"Reflections on a lifetime of dental drama."
Longreads
• Brendan Fitzgerald
Longreads
• Brendan Fitzgerald
"Reflections on a lifetime of dental drama."
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Chimpanzees use tools to collect food and deliberately teach other chimps (often their offspring) to use them for ant dipping, algae fishing, and termite fishing.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
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Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Abe imagines dreamlike scenes reminiscent of childhood narratives and folk tales.
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 Woodland Creatures Inhabit an Imaginary World in Kanako Abe’s Intricate Paper Cuts appeared first on Colossal.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Some advice on giving good advice. “Not every situation warrants advice. Sometimes, the person just wants to gauge a reaction or to share.”
Work Chronicles
• Work Chronicles
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Wilson's movie debut is primed for absurdity, delving into something that's immanently mundane yet fundamental to the way we live.
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 John Wilson’s ‘The History of Concrete’ Is Anything But Mundane appeared first on Colossal.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
TIL they can do wing replacements on injured butterflies…just take a look at this repair video.
Engaging read on how the Bugs Bunny cartoon What’s Opera, Doc? was made. “To get the extra work done, Jones and his crew secretly shaved a couple weeks off other, easier films and faked their time cards. It was something they did on occasion.”
Song Exploder
• Hrishikesh Hirway
Olivia Rodrigo is a Grammy-winning singer and songwriter. In June 2026, she released her third album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love. The day it came out, it broke streaming records on Spotify and Amazon Music, and it debuted at number one on the Billboard Charts. I talked to Olivia Rodrigo here in my studio, and I also visited her long-time producer and co-writer Dan Nigro at his studio. Dan Nigro won the Grammy for Producer of the Year in 2025, in part for his work with Olivia Rodrigo. For this episode, the two of them told me the story of making Olivia’s song “The Cure,” from the original voice memo to the final version.
For more info, visit songexploder.net/olivia-rodrigo.
The 25 Photos That Changed Fashion Forever. “It didn’t matter if an image was meant as a fashion photograph, so long as the picture later inspired a designer, collection or trend, or it changed how we might think about style.”
Longreads
• Seyward Darby
"How Jos Leijdekkers turned Sierra Leone into a drug-dealer’s paradise."
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
Dive into the invisible world of seeds, Sefra Alexandra, the self-titled “Seed Huntress.” She tells us about her global mission to preserve our planet's diverse seeds and protect our future food security by uncovering the stories of culinary and cultural significance rooted in these tiny powerhouses.
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