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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Clip is a “plug & play” unit that upgrades almost any bike to an e-bike. The “no-tools” gadget clips onto to the front forks of a bike and provides up to 12 miles of range.

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

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

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 ...

Biocubes is a visualization comparing the mass of the living world (biomass) to the mass that’s been generated by humans (technomass). From a piece in the Times about the visualization: “The website ...

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