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John Donvan, moderator-in-chief of the radio show Open to Debate, discusses what the show Open to Debate, which airs on WNYC (and many other NPR stations) aims to do, and spotlights some of the recent issues they've taken on.

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Lulu Miller, host of Terrestrials and co-host of WNYC's Radiolab, shares some recent standout moments from Radiolab's kids podcast, Terrestrials.

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I reached a point in my Claude work where now I can do vibe coding, in a world that I used to just be a programmer in. This means if I want to do a heavy lift, I can tell Claude what I want and it can do really big corner turns, which is something I am (as a human) terrible at, and thus resist. Today I redesigned the basic user interface of the app, and didn't read any code, I was just giving orders, and it was doing what I asked, even if every little thing it did would have been a full day's work. It's remarkable how it can do very complex things in a few seconds.

And the web framework i'm working on can do almost all the things I want to do for now, but I want to suck everything into it, and turn the whole thing into a vibe coding amusement park. So many projects I want to do, and so many I want to do with you.

New York’s Neue Galerie Will Merge With the Metropolitan Museum. “The merger will significantly bolster the Met’s holdings of early 20th-century Austrian and German art…”

We have lots of native apps, but I will never use that as an excuse to write generic “bug fixes” release notes. I like including good release notes both for our users and for myself later, as I look back on what we’ve shipped.

Still, it is a lot to keep up with. Lately I’ve been turning to Codex to get me started with a release notes draft. I use a prompt like this:

Please review all the git commits since the tag “release/3.8.4” and write some release notes for the major changes. Read the release notes from the web page here help.micro.blog/t/micro-b… and follow that style of what is important and how to phrase the changes.

It’s usually not quite right, a little too verbose, so I can then edit it to fit what I would’ve written by hand anyway. Saves a lot of time.

You’ve Always Been This Way is a column written by Taylor Harris, a late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman and 1980s preschool dropout, who identifies every moment from her past that filled her with shame, and mutters, “Yep, that tracks. I see it all now.” - - - Dearest Neuroba...

Workers are getting worse health care, parental leave, and retirement benefits, showing once and for all that your job doesn’t love you back.

The Neanderthal dentist: archaeologists found evidence of a decayed tooth being drilled out with a stone tools 59,000 years ago. “It’s now the oldest known evidence of dentistry — or any direct medical treatment.”

Laundry room, somewhere in Tuscany.

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Memorial Day isn’t until May 26, but sales on our favorite gear have already started.

Regulated industries know this pattern well: A new capability emerges. Teams spin up point solutions, each one solving a discrete

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Mayo Clinic's "Ambient Listening" has been around for a couple of years, but clearly not all patients know their interactions with nurses are being passively recorded and processed by AI.

Sarah Rose (who is blind): “Meta glasses are absolute game changers for the blind community…they are completely revolutionary.” And: “It really is incredible to talk to your glasses and ask them what they see and have them tell you.”

Donald Trump was in China this week for a series of meetings with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. In order to cover the historic summit, major American broadcasters sent their newscasters overseas to broadcast from Beijing. Even the dolts from Fox News managed to get over there a...

“The United States Army has officially raised its enlistment age limit to 42.” — New York Times - - - Arrival Once you step off the bus, basic training has begun. Recruits carrying ergonomic rolling luggage will be immediately singled out for punishment. Next, your bags will...

In a partnership with design firm Ammunition, the lamp company is taking its lights wireless.

The budget-friendly Centris 2 ebike can fit the back seat of a car and has narrow handlebars for miles of easy riding—until it needs a recharge, that is.

Here’s how you can hack together a radio transmitter and receiver out of stuff you have at home—and explore the weirdness of wireless.

A big backyard griddle can change a summer. I made dozens of tacos, burgers, and pancakes to find the best setup.

Reducing the fee will only have a marginal impact on prices while depriving the government of revenue to maintain roads.