I enjoyed Randall Munroe’s take on what he thought adult life would be like as a kid…in the form of a graph, natural ...

Meta abandons fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram in favor of Community Notes. Facebook, Instagram, and Threa ...

In this excerpt from Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive, author Eliot Stein travels to a city in Sardinia to learn how to make the world ...

In this excerpt from Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive, author Eliot Stein travels to a city in Sardinia to learn how to make the world ...

Tim Carmody has a great appreciation of HTML in Wired magazine: HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me. HTML is someho ...

Have you ever wanted to browse art from the Metropolitan Museum in a first-person shooter interface? You are in luck because ...

Every month, my friend Jodi Ettenberg sends out one of the best links roundups around, her *free* Curious About Everything ...

Yesterday was Public Domain Day and Duke University’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain has the scoop on what work ...

Somehow I missed that Patrick Radden Keefe’s excellent book on The Troubles, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memor ...

Biocubes is a visualization comparing the mass of the living world (biomass) to the mass that’s been generated by humans ( ...

Since January 2020, Sophie O’Neill has been keeping an embroidery journal. Each day, she sews an “icon” to represent that day ...

The team at Howtown closed out 2024 by investigating the spice level (i.e. the Scoville ratings) of the lineup of hot sauces on ...