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The NY Times Editorial Board: “Donald Trump says he will prosecute his enemies, order mass deportations, use soldiers against citizens, play politics with disasters, abandon allies. Believe him.”

High above the streets of NYC, Brazilian ballet dancer Ingrid Silva performs wearing a custom paper sculpture.

Revealing the rooftop of Renzo Piano’s New York Times Building for the first time, director Jacob Krupnick captures Brazilian ballet dancer Ingrid Silva against the Manhattan skyline at sunrise for short film Above. Dancing to music by Nils Frahm and wearing a custom paper sculpture by French artist Pauline Loctin, Silva moves between HVAC utilities humming 800 feet above the city, in an unseen space with an unexpected elegance.

Tags: ballet · dance · Ingrid Silva · Jacob Krupnick · video

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Andrew R. Chow, reporting for Time: Twenty-four years ago, the surgeon Santiago Horgan performed the first robotically assisted gastric-bypass surgery in the world, a major medical breakthrough. Now Horgan is working with a new tool that he argues could be even more tran...

Overturning Roe v. Wade resulted in more infant deaths. “Hundreds more babies died than expected in the year and a half after the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion in June 2022.”

From Danielle Coffyn, a poem called If Adam Picked the Apple. Here’s the first bit of it:

If Adam Picked the Apple

There would be a parade,
a celebration,
a holiday to commemorate
the day he sought enlightenment.
We would not speak of
temptation by the devil, rather,
we would laud Adam’s curiosity,
his desire for adventure
and knowing.

You can read the rest of the poem here and preorder her poetry collection of the same name.

BTW, the hilarious painting is The Rebuke of Adam and Eve (1626) by Domenichino. That Adam, what a wanker.

Tags: art · Danielle Coffyn · Domenichino · poetry · religion

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Here’s how foods that were a part of WWII soldiers’ rations (like M&Ms, Nescafé, and Spam) made their way into American homes after the war. And a cheap, post-war glut of powdered cheese resulted in the invention of Cheetos.

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“Polls are not votes. The candidates are not deadlocked. There is no ahead or behind, even ‘with 72% of precincts reporting’ on election night. The way elections work is they’re 0-0 all the way up until the votes are counted and then someone wins.”

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An illustrated and hand-lettered guide to the system of international maritime signal flags that are used to communicate when speaking is difficult (“because of language barriers, distance, etc….”) See also hand flag semaphore and day shapes from the same creator. Tags: design · flags · language 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

Former commander in rebel Lord's Resistance Army, Thomas Kwoyelo, sentenced to 40 years for war crimes in Uganda. Also: The tortured monkey released back into the wild, and a scientific breakthrough in eco production.

As the US Presidential Election nears, Radiolab covers the closest we ever came to abolishing the Electoral College. In the 1960s, then-President Lyndon Johnson approached an ambitious young Senator known as the Kennedy of the Midwest to tweak the way Americans elect their P...

Wow, check out this just-released image from the JWST team of star cluster NGC 602. The local environment of this cluster is a close analogue of what existed in the early Universe, with very low abundances of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium. The existence of dar...

Join or Die, the documentary about Robert Putnam (author of Bowling Alone and popularizer of “social capital”) that I posted about back in February, is now available on Netflix.

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Conservative Man Proudly Frightened Of Everything. “I’m scared of books. I’m scared of movies. I’m scared of songs. I’m scared of cartoons.”

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From the Atlantic in 1948, Death of a Pig by E.B. White is about the story that inspired the author to write Charlotte’s Web a few years later. The scheme of buying a spring pig in blossom time, feeding it through summer and fall, and butchering it when the solid cold we...

From 1957, this is a drawing of the synergistic strategy of Walt Disney Productions, or what Todd Zenger of Harvard Business Review calls “a corporate theory of sustained growth”. The boxes on the chart have changed, but since the appointment of Bob Iger as CEO, Disney ha...

Pre-show: We’re still grumpy about the most recent member’s special Follow-up: New iPad Mini “Jelly Scrolling” is fixed? David Pierce disagrees though Submerged and Vision Pro demos (via Kevin Markham) Apple may stop producing Vision Pro soon? Some follow...

The 1619 Project: A Visual Experience is an illustrated version of the bestselling book by Nikole Hannah-Jones, featuring archival images, photos by Black photographers, and artwork from Black artists like Carrie Mae Weems & Vitus Shell.

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“Things look a little different around Lumon.” The official teaser trailer for season two of Severance reveals a liiiiittle bit more about the upcoming season but not much. January 17, 2025 can’t come soon enough!

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“How you love, how you give, and how you suffer is just about the sum of who you are.” Maria Popova reflects on 18 years of her excellent website, The Marginalian. Learning to carry one’s vulnerability is one hell of a reframing.

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