July 1, 2026 – iOS 26.5.2 and Apple’s new update strategy — Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts...
How forgotten voyages helped track El Nino — A century ago, research ship William Scoresby left Hull for pioneering work in the southern oceans.
A rare ancient rainforest set to come back to life — Ulster Wildlife takes on 100 year restoration project of ancient rainforest.
Your AI Tools Are Only as Good as Your Judgment — And That's the Point — The AI Leverage Weekly — There's a quiet anxiety spreading through engineering teams right now: Am I becoming dependent on AI? Is my judgment atrophying? My take: that's the wrong…
What wolf packs can teach us about leadership | Oliver Starr | TEDxSHSU — Oliver Starr was the stereotypical alpha: forceful, competitive, and convinced respect came from control. Then a wolf he had raised and loved responded to his failure, showing him that leadership built on f
Lit Hub Daily: June 4, 2026 — Why every American writer “must in their prose or poetry pen their own Declaration of Independence,” unconsciously or otherwise. | Lit Hub Criticism Rosa Montero explores the relationship between w…
5 Practical Ways to Take Control of Your Life | Jim VandeHei | TED — You can't control the world — but you can control you. That's the mantra that took Axios CEO Jim VandeHei, a once "unremarkably unremarkable 20-year-old," all the way to launching companies and interviewing pres
More Than 100,000 Illegal Exotic Cockroaches Were Seized by Australian Authorities in a Record-Setting Bug Bust — The insects are estimated to be worth up to $141,000 USD, according to Australia's Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water. Exotic cockroaches cou
AI's Affordability Crisis — A year ago in The Back Of The AI Envelope I pointed out that the AI platforms were running the drug-dealer's algorithm, "the first one's fr...
MathPages — Deep essays on math and physics.
Research fraud: The epidemic we cannot isolate from | Albion Thaqi | TEDxRoyal Tunbridge Wells — Trust is a necessary part of our healthcare system - knowing that what doctors prescribe is the right treatment for each patient. However, over time, bad actors have begun to abuse th
Medievalists.net — Where the Middle Ages Begin
NASA Invites Media to See Roman Space Telescope Arrive at Kennedy - NASA — Registration is open for media to cover the arrival of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the coming
Classic Short Stories — This Web site is dedicated to the wonderful world of the short story and to all who enjoy reading shorts stories as I do. I will try to add a few short stories every month.
Meet the lawyer who beat Elon Musk — twice — “Never take the bait.”
Ancient monument marked summer solstice centuries before Stonehenge — Archaeologists have discovered traces of a wooden structure built 5000 years ago, 5 kilometres from Stonehenge, which appears to have been an even older monument for marking the summer solstice
the library of congress catalogs what words were actually used in each year. watching 'google' jump from zero to omnipresent between 1998 and 2002 is something else
Motion in Stillness | Jennifer Gearin | TEDxUConn — In the wake of a life-changing event, time seems to stop. But in this stillness, we find that nothing is ever truly motionless. The planet keeps spinning, moving with oscillations we barely notice. We move forward by finding the
Colonization of Venus - Wikipedia
From cool-down spots to chalk on windows - how Europeans are coping with the heat — People across the continent are taking measures to cope with the searing temperatures gripping Europe.
This Woman's Brains Were Scooped Out and Her Bones Were Broken and Whittled in Scotland 2,000 Years Ago — Researchers say the modifications may represent a previously unknown funerary ritual in Iron Age Britain
How decades of sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug — A University of Toronto professor’s research on the physiology of sleep and breathing has paved the way for a new sleep apnea treatment that recently reported positive results in a phase 3 clinical trial.
Very Necessary Qualifications of a Great Storyteller — Toni Morrison once lamented that people have been taught to think of a book as a mirror, when it ought to be a door. All great storytelling — be it a novel or a poem, a film or a song —…
Nature's Incredible ROTATING MOTOR (It’s Electric!) - Smarter Every Day 300 — Thank you for considering support for Smarter Every Day on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/smartereveryday Click here if you're interested in subscribing: http://bit.ly/Subscribe2SED I notify people w
The King of Cheese Has a Long and Famous History — The first episode of the first season of the genre-redefining streaming series Chef’s Table on Netflix begins, as one might expect, in Italy. Massimo Bottura, the omnipresent, award-winning, and mu…
What Is Disrupting GPS Over The Whole Of Europe? — Something is disrupting GPS signals across Europe. Sponsored by Ground News. Go to https://ground.news/Ve for 40% off the unlimited Vantage plan. If you’re looking for a molecular modelling kit, try Snatoms, a kit I invented wh
Lit Hub Daily: June 11, 2026 — Round two of our Best of the Best Books Reading Challengebegins today with 50 of the greatest summer novels of all time!| Lit Hub Thomas Levenson pushes back against anti-vaxxer arguments: “…
The mysterious reason why women get hotter from age 18 to 42 — Women experience a steady rise in body temperature from their teens to midlife, which may be useful for monitoring ageing and overall health
John Lanchester · Squillions: Where’s all the cash? — If it were an industry, money laundering would be the third biggest business in the world, behind commercial property...
God Damn AI is making me dumb — It's so god damn tempting to use AI to write. Whether it is articles, code, or documents. I feel like using AI is diminishing my ability to write myself. ...
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GeaCron — An interactive historical atlas.
What that tiny green dot on your Samsung phone is telling you — It's actually a security feature.
Necessary Losses: The Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go — “We cannot deeply love anything without becoming vulnerable to loss. And we cannot become separate people, responsible people, connected people, reflective people without some losing and leav…