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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Somehow I missed that Patrick Radden Keefe’s excellent book on The Troubles, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, has been turned into a 9-part TV series (now available ...