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30 Oct 2024 • Jason Kottke

Collection of 2000+ Free Science Images from the NIH

From the NIH, a collection of 2,000+ public domain science and medical art visuals (molecules, plants, viruses, proteins, brushes for repeating items like DNA, fungi, equipment…). High-resolution, free to use — scientists on social media seem pretty pumped about this. See also PhyloPic, a collection of 10,000 “free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses”. (via @waldo.net) Tags: art · science 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

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30 Oct 2024 • Jason Kottke

In 2002, the US military lost a $250 million war game in...

In 2002, the US military lost a $250 million war game in 10 minutes. A newly declassified report “warned of military vulnerabilities to unconventional tactics that were later exploited by enemies in real conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan”.

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30 Oct 2024 • Jason Kottke

Lidar drone mapping has revealed previously unknown cities in the mountains of...

Lidar drone mapping has revealed previously unknown cities in the mountains of modern-day Uzbekistan that were important Silk Road way stations. One was bigger than many major cities in Italy at the time.

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30 Oct 2024 • Jason Kottke

Digital Divinity is a fascinating series on how tech is transforming religion,...

Digital Divinity is a fascinating series on how tech is transforming religion, feat. a Muslim Strava-type app for prayers, tapping digital wooden fish in China, a sharia-compliant streaming service in Malaysia, and Bible advice from an AI chatbot.

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30 Oct 2024 • Jason Kottke

Mermaids of North America

Edith Zimmerman has put some new stuff in her Etsy shop, including original watercolors and this print of Mermaids of North America (which I love).

Tags: art · Edith Zimmerman

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30 Oct 2024 • Jason Kottke

Bidenomics Is Starting to Transform America. “Objectively, and improbably, he has passed...

Bidenomics Is Starting to Transform America. “Objectively, and improbably, he has passed more new domestic programs than any Democratic President since Lyndon Johnson — maybe even since Franklin Roosevelt.”

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30 Oct 2024 • Jason Kottke

Kelli Anderson details how the clever A-to-Z 7-segment display mechanism works on...

Kelli Anderson details how the clever A-to-Z 7-segment display mechanism works on the front of Alphabet in Motion, her new pop-up book about typography.

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29 Oct 2024 • Jason Kottke

Hyperlinks, the Open Web, and a Membership Appeal

Ok, look. I know there’s a loooot going on these days, particularly in these United States, but I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who has supported kottke.org over the years with a paying membership. It’s the 8th anniversary of the membership program, and I’ve wr...

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29 Oct 2024 • Jason Kottke

Household Surrealism: Clothesline Animals

Multidisciplinary artist Helga Stentzel cleverly hangs laundry items on clotheslines to make abstract animal shapes. You can find more of her household surrealism on Instagram. (via colossal) Tags: art · Helga Stentzel 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

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29 Oct 2024 • Jason Kottke

From 2017: I Don’t Know How To Explain To You That You...

From 2017: I Don’t Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People. “Our disagreement is not merely political, but a fundamental divide on what it means to live in a society, how to be a good person, and why any of that matters.” 🎯

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29 Oct 2024 • Jason Kottke

As a middle-aged man, I would’ve saved loads on therapy if I’d...

As a middle-aged man, I would’ve saved loads on therapy if I’d read Baby-Sitters Club books as a kid. “The social taboo which prevented [boys] from reading fiction marketed at girls was infinitely more powerful than anything censorship achieved.”

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29 Oct 2024 • Jason Kottke

Retro 80s Versions of Tech Company Logos

Kostya Petrenko makes 80s versions of tech/media company logos as if they’ve been screencapped from CRT displays. I think my favorite of his might be the retro OpenAI logo, which you can see in this reel. See also Medieval Versions of Contemporary Corporate Logos. Tags: design · Kostya Petrenko · logos · remix 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

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29 Oct 2024 • Jason Kottke

If you are thinking of protesting by not voting, Bernie Sanders answers...

If you are thinking of protesting by not voting, Bernie Sanders answers this question very well: “I disagree with Kamala’s position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote for her?”

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29 Oct 2024 • Jason Kottke

Delimar Vera was kidnapped when she was 10 days old and presumed...

Delimar Vera was kidnapped when she was 10 days old and presumed to have died in a fire. “Then came a chance encounter with her real mother at a birthday party…”

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29 Oct 2024 • Jason Kottke

What It’s Like Being a Billionaire’s Personal Assistant. “You have to have...

What It’s Like Being a Billionaire’s Personal Assistant. “You have to have thick skin. You’re like a rhinoceros or an armadillo. And you have to have incredible patience. You’re working for people who are not used to hearing no.”

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29 Oct 2024 • Jason Kottke

“A Vote for Donald Trump Is a Vote for School Shootings and Measles”

One of the best media endorsements of this election cycle comes from EIC Nilay Patel of The Verge, who absolutely pulls no punches in describing Donald Trump and his by-now very familiar patterns and desires. Trump simply cannot use the tools of democracy to run the country...

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28 Oct 2024 • Jason Kottke

Chris Ware on Richard Scarry

Well! In the Yale Review, Chris Ware (one of my favorite cartoonists) writes about Richard Scarry (one of my favorite children’s book authors) and Cars and Trucks and Things That Go (one of my favorite books). This year is the 50th anniversary of Scarry’s 1974 Cars and T...

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28 Oct 2024 • Jason Kottke

A list of the 20 best art museums in America, including the...

A list of the 20 best art museums in America, including the Wadsworth Atheneum, MoMA, MFA Boston, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the top dog, the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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28 Oct 2024 • Jason Kottke

The Last of Us Season Two Trailer

Somehow, I missed that the teaser trailer for season two of the excellent The Last of Us premiered almost a month ago. I guess both I and the world have been busy with other things and also keeping tabs on the entire interest and media landscape is just not something that’s possible.

Anyway, I am excited for this season to drop sometime in 2025. The skinny from Wikipedia is:

The second season, based on the 2020 game The Last of Us Part II, follows Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) five years after the events of the first season, and introduces Abby (Kaitlyn Dever).

And that “the season is expected to span seven episodes”.

Tags: HBO · The Last of Us · trailers · TV · video

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28 Oct 2024 • Jason Kottke

Five ways a Trump presidency would be disastrous for the climate. He...

Five ways a Trump presidency would be disastrous for the climate. He plans to “delete spending on clean energy, abolish ‘insane’ incentives for Americans to drive electric cars, scrap various environmental rules and unleash a ‘drill, baby, drill’ wave…”

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28 Oct 2024 • Jason Kottke

Oxfam analysis: “Investment emissions are the most significant part of a billionaire’s...

Oxfam analysis: “Investment emissions are the most significant part of a billionaire’s carbon footprint”, dwarfing jet & yacht emissions. “40% of the billionaire investments are in highly polluting industries: oil, mining, shipping, and cement.”

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28 Oct 2024 • Jason Kottke

Some speculative analysis about how the ever-decreasing projections of global population (now...

Some speculative analysis about how the ever-decreasing projections of global population (now ~9bn in 2054) might impact our climate future — “all else equal, fewer people means less carbon dioxide emissions.”

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28 Oct 2024 • Jason Kottke

The Nirvana Concert “Sabotaged” by Kurt Cobain to Spite an Angry Crowd

When Nirvana played a huge stadium show in Buenos Aires in 1992, an all-“female/queer/trans” band called Calamity Jane opened for them. The crowd pelted the band with objects like coins and rocks, forcing them off-stage and infuriating Kurt Cobain. Instead of refusing to pla...

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28 Oct 2024 • Jason Kottke

WHAT?! “In Sverris Saga, the Old Norse saga of King Sverre Sigurdsson,...

WHAT?! “In Sverris Saga, the Old Norse saga of King Sverre Sigurdsson, one passage details a 1197-CE raid on the castle and mentions a dead man thrown into the well. Radiocarbon dating supports that these are that individual’s remains.”

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28 Oct 2024 • Jason Kottke

Hear a Chopin Waltz Unearthed After Nearly 200 Years. A leading Chopin...

Hear a Chopin Waltz Unearthed After Nearly 200 Years. A leading Chopin scholar: “My jaw dropped I knew I had never seen this before.”

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28 Oct 2024 • Jason Kottke

A Recent Seismic Map of the World

From 1980 to the present, a timeline map of every earthquake in the world with a magnitude of 5 or above. You can play around with different parameters and data, so you can see where the different tectonic plates are, just see where the biggest earthquakes occurred, or add in volcanic eruptions. You can also draw a cross section and it will show how deep the quakes occurred along that line.

Tags: earthquakes · geology · infoviz · maps · science · volcanoes

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28 Oct 2024 • Jason Kottke

“Timothée Chalamet makes surprise appearance at NYC lookalike contest just as cops...

“Timothée Chalamet makes surprise appearance at NYC lookalike contest just as cops break it up.” Greatest city in the world. “‘One Willy Wonka lookalike who was taken into custody,’ an NYPD rep said.” Lamest police force in the world.

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25 Oct 2024 • Jason Kottke

New book from John Green: Everything Is Tuberculosis, the story of “the...

New book from John Green: Everything Is Tuberculosis, the story of “the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis”. (Green is signing 100,000 copies of this!)

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25 Oct 2024 • Jason Kottke

Dua Lipa’s (Proper) Tiny Desk Concert

In 2020, during the dark days of our first pandemic winter, Dua Lipa played NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert remotely from London, which is still the most popular Tiny Desk of all time (130M views). This week, NPR had Lipa ‘round the office for a proper set, with the singer playing...

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25 Oct 2024 • Jason Kottke

The NY Times Editorial Board: “Donald Trump says he will prosecute his...

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.”