Bilimde Kadın / Women in Science | Dr. Ayça Ergül | TEDxSSHS Youth — Ya sorun kadınların bilim yapamaması değil de, potansiyellerini göstermelerini engelleyen görünmez bariyerlerse? Bu konuşmada Ayça Arslan, bilim yolculuğundan yola çıkarak eşitliğin, cesaretin ve fırsatların…
How Not to Waste Your Life — “Let me not seem to have lived in vain,” the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe whispered on his deathbed, not realizing that the astronomical tables he was leaving behind would become the p…
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…
The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother — “It is not easy to give closeness and freedom, safety plus danger.”
50 Houthi fighters killed in renewed clashes in Yemen — Yemeni government officials say the Houthis launched a surprise offensive targeting army barracks in southern Hodeidah.
Jenny Jackson, Teddy Wayne, Paul Tremblay, and more: 16 new books out today! — As we go easing into the holiday weekend, there’s a smaller batch of releases: though the ones that are here, are ones that count. Jenny Jackson’s next hotly anticipated novel, The Sham…
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Rebuilding the Golden Bird | Mr. Amarnath V T | TEDxKPRCAS — In this TEDx talk, Mr. Amarnath V T reflects on his entrepreneurial journey and the lessons he learned while building Martram's – The South Indian Coffee House. Drawing from experiences of failure, resilience, and…
How a 144-Year Architectural Puzzle Was Solved — Get Nebula for 50% off with my link: https://go.nebula.tv/realengineering Watch this video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/realengineering-why-sagrada-familia-took-144-years-to-finish The bonus Nebula video:…
The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in June — Every month, all the major streaming services add a host of newly acquired (or just plain new) shows, movies, and documentaries into their ever-rotating libraries. So what’s a dedicated reader to w…
How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust — “The alternations between love and its denial, suffering and denial of suffering … constitute the most essential and ubiquitous structural…
On One of America’s Great Conspiracy Theorists (and His Yankees vs. Cowboys Theory of History) — On November 22, 1963—the day on which President Kennedy arrived in Dallas to lay the groundwork for his 1964 reelection campaign and Richard Hofstadter set off from Oxford to attend…
Is Alien Life Hiding in Plain Sight, Right Here in Our Solar System? — The grandeur of Saturn is stunning to behold when viewed through a telescope. Possibly the most iconic and easily identifiable member of our solar system, this “ringed planet” has a vol…
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera‘s Blue House in Coyoacán Was a Refuge for Leon Trotsky… Until It Wasn‘t — At first glance, the Blue House in Coyoacán seemed an oasis of calm. Its sun-drenched courtyard, cobalt-blue walls, and sheltering gardens offered Leon Trotsky and Natalia…
At Upstate Art Weekend, Cars and Barns Are Galleries — During the seventh annual event, hundreds of artists proved that art has never been confined to “white cube” galleries.
In Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility You Can Be “Demure and Brat All at Once” — Thick into the edits to my time-travel-rom-com novel set in the Regency era about two sisters who couldn’t be more different (one loves Jane Austen, one loves Skims), my gentle editor suggested I r…
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“Go Get ’Em” — Illustrated by Yana Mihaylova My boyfriend’s family is supposed to visit and we have to prepare and try to match their lavish dinners and four-course crystal-and-china extravaganzas. They are going…
Get Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for life for $27.97 — Ditch 365 for good — Own your Office apps instead of subscribing.
Fernando Pessoa on Unselfing into Who You Really Are — “To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight,R…
“Obsession” and “Backrooms” Movie Review — Two surprise hits, both directed by precocious YouTube-trained talents, breathe shivery cinematic life into urban legends and cautionary tales.
Curiosity as Compassion: A Conversation with Susan Orlean - Longreads — Why it's important to cultivate resilience and curiosity as a writer.
The Expansive Joy of Mao Ishikawa — The photographer doesn’t sentimentalize her subjects; she pays attention to them.
Lit Hub Daily: June 1, 2026 — “It felt as if Eileen had found a box of pencils they wrote with in the 1970s and asked if I would like to take a look at them.” CAConrad on Eileen Myles’ “Bird Watching.” | Lit Hub Criticism From …
This Week in Literary History: Ira Aldridge Debuts as Othello on the London Stage — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. When Ira Aldridge was a teenager, he fell in love with the theatre. But he was a Black kid born in Manhattan in 1807, whi
A New Golden Age: Corvette ZR1 vs. Mustang GTD vs. 911 GT3 RS — Much of our content is devoted to celebrating America’s glorious automotive past (see recent stories on the Chrysler C-300, why Packard still matters, and the history of the Offy, one of the most amazing engines…
An Ecuadorian Fishing Boat Disappears Amid Trump’s Strikes in the Pacific — The President claims to be targeting vessels involved in drug trafficking. Were the fishermen who went missing with the Fiorella collateral damage?
Solitude as a new aspirational lifestyle: 'We are not lonely' — A growing number of what the internet has dubbed "loneliness influencers" are spotlighting solo living without children or friends - and it's spurring debate.
How the Politics of Powerlessness Prevents Real Change — We are living in a time of massive upheaval—of grave crisis and also enormous opportunity. The world is transforming at a breakneck pace and will continue to change dramatically in our lifetime. Th…
A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Beginnings — “Our very life here depends directly on continuous acts of beginning.”
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s “Perte Loss” by Katie Kirkland — May 20, 2026 – “To traverse Cha's archive is to register the force of an artistic imagination that is itself not ‘fixe, mort’ but constantly mutating.”
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week — Our flock of fabulous reviews this week includes Scaachi Khol on Jill Biden’s View From the East Wing, Lincoln Michel on Deb Olin Unferth’s Earth 7, Michael Faber on M. John Harrison…
Shakespeare and Reality Televison Really Aren’t That Different — When the first massively popular reality TV shows hit the air in the early 2000s, I remember thinking in my naïveté: Surely this is just a passing fad. I was entering my teens and, like so many clo…
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“A Person Should Be in Love Most of the Time.” An[other] Ode to Grace Paley — I first started reading Grace Paley in the weeks after my second novel was published, as I sought refuge from refreshing Goodreads, from waiting for the Booker Prize Committee to phone. Reading the…
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Villains Are Just More Interesting Than Heroes (and More F*ckable, If We’re Being Frank) — The first character I ever became obsessed with was Captain Hook. I couldn’t have been more than three or four, though I was already weird; I saw the 1953 Disney version of Peter Pan and im
The Coast of Everything — “What a lot of people don’t appreciate these days is that as recently as the first half of the last century, what they called literature was a very, very different thing to the thing we have now. A…
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At the Crucible: Snooker’s World Series — “Contemporary snooker is defined by an ongoing anomaly: three men in their fifties still pummel younger players.”
Nature and Creativity: The Science of “Soft Fascination” and How the Natural World Resets the Brain — “Our everyday experience does not prepare us to assimilate the gaping hugeness of the Grand Canyon or the crashing grandeur of Niagara Falls. We have no response at the ready;…
NASA chief praises progress Blue Origin is making after launch failure — We've got time into 2027 before we're getting nervous."
“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…
On Integrating Unions and Finding “Good White People” in Midcentury Minnesota — The black-and-white booklet is meant to fit easily in a pocket or slip into the palm of a polite stranger, anyone whose willingness to make eye contact left them open to learning about race relatio…
What Happens When You Show Your Parents Your Debut Novel? — I gave my book to my partner before I gave it to my parents, figuring it was better to conquer one gut-churning fear at a time. I refused to watch him read it, but I was aware when he reached the s…
“Authority” — It’s been seven hours and thirty-five days since he took his love away. Josephine knows the world is crowded with people like her, that hers is a fundamentally ordinary predicament, but she feels …
Dostoyevsky isn’t difficult — Other than the names. The names are difficult.
Here are the winners of this year’s Bram Stoker Awards. — The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the recipients of the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement. Named in honor of Bram Stoker (Dracula) and awarded annually since 1988, t…
3 Kinds of Loneliness and 4 Kinds of Forever — Loneliness is the fundamental condition of life — we are born by another, but born alone; die around others (if we are lucky and loved), but die alone; we spend our lives islanded in our one …
Today's Hurdle hints and answers for July 6, 2026 — Everything you need to win.
Sheila Liming: “The End of Books” — A university professor on what we lose when we lose the book as a physical medium.
I added a real-time chat to my blog, people used it to attack me | Andros Fenollosa — Sometimes the most irrelevant piece of a project becomes its absolute protagonist. My blog has a small social widget floating on one side. You can…
Awake Awake — All is recollection save for the slender membrane of now. Every present thought, every present feeling, collides with a league of their familial ghosts. And if our lives in this moment seem flimsy,…
This Stunning African Island Nation Now Offers a ‘Golden Passport’ for $90,000 — If you've ever fantasized about moving off-grid to a remote tropical island, São Tomé and Príncipe's new golden passport might be your ticket.
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction — Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for nonfiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Associatio…
Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models | TechCrunch — Anthropic will extend support for watermarking AI generations for older models as well.
Chrome may get faster updates with no restart required — The last two versions of Chrome have included more patches than the previous 23 combined.
Nine Books That Showcase Queer Life in the Arab World — When the genocide in Gaza began in 2023, I remember seeing a repeated commentary on social media: every time a queer-presenting person posted about Israeli war crimes, a troll would pop up to tell …
Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis, has died at 58. — Marjane Satrapi, the author, artist, filmmaker, and activist behind the best-selling Persepolis series, has died at the age of 58. A leader in both France and Iran, Satrapi lived and wrote at a cul…
Lit Hub Weekly: June 29 – July 3, 2026 — Get ready for part two! These are the 258 books we’re most anticipating in the second half of 2026. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Did you know that Ancient Roman romance novels went hard? | Lit Hub Histo…