Lenovo’s Project AeroBlade Fanless Laptop Takes Thin and Light to the Extreme — Using Frore’s air-cooling technology, Lenovo’s Project AeroBlade Concept is an ultralightweight laptop with efficient heat management.
Turns out bears have been raiding this one cabin for 20 years straight—the owner just compiled every photo. The progression is depressing.
S. Shakthidharan on Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha — The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast features a series of conversations with past and present Windham-Campbell Prize winners about their favorite books and plays. Hosted by Michael Kelleher. Mike ch…
GTA 6 Netflix extended look: Everything that was revealed — Don't have 27 minutes to spare? Let Mashable break down Netflix's extended look at GTA 6.
Moment Israeli helicopter fires missile on Gaza City target — Footage shows the moment an Israeli helicopter launched a missile at an unknown target in the Gaza City neighbourhood.
This Week in Literary History: Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is Published in The Atlantic Monthly — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. Robert Frost’s most famous poem, “The Road Not Taken,” “has confused audiences literally from the…
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 🦉
Glasgow School of Art "cannot rebuild" Mackintosh Building — <p>The Glasgow School of Art has announced that it cannot afford to rebuild the iconic Mackintosh Building without external funding, following the second fire that tore through the building in 2018. According to an…
Lit Hub Daily: June 16, 2026 — Sophie Lewis examines the phenomenon of heterofatalism. | Lit Hub Politics If you want a job as an astronaut, you need to nail the interview. | Lit Hub Memoir Erin Maglaque contextualizes her own e…
I Wouldn't Say Pangram is Broken, But I Would Say That It's Brittle — it seems way too easy to provoke Pangram into contradicting its own results
Nature — Watch full episodes of wildlife & natural history public TV series
Lit Hub Daily: August 13, 2026 — S. Lamble explores the conservative, Christian, and ultra-nationalist roots of the global anti-trans movement. | Lit Hub Politics From Hinge to Feeld, dating apps are moving into the literary space…
Fauna & Flora — Conservation since 1903.
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 🐙
Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning | Mathematical Association of America
Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026, Part Two — The year is half over, if you can believe it. Time marches ever forward, into the abyss. Books, though, can smooth the passage. If you choose wisely, that is. To that end, here are the novels, coll…
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.”
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…
Lit Hub Daily: June 24, 2026 — Andrew McKenzie-McHarg explores iconic conspiracy theorist Carl Oglesby’s idea of a Yankees versus Cowboys war. | Lit Hub History Maggie McKinley considers Joan Didion’s “future-o…
Watch the chic, menacing trailer for Bret Easton Ellis’s new FX series. — Oh, Bret Easton Ellis. You old lightning rod. The Gen X nihilist known for anchoring the literary Brat Pack and depicting depraved superficial youth is shifting his talents to television. With the …
Formula One champion Lando Norris extends McLaren contract until 2030 — Last season, 26-year-old Norris delivered McLaren's first drivers' title since Lewis Hamilton won it in 2008.
A Story of Resilience Through Lived Experience | Farshid Golzadeh | TEDxAlef — A personal reflection on resilience, shaped by real-life challenges, setbacks, and moments of transformation. The talk explores how lived experiences can redefine adversity, strengthen inner…
This photographer spent 12 years capturing the same wolf pack in Yellowstone. The behavioural shift between 2006 and 2018 is genuinely unsettling.
Movie Scene Map — Where Films & TV Series Were Actually Filmed — A free interactive map of real filming locations, built from Wikidata, plus the real places video games are set in. Search a title to see where it was shot, or a place to see what was made there.
Epic Games brings cross-platform voice chat to Fortnite and its services — Game and yap from across Epic's ecosystem.
Nate Bukaty on World Cup 2026 and the Heart of American Soccer — MLS commentator Nate Bukaty joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about Kansas City’s influence on American soccer and how the city came to host the World Cup. Bukaty, the …
What It Takes to Leave Earth | Naazmi Tarannum | TEDxCMRIT Hyderabad — Space teaches us to question what we take for granted and stay curious. Astronauts show that success comes from discipline, preparation, teamwork, and resilience—not fearlessness. Seeing Earth from space…
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.
Moroccan intelligence insider reveals widespread use of Pegasus hacking software — Whistleblower suggests internal security services deployed spyware from 2017 against key domestic and foreign targets
Stacey Yu Recommends Books About Cats (and Their Owners) — Joy Williams wrote that one of eight essential attributes of the short story is “An animal within to give its blessing.” When I first came upon this wisdom, I was on the seventh draft of my debut n…
What’s in a Book’s Name? One Writer’s Journey to Finding the Perfect Title — For me, coming up with titles is always a team effort. Titling my first book, a quirky history of people who look for the Garden of Eden on Earth, had me stumped, until my friend the writer Josh Ga…
A Life of One’s Own: A Brilliant Young Woman’s Forgotten Field Guide to the Art of Knowing What You Really Want — “I did not know that I could only get the most out of life by giving myself up to it.”
An Expert on Conflict Says Your Relationships Are Doomed Without It — The author Priya Parker says the key to human connection is to lean into the fight.
Never-Ending Brightness: How Excessive Exposure to Artificial Light Is Hurting Us All — If you want a perch from which to observe the circadian train wreck of modern industrial society, you could do worse than a corner booth in the Tick Tock Diner. A 24-7 neon beacon holding…
iPhone 18 Pro Pre-Orders May Start at an Unusual Time — Pre-orders of Apple's iPhone 18 Pro may not open until Saturday, September 12, a day later than the company's usual schedule, according to a new report. Apple is set to hold its annual iPhone event on Wednesday, September…
What the World’s Nightscapes Reveal About Our Dependence on Artificial Light — An image of Earth at night as seen from space appeared on my laptop screen during an internet search. The captivating image with a vague title—“Global Map”—drew me in like an insect mesmerized by t…
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…
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…
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.
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
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.
Wright & Wirth on Venezuela Oil Push | Open Interest 9/2/2026 — Get a jump start on the US trading day with Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Open Interest." It’s all about oil. An escalation in US-Iran hostilities over the Strait of Hormuz puts energy markets on edge and raises fears…
Iran’s parliament advances plans for charging Hormuz service fees — Draft law says ships of countries permitted to pass through the Strait of Hormuz will pay for services provided by Iran.
Whichbook | A new way of choosing what book to read next — Fancy something unusual and unpredictable? Funny or sexy? No problem. Use our unique mood and emotion search to find great books with exactly the flavour you've asked for.
Lit Hub Weekly: May 18 – 22, 2026 — “I never imagined reading books and turning them into movies was a job.” It is, and if you can read a book every two days (and write a book report about it), it could be yours… | Lit Hub Film Kath…
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.
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.”
Jimothy the raccoon has a rare spinal condition. Here’s what that means. — The internet's favorite raccoon has become a symbol of resilience in Seattle. Here's what his condition might mean for his future in the wild.
Aubameyang ‘humiliated’ as ex-Arsenal striker quits Gabon national team — Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang cites 2025 Africa Cup of Nations treatment as captain steps away from Gabon duty.
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.
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…
Texas Is Tip Of A Melting Muni Iceberg: Winkler — Bloomberg's Matt Winkler joins Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Real Yield." Borrowing costs for the state of Texas are higher than they are for California. The yield that investors demand on Texas bonds are, on average, point-3…
These 5 free open-source apps fix everything Windows 11 got wrong — The open-source community is making up for Microsoft's shortcomings.
There's a live map tracking every whale song heard by underwater microphones right now. You can listen to them as they happen.
htop explained — Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux
Professor Murder Rides the Subway is a forgotten slice of dance punk perfection — It’s basically mid-aughts Brooklyn in audio form.
As Book Criticism Disappears, the Booksellers Are Stepping In — From my desk at the bookstore where I work, I can see most of fiction and all of our new releases, the poetry section by the front door, the edge of world history. I watch people bend down to exami…
Zhou Bo: China’s alternative to Western power — Senior Colonel Zhou Bo and Sreenivasan Jain discuss China's vision of a fairer, multipolar world and work towards that.
Watched a octopus dismantle a crab trap from the inside, then seal itself back in to finish eating undisturbed. The footage is hypnotic.
This interactive map lets you track where every tagged elephant in Africa is right now — some have been moving for 40 years straight.