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London Review of Books — Europe’s leading magazine of ideas, published twice a month. Book reviews and essays (and much more online) renowned for their fearlessness, range and elegance.
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There’s an Injury Epidemic in Pro Sports. There’s Also a Recovery Revolution. — Athletes are pushing their bodies to astonishing feats, knowing that medical advances can heal them quickly.
May 11, 2026 – macOS 27, Apple-Intel deal — Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts...
The Easy Eight Share New Song "19.15.19": Listen — It’s still not totally clear why Charlie Manning Walker decided to end his great Chubby And The Gang project and then immediately start a new band called the Easy Eight, but that’s what he did. The Easy Eight, formerly EZ8, is…
the memory palace — A podcast and radio series by public radio producer Nate DiMeo.
A Bookstore Boom in a Time of Literacy Decline — I was standing in line at Chaucer’s Books, my local indie, when it occurred to me that the line was longer than usual. This has been happening regularly enough that I’ve stopped being s…
Claude Code Adds Cross-Session Messaging on macOS — Anthropic has updated Claude Code so that separate coding sessions can message each other directly, removing the need to manually copy context between Terminal windows. The company shipped the feature in Claude Code version…
The Smithsonian's Human Origins Program | The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program — The Smithsonian on evolution.
I Am Your Dad’s Nest Camera and I Am Ready for Shit to Go Down — You taking an after-dinner stroll? BAM—I hit you with my floodlight. You taking out the trash? BAM—floodlight again.
Barack Obama in the Trump Era — The reporter Peter Slevin asks the former President the question on many Democrats’ minds: Why isn’t he doing more in a time of crisis?
The back cover of C++: The Programming Language also raises questions not answered by the front cover - The Old New Thing — Not doing the reading.
Antisemitic incident reports rise by a fifth in first half of 2026 — The Community Security Trust said it is the second highest total of antisemitic incidents on record for the first half of any year.
Should You Outsource Your Morning Routine to a Chatbot? — A.I. wants to help you start the day. Its suggestions? Drink coffee and get dressed.
How to Be Un-Dead: Anaïs Nin and D.H. Lawrence on the Key to Living Fully — “Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”
The Continuous Creative Act of Holding on and Letting Go: 10 Beautiful Minds on the Art of Growing Older — A great paradox of being alive in this civilization is that we have come to dread and devalue the triumph of having lived, forgetting that to grow old is not a punishment…
“Our Damage Doesn’t Define Us.” What We Owe to the Natural World and Each Other — Once a year, I google the name of a man who will always be a stranger to me. In 2008, my former spouse discovered this man lying behind the fast-food restaurant where they both worked, bleeding to …
Home — May 25, 2026 - Today is Memorial Day, Towel Day, National Missing Children’s Day, Argentina Revolution Day, National Wine Day, National Tap Dance Day, National Brown-Bag It Day, World MS Day, Oscar the Grouch Day, National Purebred Dog Day, Couple Appreciation Day, Marshal
Using AI to write better code more slowly — A lot of people seem convinced that the point of AI coding is to write low-quality code as fast as possible. Spew out barely-passable slop, open massive PRs, and merge them unvetted. Ship it! But t…
#725 – The Secret Life of Circuits with lcamtuf / Michał Zalewski | The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast — Michał Zalewski (lcamtuf) is a security researcher, author, electronics enthusiast, and calculator collector. He joins Chris to talk about his new book The Secret Life of Circui
If Infantino goes, who might replace him as Fifa president? — Pressure is building on Fifa president Gianni Infantino but if he goes, who comes in?
I Give My Kid the Talk — Don’t believe what the other kids have to say; Dad is the one to tell you about the importance of Stephen Sondheim.
The Rise of the “As Seen on TikTok” Sticker — A promotional sticker used to mean that a book had been discovered. Now it means that a book was designed to be.
Alone on a Mountain in Wyoming Far From Home and Looking for Answers — I’m standing in a rocky clearing by an observatory 9600 feet above sea level. My chest feels tight as my heart pumps against the elevation, though some of this sensation may simply be awe. I’m surr…
Costco vs. Sam’s Club: We Compared Membership Fees, Return Policies, Prices, and Even Food Courts — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//k/Edit/2023-09-costco-vs-sams-club/Sams-club-vs-costco-store-front-horizontal"> PSA for card-carrying members. <a…
Michigan Is the Next Big Test for the Democratic Party — The Senate primary race between Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed reflects the Party’s growing ideological schism, but it’s also a contest of competing campaign styles.
Paradise Revisited - Longreads — "What Darwin saw in the Galápagos."
The Platner Implosion, and What It Means for Democrats — With the Maine nominee’s Senate campaign in shambles, Democrats are scrambling to find candidates who can win in this year’s midterms—and in 2028.
I Am Artemis: Anton Kiriwas - NASA — Listen to this audio excerpt from Anton Kiriwas, senior technical integration manager for NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program:
Mindscape — Science, philosophy, and ideas.
How to read more books | scotto.me — My method for reading more
Daily Cartoon: Monday, June 1st — A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.
ICH - UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage — Explore UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage: policies, lists, best practices, and resources for its safeguarding and global transmission.
Zohran Mamdani Knows He Has Political Capital. And He Intends to Spend It. — Lulu Garcia-Navarro sits down for an interview with the mayor of New York City.
Soils have long memories | Daniel Richter | TEDxDuke — Soils in cities have been scientifically neglected, yet over time they accumulate toxins such as Pb. Locating historic sites of invisible contamination has become feasible with new gps-enabled instrumentation and automated…
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Should My Husband Tell His Best Friend That We Can’t Stand His Wife? — His friend has accused him of being distant, even hinting that he’s a social climber for not wanting to hang out with them.
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…
Hacker Public Radio (HPR) ~ The Technology Community Podcast — Hacker Public Radio is a podcast that releases shows every weekday Monday through Friday. Our shows are produced by the community (you) and can be on any topic that is of interest to hackers and hobbyists.
“Sectioned,” by Meghan O’Rourke — “I wanted to sleep, / having been cut in half; / having been turned from one to two.”
Granta Magazine | Read the Best Literary Fiction, Poetry and Journalism — Granta is a literary magazine founded in 1889. Read the best new fiction, poetry, photography, and essays by famous authors, Nobel winners and new voices.
UN rights chief condemns Nicaragua’s decision to abolish elections — UN rights chief condemns worsening repression in Nicaragua, urging the restoration of freedoms and the rule of law.
How Medieval Doctors, Christian and Muslim, Treated the Black Death — Many physicians sought to treat patients struck down by the Black Death. These doctors typically turned to the extant body of medical knowledge, derived from the ancient world and Arabic texts writ…
The History of English Podcast | The Spoken History of a Global Language — The story of our language.
Best HBO Max deals: Best streaming deals in August 2026 — From 'House of the Dragon' to 'Euphoria' and so much more, catch excellent shows and films on HBO Max with these streaming deals.
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Hermann Hesse on Solitude, the Value of Hardship, the Courage to Be Yourself, and How to Find Your Destiny — “Solitude is not chosen, any more than destiny is chosen. Solitude comes to us if we have within us the magic stone that attracts destiny.”
The Conscience of the City - Longreads — "On the life of a garbageman."
Earwolf Podcast Network — Earwolf is a comedy podcast network with shows like Comedy Bang! Bang!, Office Ladies, How Did This Get Made?, and more.
DOT cranks up its campaign to strip bike lane references from federal websites — Transportation officials have removed a growing list of safety materials that mention bike lanes from federal websites. Safety advocates warn that's undermining proven measures for reducing crashes.
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…
Days Disrupted - Longreads — "Across the world, the Iran war is reshaping everyday life."
Coleman training with Killybegs - but no GAA return for now — Former Everton defender Seamus Coleman has been training with Killybegs but a return to his local Gaelic football club is unlikely to be on the cards for now.
Effective Communication,Confidence, and Our Inner Narrative | Namrata Pandey | TEDxADIS Muroor Youth — I want to speak on this topic because I believe these three things are deeply connected and have the power to shape a person’s life. The way we communicate with others, the…
Tending the Fire: Exploring AIDS Writing of the Last Ten Years — There are countless testimonies, books, poetry collections, plays, visual works and films from queer people amid the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 90s, surviving in the midst of so much death. Many …
Maximum Fun | A worker-owned network of artist-owned shows supported – directly – by you! — Maximum Fun is your home on the internet for things that are awesome, with a network of podcasts to entertain and inform you.
Amazon’s Zoox secures US federal approval for steering-wheel-free robotaxis — Zoox will launch its commercial robotaxi service in Las Vegas after receiving federal clearance.
‘Our children are less cognitively capable,’ says neuroscientist who wants to cut screen use in schools — Jared Cooney Horvath argues that educational technology undermines how children learn and develop