this surfer tracked every wave he rode for a year and mapped where the best swells actually come from — the patterns are nothing like what you'd guess
Are Elder Millennial Women in America Ok? A Historical Accounting — To be human is to go through multiple cycles of belief and cynicism throughout your lifetime. To quote the canonic meme guy sitting at a table, debate me. But I think that people my age have grown …
How to Live Fully: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Remedy for Our Resistance to Change — The most assuring thing about life is that we can change, that things can change, that they are always changing. The most maddening is that despite living in a universe that is one constant transmu…
Epictetus on Love and Loss: The Stoic Strategy for Surviving Heartbreak — “Who is good if he knows not who he is? and who knows what he is, if he forgets that things which have been made are perishable, and that it is not possible for one human being to be with ano…
“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…
What Is the Difference Between Exile and Exiles? — Close to forty years ago, Derek Walcott wrote something scathing about V.S. Naipaul. The two writers—both from the Caribbean, both Nobel laureates—were still alive then. Walcott wrote the following…
Interactive map of every famous surf break in the world with actual footage of what the wave looks like on different swell days. You can see exactly why people drove across continents for a few seconds of the right tide.
Hardware is not so hard - Chip Weinberger — What Chip Weinberger learned building and selling 2500 Jamcorder MIDI recorders.
Why Michael Crichton’s Best Novel is the Worst Movie Based on One of His Books — Somebody occasionally points out that vastly more words have been published about Kafka than Kafka himself wrote in his lifetime. Somebody’s probably writing a book about Kafka this very minute. I’…
US Stocks Post First Outflow Since March as Tech Trade Falters — Investors pulled money from US equities for the first time in three months, with record withdrawals from tech funds signaling that the artificial-intelligence trade is cooling.
NASA Science, Cargo Launch on 34th SpaceX Resupply Mission to Station - NASA — The 34th SpaceX commercial resupply mission under contract with NASA is headed to the International Space Station with new scientific experiments after