Hermann Hesse on How to Hear the Wisdom of the Inner Voice — “If you are now wondering where to look for consolation, where to seek a new and better God… he does not come to us from books, he lives within us… This God is in you too. He is m…
Dead Matter: On Writing From and Beyond the Archives — I’ve read that the American crow will gather around their dead, seemingly performing a kind of funeral rites, looking at the fallen crow and calling out to it in improvised sequence as though enact…
Supreme Court Rules Lisa Cook Can Remain at Fed for Now — The US Supreme Court refused to let President Donald Trump immediately fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. In a 5-4 vote, the high court said Cook can stay in her job while she fights Trump’s bid to oust her over…
This guy tracked his resting heart rate for 10 years and found the one thing that actually tanked it — not what you'd expect.
Taiwan civilians sharpen self-defence skills ahead of Trump-Xi summit — Taiwanese civilians are flocking to self‑defence courses, amid fears China could one day use force to seize the island.
Started tracking my walks and realized I've been taking the same route for three years — turns out I just really like the way one particular corner smells like someone's grill.
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What It’s Like to Be a Panda — “What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?” Stephen Hawking wondered, recognizing the quixotic nature of his quest for a theory of ever…
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Three key takeaways from the new Sense and Sensibility trailer. — Attention, Austen hive! We have an official release timeline for Georgia Oakley’s buzzy new Sense and Sensibility. This October, we’re riding again for the Dashwood sisters. Gather up y…
watched someone deadlift with perfect form for six months straight and never add weight. turns out they were just solving a puzzle nobody asked them to solve?
Hungary Holds Its Key Interest Rate With June Cut Seen in Play — Hungary’s central bank kept its key interest rate unchanged at the second-highest level in the European Union, before potentially weighing monetary easing next month.
PeopleSoft 0-day affecting hundreds of organizations steals gigabytes of data — Vulnerability in the Oracle-owned PeopleSoft software is about as critical as they come.
Best Prime Day robot vacuum deals 2026: Dreame, Shark, and more — I won't just tell you to buy the cheapest vacuum — I'm actually analyzing the sale price-to-cleaning-performance ratio.
Body of missing boy, 15, found in reservoir — Police say the boy's body was recovered from Cowbury Reservoir in Stalybridge on Saturday night.
Why Michael Crichton’s Best Novel is the Worst Movie Based on One of His Books — Somebody occasionally points out that vastly more words have been published about Kafka than Kafka himself wrote in his lifetime. Somebody’s probably writing a book about Kafka this very minute. I’…
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This guy tracked his lifts for 10 years and made a visualization showing exactly where progress actually stalls — it's not where you'd think.
The Garmin vívoactive 6 is down to its lowest-ever price at Amazon — save $50 — Score this fitness tracker for under $250 right now.
guy trained for a marathon by only running downhill for three months — his knees disagree but his 5k time is genuinely unhinged
SoilSense: AI-Powered Soil Care for a Sustainable Future | Allison Huang | TEDxSHSID Youth — Allison discusses the process of finding a solution that incorporates AI to solve the problems with soil. Allison believes the next frontier of sustainability should be built from the gro
watched someone deadlift with their eyes closed and it made way more sense why their form was suddenly perfect?
Source: Sky's Vandersloot (knee) set to make season debut Fri. — The Sky's Courtney Vandersloot, who has been out since tearing her ACL last June, is expected to make her 2026 debut Friday against the Fire, a source told ESPN.
someone built a database of every exercise variation known to humanity and it's somehow actually organized. my brother in christ, i didn't know there were 47 types of rows!
50 of the Greatest Summer Novels of All Time — We updated this list as part of the the Best of the Best Books Reading Challenge! Join the challenge now! What makes a summer novel? It might be set in during a summer (One Fateful or otherwise), o…
The Toyota RAV4 is finally vulnerable, and these 5 SUVs are after its crown — Five SUVs that are making life difficult for the class favorite.
Nine Fabulous Books by Drag Performers Who Were Never Featured on RuPaul’s Drag Race — There are some dazzling books by drag queens who have risen to stardom, either through social media like TikTok or reality shows like RuPaul’s Drag Race. Of course I attended Bob the Drag Queen
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Seanergy Sees Strength in Commodity Demand — While markets watch the Strait of Hormuz, strong demand for coal, infrastructure materials, and other commodities continues to support dry bulk shipping. Stamatis Tsantanis, CEO of Seanergy Maritime and United Maritime, discusses the g
Italy’s top diplomat nixes US trip after Meloni says Trump fabricated story — The Italian prime minister has accused Trump of making up a story that she 'begged' him for a photo at G7 in France.
watched someone do pull-ups with a backpack full of books and realized i've been doing strength training wrong my entire life, it's just like, load bearing capacity is different than looking swole
Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life During Seven Months on a Small Alaskan Island — “These are the times in life — when nothing happens — but in quietness the soul expands.”
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…
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The Three Elements of the Good Life — To be a true person is to be entirely oneself in every circumstance, with all the courage and vulnerability this requires. And yet because a person is a confederacy of parts often at odds and somet…
Iran war day 109: Tehran, Washington, sign deal electronically — Iran’s National Security Council said on Monday that the deal ends fighting on all fronts, including in Lebanon.
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The Most Expensive German Cars Ever Sold at Auction — There’s plenty of debate surrounding the question of who “invented” the automobile, but the Germans have a pretty good case with the Benz Patent Motorwagen, the first prototype of which was finished in…
Moonlight and the Magic of the Unnecessary — Every night, for every human being that ever was and ever will be, the Moon rises to remind us how improbably lucky we are, each of its craters a monument of the odds we prevailed against to exist,…
I’ll Take the Fire — One night in November 2021, I lost my sense of taste and smell. There was a woman sleeping in my bed. I licked her shoulder, buried my nose in her neck. I moved my face down between her legs. I cou…
Walmart has another Google TV streaming stick, but you won't care about the changes — New findings reveal that Walmart has yet another Google TV streaming stick launching soon, but this one doesn’t have any...
Oliver Sacks on Memory, Originality, and Why Forgetting is Necessary for Creativity — “Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.”
Barry Walters on LGBTQ Music 1969-2000 — Music critic Barry Walters joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and Christian Barter to discuss his new book, Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music 1969-2000. Walters talks about how he chose the artists…
Obsidian and the Birds: An Odyssey of Wonder from the Aztecs to the Quantum World — A recent visit to Teotihuacán — the ancient Mesoamerican city in present-day Mexico, built by earlier cultures around 600 BCE and later rediscovered by the Aztecs — left me wonder-smitt…
Baldwin’s queer loves! K-Pop! Sapphic thrills! 20 noteworthy books out in paperback this July. — July, incredibly, is already here, a midpoint month in a madcap year unlike any other, and it takes little Holmesian ratiocination to deduce that you, Dear Reader, could almost…
Lit Hub Daily: June 2, 2026 — Samantha Allen explores the similarities between reality TV and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. | Lit Hub TV What exactly is a “mighty” book? And how do you write one in 2026? | Lit Hub Criticism Ruth …
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…
Why We Still Love Mr. Darcy, 200 Years Later — Two centuries after Jane Austen wrote him into existence, Mr. Darcy remains one of the most enduring figures in romantic fiction. The more interesting question than why we love him—that part is alr…