How to Invite Creativity into Your Life | Rose B. Simpson, Debbie Millman | TED — What do you hear when you sit in silence? For artist Rose B. Simpson, that question is the beginning of all art. She comes from a line of ceramic artists stretching back generations and, as part…
Caleb Hearon & Zooey Deschanel offer blunt advice for creators eyeing the jump to film — At TIFF, the "Trash Mountain" stars told creators to say no early, ignore the doubters, and just make the thing.
Apple Reportedly Accepts Even Higher RAM and Storage Prices in 2027 — Apple has agreed to pay Samsung even higher prices for RAM and storage chips starting in the first quarter of 2027, according to a DigiTimes report this week citing an earlier report from Chinese publication…
Real Estate 3.0: From Paper Ownership to Programmable Wealth | Jagan Mohan Reddy K | TEDxVCOE — What if the symbol of success we’ve trusted for generations… has quietly inaccessible and unmanageable? In this thought-provoking TEDx talk, real estate strategist Jagan Mohan Reddy c
I Thought I Had Nothing to Write About. Then I Got a Dog. — A contract accepted under duress is typically considered voidable. My wife Helen is a lawyer, so she would understand this better than anyone, and yet when she convinced me to say yes to a puppy af…
The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in July — Every month, all the major streaming services add a host of newly acquired (or just plain new) shows, movies, and documentaries into their ever-rotating libraries. So what’s a dedicated reader to w…
What AI could never do for us | Dr Zohar Bronfman | TEDxCambridge University — AI can optimise almost anything it can measure. Dr Zohar Bronfman argues that this is exactly why it will never be able to tell us what is worth wanting. Every intelligent system, human or…
Everything from cells to stars to particles exists on the edge of chaos — Complex systems, be they living beings or fundamental particles, need to have enough structure to hang together along with unpredictability that can allow for change. Columnist Thomas Lewton explores…
The Hospital Harm We Know How to Prevent—but Still Don’t | Martin Burns | TEDxUCLA — An estimated quarter-million patients die from medical errors in the United States each year—and one of the deadliest is a wound many people barely understand: pressure injuries, or bedsores,…
Grief, Rage, and Restraint: Zinzi Clemmons on Telling Her Own Story — Being invited to interview a writer that one admires is so rewarding, and I’m thrilled that I got the chance to speak with Zinzi Clemmons about her new book Freedom: Essays. We need Clemmons’s voic…
Scientists Invented a Disease to Test Whether A.I. Knew It Was Fake. Then, Chatbots Started Saying It Was Real — The eye condition bixonimania doesn't exist, but neither bots nor some researchers caught that the content was fabricated—despite obvious clues
10 Great New Children’s Books Out in June 2026 — In the world of children’s literature, there’s been some recent debate about whether children’s books are mostly any good. This, dear reader, is a question that I feel particularly qualified to ans…
Slug sleuths on the trail of gorging gastropods — How predicting slugs' behaviour is helping farmers and their crops.
Google's YouTube settles social media addiction case with teen — The 15-year-old plaintiff's case against three other tech giants begins next month.
A Psychedelic Compound Found in 'Magic' Mushrooms Might Prevent Debilitating Nerve Damage and Pain Caused by Chemotherapy — A study in mice and human tissue suggests psilocybin protects against peripheral neuropathy, a common side effect of chemotherapy. The findings are so…
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) — The encyclopedia of integer sequences.
Glass deposit operator confirmed after months of wrangling — Exchange for Change is running the new recycling programmes across the UK and will also run Wales's.
How to force quit on your Windows PC — If you're switching from a Mac or new to Windows, knowing how to 'force quit' an app can be confusing. Luckily, there are a number of ways to get the job done.
The Sea Otter and the Abalone: On the Intertwined Fates of California’s Wildlife — Like the meteorite that killed the dinosaurs, European contact with the Americas was a single, ecologically random, earth-shattering event that completely reshaped land and sea. Disease and…
Gav and Dan visit the billboard — Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
How We Render Reality: Attention as an Instrument of Love — “Since our consciousness plays some part in what comes into being, the play of attention can both create and destroy, but it never leaves its object unchanged.”
Could identical twins commit the perfect crime? — The DNA in twins is (almost) exactly the same. So how could a team of forensic scientists tell which twin committed the crime? There is a way but it has some issues...
“Cannot be explained” – New ultra stainless steel stuns researchers — A team at the University of Hong Kong has developed a new “super steel” that can survive the harsh conditions needed to make green hydrogen from seawater. The material uses an unexpected double-protection mecha
How to end loneliness and make friends at any age | Natasha Hazlett | TEDxVisalia — What if the secret to overcoming loneliness isn’t complicated at all? In this inspiring talk, Natasha Hazlett reveals how the simple act of tweaking your follow through can transform acquaintances
Digging Back in Time in the UAE - NASA Science — Once below a shallow sea, Jabal al Fāyah now stands above the desert in the United Arab Emirates as a reminder of a watery past and early human survival.
This Spanish Officer Besieged the British During the American Revolution, Giving George Washington Time to Plan a Pivotal Attack — Bernardo de Gálvez indirectly contributed to the Continental Army’s victory at the 1781 Siege of Yorktown. A rare painting of him is now on view at…
These Butterflies Can Live 25 Times Longer Than Their Relatives. They Might Provide Insights Into Healthy Aging in Humans — Their unusual diet of pollen—rather than nectar—might partially explain why members of the Heliconius genus live so long, up to nearly a year
Three firefighters die battling huge wildfires on Colorado-Utah border — A number of blazes have been raging across Utah and Colorado, leading both governors to declare states of emergency.
A chromosome from a frozen rat has been resurrected inside mice — Mice that contain cells with an added rat chromosome have been created by scientists. The next step is to try this with frozen elephant tissue – and if that works, the team will try it with frozen mammoths
What toys have kids played with throughout history? — Trace the ancient origins of toys and games throughout history, and discover how play has evolved — and stayed the same. -- Archaeologists have found material, visual, and written evidence for toys across the ancient world.
Apple Details How iOS 27 Adapts to iPhone Duo's Displays — Apple has detailed how iOS 27 was rebuilt to adapt in real time to the iPhone Duo, the company's first foldable iPhone, reshaping the interface as the device folds, unfolds, and switches between its two displays. Lock…
Paint Shockwaves on Drum with Robot Camera at 10,000 FPS - The Slow Mo Guys — Check out our new Patreon! - https://www.patreon.com/theslowmoguys Gav and Dan stick the Phantom on the Robot arm and try to get some lovely crisp footage of an old favorite. Instagram - https://www.ins
Trump asks Supreme Court to lift block on USPS plan to restrict mail voting — The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to lift a temporary block on the U.S. Postal Service plan for President Trump's attempt to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm election.
Canada captain loses sleep 'four to five nights a week' over England's World Cup win — Canada captain Sophie de Goede says she still loses sleep over their World Cup final loss to England last year.
Writing a Novel and Hiking a Mountain Are Pretty Similar, Actually — In July 2020 my twin sister Madelynn and I had decided we were tired of being apart, of quarantining alone in our homes—mine in Syracuse, NY, where I was an MFA student drafting my first “novel” an…
Russia’s plans may include strikes against Ukraine’s allies, Poland says — Warsaw also says it scrambled military planes in response to a Russian attack in western Ukraine, close to its border.
Stealing Time: In Praise of Writing at Dawn, at Midnight or Whenever We Can — At 5 AM and it’s me and the birds. This is how I like it: when the house is asleep. Outside, the slow rumble of a sanitation truck. A lone scooter screams down the block. Sometimes a helicopt…
The Barman of the Ritz — Paris was occupied by German troops from June 14, 1940, to August 25, 1944: 1,533 nights. One thousand five hundred and thirty-three nights during which the Ritz was transformed from a luxury hotel…
NASA’s COFFIES Uses AI to Predict Storm-Causing Active Regions — A team with NASA’s COFFIES has developed a novel machine-learning model capable of predicting the emergence of active regions on the Sun up to 12 hours before they appear.
A Vietnam Veteran Collected Fossils for 66 Years. One, Mislabeled 'Baby Lamprey,' Made Paleontologists Reconsider How Vertebrates Moved From Water to Land — The fossil turned out to be a hatchling of a crocodile-like creature, and it suggests, according to a new study, that…
5 graphs that show how the record-breaking El Niño will affect the world — A stronger El Niño means more extreme weather, including droughts and wildfires in some places and flooding and tropical storms in others
Unpicking endometriosis reveals how it affects more than the pelvis — Endometriosis is usually thought of as a gynaecological condition, but a huge study shows it has links with cholesterol levels, inflammation and an altered microbiome
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Pigeons lock their eyes in place when they are flying — Bird-mounted headsets and backpacks have revealed the surprising things pigeons do with their eyes when on the wing
Lambs born via IVF using highly immature eggs in major breakthrough — Lambs have been born using an experimental form of IVF that coaxes immature eggs to become mature ones. This could boost the number of eggs available for fertilisation and improve IVF success rates
Listen to BA Bake Club’s Podcast on Plum Karpatka (Polish Cream Puff Cake) — Jesse and Shilpa chat with star baker Ruby Bhogal, talk about the building blocks of baking.
On the Rise of White Christian Nationalism in the US — UC Santa Barbara in the 1980s felt like the counterculture’s afterparty: sun-drenched, restless, and still echoing defiance. Palm trees swayed over a serene campus where students surfed at Campus …
Northern Ireland farm profits topped £1bn in 2025 — The overall performance in 2025 was heavily influenced by developments in the beef sector which saw prices rise to record levels.
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Anthropic claims Claude AI used for missile projects, global espionage — AI was used to develop missile guidance software in Yemen and to power cyber operations, a report alleges.
Akron 'OC For A Day' contest winner sees drive end in fumble — Akron season ticket holder Marty Whims, who won the "Offensive Coordinator For A Day" contest, saw his first drive as a coach end with a receiver's fumble.
Apple AirPods 5 vs. AirPods Pro 3: Which should you buy? — The $129 AirPods 5 have active noise cancellation and live translation. Do you really need to splurge on the AirPods Pro 3?
A Genetically Modified Pig Kidney Kept a Man Alive for a Record Nine Months, Allowing Him to Wait for a Donated Human Organ — The animal organ kept Tim Andrews off dialysis for 271 days and represents the first time a pig kidney has been used as a bridge to human organ…
Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation — I’ve just uploaded to the arXiv the paper “Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation”, submitted to J. Amer. Math. Soc.. The main purpose of this…
We Investigated How Accurate Forensic Methods Are. Here's What We Found. — How accurate is modern forensics? Sponsored by Saily - Get an exclusive 15% discount on Saily data plans! Use code veritasium at checkout. Download the Saily app or go to https://saily.com/veritasium…
I ditched Google Keep and replaced it with a notes app that actually respects my privacy — And it's actually simpler in practice than you think.
China Isn’t Buying Silicon Valley’s Call for an AI Slowdown — The US and China agree that advanced AI poses serious risks. But Beijing is deeply skeptical of a deal that prioritizes keeping US companies ahead.
Will your name be the next UK storm? — The storm name list for the next year is out. Will your name be on it?
Aroldis Chapman notches 400th save as Red Sox sweep Orioles — Aroldis Chapman became the ninth major league player to record 400 saves as the Red Sox finished off a sweep of the Orioles on Sunday.
Mike Vrabel emerged from his offseason scandal. Its effects linger — Mike Vrabel and the New England Patriots moved past the Dianna Russini scandal. Others are still feeling its effects.