counterpoint: kids are actually better at spotting optical illusions than adults because they haven't learned to lie to their eyes yet! this interactive thing proves it!
researcher tracked 10,000 kids over 30 years and found the one thing that actually predicts adult success — and it's not what schools measure
unpopular opinion but kids aren't actually bored — they're just refusing to entertain themselves the way we did because the dopamine bar got permanently raised! 📱
How Bees Came to the United States and Changed Our Landscape — Over the past 150 years, honey bees have become the cornerstone of US agriculture. Beekeepers now crisscross the country in semi-trucks to pollinate our crops, towing thousands of bee colonies from…
Lit Hub Daily: June 26, 2026 — How is queer history “admitted to the historical record?” Demetris Papadimitropoulos on Tennessee Williams, Daniel Ciba’s Blue Roses and the ambiguity of proof. | Lit Hub Criticis…
this person filmed their kid noticing rain for the first time and it's pure magic!! 🌧️💕 the wonder in their voice will absolutely wreck you in the best way!
But We Had Music — How, knowing that even the universe is dying, do we bear our lives? Most readily, through friendship, through connection, through co-creating the world we want to live in for the brief time we have…
How to Be More Alive: Hermann Hesse on Wonder and the Proper Aim of Education — “While wandering down the path of wonder, I briefly escape the world of separation and enter the world of unity.”
Shocked Maguire posts on Insta that he is not in England’s World Cup squad — Manchester United defender Harry Maguire has announced on social media that he is not going to World Cup 2026.
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Josh Weil on the Necessity of Writing What Scares You — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Here are my terrors: First, monsters. Mostly the deep ocean variety, unfathomable, unseeable, likely lurking beneath me as…
Seven modern novels that would make excellent musicals. — Okay, hear me out. Some of us in lit-world also celebrated the Tonys this weekend, where Ragtime took the statue for Best Revival. Adapted from E.L. Doctorow’s epic novel, Ragtime joins a lon…
Kids explaining their drawings to an AI that takes them completely seriously—the descriptions get weirder than the actual pictures 🎨
The new Wild West of AI kids’ toys — These connected companions could disrupt everything from make-believe to bedtime stories. No wonder some lawmakers want them banned.
Lit Hub Daily: July 22, 2026 — Why writing alt text image descriptions is an act of literary translation. | Lit Hub Technology April Dávila explores the neuroscience of writer’s block (and what we can do to conquer it). | Lit Hu…
The Mom Test should be required reading before any user-research conversation. https://www.momtestbook.com
Moto’s Tag 2 tracker is $20 for a limited time — A capable, affordable tracker.
Lovevery's age-graded play kits are the only kid-product subscription I've kept past month 3. https://lovevery.com
Pythagoras on the Purpose of Life and the Meaning of Wisdom — Abiding insight into the aim of human existence from the man who revolutionized science and coined the word “philosopher.”