In the middle of my bleakest winter, my friend Andrea gave me a battered copy of a forgotten book from her elderly father’s used bookshop in rural Texas, by a man named Hockley Clarke. I inhaled it…
Kingdom Hearts' first-ever anime TV series coming to Disney+ — The popular Square Enix video game starring Mickey Mouse and friends is getting a TV show.