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Arkivism is a search and visual discovery engine for...
Arkivism is a search and visual discovery engine for millions of public domain works from the collections of the Smithsonian, The Met, NASA, Library of Congress, National Gallery of Art, Rijksmuseum, and more.
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Ted Chiang: “There’s no way to write fiction and...
Ted Chiang : “There’s no way to write fiction and guarantee your readers will understand it correctly. There is no way you will ever be able to write something so straightforward that Elon Musk will understand it the way that you intend it.”
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Let’s get this out of the way: Olivia Colman will be...
Let’s get this out of the way: Olivia Colman will be great as Mrs. Bennet in the new Pride and Prejudice series; here’s the trailer . But the rest of it has some awfully large shoes to fill — both the 1995 and 2005 adaptations are rightly beloved.
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Are contemporary technologies like GPS, phones, and AI...
Are contemporary technologies like GPS, phones, and AI deskilling the human body ? “In surrendering to a quick technological fix, we are, moment by moment, doing less sensing, navigating, remembering, walking, choosing, and attending.”
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Love the idea of a volta, a pivotal point. “The moment...
Love the idea of a volta , a pivotal point. “The moment when an acquaintance becomes a friend, when a song goes from background noise to what I will demand people play at my funeral.” Or when a novel goes from boring to incredible .
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The Collectively Drawn World
The Drawn Maps are the borders of the countries, state, provinces, and other official territories collectively drawn by more than 300,000 people playing an online daily game called Borderline . There’s a world map as well as maps of the USA , Canada , Italy , and more. There are…
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Babe, wake up! New potato just dropped. It tastes like...
Babe, wake up! New potato just dropped . It tastes like roast chicken.
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Trailer for season four of The Gilded Age, which started...
Trailer for season four of The Gilded Age , which started yesterday. I love this show for reasons that are unclear to me. But I don’t care! The heart wants what it wants!
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Readwise announces Readwise Books. “We’ve built Readwise...
Readwise announces Readwise Books . “We’ve built Readwise Books: our very own ebook store and app. In simple terms, you can think of it as a cross between the Kindle and Goodreads apps, where you can buy, read, and track books.”
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The Ten Best Captain Picard Episodes of Star Trek
In the wake of Patrick Stewart’s death the other day, I watched a couple episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation — the two-part series finale All Good Things… in fact. 1 Wanting to add more Picard-centric episodes to my watchlist, I did some research. There are several lists…
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Great Art Explained: Henri Matisse’s The Red Studio....
Great Art Explained: Henri Matisse’s The Red Studio . “Even Matisse wasn’t entirely sure what he had created and nobody wanted to buy it.”
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The top 10 paintings of Judith beheading Holofernes. “I...
The top 10 paintings of Judith beheading Holofernes . “I feel like Artemisia has actually thought through the logistics of overpowering a grown man and hacking his head off.”
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Three-Body Orbits
There are no generalized solutions to the three-body problem . Say you have three planets orbiting each other: it’s impossible to calculate how they will move using Newton’s laws of motion and gravity. Unlike the two-body problem, the three-body problem has no general…
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James Bridle on making chairs with LLMs. “What we have...
James Bridle on making chairs with LLMs . “What we have here is, quite literally, a chair designed by someone who has read a lot about chairs but never actually sat in one.”
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In a late-stage trial, personalized mRNA vaccines for...
In a late-stage trial, personalized mRNA vaccines for melanoma “reduced the risk of death or recurrence by 42 percent compared to standard treatment” .
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Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Site Search!
After years in the making (or more accurately, years in the wanting), I finally figured out how I wanted to do search for KDO posts. I’ve been tinkering with this specific implementation since the beginning of the summer and it finally all came together. If you’re a member ,…
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Listen to a Long-Lost Daft Punk Mix From 1997
A DJ named Ralph Lawson, who hosted a radio show called Trans Europe Express, found an incredible time capsule in his collection: an hour-long mixtape sent to him by Daft Punk in 1997, shortly after the release of their debut album, Homework. The tape was badly damaged, but he…
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Rest In Peace, Patrick Stewart (1940-2026)
Sir Patrick Stewart , best known for his role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation, has died at the age of 86 . He passed at home in Los Angeles from Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia. He was largely considered an unknown when the “Star Trek”…
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An Italian farmer planted some decades-old seeds he found...
An Italian farmer planted some decades-old seeds he found in his attic. Wheat with seven ears per stalk came up and the farmer found a reference to this type of nutritious, drought-resistant wheat in the Bible’s book of Genesis.
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Star Wars: The Radio Drama
Somehow I’d never heard of this before: NPR produced and aired 1 radio dramatizations of the films in the original Star Wars trilogy. The first program was particularly popular, garnering NPR hundreds of thousands of new listeners. The original versions are available in full on…