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691: A Menlo Phase

Pre-show: Project Hail Mary Reconcilable Differences #286: Ain’t Nothin’ Gonna Break My Stride Setlist Bandcamp Luke Bloom — Bad D. H. T. — Listen to Your Heart Apocalyptica Vitamin String Quartet Johnny Cash — Hurt Follow-up: CapEx vs. OpEx (via Andrew Leahey) B...

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Shape of Dreams (Zendaya × Spike Jonze)

Zendaya co-created a new collection for On, the Swiss fashion company, and Spike Jonze directed this cool promotional video starring the actress. I’ve always loved his aesthetic — along with Michel Gondry, no one makes these types of videos seem “hand-crafted” (in a way that is hard to articulate) more than Jonze.

Tags: Spike Jonze · video · Zendaya

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The Guardian asked authors, critics, and academics to...

The Guardian asked authors, critics, and academics to help compile a list of the best 100 novels of all time. They’ve done 41-100 so far. Selecting a book will show you who voted for it, then click on the voter’s name to see their other choices.

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Could Humans Evolve Flight?

Flying like a bird would require way more than wings. Hollow bones, giant chest muscles, rewired nerves, and absurd amounts of food would transform you into something barely human anymore. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #birds #bi...

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Faig Ahmed Weaves Mysticism, Science, Technology, and Craft into ‘The Attention’

Faig Ahmed Weaves Mysticism, Science, Technology, and Craft into ‘The Attention’At the 61st Venice Biennale, Ahmed expands upon his interest in the dialectic between digital processes and hand-crafted techniques.

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The 2026 National Recording Registry inductees were...

The 2026 National Recording Registry inductees were announced today. “The 2026 selections mark the first recordings by Taylor Swift and Beyoncé chosen for the registry.” Also: music from Weezer, The Go-Go’s, Chaka Khan, and Johnny Cash.

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This Tiny Celestial Body Past Pluto Shouldn’t Have an...

This Tiny Celestial Body Past Pluto Shouldn’t Have an Atmosphere—but Astronomers Say They May Have Detected One.

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The Guadalupe Swept Us Away. This Is the Story of All That Came After.

"In the days after last July’s historic disaster, I wrote about the tragedy that befell my family. But crawling out of the river was only the beginning."

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A Moment That Changed Me: I Saw My First Total Solar...

A Moment That Changed Me: I Saw My First Total Solar Eclipse — and Its Beauty Shook Me to My Core. “I knew the theory, but I was not ready for the experience.”

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Consider the Sister

"Amy Wallace has spent two decades guarding the human her brother was—against a world that prefers David Foster Wallace as a puzzle."

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Failure To Lawn

On what a dying patch of turfgrass can teach us about water scarcity, ecological repair, and the lies we tell ourselves about success.

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Walking the Johnny Appleseed Trail with Isaac Fitzgerald

Isaac Fitzgerald grew up taking long walks with his father in rural Massachusetts. And on those walks, his father told him stories about legendary figures like Johnny Appleseed. As an adult, Isaac decided to retrace his path, and learn the true story behind this mythical character he’d grown up with.

Isaac is the author of American Rambler: Walking the Trail of Johnny Appleseed

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Microbial Dark Matter and the Search for Life on Earth

Microbial Dark Matter and the Search for Life on Earth

On the joys and tribulations of living through a golden age in microbiology

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Welcome to the Datasette blog

Welcome to the Datasette blog

We have a bunch of neat Datasette announcements in the pipeline so we decided it was time the project grew an official blog.

I built this using OpenAI Codex desktop, which turns out to have the Markdown session transcript export feature I've always wanted. Here's the session that built the blog. See also issue 179.

Tags: ai, datasette, generative-ai, llms, ai-assisted-programming, codex-cli

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Charlie Puth on learning piano #piano #pianist #johncoltrane #shorts

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“The Biggest Android Update Ever”

Everything we know so far about Android 17, Gemini Intelligence and Googlebooks

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What Childhood Folklore Did You Learn As a Kid?

I loved this post by Kelsey Miller for Cup of Jo about “childlore”. “Remember typing ‘BOOBS’ on a calculator?!” someone will blurt. “Or — or that thing when you’re driving by a cemetery and you have to hold your breath?” I love hearing the tiny differences in details (so...

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In ‘Piercing the Veil,’ Marina Kappos Gets to Know the Spectre of Grief

In ‘Piercing the Veil,’ Marina Kappos Gets to Know the Spectre of GriefKappos' solo exhibition of new paintings opens on Friday at SHRINE in New York.

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I Want to Live Like Costco People . “Embracing the...

I Want to Live Like Costco People. “Embracing the Costco lifestyle means accepting the fact that I am, in many ways, becoming my father.”

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Birds Flock Amid Vibrant Blooms in Vasilisa Romanenko’s Acrylic Paintings

Birds Flock Amid Vibrant Blooms in Vasilisa Romanenko’s Acrylic PaintingsThe artist's solo exhibition, 'Flora & Flight,' continues through the end of the month at Arch Enemy Arts in Philadelphia.

Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Birds Flock Amid Vibrant Blooms in Vasilisa Romanenko’s Acrylic Paintings appeared first on Colossal.