“The Alamo announced Friday a whimsical and nostalgic new addition to its growing collection: the original, screen-used stunt bike from the beloved 1985 film Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure.” Round of applause for everyone involved.
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Catherine Lacey’s The Möbius Book is both a memoir and a novel,...
Catherine Lacey’s The Möbius Book is both a memoir and a novel, does not have a beginning or an end, and is “readable from either side”.
Intricate Drawings by Shunshun
I am totally smitten with the intricate drawings of Japanese artist Shunshun. It’s worth clicking through to see them in detail. Here’s a look at his process:
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Tags: art · Shunshun
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“Terrible night’s sleep? Here’s how to make it through the day…” Maybe...
“Terrible night’s sleep? Here’s how to make it through the day…” Maybe hold off on caffeine, limit carbs + easy energy, “snack” your exercise, get out in the sun, nap (but not too long), and head to bed at your normal time.
A remake of The Thomas Crown Affair with Michael B. Jordan, Danai...
A remake of The Thomas Crown Affair with Michael B. Jordan, Danai Gurira, Kenneth Branagh, and Lily Gladstone? Yeah, I’m into that.
CBS cancelled the Late Show with Stephen Colbert just days after he...
CBS cancelled the Late Show with Stephen Colbert just days after he criticized the $16 bribe the network paid to Trump. Here’s why “Colbert’s cancellation is a dark warning”.
Fascism For First Time Founders. “Let’s have a little chat about why...
Fascism For First Time Founders. “Let’s have a little chat about why embracing fascism is probably the worst possible business strategy for anyone actually trying to build something innovative.” 💯
“The extreme sports pioneer Felix Baumgartner, famed for a record-breaking 2012 skydive...
“The extreme sports pioneer Felix Baumgartner, famed for a record-breaking 2012 skydive from the edge of space, has died in a paragliding accident.”
Next year, “the average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will...
Next year, “the average person who buys Affordable Care Act insurance will be paying 75% more for their premium” because of “the expiration of enhanced premium tax credits in the ACA markets”.
Contemplative Landscapes by Noah Kalina
Noah Kalina is uploading videos of the “long photograph” variety of peaceful & contemplative nature scenes to YouTube. 4K. No AI. “Press play and walk away.”
Tags: Noah Kalina · video
Matter vs. Force: Why There Are Exactly Two Types of Particles. “Collectivist...
Matter vs. Force: Why There Are Exactly Two Types of Particles. “Collectivist bosons account for the forces that move us while individualist fermions keep our atoms from collapsing.” (Honestly, same.)
From Beautiful Public Data, a look into the Internet Archive’s collection of...
From Beautiful Public Data, a look into the Internet Archive’s collection of 5000 images from the NASA Ames Research Center. “Browsing through this amazing archive gives you a unique view of decades’ worth of breakthrough research.”
How AI Wreaked Havoc on the Lo-Fi Beat Scene. “The music’s association...
How AI Wreaked Havoc on the Lo-Fi Beat Scene. “The music’s association with aimless, unfocused listening — vibe music before vibe became a buzzword — means people aren’t paying as much attention to what’s real and what’s not…”
The Surreality of Japanese Playgrounds at Night
For years now, photographer Fujio Kito has been documenting cement playground equipment in Japan, often capturing them at night, lit up in captivating ways.
(via laura olin and present & correct)
Tags: Fujio Kito · Japan · photography
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Elderly Woman Keeps Mind Active Justifying Trump’s Actions. “I’m developing new neural...
Elderly Woman Keeps Mind Active Justifying Trump’s Actions. “I’m developing new neural pathways each time I shrug off Trump’s clear violations of the Constitution and his total contempt for our system of checks and balances.”
Iceland’s 36-hour workweek has been a huge success. “On his free days,...
Iceland’s 36-hour workweek has been a huge success. “On his free days, he loves to sleep in, then to make long phone calls to his fellow pigeon fanciers while cleaning the kitchen…” Sounds like a dream!
A comprehensive illustrated article on how screens work. This is the first...
A comprehensive illustrated article on how screens work. This is the first part of a new work-in-progress called Making Software that aims to explain how software systems & tools work from the ground up.
The Design Museum’s Upcoming Wes Anderson Exhibition
I don’t think anything could be more up my alley, in my wheelhouse, in my lane, my cup of tea, my speed than this upcoming retrospective of Wes Anderson’s work at London’s Design Museum.
The Design Museum has been granted unprecedented access to Wes Anderso...
The winners of Core77 Design Awards. Categories include apps, packaging, transportation, branding,...
The winners of Core77 Design Awards. Categories include apps, packaging, transportation, branding, consumer tech, and more.
Finding of a recent survey of 90,000+ trans Americans: “trans people who...
Finding of a recent survey of 90,000+ trans Americans: “trans people who go back to living as their sex assigned at birth do so because of transphobia, not because of doubts about gender or transition”.
I haven’t watched the NBA in years and I only know about...
I haven’t watched the NBA in years and I only know about Joel Embiid by media osmosis, but for some reason I spent 45 minutes this morning reading this profile of him.
From Smithsonian Magazine, the story of how Reading Rainbow came about, in...
From Smithsonian Magazine, the story of how Reading Rainbow came about, in part as an effort to combat schoolchildren’s summer reading slumps.
A collection of photos from the 70s & 80s of kids jumping...
A collection of photos from the 70s & 80s of kids jumping their bikes, sometimes over other kids. In that first pic, there is no way the two kids at the end of the row didn’t get stomped by that landing.
I had no idea Subaru actively courted lesbian car buyers with targeted...
I had no idea Subaru actively courted lesbian car buyers with targeted ad campaigns in the early 90s; here’s a 2016 Planet Money episode about it: When Subaru Came Out.
The Pedestrians Who Abetted a Hawk’s Deadly Attack. “The hawk appears to...
The Pedestrians Who Abetted a Hawk’s Deadly Attack. “The hawk appears to have learned to interpret a traffic signal and take advantage of it, in its quest to hunt. Which is…more impressive than how most humans use a pedestrian crosswalk.”
Photos Show the Vast Scale of China’s Solar Power Projects
Over at the Atlantic, Alan Taylor has collected a bunch of photos showing just how hard China is pushing on solar energy.
As the Trump administration’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” eliminates many clean-energy incentives in the U.S., China continues huge investments in wind an...
Let Your Kid Climb That Tree. “Your fear that your kid will...
Let Your Kid Climb That Tree. “Your fear that your kid will get hurt is depriving them of something they’ll never get back.” (The bit about “kinematic movers” is really interesting.)
Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the...
Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness. “My depression is spewing like an oil spill all over the beautiful turquoise-green gulf of my carefully planned and controlled existence.”
Writing Advice and Literary Wisdom from the Great E.B. White. “A blank...
Writing Advice and Literary Wisdom from the Great E.B. White. “A blank sheet of paper holds the greatest excitement there is for me — more promising than a silver cloud, prettier than a little red wagon. It holds all the hope there is, all fears.”
A great look at how Baltimore’s investment in an “ecosystem of community–oriented...
A great look at how Baltimore’s investment in an “ecosystem of community–oriented interventions” has drastically reduced violent crime in the city by treating crime as a public health crisis.