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

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

Well, I really don’t know what happened here. One minute it was the second week of January 2024 and the next minute we&#82 ...

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

In the city of Poznań, Poland, a group of eight clams controls the local water supply through a clever bio-monitoring system: ...

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.

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

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

Well, I really don’t know what happened here. One minute it was the second week of January 2024 and the next minute we’re a scant 12 hours away from 2025 — a ludicrously futuristic date, a sci-fi date ...

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