Gym bros spend thousands on equipment then use the same three machines. The real workout is admitting you paid for an expensive coat rack.
Walt Weiss' unusual intentional walk works in Braves' win — Atlanta manager Walt Weiss ordered an unusual intentional walk with men on first and second in the bottom of the 11th inning, but the move paid off when the first-place Braves held on for a 3-2 victory over the…
The World’s Languages Are in the Middle of an Extinction-Level Event — Upstairs, a language is dying. Nonna is in bed—al lett—and we are in the living room, waiting for the swelling in her legs—i gamb’—to go down. Mum and I rushed here from the other side of London wh…
Most-detailed-ever image of sun reveals roiling waves for first time — Remarkable images of the sun show vortices on its surface that have never been seen before because they are so small
What Happens When You Mail 30 Writers Free Lit Mags? — Here’s the thing about indie lit: it’s full of problems everyone complains about and almost nobody has the time, money, or spreadsheet stamina to solve. How can lit mags get more subscr…
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…
Tonal's leaderboard finally makes strength workouts as competitive as Peloton's spins. https://www.tonal.com
Physiotherapist mapped out exactly which muscles fail first when you're exhausted. The order is not what most people train for. 💪
Meld skincare dispenser allows users to mix their own preservative-free formulas — <p>British designer Beth Morgan Lundie has developed a refillable skincare dispenser that lets users combine different ingredients to create a bespoke formula at home and "bypass the need for…
Apple Back to School 2026: Free gift card offer extended through Sept. 24 — More time to cash in on that free gift card.
Japan’s Use of Fed Repo May Ease Pressure on Treasury Market — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s championing of a Federal Reserve facility Japan can use to boost the yen comes with the benefit of protecting the US bond market from excess sales.
What’s behind the Google AI shakeup — On The Vergecast: The model wars, the scourge of ‘time spent,’ and the ads coming to your BMW.
Meta says AI model accessed the internet and hacked another firm — Meta is the latest company to disclose an AI agent breach, raising cyber-security concerns.
North Korea's powerhouse women footballers are in Seoul to fight for title — They beat the South Korean club to progress to the final of the Asian Women's Champions League.
Lit Hub Weekly: June 1 – 5, 2026 — Sharon Blackie explores the grounding power of fairy tales. | Lit Hub Criticism What do you do when your book detailing Civil War-era censorship is censored by the US government? | Lit Hub Politics…
Smartphone Sales Are Falling Worldwide, But Apple Keeps Growing — Apple gained ground in India, Latin America, and Europe even as all three markets contracted, according to a new series of Counterpoint Research reports. Between late March and the beginning of August, Indian…
Václav Havel, Writing from Prison, on How to Hold Your Failure — Few things in life are more devastating than to give something your all and still fail. Not the “fail better” of startup culture, not the “fail forward” of self-help, not th…
The Mysterious Syndrome Destroying Endurance Athletes — Over the past decade, ultrarunning has gone from a fringe pursuit for distance freaks to a hypercompetitive sport attracting big-time sponsors. But a mysterious training condition is suddenly plaguing its ranks, robbing a…
The American Library Association is auctioning off some primo vintage READ posters. — This summer, the American Library Association is auctioning off a rare cache of its iconic READ posters to commemorate the org’s 150th year of doing business. Thanks to a partnership with Her…
Lit Hub Weekly: July 13 – 17, 2026 — On the rise (and fall) of the Japanese cell phone novel in the early 2000s (and the its attendant moral panic). | Lit Hub Technology Josh Cook, bookseller and founder of the Porter Square Review of…
Someone mapped out exactly which muscles fire during a deadlift in slow motion. The visualization is oddly satisfying to watch.
Cyclist Josh Tarling to compete in Tour of Spain after brother’s death — Josh Tarling returns to cycling in Spain a week after brother Finlay dies during Tour of Portugal.
Gutenberg Top Books — The most popular free classics.
autistici.org - Welcome to Autistici/Inventati — Autistici/Inventati provides internet support to activists and collectives coming from the world of grassroot and social movements
Photos: Hajj pilgrims gather at Mount Arafat under scorching desert sun — Temperatures near 44°C test worshippers’ endurance as the annual pilgrimage unfolds under the shadow of war.
Apple trained its own AI model for China with help from Alibaba — The rare US-China partnership comes as Apple prepares to roll out its on-device generative AI service in China.
Apple paid Ireland $17 billion last year as EU back-tax case came due - 9to5Mac — Apple paid Ireland $17 billion in corporate income taxes in 2025, accounting for 40% of its worldwide total. Here are the details.
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Most fitness programs collapse the moment intensity becomes optional. Watched someone nail the same 20-minute routine for six months while everyone else kept chasing the new thing. Tempo is the secret cue — consistency over novelty.
My Household Downsized to One Car. Yours Can, Too. — Getting rid of my second car not only reduced my carbon footprint, it also made my life better.
This open source TV box has zero tracking and everyone I show it to wants one — It's time to rethink what's on your TV.
'A huge award' - O'Reilly named PFA young player of the year — Manchester City and England full-back Nico O'Reilly says "it feels amazing" after receiving the 2026 PFA young player of the year award.
The Log from the Sea of Cortez: John Steinbeck’s Forgotten Masterpiece on How to Think and the Art of Seeing the Pattern Beyond the Particular — “Everything impinges on everything else… Everything is potentially everywhere.”
Watched someone break down why most people plateau at deadlift by month four — the program > intensity mistake nobody talks about.
IAEA chief says inspectors will visit Iran's nuclear sites under Iran-US interim deal — The head of the U.N.'s nuclear agency has signaled that Iranian nuclear enrichment sites would be visited by his inspectors, a day after U.S. and Iran offered contradictory remarks about the…
Intimacy as Art: André Aciman on Eric Rohmer’s Élisabeth — My edition of Élisabeth was written by a man called Gilbert Cordier and published by Gallimard in 1946. The novel didn’t go far and eventually disappeared from circulation. Sixty years later Gallim…
Legendary Artist Sheila Hicks, at 92, on the Secret to Creative Vitality — Art, Georgia O’Keeffe believed, springs from “the desire to make the unknown known… and keeping the unknown always beyond you.” We seem to have drifted lightyears away from …
The 5 times you really should use solid infill on your 3D printer — Let is fill you in on the right times to use solid infill.
Camera with transparent display launches for the equivalent of $29 — The Godox C100 is one of the most unusual compact cameras in the world, as Godox uses a transparent display as an optical viewfinder, making the camera look like a small window. Thanks to its very affordable…
On Time, Pain and the Labor Process: Considering the History of Midwifery — Birth fractured my sense of time—of how time unfolded. I had previously taken for granted that time passed swiftly from one moment to the next. I organized my understanding of my own life according…
Elon Musk: I got too involved in politics| The Economist — Elon Musk says “he got too involved in politics”. On the latest Insider, he admits to Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist’s editor-in-chief, that he got “carried away”, but still defends what DOGE set out to do.
been lifting for two years and just realized i've been doing squats wrong the entire time. the form cue that fixed it was weirdly simple
“I Hope to Die Laughing.” On Tom Drury’s The End of Vandalism — Roughly a decade ago, shortly after I moved from Seattle to a nearby suburb, I slid into a bipolar mixed episode for a period of a month or so before it descended into straight depression. During m…
How Do You Create Surprise When Your Story’s Ending Is Inevitable? — It’s a fairly conventional belief in fiction writing that the strongest structure of a short story is one in which a character changes over the course of that story. But what to do if you have a ch…
Philippine Banks Set Aside More Loan Provisions as Inflation Surges on War — Philippine banks have set aside the most funds for potential loan losses since at least 2008, bracing for defaults as the Middle East conflict weighs on an already weak economy.
The Man Who Killed the Last Eastern Elk in America—And Was Proud of It — It’s difficult to say with certainty when the last eastern elk was killed, but most accounts agree that Jim Jacobs pulled the trigger. Known as “The Seneca Bear Hunter,” Jacobs had killed hundreds …
Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life — We are the survivors of immense and minute events — violent cosmic collisions and subtle genetic mutations, the deaths of innumerable suns and the births of innumerable cells, the splitting o…
Ukrainian nuclear power plant without external power for over a week — This is the 27th time since Russia invaded Ukraine that Zaporizhzhia plant has had to rely on emergency diesel supplies.
Quake – 30th Anniversary Update — To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Quake, we have collaborated with MachineGames to create a new episode, Dawn of the Machine, now available as a free update to Quake.
Nem fiúknak való. Férfi szerepek újragondolva: fiúból férfi, de milyen? | Hunor Király | TEDxUjlipot — A mai férfiak nemcsak szerepeket örökölnek, hanem újra is írják őket – saját kérdéseiken, útkeresésükön keresztül. Hogyan gondolkodnak ma a férfiak önmagukról? Milyen mintát…
Lit Hub Daily: June 12, 2026 — If literacy is in decline, why are bookstores booming? “Bookstores are filling a social void.” | Lit Hub Bookstores Korean poets and their translators pair poetry collections with K-pop…
Lit Hub Daily: June 25, 2026 — Anthony Aycock looks back at Island Trees v. Pico, the first (and only) book ban case ever heard by the Supreme Court. | Lit Hub Politics TV writer and novelist Rasheed Newson talks to Spiro Skento…
Has the Time Finally Come for Multispecies Maps? — Imagine, if you will, a college student returning from summer break for the start of a new semester. Heading to her first class of the day, she pulls up the campus map on her phone and is intrigued…
Lit Hub Daily: August 19, 2026 — How environmentalism shows up in Ursula K. Le Guin’s fiction. | Lit Hub Criticism “The vast majority of contemporary literature is not in fact published but submitted.” On publish…
Watched someone at the gym explain to a trainer that they've been doing squats wrong for five years. The trainer just nodded and said 'okay but you're still here.'
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week — Our quintet of quality reviews this week includes Lauren LeBlanc on Téa Obreht’s Sunrise, Jane Hu on Chang-Rae Lee’s A Tender Age, Stephanie Burt on Marlon James’s The Disappearers, Laura Miller on…
Four railway workers killed by express train at station in Japan — Four railway workers spraying herbicide on tracks north of Tokyo were killed by an express train.
What Happens When Literary Passion Leads to Physical Illness? — I am often challenged about what sort of canon I am engaged in the creation of—about what the totality of the books I work on means together, what translating Vladimir Sorokin plus Michael Lentz pl…
What I Learned from a Close Read of All of Colson Whitehead’s Work — Colson Whitehead is a transitional figure in literary history, one of the literati of the post-Toni Morrison era, trained at elite schools (Trinity School, Harvard), highly attuned to nuances of ra…
6 unique Google Fitbit Air features that could make us switch — The upcoming Fitbit Air has some features that should make smartwatches and Whoop sweat.