UN cuts global growth forecast, blaming Middle East crisis — UN economists forecast global GDP to grow 2.5 percent in 2026 and 2.8 percent in 2027.
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…
Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning | Mathematical Association of America
Chance, Choice, and the Avocado: The Strange Evolutionary and Creative History of Earth’s Most Nutritious Fruit — How a confused romancer that survived the Ice Age became a tropical sensation and took over the world.
Gnooks - Discover new Books — Discover new authors.
Google I/O 2026 live updates: Gemini, Android XR, Workspace news — Mashable will be providing live updates on Google I/O 2026 and the latest updates to Gemini, Android XR glasses, Workspace, Android, and Chrome.
When George Sand Hit the Town in Men’s Clothes — You’d be hard put to call it a feminist image exactly. In this illustration for a gossip column printed sometime in 1831-2, the writer George Sand is on the protective, even chivalrous arm of a man…
The Best Things to Do in Istanbul, Türkiye's Charismatic Capital — From tiled palaces to centuries-old markets, art galleries and colorful neighborhoods, here's a must-visit guide to Türkiye's most charismatic city.
A octopus opened a jar to get a crab inside, then screwed the lid back on so other octopuses couldn't steal it. The planning part is what gets me 🐙
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
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.
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 🦉
Fauna & Flora — Conservation since 1903.
Vollering wins final stage to clinch second Tour title — Demi Vollering shows her prowess on the final stage of the Tour de France Femmes to become the race's first two-time winner.
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.
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.
A researcher spent years documenting how octopuses use coconut shells as portable armor — and caught the exact moment one picks one up and carries it away.
What’s behind the Israeli crackdown in the occupied West Bank? — Israeli forces intensify West Bank raids as settlers escalate attacks and settlement expansion accelerates.
Buzz Buzz: Dodge Teases the Return of the Super Bee — The video is just 15 seconds long and features exactly zero shots of an actual car, but it’s hard to mistake the latest teaser from Dodge as anything else: Super Bee is coming back early next month. As someone with a…
Mystery hominin left big footprints at ancient lake in Africa — Over 1.4 million years ago, a group of eight ancient hominins walked across a shallow mudflat, but their footprints don’t match those of Paranthropus boisei or Homo erectus
Nine Feminist Mythological Reimaginings to Read After You Watch The Odyssey — Mythologies across the world abound with stories that center heroes. Be it Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Mahabharata or the Shahnameh, great epics highlight the exploits and adventures of men, the wome…
In Praise of the Useless: Bertrand Russell’s Salve for Hard Times — Along the way of life, I have discovered three things you can almost always do in your darkest hour that almost never fail to recover the light: Learn something. Help someone. Feel it all. We need …
This photographer spent 12 years capturing the same wolf pack in Yellowstone. The behavioural shift between 2006 and 2018 is genuinely unsettling.
Jamaica Kincaid! Eimear McBride! 19 books out in paperback this August. — August, amazingly, approaches, the final month in a summer that has at once felt slow and like it has slipped by with the curious swiftness of a half-remembered dream. Still, the summer is not over…
No One You Love Is Ever Dead: Hemingway on the Most Devastating of Losses and the Meaning of Life — “We must live it, now, a day at a time and be very careful not to hurt each other.”
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction — Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. …
Wattpad - Where stories live — Wattpad connects a global community of millions of readers and writers through the power of story
If Rachel Aviv Weren’t a Writer, She’d Be a Psychologist — Rachel Aviv’s new book, You Won’t Get Free of It, is available now from Alfred A. Knopf, so we asked her a few questions about writer’s block, writing routines, favorite books, an…
found a library copy of a book with all the passages someone highlighted in the margins still there. their taste was terrible but i kept reading just to see what they'd underline next.
De Profundis: Patti Smith Reads Oscar Wilde’s Stirring Letter on Suffering and Transcendence, Penned in Prison — “I have got to make everything that has happened to me good for me… There is not a single degradation of the body which I must not try and make into a spiritualising…
Hank Green interviews Ze Frank, who kind of invented the modern YouTube format (aka vlogging). “At the episode — Hank Green interviews Ze Frank, who kind of invented the modern YouTube format (aka vlogging). “At the episode’s end, Ze lays down some of the best advice Hank’
Monarch Watch — Tracking the monarch butterfly.
A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the Epstein Files. Adults Freaked Out. - Longreads — "An Instagram post turned one California student newspaper into a free-speech flash point. The students say they were just doing their homework."
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…
Just About Anyone Can Sell You GLP-1s Online Now — Welcome to the “Temu experience of telehealth,” where everyone from Grindr to MAGA influencers can open a virtual clinic selling weight loss drugs and more.
How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty — “In a world full of people who seem to know everything, passionately, based on little (often slanted) information, where certainty is often mistaken for power, what a relief it is to be in th…
Petro urges global support to stop possible US invasion of Cuba — Petro urges global support to stop possible US invasion of Cuba
The Literature Network — Classic texts and study guides.
US missionary kidnapped in Niger released after nine months in captivity — American missionary Kevin Rideout has been released after more than nine months in captivity in Niger, but details of how he was freed remain unclear.
Long Presumed Dead, a Thriving Coral Reef Is Discovered in West Africa
Lit Hub Daily: May 22, 2026 — Everyone is an AI cop now, even if they don’t know it: a past Commonwealth Short Story Prize winner weighs in on the recent scandal. | Lit Hub Criticism Does Xi Jinping really think China is Athens…
Couple turning inherited farm into nature site — The farm in Cockermouth is undergoing a 30-year project to boost wildlife there.
Korean Stocks Rise 22% in Ten Days as Chip Rally Regains Steam — South Korean stocks climbed, putting the benchmark index on track to enter a technical bull market, as a global rebound in the AI trade fueled a rapid reversal from last month’s historic rout.
MLB trade deadline 2026: What to make of Red Sox, Cubs, more — Not sure to what to make of a wild conclusion to trade season? We've got it all covered.
How Medieval Doctors, Christian and Muslim, Treated the Black Death — Many physicians sought to treat patients struck down by the Black Death. These doctors typically turned to the extant body of medical knowledge, derived from the ancient world and Arabic texts writ…
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction — Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. …
Ryan Fox birdies 72nd hole to capture Open Championship — Ryan Fox birdied four of the final six holes at Royal Birkdale, including the difficult 18th hole, to win the Open Championship by one stroke over Cameron Young.
How to connect your retro GameCube to a modern TV — A single adapter could be all you need.
Norrie beats Tomic at Los Cabos Open in 50 minutes — Cameron Norrie's resurgent form continues as he overpowers Bernard Tomic in just 50 minutes to progress to the semi-finals of the Los Cabos Open in Mexico.
Meet ‘Likweli’: A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin — Yale researchers have helped to describe a new species of Colobus monkey living high in the forest canopies of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Bor v0.8.0 released — Bor v0.8.0 is out. This release adds three new policy types — Thunderbird, Microsoft Edge for Business, and Firewalld zones — alongside a full web UI overhaul, finer-grained RBAC, and a dedicated security hardening pass. The complete changelog is on the…
The Annotated Nightstand: What Victoria Chang is Reading Now, and Next — Attending a reading from Victoria Chang a few years ago, I remember her cheerful comment about how her new poems were a concerted effort to be about nothing, really. She then proceeded to read a pi…
“In extreme cases, it can create a phantom homeland, for the sake of which one is ready to die or kill. Unrefl — “In extreme cases, it can create a phantom homeland, for the sake of which one is ready to die or kill. Unreflective nostalgia can breed monsters.” On the good
Google rolling out Android 17 QPR1 Beta 8 for Pixel — Following the last release over two weeks ago, Android 17 QPR1 Beta 8 is rolling out today for Pixel devices....
Large genome models used to design new viruses — The AI system makes genetically distant versions of a bacteria-killing virus.
Sperm Whales blow bubbles to achieve restful, vertical sleep — New research from the University of St Andrews and Université de Neuchâtel, has uncovered the mechanism which allows sperm whales to sleep in a unique vertical position, just under the ocean surface. Sperm whales…
Why weren’t bicycles invented sooner? “Why was no one…even considering the question of human-powered vehicles — Why weren’t bicycles invented sooner? “Why was no one…even considering the question of human-powered vehicles until the 1400s? Why weren’t there bicycle mechani
Thich Nhat Hanh on the Art of Deep Listening and the 3 Buddhist Steps to Repairing a Relationship — “The intention of deep listening and loving speech is to restore communication, because once communication is restored, everything is possible.”
Computer maker Framework notifies 'all customers' of a data breach | TechCrunch — Framework told "all" of its customers that hackers accessed their names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses in a data breach.
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week — Paul Yoon’s Etna, Dave Zirin’s The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn, and Chris Bohjalian’s The Amateur all feature among the best reviewed books of the w…