14.08.2026
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
We wanna hear from you! Tell us about your intergenerational travel stories. Who did you go with? Where did you go? What did you learn about traveling with this person of a different age? How did the trip go? What are some stories you brought back? We want to hear it all.
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Northern Gannet, in Pillar Point Harbor, CA, US
This is Morris.
Morris is a local celebrity: the only known Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) in the entire Pacific Ocean.
He showed up in the Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco 14 years ago. He has since made Pillar Point harbor his home, where he's quite easy to spot: the only white bird with a yellow head, usually hanging out with the smaller black Brandt’s cormorants near the harbor sign visible from the end of the commercial pier.
Tags: photography, wildlife, half-moon-bay
In this episode I respond to a ridiculous comment on my most recent video.
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Jon Beezley
Peter DeVault
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Eric Beggs
Rich Germano
Brian Bloom
Peter Pillitteri
Piush Dahal
Toby Guidry
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
design.google/library/expressive-material-design-google-research
Colossal
• Jackie Andres
“If ‘greatness’ has long been defined by visibility and remembrance, then the continued documentation and celebration of women’s photographic practice is not only relevant but essential.”
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Tressie McMillan Cottom on AOC’s presumed presidential run. “But these are different times. Ocasio-Cortez is a different woman, and Americans love to turn to women when the house is burning down.”
Radiolab
• WNYC Studios
Longreads
• Carolyn Wells
"Why are so few young people finding love?"
Longreads
• Longreads
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
A race is on to save this world heritage site that straddles the border of Togo and Benin. It’s home to remarkable earth tower homes called Takienta, and the Batammariba people, whose existence is threatened by climate change and migration.
READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/koutammakou-batammariba
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Release: sqlite-utils 4.2
Lots of improvements in this one relating to the table.transform() feature, which adds support for complex alter table operations by creating a fresh table, copying across the data and then dropping and replacing the old one.
transform() now preserves a much larger array of edge-case schema definitions, including check constraints, unique constraints and even comments describing the columns.
There are also new introspection properties for check constraints, and a whole lot of other smaller changes.
Includes contributions from Bunlong Heng, ethanhawkes-gif, Rami Abdelrazzaq, nyxst4ck, and ikatyal2110.
(It later turned out 4.2 had a crashing bug, fixed in 4.2.1.)
Tags: releases, sqlite, sqlite-utils
Bill, Chris, and Mal head on over to Mother’s for a quick boilermaker or two after revisiting the 1986 romantic comedy ‘About Last Night,’ starring Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Jim Belushi, and Elizabeth Perkins.
Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocampo, and Matt Pevic
LIONSGATE’S MUTINY, STARRING JASON STATHAM, ONLY IN THEATERS AUGUST 21
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