'Obvious' App Store ratings fraud going undetected by Apple, says StopTheMadness developer — Jeff Johnson, developer of the popular StopTheMadness Safari extension, has said that “obvious” App Store ratings fraud is going undetected...
Beyond Cli-Fi: Why Every Story is a Climate Change Story — I started my second novel, The Emilys, with a single sentence: “What did I love about going to get the vaccine?” All I knew was that a mom was leaving her house before dawn. I knew she was so happy…
The First Reviews of The Catcher in the Rye — “I was surrounded by phonies… They were coming in the goddam window.” * Seventy-five years ago today, The Catcher in the Rye first hit bookshelves across the US, and people still have some pretty s…
The Events That Took Place in This Selma, Alabama, Home Were Key to the Civil Rights Movement, and You Can Now Visit It — The Jackson family opened their home to civil rights leaders planning the Selma-to-Montgomery march, which led to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. T
The keys to empowering sports fandom | Josh Babetski | TEDxUTAustin — Josh Babetski didn't have money, political connections, or even a sports background. He had a Twitter account and an impossible idea: bring Major League Soccer to Austin, Texas. What followed was a multi-year…
Why your brain needs to feel lost | Giuliana Mazzoni | TEDxSapienzaU — Professor Giuliana Mazzoni guides us through a profound reflection on liminality as an existential condition: those in-between moments when change leaves us feeling disoriented, yet also allows us to…
Hubble Sights Galaxy in Transition - NASA Science — This Hubble image of lenticular galaxy NGC 1266 reveals its bright center and a face that hints at spiral structure.
Breaking Silence: A Journey to Self-Discovery | Mariam Mohammad | TEDxASK Youth — Mariam explores silence and what happens when we finally choose to break it. Because sometimes, discovery begins in the moment we find our voice. Mariam is passionate about self expression, personal
Can Zohran Mamdani’s New Correction Commissioner Solve the Problem of Rikers? — Stanley Richards brings faith in reform and his own experience of incarceration to an ongoing crisis.
Minerals.net — The Mineral and Gemstone Kingdom — A reference to minerals, gemstones, and gem varieties. Search by chemical group, crystal system, color, hardness, and more.
Companies Keep Slashing Employees’ Benefits for the Worst Reasons — Workers are getting worse health care, parental leave, and retirement benefits, showing once and for all that your job doesn’t love you back.
Both University of Chicago Press and Hachette Book Group have voted to unionize. — At presses small and large, it’s another great week for the labor movement in publishing. As of this afternoon, the University of Chicago Press Workers Guild (UCPWG) has won their union elect…
Medievalists.net — Where the Middle Ages Begin
Curiosity Blog: Sols 4913-4919: Planetary explorers, freewheeling to the Yardang unit! - NASA Science — Written by Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, APXS Strategic Planner and Payload Uplink/Downlink Lead, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Biofuels Are Key to Avoiding Sharp Farmland Drop, S&P Says — Expanding biofuel demand is a “powerful catalyst” to restore profitability to American farms, according to a new study, as harvests balloon and lawmakers consider broadening the market for corn-based ethanol.
Mysterious ‘cold blob’ in the Atlantic suggests the AMOC is weakening — A patch of ocean south-east of Greenland is the only place on Earth that is cooling, and it could be a sign that the warm water "conveyor belt" in the Atlantic is slowing down
The True Cost of War — War costs far more than weapons and destroyed buildings. It leaves countries poorer, disrupts education, drives migration, and passes trauma to future generations. Some of its highest costs are paid decades later. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell…
See Ten Spectacular Images From This Year's Astronomy Photographer of the Year Contest That Capture the Wonders of the Universe — The pictures, on the competition's shortlist, reveal the remarkable celestial objects that lie above our heads, both in deep space and closer to home
Transforma tu vida desde el propósito | Santiago Rodríguez | TEDxAspaen Neiva Youth — Todos debemos encontrar nuestro propósito en la vida. Emprendedor innovador y administrador de empresas con experiencia en desarrollo de negocios, cadena de suministro y estrategia de…
Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” Leaves the Gods in the Outtakes — The director’s Homer adaptation presents a modern, relatable Odysseus, rather than trying to understand the ancient world on its own terms.
The masks we wear | Zora Krstić | TEDxLuxembourgCity — Some of the most important parts of who we are begin as performances. Confidence. Courage. Even the way we see ourselves. But where is the line drawn between becoming someone, and pretending to be someone? Zora is a…
The story of the first human tool: the humble container — An analysis of ancient human artefacts finds that the container, a simple but critical tool, may have originated 500,000 years ago. Columnist Michael Marshall explores how slings, ostrich eggs and wooden trays helped our a
Can a Hedgehog Replace Winston Churchill? See Which Animals May Soon Swap in for Historical Figures on British Pounds — Butterflies, dolphins and puffins are among the options the public will vote on to grace new banknotes
The Souls of Animals — “They do not sweat and whine about their condition,” Walt Whitman wrote of the other animals, “they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick …
Web Security is Too Hard — It started innocently enough. I saw a tweet about a new product offering from one of my favorite companies, Cloudflare. Neat! I clicked through to the site and there it is: And huzzah!, my preferre…
Creating opportunities for disabled people to lead | Keely Cat-Wells | TEDxPortland — Many of the tools we rely on every day, from text messaging to audiobooks to voice recognition, were shaped by disabled people and the need for accessibility. In this talk, disability…
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La matematica: un talento che si disattiva | Raffaella Rumiati | TEDxCervia — Professoressa ordinaria di Neuropsicologia e Neuroscienze Cognitive, studia come il cervello impara, si adatta e si trasforma. I suoi studi rivelano che il talento non è innato né fisso: possiamo…
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week — Our flock of fabulous reviews this week includes Scaachi Khol on Jill Biden’s View From the East Wing, Lincoln Michel on Deb Olin Unferth’s Earth 7, Michael Faber on M. John Harrison…
Lit Hub Daily: June 30, 2026 — Did you know that Ancient Roman romance novels went hard? | Lit Hub History It’s finally your chance to snag books by Slutty Cheff, Nicholas Boggs, Benedict Nguyen, and more in paperback. | L…
Extreme weather in the UK is the 'new normal' — Sarah Keith-Lucas details five things you need to know about how the UK climate has changed.
The secrets to keeping your brain sharp in old age — Neurologist Emily Rogalski studies "superagers" – people in their 80s or 90s with unusually keen memories, whose lifestyles suggest ways to slow cognitive decline
The Old Streets of Athens: On Living and Dying Away From One’s Homeland — “Where’s the water of disappeared rivers?” –Etel Adnan, Sea and Fog * “the morning couldn’t find space to bring its light across to the other side on the riverbank stones one by one open their eyes…
Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search - PrimeNet — Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search - Finding world record primes since 1996. GIMPS is an organized search for Mersenne prime numbers using provided free software.
MEN ARE NOT OKAY: Breaking the silence on masculinity | Dr. Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam | TEDxUCT — In 2017, far from home and midway through a PhD, a young scholar found himself drowning in a depression he thought he could simply pray or play away. That moment sparked an…
Our Ancestors Loved Shell Trinkets, Just Like Neanderthals. New Research Suggests It's a Sign of Shared Culture Across Species — Based on artifacts found in a limestone cave on the Mediterranean coast, scientists think the two species might have shared similar survival…
A Bright Meteor Lit Up the New England Sky Before Exploding With a Loud Boom—and Its Pieces May Have Landed in Cape Cod Bay — People reported seeing the glowing space rock or hearing or feeling its breakup from Delaware to Montreal. Experts estimate that it was about three feet w
What anorexia taught me | Laura Henning | TEDxErasmusUniversityCollege — Over the years, Laura has gained knowledge across a range of topics, from emotional regulation and relationships to mental health and psychological disorders. Drawing on her personal experiences and…
Emerging Markets Stay Under Pressure as Iran Impasse Lifts Oil — Emerging-market stocks and currencies stayed under pressure as the lack of progress on US-Iran talks lifted oil prices back above $86 a barrel.
Meta risks $12B EU fine over addictive Instagram and Facebook feeds — The addictive design threatens the ‘physical and mental wellbeing of users.’
On the Speed of Animals, Airborne and Earthbound — Animals move in all manner of ways, not all of which fit in the three big categories of mobility: running, flying, swimming. Some organisms are subjected to passive locomotion, carried by water or…
La NASA adjudica nuevas misiones científicas para Base Lunar y adelanta nuevas oportunidades - NASA — La NASA anunció el martes la selección de tres empresas para llevar a cabo cuatro nuevas misiones a la Luna a finales de 2028 como parte del programa Base
Pancreatic cancer halted by virus injection in three patients — A cancer-killing virus has stopped pancreatic tumours from growing and spreading in three people in an initial safety trial, raising hopes that it may help to beat the deadly condition
Giraffes Might Be Even Smarter Than We Thought. Some Can Solve Simple Math Problems, a New Study Suggests — Two of four tested giraffes seemed to be able to mentally combine numbers to get one of their favorite treats: carrots. But all the animals failed at tasks involving…
Experience the Launch of NASA's Roman Space Telescope - NASA — Are you ready for a new view of the universe? The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will reveal distant worlds, dark energy, and the structure of the cosmos,
The World’s Deadliest Diseases — From malaria to tuberculosis, infectious diseases still kill millions every year. For survivors, it’s not just a health battle, it also drains time and money, often trapping people in poverty. By lowering treatment costs and enabling people to liv
AI Doesn't Understand You | Nikita Gajbhiye | TEDxMoulsari Avenue — Artificial intelligence can recognize patterns, generate predictions, and outperform humans in many specialized tasks. But does it truly understand the world it analyzes? Drawing from real-world experiences in…
Photons behave very strangely if you try to cut them — Particles of light cannot be divided into smaller particles, but if you try to snip off the end of one, instead of shortening it multiplies
I asked Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini to build a password generator—one outperformed the others — I gave 3 AI platforms the same password generator prompt to see which one produced the best working code.
Listening to reindeer in the dark | Michael Palace | TEDxPortsmouth — In the dark Arctic winter, a strange clicking moves across the tundra — not branches, but reindeer tendons slipping over bone, an adaptation that helps them stay connected when vision fails. Scientist Michael…
Reclaiming the Stereotype, Rewriting Our Truth: Black Women | Kayla Walker | TEDxCCSD Youth — A beautiful love letter to black girls. We are who we say we are! Kayla is an 11th grader at Clarke Central High School who enjoys cheerleading, living life to the fullest, and…
Your PDF reader is tracking more than you realize — Between the app and the document itself, you may be giving up more information than you realize.
Would You Chat With an A.I. 'Ghost' of a Deceased Loved One? New Research Suggests That the Tech Can Provide Comfort and Closure — Commercial "griefbots" are becoming more popular, and many experts have questions about their psychological and ethical impacts. A new study aims…
The $50 tool every used car buyer should bring to test drives — Gain access to information that could save you thousands of dollars in unexpected repairs.
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 …
Proving a human wrote something — I inhale and exhale.
Our verdict on Luminous by Silvia Park: a fascinating take on robots — The New Scientist Book Club read Silvia Park's near-future sci-fi novel Luminous in May, and had lots of good things to say (along with a few complaints)
'Disgusting' beach litter leaves people upset — Jill Boyle is urging people coming to north Norfolk to take their rubbish home and not leave it behind.
Ten stadiums of the future that rewrite the playbook — <p>Stadiums are no longer just being designed for matchdays, with architects boldly pursuing novelty to create distinctive year-round landmarks. For our Future Stadium series, we look at 10 of the most offbeat examples…
Man City must act like champions as WSL rivals grow stronger — Manchester City have bolstered their squad this summer - but will they have enough to defend their Women's Super League crown?