The Main Problem With Pedestrian Deaths Isn’t the Pedestrians. “Our transportation infrastructure exists to tell driver
Trailer for Stamped From the Beginning
Based on the bestselling book Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X
Artisans Cooperative is a member-owned marketplace for handmade goods. Looks like they...
Artisans Cooperative is a member-owned marketplace for handmade goods. Looks like they are trying to be what Etsy was b
The Loneliest Road in Every State in America. Only about 200 vehicles...
The Loneliest Road in Every State in America. Only about 200 vehicles travel on the 414-mile stretch of state route 11
The Best of Japan’s Mundane Halloween Costumes for 2023
There are only a couple of things I like about Halloween: 1. Heidi Klum’s costumes (last year she dressed up as a worm)
I just found out that the original version of Tetris for the...
I just found out that the original version of Tetris for the Game Boy is available on the Switch, so guess what I’m doi
Love this: a museum of internet artifacts, including the first email, Line...
Love this: a museum of internet artifacts, including the first email, Line Rider, an early Netflix website, Space Jam,
“From bacteria to blue whales, the number of cells in living things...
“From bacteria to blue whales, the number of cells in living things exceeds the estimated number of sand grains on Eart
How many animals have ever existed on Earth? The estimated number is...
How many animals have ever existed on Earth? The estimated number is ludicrously big, orders of magnitude more than a t
The United States of Guns
Like many of you, I read the news of a single person killing at least 18 people in Lewiston, Maine yesterday, which com
How to Officiate a Wedding. “I think of it as a storytelling...
How to Officiate a Wedding. “I think of it as a storytelling event. You’re really just telling the love story of two pe
The World Solved Acid Rain. We Can Also Solve Climate Change. “Climate...
The World Solved Acid Rain. We Can Also Solve Climate Change. “Climate agreements and targets take time to evolve. Nego
Lego’s New Dune Set With a Loooooong Baron Harkonnen Minifig
Lego is coming out with a huge new set that’s based on Denis Villeneuve’s two-installment adaptation of Dune (or, as
Out next week, a memoir by Olympic champion Caster Semenya: The Race...
Out next week, a memoir by Olympic champion Caster Semenya: The Race to Be Myself. “This book is a searing testimony fo
"The Nature Conservancy estimates that 5...
"The Nature Conservancy estimates that 5.75 billion sunflower sea stars died over the span of three years, a 94 percent
How Do Black Holes Compare to Regular Holes?
From XKCD, a comparison chart that shows how black holes and regular holes measure up to one another. Some of these ar
The recipe for "a tangy, umami-rich dres...
The recipe for "a tangy, umami-rich dressing named Lesbian Kale Sauce". Ahh, Vermont.
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The Debt Collective just canceled almost...
The Debt Collective just canceled almost $10 million in student debt for Morehouse College students. They paid $125,000
An analysis by Mona Chalabi: "The New Yo...
An analysis by Mona Chalabi: "The New York Times has consistently mentioned Israeli deaths more often than Palestinian
Running in a Body That's My Own: runner...
Running in a Body That's My Own: runner Caster Semenya's long struggle to compete as herself. "Its restrictions aren't
The Bird Migration Explorer
I loved playing around with the National Audubon Society's Bird Migration Explorer, which is a beautifully designed in
Evangelical Christians yearning for the...
Evangelical Christians yearning for the Second Coming want Israel to wipe out the Palestinians, followed by the "annihi
Who Are the People in the Neighborhood?
One of the things I was thinking about doing with the comments is having posts on Fridays that are specifically partici
How's Everyone Liking the Comments?
Hey everyone. I rolled out a new comments system (in beta!) on Monday and it seems to have been well-received so far. I
Estonia's capital made mass transit free...
Estonia's capital made mass transit free a decade ago. Transit traffic went up but car traffic increased faster. "Any e
Tape Measure Spider-Man. So dumb and yet...
Tape Measure Spider-Man. So dumb and yet perfect.
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Great story about going to see Galaxy Qu...
Great story about going to see Galaxy Quest in an empty theater near the end of its run. "The projectionist strode down
An index of dozens of aesthetic categori...
An index of dozens of aesthetic categories, from Boho Chic and Corporate Gen-X Cyber to Whimsigothic and Internet Aweso
Is Rural America Even a Thing?
For the New Yorker, Daniel Immerwahr reviews a new book, Steven Conn's The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for
Poet Lemn Sissay: "Superman was a foster...
Poet Lemn Sissay: "Superman was a foster child. Harry Potter was a foster child. Jane Eyre was adopted. Luke Skywalker
Just announced: The World's 50 Best Bars...
Just announced: The World's 50 Best Bars. I've been to a few of these and would like to go to the rest sometime please.
To promote his forthcoming book on keybo...
To promote his forthcoming book on keyboards called Shift Happens, Marcin Wichary game a little quiz game based on the
What To Know About What's Happening In Israel And Gaza. "Q: Where can I learn more? A: This is a logistically and moral
A Vermont utility company wants to install batteries in most customers' homes and bury more power lines. As a VT reside
Thanksgiving FYI is a seasonal newsletter from Jim Ray ("an enthusiastic and dedicated home cook with more than a dozen
An appreciation of Jaleel White and the iconic television character he created: Steve Urkel. I had completely forgotten
A New York Museum's House of Bones. "The American Museum of Natural History holds 12,000 bodies — but they don't want y
Comedy and Tragedy
Pete Davidson hosted Saturday Night Live last night and somehow said exactly the right thing to open a comedic televis
Emily Witt on a family that fled Tennessee because the state's anti-trans laws denied their trans teen access to gender
Processing Grief After Tragedy
How do I navigate grief and hopelessness after a tragedy? How can I get through my grief and sadness? Sitting with gr
John Ganz on The Trap: "The division of the world into intrinsically opposed hordes and swarms attacks the very notion
Huh. Did Medium "borrow" their current logo from Japan Tobacco Inc.'s 1985 logo? They are very similar...
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The New York Skyscraper That Almost Fell Over
You may have previously read about the Citicorp Center. Joe Morgenstern wrote about the Manhattan skyscraper in a class
Newsstands From Around the World
Over a period of eight years, Trevor Traynor took dozens of photos of newsstands and their operators. The project s
Five Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish
What Americans Know About Religion, a Pew Research survey from 2019. Atheists and agnostics tend to know more about rel
The Trailer for All the Light We Cannot See
This new series from Netflix looks pretty good — and it's got an impeccable pedigree: it's based on Anthony Doerr's Al
Yo-Yo Ma plays Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 in the Great Smoky Mountains
You have likely heard Yo-Yo Ma play his most famous piece before. Maybe even dozens of times. But Ma's rendition of Ba
The Unbearable Slowness of Light
Nothing is faster than the speed of light. But compared to the unimaginable size of the Universe, light is actually ext
The Inner Landscape
Photographer Reuben Wu was commissioned by Apple to take some of his wonderful light-painted photos with Apple iPhon
Four Quick Links for Tuesday Noonish
Scholastic Under Fire for Allowing Schools to Opt Out of 'Diverse Books' for Book Fairs. "Why is it appropriate for Sch
It's Random Early Fall Shopping Day!
Amazon has a bunch of stuff on sale today & tomorrow for an "event" they're calling Prime Big Deal Days. I'm not go
Coming Soon: Planet Earth III
Planet Earth III will begin airing later this year on BBC and, presumably, at some later time in the US. The latest in
Three Quick Links for Sunday Afternoon
Kelvin Kiptum shatters marathon world record with run of just over two hours. Wow, 2:00:35. "As the 23-year-old ran the
GeoGuessr
This is like CSI for geography dorks: you're plopped into a random location on Google Street View and you have to guess
Two Quick Links for Friday Afternoon
A preview of Spike Lee: Creative Sources, up at the Brooklyn Museum through early February. "There are so many amazing
4K Video of Norway's Stunningly Beautiful Fjords
If you need a small window of peaceful beauty today, here you are.
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Some of the Most Interesting and Weird Manuals in the Internet Archive
One could spend several hours delving into the Manuals Showcase over at the Internet Archive. Among the collection
Vaccines: "The Greatest Benefit Conferred on Humankind"
From The Economist on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Prize for Medicine to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for
Five Quick Links for Thursday Noonish
Critics for The Hollywood Reporter pick their 50 best TV shows of the 21st century (so far). Lots to disagree with here
America Is Quickly Becoming More Nonreligious
The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research recently conducted a poll asking Americans about their rel
Two Quick Links for Wednesday Afternoon
"Lise Meitner developed the theory of nuclear fission, the process that enabled the atomic bomb. But her identity — Jew
Every Type of Railcar Explained in 15 Minutes
This video from Practical Engineering offers a brief explanation of dozens of different types of railcars, from passen
One Revolution Per Minute
Erik Wernquist made his short film One Revolution Per Minute to explore his "fascination with artificial gravity in sp
Making It So, a Memoir by "Severe Bastard" Patrick Stewart
Fall always brings brisker days, earlier sunsets, and a whole raft of new books that are impossible to find the time to
Supercut of Songs That Stop on the Word "Stop"
You really have to applaud the effort here: YouTuber Todd in the Shadows made a 33-minutes supercut of every song he c
Google Changes Search Queries Without Telling You (to Sell You More Stuff)
Megan Gray on a disturbing piece of information that was revealed in the antitrust case against Google: their search en
Three Quick Links for Tuesday Noonish
On Luddites, the rebellion against Big Tech, human rights, and the AI threat: "Robots aren't coming for your job; bosse
The Cody Dock Rolling Bridge
Designed by architect Thomas Randall-Page, the Cody Dock rolling footbridge opens with a "surprising and playful motion
Five Quick Links for Monday Afternoon
"A cheap malaria vaccine that can be produced on a massive scale has been recommended for use by the World Health Organ
A Family of Humming-Birds
Wow, Nicholas Rougeux has restored John Gould’s A Monograph of the Trochilidæ, or Family of Humming-Birds, which was p
Four Quick Links for Monday Noonish
Thomas Zimmer on one of my political pet peeves: the polarization narrative. "The 'polarization' paradigm privileges un
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