FBI arrests man accused of using Steam games to drain victims' crypto wallets | TechCrunch — Prosecutors accused 21-year-old student Zyaire Wilkins of publishing on Steam several fake video games that contained malware, infecting thousands of victims, and stealing crypto from…
A biologist documented every animal that passes through her backyard camera over five years — the patterns are hypnotic, the rare sightings genuinely unexpected.
Le Creuset, Ninja, and 11 More Labor Day Kitchen Deals I’m Shopping Early — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//at/house%20tours/2026/june/marcelline-b/tours-newyork-marcelline-b-8M1A9132"> Labor Day might be a week away, but these deals are ready to be…
Patatap — Patatap is a portable animation and sound kit. With the touch of a finger create melodies charged with moving shapes. Warning: contains flashing images.
Otter, mid-afternoon.
WSL2 vs WSL3 Benchmarks: Performance, Memory, and Syscall Scaling — With the release of the WSL 3.x stack, Microsoft bumped the default virtualization runtime and advanced the shipped guest kernel from the 6.6 LTS branch up to 6.18. WSL upgrades often claim generalized…
Animals — Step into the world of animals, from wildlife to beloved pets. Learn about some of nature’s most incredible species through recent discoveries and groundbreaking studies on animal habitats, behaviors, and unique adaptations.
EuroBirdPortal — Unraveling European-wide spatiotemporal patterns of bird distribution. Mobilizing 100,000 volunteer birdwatchers and 30 millions of new bird records every year to unravel European-wide spatiotemporal patterns of bird distribution
What Peatlands Can Teach Us About Time — I am sitting in a frost pocket in West Virginia, looking at a Canada warbler. It is World Migratory Bird Day in spring, the second Saturday of May, and I have spent the past week in search of warbl…
A wildlife photographer spent months figuring out why owls kept disappearing from her footage. Turned out they were hunting the moths attracted to her camera's infrared light 🦉
Right-wing Israeli groups storm Al-Aqsa as Palestinians barred from worship — Israeli police barred Palestinians from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque as more than 2,300 right-wing Israelis entered.
JPMorgan Traders Drop Bullish View on Stocks After Warsh Speech — JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s trading desk is shifting to a “tactically cautious” view on US stocks for the next few weeks after hawkish remarks by Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh led markets to boost bets on…
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Photos: More than 1,300 missing in Nepal and Tibet after deadly floods — Glacier collapse sends floods over Nepal-China border, killing at least 270 and leaving more than 1,300 missing.
One of the Best American Backpacking Books Was Written by a Japanese Buddhist Beat Poet — On a rainy San Francisco evening in late November 1959, Albert Saijo, a thirty-three-year-old Japanese American poet, climbed into the back of an eastbound Willys Jeep station wagon. The…
A octopus in an aquarium learned to open jars by watching other octopuses do it once. Now it teaches the new ones and they're all escaping 🐙
The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece — “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Bought for $30 at an Estate Sale, This Long-Lost Gertrude Abercrombie Painting Could Now Fetch $250,000 — The Chicago-based Surrealist created the piece in 1951, then gave it to a doctor in exchange for medical services
J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children” — “Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else (make something new), may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like
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Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood, but here's the wild part — they can taste with their arms and solve puzzles just to mess with aquarium staff 🐙
Moonlight and the Magic of the Unnecessary — Every night, for every human being that ever was and ever will be, the Moon rises to remind us how improbably lucky we are, each of its craters a monument of the odds we prevailed against to exist,…
On the Secret Three-Man Mission Deep in Nazi Europe That Won WWII — “Territorial male flies toward intruder, erects crown feathers, puffs chest, and sings loudly.” –“White-crowned Sparrow,” Birds of the World * March 15, 1944—the southeast coast of Italy Colonel Fl…
Google tests buying from Walmart-owned Flipkart through Gemini and AI Mode in India | TechCrunch — The limited test covers select products and users, with a broader rollout planned for later in October.
'I can't afford to turn the oven on': 7.4m households struggling to buy essentials — As Andy Burnham promises “breathing space” for households, millions are unable to buy items such as clothing, heating and food.
IndieWire and Disney to Celebrate Emmy Rossum and the Cast of ‘Furious’ at Special Pass the Remote Screening — Emmy Rossum and the cast of 'Furious' will attend a special screening at Vidiots hosted by IndieWire and Disney.
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A octopus kept unscrewing the lid of its tank at night to visit the tank next to it, then screwing itself back in before morning. The zookeeper only found out because another octopus started doing it too 🐙
The Nature Conservancy — The Nature Conservancy is tackling the root causes of some of the toughest problems facing people and nature today, replicating good ideas to save many places and improve people’s lives.
Marcus Aurelius on the Good Luck of Your Bad Luck: The Stoic Strategy for Weathering Life’s Waves and Turning Suffering into Strength — “What happened could have happened to anyone, but not everyone could have carried on.”
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Jellyfish Can Heal Wounds in Minutes. Scientists Want Their Secrets. | Marine Biological Laboratory — A decade ago this summer, at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Jocelyn Malamy watched jellyfish cells “walk” toward each other to close a wound for the first time. An…
The UK's bumblebees are in crisis - Bumblebee Conservation Trust — Find out why bumblebees are so important, how you can help bumblebees in your own garden, and how to support the Bumblebee Conservation Trust
How to Be Reborn Each Day — “Please try to go to hell frequently because you will find the light there.”
Fauna & Flora — Conservation since 1903.
Turns out bears have been raiding this one cabin for 20 years straight—the owner just compiled every photo. The progression is depressing.
The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation — The Xerces Society is a science-based nonprofit organization that protects wildlife through the conservation of invertebrates and their habitats.
The Thief of Time | Eshanika Dinesh | TEDxSt Marys College Youth — What if the biggest thing stopping you from living your life isn't a lack of opportunity, but the belief that you'll be ready later? Eshanika Dinesh explores how our brains constantly predict the future, often…
Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings — For some of the world's rarest monkeys, the path to survival now runs through a simple network of ropes.
Nature Mapping — Citizen wildlife science.
The American Library Association is auctioning off some primo vintage READ posters. — This summer, the American Library Association is auctioning off a rare cache of its iconic READ posters to commemorate the org’s 150th year of doing business. Thanks to a partnership with Her…
I Want You to Be Happy — He had promised himself he wouldn’t talk about it and now here he was, talking about it. Not just talking about it, but shouting specific details directly in her ear. Certain things, obviously, he …
how did octopuses learn to use tools when they have no bones? watch one pry open a coconut shell from the inside 🐙
There's a live map tracking every whale song heard by underwater microphones right now. You can listen to them as they happen.
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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…
Here are the finalists for the 2026 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. — Today, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation, which celebrates “writers whose work demonstrates the power of the written word to foster peace,” announced the finalists for its 2026…
Japan's book scene is quietly moving from bookstores to libraries — Small local libraries are now becoming travel destinations
Conservation International | Conservation International — Since 1987, Conservation International has worked to improve the lives of people everywhere by protecting oceans, forests and other living ecosystems.
How to Hold What Harrows You — We are shaped by all we have suffered — by what harrows us — and in turn shape our lives by how we hold our harrowing. Harrow shares its Middle English root with harvest. It is by suffe…
Monarch Watch — Tracking the monarch butterfly.
Save the Elephants — This is the home page…
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…
The ten sickest burns in Emily Wilson’s Odyssey review, ranked. — Emily Wilson, the classicist behind the buzziest Odyssey translation of my generation, has finally weighed in on the film adaptation of her favorite poem. And so dark was the shade that Wilson̵…
Chef Nephi Craig on the Power and Importance of Preserving Native Cuisines — The sun hung low in the sky as I turned on to the path leading from Whiskey Flats to the neighborhood we’d always called Nobody’s Home. It was barely eight o’clock, a frigid morning in February, an…
Owala's new fall launch 2026: Colors and patterns revealed — Seven new colors, one big fall glow-up.
Watched a heron stand motionless in shallow water for 20 minutes, then miss the fish anyway. Nature documentaries don't show you how much wildlife just... fails at the basics.
Heather Cox Richardson has been awarded the inaugural Gitlin-Auster Defender of Democracy Award. — Over the weekend, Writers for Democratic Action (WDA) awarded historian Heather Cox Richardson with its inaugural Gitlin-Auster Defender of Democracy Award, “established to honor…
Lit Hub Daily: July 14, 2026 — “I usually just write my way into things.” Eric Olson profiles Sigrid Nunez on the release of her collection, It Will Come Back to You. | Lit Hub Craft Angela Flournoy explores why Jean…