San Francisco's Patchwork Streets - NASA — An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this picture of downtown San Francisco and nearby communities on May 27, 2026. The image
What I’ve Learned About Girls by Observing Classrooms | Dr. Tayyaba Tamim | TEDxBICLahoreWomen — In this insightful TEDxBICLahore Women talk, Dr. Tayyaba Tamim reflects on what classrooms reveal about girls, their voices, confidence, ambitions, and the expectations that shape…
Former OC actor Ben McKenzie on crusade to take down 'stupid' cryptocurrency — Ben McKenzie has been on a journey from The OC to calling crypto 'the largest Ponzi scheme in history'.
Yen Weakens Past 160 Per Dollar, Eroding Intervention Gain — The yen weakened past the key 160-per-dollar level as it extends a slide that’s erased more than half of its intervention-fueled gains.
The Kiln and the Quantum of Relationships — Anything you give your time to and polish with attention will become a lens on your search for meaning, will lavish you with metaphors that become backdoors into the locked room of your most urgent…
Pollution rules criticised for raising new home costs — Developers claim the rules will stop them from hitting housebuilding targets.
What is El Niño and why could it mean record temperatures? — Global temperatures are expected to rise in the coming months as El Niño begins.
Rising Waters Swamp Lake Naivasha - NASA Science — Relentless rains are threatening a lake in Kenya's Great Rift Valley that has become a key hub in the global flower trade.
After news about Oliver Sacks's "lies", we revisit his best-loved book — Last year, The New Yorker revealed the late Sacks's "guilt" about his “falsification” in The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, but is this story about more than just the facts?
Human-Related Microbes May Survive Moon’s South Pole, NASA Finds - NASA Science — Some of Earth’s microbes likely to hitch a ride to space with human explorers could survive in the shaded nooks and crannies of the Moon’s South Pole region, NASA scientists say.
The Most Insane Megaproject You Never Heard About — Do you have a balanced news diet? Go to https://ground.news/nutshell to see reporting from a variety of sources and perspectives around the world. Subscribe for 40% off their unlimited access Vantage plan through our link. Visi
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…
Y Combinator's Startup School curriculum breaks down unit economics, fundraising, and product-market fit with real founder examples and measurable benchmarks. https://www.startupschool.org
Construction in Germany Revealed the 'Princely Grave' of a Celtic Warrior Who Was Buried With Weapons and a Two-Wheeled Wagon — Archaeologists say the find proves "the previously only assumed presence of a local Celtic elite." Grave goods also included gold jewelry and a jug impo
Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled — It’s been an interesting few weeks for counterexamples. This post is basically my perspective of what has been going on in the world of formalization, AI tools and, in particular, counterexam…
Microbes, our invisible superheroes | Chandrima Bhattacharya | TEDxRiverdale — Human identity isn’t a solo performance — it’s a symphony played by trillions of microbial partners. Chandrima Bhattacharya, Cornell University PhD candidate, takes us on a journey to some of the…
A Bookstore Boom in a Time of Literacy Decline — I was standing in line at Chaucer’s Books, my local indie, when it occurred to me that the line was longer than usual. This has been happening regularly enough that I’ve stopped being s…
Beyond the Numbers: STEM & the Humanities Belong Together | Nora Numbers | TEDxFive Forks Youth — Are you a "STEM person" or a "humanities person"? From an early age, students are often encouraged to fit into one category or the other, shaping how they view their own abilities.…
Israeli settlers surround Palestinian home in occupied West Bank’s Qusra — At least four Palestinians are trapped inside the home, while settlers have set fire to nearby Palestinian land.
Why is India’s nationalist RSS holding an event in New York? — The head of India’s controversial Hindu nationalist RSS is due to speak in New York, despite calls for his visa to be revoked. Why is the movement trying to expand its influence in the US?
Insta360 has given its flagship 4K webcams an icy cool glow-up — now available in arctic white — New look, same old AI 4K brilliance.
Wind-assisted cargo ships could more than halve shipping emissions — If wind-assisted cargo ships chose routes based entirely on where the winds are better, their fuel use could be cut in half or even completely eliminated
The Long Walk to School Life lessons from the Alps | Noor Fatima | TEDxTLHC — Every life is shaped not only by major turning points, but by quiet changes that happen so gradually we hardly notice them. Through stories of migration, grief, language, and belonging, Noor Fatima…
Medici family murder mystery may be solved after over 400 years with new DNA analysis | CNN — New research determined that the mysterious death of a ruler from the powerful Florentine Medici family was due to illness, not murder.
Plants of the Quran | Sue Wickison | TEDxUniversity of Leeds — NOTE FROM TED: TEDx events are independently organized by volunteers. The guidelines we give TEDx organizers are described in more detail here: http://storage.ted.com/tedx/manuals/tedx_content_guidelines.pdf The…
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…
Australia's coal and gas exports violate our human rights, group says in new UN case — The group says that it is unlawful for Australia to continue approving fossil fuel exports without protecting its citizens.
Why My 85-Year-Old Friend Has Devoted the Last Years of Her Life to Reading the Ancient Classics — Joan is eighty-five years old, and I fell a little in love with her on Thanksgiving. She was sitting on our couch reading a copy of The Aeneid that she had plucked from the…
Can You Guess the Origins of Papyrus Fragments or Painted Ceramics? A College Student Turned the Met's Open-Access Database Into an Online Game — If you consider yourself an art history buff, test your smarts with Anthropeum. The game pulls 10 images from the Met's open-access…
How Your Body Predicts the Future Pre-Birth | Dhriti Karawadi | TEDx10X International School Youth — This talk explores how experiences shape biology even before birth through epigenetics. It explains how chemical markers on DNA record signals from environment, stress, and…
World Cup day 26: Who will advance to the FIFA World Cup round of 16? — Round of 16 continues as Portugal-Spain rivalry renews before USA take on Belgium.
Where YC Founders Went Next: OpenAI and Anthropic — Startups.RIP — A chronological ledger of 105 YC founders connected to OpenAI or Anthropic, from their earliest YC batches to where they went next.
Beyond Olympics Gold Medal: Finding Your Own Rhythm | QIAN YANG | TEDxThe Bund Women — Many remember Qian Yang for one unforgettable moment: winning Olympic gold with her final shot in Tokyo. Yet for Yang, that moment was only one point in a much longer journey — one shaped by…
Building Systems, Not Just Services | Bhavin Bavaliya | TEDxLakhotaLake — In this video, Bhavin Bavaliya (a Hairstylist & a Creative Director) shares how a small salon in Rajkot grew into a multi-city network by focusing on systems, training, and consistent customer experience.…
Inside the Wild World of Roman Romance Novels — People have been debating the invention of the novel forever. For some, the first novel was the 11th Century Japanese Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikabu, for others the novel truly began when Cervan…
This Week in Literary History: Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita premieres in New York. — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita was first published in 1955, after many rejections from American publishers, by the Paris-based …
Flex your football brain with our daily quizzes — Test your ball knowledge against today's Who Am I?, Five in Five and Brainteaser.
Air Pollution's Daily Pulse Over the Northeast - NASA Science — The TEMPO mission helped scientists track morning nitrogen dioxide that contributed to afternoon ozone along the New York–Washington corridor in May 2026.
A.I. Went to the Opera, Creating Images for an Anniversary Production of Wagner's 'Ring Cycle' at the Theater Where He First Staged the Masterpiece — It took Richard Wagner a quarter-century to complete the four-part opera. The new production, called "10010110," uses generative…
Living with Purpose - Distilled into eleven words | Joyce Ng | TEDxBrownU — How do you move on after a tragedy? In this talk, Joyce Ng shares three simple ways to transform personal hardship into a life of purpose. As a survivor of the 9/11 attacks and also a student at Brown…
Where Our Acts END, Impact Begins | Fatima Alhassan Danjuma | TEDxDarazo — In a world that celebrates constant action, what if the greatest measure of success isn't what we do—but what remains after we're gone? In this powerful spoken-word TEDxDarazo talk, Fatima Alhassan…
Chalkdust: Read Issue 23 now — A magazine for the mathematically curious. Issue 23 now available: Sleep, coffee and cheating at Tetris feature in our SS26 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
This documentary-only streaming service is $149.99 for life, its lowest-ever price — For nights when a documentary beats another rewatch.
The Unreasonable Redundancy of Nature's Protein Folds - Ligo Blog — A Ligo research note on redundancy in natural protein fold space and what kind of data still carries signal.
Injured peregrine reunion 'brought tears to eyes' — The bird of prey was found injured on the ground but was nursed back to health over a month.
Why Virginia Woolf is having a moment in Hollywood. — Virginia Woolf, the highest oracle for we sad literary girls, is all over the silver screen this summer—thanks to a remarkable trio of new adaptations. Though her work is famously cerebral—and, wel…
Scientists found that the creatine supplement millions take for muscle gains is quietly raising brain energy levels and slowing early Alzheimer's cognitive decline by 30% - thesciverse — Tens of millions of people take creatine every day for their muscles. A comprehensive review
Agnes Callard on Socrates’ Turf — Welcome to Season Four of The Critic and Her Publics: The Art of the Interview. This season, host Merve Emre talks with professional interviewers of all kinds about how they get the answer theyR…
This 1863 Massacre Was the Deadliest Slaughter of Native Americans in U.S. History. Now, the Shoshone Are Restoring the Site of the Attack — Amid mounting tensions between white settlers and the Shoshone, Union soldiers killed an estimated 250 to 500 Shoshone. Today, the…
Fixing capitalism with more capitalists | William A. Mundell | TEDxClaremont Graduate University — American capitalism has been framed as a battle between labor and capital. William (Bill) Mundell argues that this story is outdated and holding America back. Drawing on…
Watch: New ISS crew blasts off from Kazakhstan — The Soyuz spacecraft will carry Nasa astronaut Anil Menon and cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina to the ISS for an eight-month mission.
Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Lays Off 16% of Work Force After Mounting Comeback with ‘The Invite’ — Megan Ellison's Annapurna has slashed 16% of its work force after mounting comeback with 'The Invite'
Norway's royal family gathers at King Harald's bedside as his condition worsens — The 89-year-old has been in hospital for over a week receiving treatment for a rare blood condition.
A Changing World for Emperor Penguins - NASA Science — Experts are analyzing decades of images from Landsat satellites for clues about how the iconic birds have responded to sea ice disruptions in the past.
Ring is shaking up camera encryption — Ring is ‘throwing away the key’ to your footage.
With a Beam of Light, the New York City AIDS Memorial Honors the Nearly Forgotten Legacy of This Great American Sculptor — A new sculpture draws on materials and ideas from Scott Burton's artwork, which offered comfort in urban spaces. His final public series was a set of benches
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction — Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. …
Why some people mow a lawn better than others — We analyzed 132,003 attempts to mow a virtual lawn efficiently.
Suzanne Simard on the wood wide web, connectedness – and Avatar — Rowan Hooper met ecologist Suzanne Simard under an oak tree in Kew Gardens, London, to talk about her new book, criticism of her work, and getting a call from James Cameron's people
Why This Prediction Market Banned Teens — Jacob Fortinsky, the CEO and cofounder of the new prediction market Novig, says his outfit isn’t like those other markets. You know the ones.