The fifteen weirdest works of classical music. [classical-music.com]
A list of 53 reasons to vote this year. "46. Becau
What Do I Need to Do to Get You Into a Membership Today?
Hey look, I’m not going to give you the hard sell this year. (Ok, I never do — it’s just not in my nature.) Four years
What Do Foreign Media Correspondents Think of the US?
Media correspondents from all over the world spend months and years in the United States, reporting on our current eve
An Archive of Pandemic and Anti-Racist Street Art
The Urban Art Mapping Research Project has been collecting photos of street art created over the past several month
Three Quick Links for Friday Noonish
I don't know who needs to hear this but... Colorado is not a rectangle. And not just because the Earth is round. Survey
Five Nice Things
After Siobhan O’Connor wrote about a game she plays with a friend called Five Nice Things — which she called “a less-co
Beloved Children’s Book Covers Reimagined In a Modernist Style
Over on his Instagram, Raj Haldar is making modernist versions of book covers for children’s books. So far there’s Go
How the Instagram Influencer Aesthetic Is Being Used to Sell QAnon
Over the summer, members of the QAnon cult started to take over the “Save the Children” movement on Instagram & Fa
Seven Quick Links for Thursday Afternoon
Taiwan has gone 200 days without a single locally transmitted case of Covid-19. [theguardian.com]
Vanity Fair's cover s
Trailer for Season Four of The Crown
For the fourth season of Netflix’s drama on Queen Elizabeth and the British monarchy, The Crown moves into the 1980s.
The World’s Best Tree Felling Tutorial
Oh, I already know what you’re thinking. Who cares about how to cut a tree down? Who cares about 8 different ways to c
Four Quick Links for Thursday Noonish
On the basis of his resume, no one would hire Donald Trump to do any sort of job. So maybe don't vote for him either? [
Karen O and Willie Nelson Cover Under Pressure
Under Pressure, the classic tune from David Bowie and Queen, seems like one of those songs you don’t want to mess with
Visualizing How Covid-19 Spreads Indoors
From El Pais, this is an excellent visualization of how Covid-19 spreads indoors via aerosols and what can be done to
Two Quick Links for Wednesday Afternoon
Wallace Shawn: "Trump has liberated a lot of people from the last vestiges of the Sermon on the Mount. A lot of people
Here’s What 10 Million Stars Look Like
Using the Dark Energy Camera at the Cerro Tololo observatory in Chile, astronomers took an image of the stars clustere
The Game of the Year: the 3D Virtual Walkthrough of 8800 Blue Lick Road
This week’s fun internet plaything has been the 3D virtual house tour of this three-bedroom house at 8800 Blue Lick Rd.
Four Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish
America Is About to Choose How Bad the Pandemic Will Get. "If Donald Trump is reelected, he will continue to downplay t
The Earthshot Prize
Earlier this month, Prince William (British royal) & David Attenborough (British royalty) announced The Earthshot
Interviews with Titanic Survivors
In 1979 the BBC aired an interview with Frank Prentice, who was an assistant purser on the Titanic who survived the sin
Two Quick Links for Tuesday Afternoon
No, Skiing Isn't a Welcome Place for People of Color. "Skiing has long served as an escape for white people from multic
The Abolition Movement
Writing for Vanity Fair, Josie Duffy Rice lays out the case for the abolition of policing.
Despite much reporting of a
“Liberty Doesn’t Mean Freedom to Infect Other People”
Paul Krugman writes about the harmful effects of “libertarianism gone bad, a misunderstanding of what freedom is all ab
A 2.5 Gigapixel Image of the Orion Constellation
Amateur astronomer Matt Harbison has been working for the past five years on capturing a detailed image of the Orion c
Four Quick Links for Monday Noonish
Casey Honniball, a postdoc at NASA, has made "the first definitive observation of molecular water on the sunlit lunar s
Map Portraits by Ed Fairburn
Artist Ed Fairburn draws portraits of people and objects on top of maps and, well, it is just my exact cup of tea. Hi
Obama on the Struggle to Reform Healthcare in America
Barack Obama’s forthcoming memoir, A Promised Land, is coming out next month. The New Yorker is running an excerpt of
Two Quick Links for Friday Afternoon
The iconic Strand Book Store in NYC is in dire financial straits. (Many other bookstores around the country are in simi
Back to the Future: Reimagined
Back to the Future is 35 years old this year and to celebrate, Universal has cut together eight fan-made animations of
Two Quick Links for Friday Noonish
Another thing that people are doing during the pandemic is repainting their home interiors. And a quarantine palette ha
Is the McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Broken?
Software developer Rashiq Zahid figured out McDonald’s ordering API and built a program that attempts to order ice cre
Fantastic 3-D Animation of How Medieval Bridges Were Built
The animation above shows how bridges were built in medieval times, well before the advent of backhoes, cranes, and bu
Three Quick Links for Thursday Afternoon
Icy Bodies by Shawn Lani, a dry ice exhibit that mixes science with art. This is lovely. [thekidshouldseethis.com]
Tom
Merriam-Webster’s “Time Traveler” Tracks the First Known Use of Words by Year
The English language, for better or worse, is constantly shifting and changing, with dozens of new and useful words be
The Japanese Sustainable Forestry Technique Called Daisugi (Platform Cedar)
Daisugi is a sustainable forestry technique that originated in Kyoto in the 14th or 15th century. The tops of Kitayama
Two Quick Links for Thursday Noonish
I don't know if a monopoly is to blame, but Google's search results for many things have been *awful* for years. SEO ga
Watch a NASA Spacecraft Touch Down On an Asteroid to Collect a Sample
On Tuesday, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft touched down on an asteroid called Bennu for about six seconds in order to co
America’s Nuclear Sponge
The “nuclear sponge” is a colorfully named Cold War-era concept whereby stationing a massive collection of ICBMs in spa
“Reverse Toonification” of Pixar Characters
Using an AI-based framework called Pixel2Style2Pixel and searching for faces in a dataset harvested from Flickr, Nathan
“My Mustache, My Self”
This is a superb essay by Wesley Morris where he starts off talking about his quarantine mustache but ends up consideri
Four Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish
"A huge reason that our politics is not so extremely polarised and so far out there is because we no longer have Murdoc
An Interface for Exploring Ed Ruscha’s Sunset Boulevard Street Views
Since 1965, American artist Ed Ruscha has been taking photos all along the length of Sunset Boulevard in LA. The Getty
The NYPL’s Essential Reads on Feminism
To mark the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution that made some women eligi
Four Quick Links for Tuesday Afternoon
I Was In Charge of the Deck Chairs On the Titanic, and They Absolutely Did Need Rearranging. "When the Titanic slid ben
NYC’s New Digital Subway Map
New York City has a new digital subway map that reflects the current status of the subway lines. And you can even see
It’s Reflective Fjord Season
This image-stabilized video of Tomasz Furmanek kayaking through the fjords of western Norway is almost obscenely beaut
Three Quick Links for Tuesday Noonish
In case you missed it the first time around, the 2nd edition of @craigmod's Kissa by Kissa book (about his 1000km walk
A World of Calm
Well, this is interesting. A World of Calm is a new TV series from HBO Max based on a sleep & meditation app calle
World’s Fastest Production Car Reaches a Ludicrous 331 MPH on a Public Road
The SSC Tuatara has snatched the title of the world’s fastest production car away from its rivals by an absurd margin
Two Quick Links for Monday Afternoon
What A Summer Of COVID-19 Taught Scientists About Indoor vs. Outdoor Transmission. "If there is one thing we can defini
The Way I See It, a Documentary Film About Former White House Photographer Pete Souza
Pete Souza was the White House photographer for Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama. Reflecting on his experience and the h
Five Quick Links for Monday Noonish
Due to a scheduling issue, Lupita Nyong'o had to drop out of HBO Max's adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's America
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