The FDA has approved a nasal flu vaccine that people can administer...
The FDA has approved a nasal flu vaccine that people can administer to themselves at home. (Prescription required, order it online, ages 2-49, available next year.)
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Did Shohei Ohtani just play the single greatest baseball game ever? “He...
Did Shohei Ohtani just play the single greatest baseball game ever? “He went 6-for-6, slugged three home runs, drove in 10 runs and swiped two bases — in a game that clinched a postseason berth.”
What impacted the Earth 66 million years ago at Chicxulub and caused...
What impacted the Earth 66 million years ago at Chicxulub and caused the extinction of 75% of all species of life? A new analysis suggests it was an asteroid from the outer reaches of the solar system.
Which Came First? A quiz from Google Arts & Culture in which...
Which Came First? A quiz from Google Arts & Culture in which you guess which historical event took place first.
London’s clean air zone was meant to reduce car pollution but also...
London’s clean air zone was meant to reduce car pollution but also had another effect: more active kids. “Instead of being chauffeured to school by their parents, the students started walking, biking, scootering, or taking public transit.”
The Toll of America’s Anti-Trans War. “Anti-transgender legislation and rhetoric is reshaping...
The Toll of America’s Anti-Trans War. “Anti-transgender legislation and rhetoric is reshaping all of our lives, from bodily autonomy to education, privacy and the access and use of public spaces. Are we paying attention?”
“A previously unknown piece of music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart when...
“A previously unknown piece of music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart when he was probably in his early teens has been uncovered at a library in Germany.” 12 minutes of new Mozart in the 21st century, what a time to be alive.
The newest season of The Great British Bake Off premieres on Netflix...
The newest season of The Great British Bake Off premieres on Netflix next week (Sept 27). Look at all those fresh faces — I love them already.
The Breakthrough That Could Unlock Ocean Carbon Removal. “How Equatic solved seawater’s...
The Breakthrough That Could Unlock Ocean Carbon Removal. “How Equatic solved seawater’s toxic gas problem and delivered a two-for-one solution: removing carbon while producing green hydrogen.”
A Tour of Antarctica by Drone
This 8-minute video of a drone’s eye tour of the coast of Antarctica is just flat-out gorgeous.
[This is a vintage post originally from Apr 2015.]
Tags: Antarctica · timeless posts · video
Visualizing Ship Movements with AIS Data. “Explore the beautiful, intricate paths of...
Visualizing Ship Movements with AIS Data. “Explore the beautiful, intricate paths of ships over a year — tracked from America’s busiest ports to the open ocean via AIS marine tracking data.”
A famous lecture given in 1982 by computer science pioneer Grace Hopper,...
A famous lecture given in 1982 by computer science pioneer Grace Hopper, “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People”, has long been publicly unavailable but is now on YouTube.
Horndog, a rotating hot dog robot that scrolls photos of bread on...
Horndog, a rotating hot dog robot that scrolls photos of bread on “Instagrain”. It’s art!
Double Trio
I love these covers designed by Rodrigo Corral for Nathaniel Mackey’s poetry collection Double Trio. You will likely recognize some of the other covers designed by Corral over the years.
Tags: book covers · books · design · Double Trio · Nathaniel Mackey · poetry · Rodrigo Corral
Monopoly, But COMMUNIST? No Rolls Barred, a YouTube Channel about board games,...
Monopoly, But COMMUNIST? No Rolls Barred, a YouTube Channel about board games, has a series of videos featuring Monopoly but with different rules.
Ian Bogost on the death of the “perfect vehicle”, the minivan. “It...
Ian Bogost on the death of the “perfect vehicle”, the minivan. “It is useful because it offers benefits for families, and it is uncool because family life is thought to be imprisoning.” Conversely, SUVs & trucks offer a sense of freedom.
Oh hey, a new book from Oliver Burkeman coming out soon: Meditations...
Oh hey, a new book from Oliver Burkeman coming out soon: Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts.
“The Kidnapping I Can’t Escape”
From earlier this summer, The Kidnapping I Can’t Escape is a great piece by Taffy Brodesser-Akner about the real-life kidnapping that inspired her recent novel, Long Island Compromise.
Jack was home safe. He had survived his kidnapping. But the actual kidnapping is not what...
Serena Rios McRae makes hand-carved stamps out of pink erasers and recently...
Serena Rios McRae makes hand-carved stamps out of pink erasers and recently stamped all 185 erasers onto one sheet of paper.
Mickey 17, a New Film From Bong Joon-ho
For his first movie since 2019’s Parasite, filmmaker Bong Joon-ho is coming out with a sci-fi dark comedy film called Mickey 17. The trailer is above and the synopsis from Wikipedia is:
Wanting to get out of Earth, Mickey Barnes signs up to be an “expendable”: a disposabl...
The newest season of the Slow Burn podcast is about the rise...
The newest season of the Slow Burn podcast is about the rise of Fox News. “It’s this rare institution that hasn’t been around for all that long — it launched in 1996 — but has so clearly changed the country and all of us who live here.”
Every webpage deserves to be a place. Matt Webb’s cursor party feature...
Every webpage deserves to be a place. Matt Webb’s cursor party feature lets web visitors see other people’s cursors on his site. And they can chat with each other and share text highlights. “It should be everywhere. It’s how the web should be.”
Huge study from The Economist about car bloat in the US. “For...
Huge study from The Economist about car bloat in the US. “For every life that the heaviest 1% of SUVs and trucks save, there are more than a dozen lives lost in other vehicles.” ‘Safety for me, danger for you’ is an American motto at this point.
A man named Alan Adler invented both the Aerobie Flying Ring and...
A man named Alan Adler invented both the Aerobie Flying Ring and the AeroPress Coffee Maker.
Ayrton Senna’s Heel-and-Toe Braking Technique
There’s a driving technique called heel-and-toe where the driver uses all three pedals (brake, clutch, throttle) at once to make deceleration smoother, especially in the turns.
Heel-toe or heel-and-toe double-declutching is used before entry into a turn while a vehicle is u...
The Power Broker at Fifty, a conversation with Robert Caro at the...
The Power Broker at Fifty, a conversation with Robert Caro at the New-York Historical Society moderated by Elliott Kalan & Roman Mars. Oct 7. In-person tickets are sold out but livestream tickets are still available.
To Understand Mississippi, I Went to Spain. “Enslavement, sharecropping, the rise of...
To Understand Mississippi, I Went to Spain. “Enslavement, sharecropping, the rise of cotton, and the physical and economic coercion that fueled the whole global system — this [480-year-old] map made that future possible.”
Congrats to Jason Snell & Dan Moren for ten years of Six...
Congrats to Jason Snell & Dan Moren for ten years of Six Colors. “These days, direct support from readers and listeners makes up a very large proportion of my salary. Thank you all for helping me continue to do this.”
Holy moly, William Peterson set a new Fastest Known Time on Vermont’s...
Holy moly, William Peterson set a new Fastest Known Time on Vermont’s Long Trail: 272 miles with 67,000 feet of elevation gain in 3 days, 21 hours, and 10 minutes.
Gamebaby is an iPhone Pro Max case that doubles as a gaming...
Gamebaby is an iPhone Pro Max case that doubles as a gaming controller for the Delta video game emulator (which lets you play play GB, NES, SNES, N64 games on iOS). Clever.