Why I Hiked the Appalachian Trail Twice—30 Years Apart — It might be the simplest thing I’ve ever done. Which is not to say the easiest, because I was hurting from the first minute, and kept hurting through every minute after. Cramps racked my legs. My s…
Why your soundbar placement matters more than the soundbar itself — Your soundbar placement may be keeping you from experiencing the top level audio you're been paying for.
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.
How Donkey Kong toppled Atari — Atari could have had the NES but walked away over Nintendo's deal with Coleco
Lit Hub Daily: August 10, 2026 — On The Catcher in the Rye at 75, Hemingway, and the influence of war on the history of American masculinity. | Lit Hub Criticism Oil companies know they’re destroying the planet, but they sti…
Calflora - A nonprofit database providing information on wild California plants — California's plant database.
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Picture Car Confidential #46: From Front-Loader to Bonneville Front-Runner — People are always talking about their bucket lists. Things they want to do before they die. I have no bucket list, which might seem strange for an obsessive car collector, but there you have it. If I…
Téa Obreht, Richard Russo, Claire Carusillo, and more: 20 new books out today! — At last: the new Téa Obreht novel is upon us! It comes to us in a day filled with other bounties: Richard Russo, Claire Carusillo, and Chang-Rae Lee are just a few of the other lauded names whoR…
The Most Insane Megaproject You Never Heard About — Do you have a balanced news diet? Go to https://ground.news/nutshell to see reporting from a variety of sources and perspectives around the world. Subscribe for 40% off their unlimited access Vantage plan through our link. Visi
6 Best Digital Notebooks (2026): ReMarkable, Kobo, Kindle — These nifty tools combine the ease of jotting notes by hand with the power of saving them digitally.
Lit Hub Daily: August 13, 2026 — S. Lamble explores the conservative, Christian, and ultra-nationalist roots of the global anti-trans movement. | Lit Hub Politics From Hinge to Feeld, dating apps are moving into the literary space…
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“Boring Tree” — I feel like I’m being followed by a woman. She has the kind of gait where her feet point a bit outwards, and she kicks them with a little huff to get more from every step, only to land heavy on the…
How to Read the Signal of Your Life — Sitting atop a Spanish mesa one sweltering August night, watching the Perseid meteor showers streak the sky with the debris of a comet burning through the atmosphere against the backdrop of a billi…
What Barriers Do Women in Science Face When Trying to Publish? — I went to high school and college at the height of the women’s liberation movement, in the 1970s. We knew that sexism was a problem—but we were solving it. My father, the center of our household, e…
A Room of Her Own: What Women Writers Sacrifice to Pursue Their Passion — In the mid-2000s, the Guardian weekend magazine ran a regular feature called “Writers’ Rooms.” As a secretly aspiring writer (is there any other kind?) I couldn’t get enough, poring ove…
20 million children a year face online sexual abuse, UNICEF says — More than one in five children aged 12 to 17 were targeted on digital platforms, the UN children’s agency reports.
Dwarf Fortress creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' — "They're trying to have a CEO press a button that makes a game."
I ran the one command in Linux you should never run. Here's what happened — Linux destruction for science!
Modern Blu-ray drives can now rip GameCube, Wii, and Xbox 360 games to PC — third-party OmniDrive firmware unlocks game rips from physical media on select players — Specialized firmware enables certain Blu-ray players to read the formatting of retro console games.
Recommended Reading: 'Universal People, Universal Dreams' Is A Timely, Heartfelt Telling Of One Man's Collecting Journey Into The Rarest Of The Rare — The book weaves a personal narrative of friendship, challenges, and focus that brought together arguably the rarest collection…
Google Clock rolls out redesign of Timers with presets on Android — Following the new app icon, Google Clock has rolled out a redesigned Timers tab. This follows yesterday’s update to the Now Playing app.
My Ten Years in No Man’s Sky - NMSspot — Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the launch of Hello Games’ space exploration survival game, No Man’s Sky. On August 9th, 2016 the game landed on the Playstation 4 (with the PC version arriving a few days later). I remember getting…
The Sea Otter and the Abalone: On the Intertwined Fates of California’s Wildlife — Like the meteorite that killed the dinosaurs, European contact with the Americas was a single, ecologically random, earth-shattering event that completely reshaped land and sea. Disease and…
An Imaginary Throuple Saved My Writing Career — Let’s say throughout my twenties, all I did—literally—was write; whatever I could, in hopes my parents might read it, see me, grow up, and care. Let’s say throughout my twenties, I published three …
Eight Books That Puncture the Myths of Silicon Valley — These are strange times for Silicon Valley. “Tech” no longer feels like a discrete industry, or a cluster of upstart companies in Palo Alto riding the optimism of the Obama years. It…
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
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This Week in Literary History: America Turns 250 — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. This week, the United States of America turns 250. It’s a milestone that brings mixed feelings at best, considering the re…
Microduck - A tiny biped robot you can teach new tricks | Pollen Robotics — Microduck is a 25 cm biped robot with 15 motors, a camera, LiDAR and a grasping beak. Playable out of the box, and its open-source stack lets you train new behaviours in simulation and run them on the…
Apple Releases macOS Golden Gate Beta 8 — Apple today provided developers with the eighth beta of macOS Golden Gate, with the update coming a week after Apple seeded the seventh beta. Developers can download macOS Golden Gate by going to System Settings > General >…
Five 70s-era queer magazines to revisit this Pride Month. — It’s pride month! What better time to go spelunking in the archive, so as to situate the current moment, or thank an ancestor? I’ve been on a research kick, personally. Thanks to round-…
Sutton's predictions v Royal Blood drummer Ben Thatcher — BBC Sport football expert Chris Sutton takes on Royal Blood drummer Ben Thatcher, plus the BBC readers and AI with his predictions for this weekend's Premier League fixtures.
My Sister Thinks Everything I Write is About Her… Is She the Literary Asshole? — Hey there! It’s time for another installment of your favorite advice column, Am I the Literary Asshole? It’s a place where we can all agree on one thing: people have a lot of questions about blurbs…
Third Coast International Audio Festival — Sound-rich audio stories from around the world, galore!
NVIDIA's PAIR lets you use idle PCs for AI computing tasks — NVIDIA's PAIR is a free, open-source tool that can distribute AI workloads across idle computers.
Under the microscope: Ecco the Dolphin (Sega PC) — Unearthing a 31 year old Easter egg in Ecco the Dolphin
Fleetwood in contention as Lee leads Tour Championship — Defending champion Tommy Fleetwood shoots a four-under 66 to put himself in contention at the Tour Championship at East Lake in Atlanta.
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Mario meets Pareto — Discover how to find the best Mario Kart 8 build using the Pareto frontier method. This interactive guide explores multi-objective optimization of speed, acceleration, and other key stats to help you beat your friends on the race track.
Is Moby-Dick the Greatest American Novel? — Near the beginning of his long narrative poem “Letter to Lord Byron,” W. H. Auden writes, “I want a form that’s large enough to swim in.” So too, apparently, did Herman Melv…
Why Thoreau and Walden Resonate With Chinese Youth — When I translated Walden in 2012, I was not a Thoreau scholar. I was an immigrant chasing the American dream: two kids, two cars, two houses, a long commute to a corporate job. Translating Walden b…
I was told I was unworthy to be a mother, then they stole my baby — Marion McMillan was one of about 250,000 women who were forced to have their babies adopted between 1949 and 1976.
How a $1 Texas insurance fee funded thousands of Flock cameras — The higher fee, meant to combat catalytic converter theft, provided millions to expand the Flock network across Texas. Some lawmakers say that wasn’t the intent.
Chelsea Rathburn on the Unexpected Beauty of the “Research Dead-End” — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Earlier this summer, our geriatric air conditioner stopped working, bringing an abrupt end to a few years of never-quite-c…
At least 12 dead, 54 injured as wildfires ravage northeastern Algeria — Six people in critical condition as a severe heatwave fuels 154 wildfires across Algeria in a single day.
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…
Gael Monfils exits US Open with 2nd-round loss to Learner Tien — Gael Monfils played his final Grand Slam match Thursday night at the US Open, a battle with Learner Tien that ended in a loss to the talented young American.
Silent Shark — WWII Pacific Submarine Simulator — Plot contacts, solve firing solutions, strike unseen, and withdraw into the deep. The full game is available now on Steam, with a free demo to try.
X shifts US creator payouts from Stripe to X Money | TechCrunch — X says U.S. creator payouts will now be handled through its X Money payments service, a change that appears to replace the previous Stripe-powered payout system.
Studio Three Sixty creates Sauna Theatre for Edinburgh Fringe festival — <p>Design practice Studio Three Sixty has created a temporary sauna that is being used as a theatre during Edinburgh's Fringe festival for the performing arts. Designed by Studio Three Sixty director Lucy…
US Travel Industry Facing 'Self-Inflicted' Problems, Says Travel Association President — US Travel Association President Geoff Freeman said that the travel industry wants the government to work out 'self-inflicted' issues facing the travel industry as travelers face new visa…
Shaping Dominant Narratives | Prarthana Lumba | TEDxStrawberry Fields High School — Prarthana Lumba's talk, "Stories That Shape History: Whose Voice Counts?", examines how dominant narratives are shaped by covert power dynamics that reinforce gender binaries and present a…
Maynard Okereke Answers the Nat Geo 9 | Yellow Chair Interview | National Geographic — Maynard Okereke, aka Hip-Hop MD, member of the Creator Cohort, takes his turn in the yellow chair to answer the Nat Geo 9. Learn more about one of our favorite science communicators as he…
Patagonia Is Suing Donald Trump over Bears Ears—Again — The outdoor retail giant Patagonia has rejoined tribal nations and conservation groups to fight the administration’s attempt to strip protections from nearly three million acres of public land.
Source: Dallas Cowboys to waive running back Jaydon Blue — The Dallas Cowboys are waiving running back Jaydon Blue, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter.
How Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude | Claude by Anthropic — How Warp devised a simple development pattern that anyone can use to create self-improving agents.
This Hawaiian Shirt Tricks AI Surveillance Cameras Into Thinking You’re Not Human — 'AI never learned what a human is.'
Nomura's Goto Sees Further BOJ Rate Hikes as 'Possible' — Nomura’s Yujiro Goto sees a 25-basis-point BOJ hike in September as reasonable, potentially followed by additional tightening. He adds that external pressure from the US could further influence decision makers. (Source:…