The Daily
• The New York Times
The City Reporter
• Jose Martinez and Andrew Giambrone
After driving a New York City taxi for nearly 20 years, the last trip Richard Coulibaly will take is home to Ivory Coast for his own funeral. The cabbie’s return to the West African country he left three decades ago grew out of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance and fellow Ivorians tapping into a […]
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The City Reporter
• Katie Honan
The release of a citywide strategy for building 2,100 public bathrooms will be delayed after Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s team said the task is too complicated to meet its deadline. The legislation, dubbed the Bathroom Bill, passed the City Council in April 2025 and set out to create a comprehensive plan to double the number of […]
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Every one of 212 plant-based meat alternatives and drinks tested in the UK contained at least one naturally occurring fungal toxin, though concentrations remained below recommended EU guideline levels. Researchers say the bigger question is whether regularly eating large amounts of these foods could lead to potentially concerning cumulative exposure over time.
Scientists tracking thousands of animals found that our physical presence can reshape where wildlife moves and lives, sometimes as strongly as roads, cities, and other human development. Because different species reacted in very different ways, conservation efforts may need to become much more targeted.
More than 1,000 volunteers buried cotton underwear across Switzerland to help scientists measure how active different soils are. The faster the fabric disappeared, the more biological activity was taking place underground. Gardens showed the fastest decomposition, while lawns had the least, revealing how strongly land management can shape soil life.
Beneath the rocky slopes of Mount Timpanogos lies far more ice than anyone walking across the surface might suspect. Researchers used gravity measurements to map the buried glacier in 3D and found it is about 83% ice, with enough frozen water to fill 600 Olympic swimming pools. Their findings suggest rock glaciers form as falling debris buries persistent snow and preserves it for thousands of years. Similar formations around the world may collectively store tens of gigatons of hidden water.
Seth's Blog
• Seth Godin
For fifteen or twenty years, this question is relentlessly answered, whether or not we ask it. After we learn fractions, the teacher moves on to decimals. After we read O’Connor, we’re handed Faulkner. In music history, Debussy follows Brahms. Chemistry after biology. It persists in some places after school… the museum hangs Picasso in the […]
WIRED
• Caroline Haskins
Alpharetta, Georgia, cops share data with thousands of Flock users, ranging from federal agencies to a fish and wildlife commission. The reasons why show how vast—and invasive—the network has become.
WBUR News
• WBUR
Grab your telescopes because this week on Endless Thread Ben and NPR Short Wave host Emily Kwong take us down two science-related internet wormholes. First, Emily introduces us to the intergalactic world of astronaut fan fiction, starring the crew of the 2026 Artemis II moon mission. Then, Ben takes us through the r/Science discourse on a new LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) study mapping an ancient Amazonian civilization.
Show notes:
Joe weighs in on the recent primary results - can Angie Nixon and David Jolly both win in Florida? Can anything stop this change wave? What is the media missing about it? Why Trump's beef problem is really bad. And how can we all read polls better? (Hint: Stop freaking out about the toplines!)
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Open Culture
• Colin Marshall
We’ve long joked about delaying bedtime in order to read the entire internet, but the prospect of actually doing so doesn’t sound as appealing as it used to. An ever-growing proportion of text online, we may sense, hasn’t been written by humans, but generated by artificial intelligence. One solution is to return to reading on […]
The Overlook
• Noah Eckstein
Mary Frank plucks what looks like a spoiled mushroom from her garden in Bearsville. Rosie, her trusty Havanese, stays close as Mary squeezes the mushroom between her fingers, releasing a cloud of spores into the late-summer air. Mary, 93, collects several mushroom caps to take into her studio, where she will place them on paper […]
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Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
This morning, a headline in the Guardian read: “RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate.” The story by Michelle R.
Study for the Holy Family, 1518 #raphael #highrenaissance
Discovered: Aug 28, 2026 05:01 (UTC) I hereby officially declare August 27 Lake Ontario day :-)
Discovered: Aug 25, 2026 15:23 (UTC) Arm and Hammer Washing Soda;1 Cup of This Destroys Every Drain Clog - But Never Touches Your Pipes - YouTube<– video with ‘AI’ imagery oh brother!
