Opposite Office, the architecture practice founded in Munich in 2017, has opened a new office - in a tree. The decision to choose this unusual location is a direct response to local rental prices: Mun...

Minimal now supports importing and exporting across Markdown, Rich Text, HTML, PDF, plain text, and our proprietary format MNML. The following essay describes how we accomplished this system in the Sw...

I had coffee last year with a guy - I won't use his real name - who told me he was "building a business." I asked what it did. Dropshipping jade face rollers. I made him say it twice. Jade face roll...

As global shipping emissions remain a stubborn climate problem, some sailors are embracing a return to technologies of yore.

We need a new kind of wisdom for our planetary age, one that synchronizes the signals, rhythms and boundaries of our natural world across domains.

Without a framework of “Artificial Integrity,” AI search platforms risk collapsing the information commons that made the web possible.

Instant deliveries take their toll on urban centres but rewarding a few minutes’ delay can help

New ways of studying the origin of life are leading to a better understanding of consciousness and the mind.

Suleika Jaouad on ritual, repetition, and the fantasy of starting over

As the climate crisis deepens, an old green dream is returning — with new tools and technologies.

The Surprising Benefits of Giving Up: Ditching or adjusting goals in the face of adversity might often be the best thing for us.

The shift to renewables represents an agricultural revolution for energy, moving from searching and extracting scarce fuels to harvesting abundant sunlight in place.

At Minimal we deliberately took our time to decide how we would integrate with Generative AI. There is a lot of hype, and we wanted to let the dust settle before building Large Language Models (LLMs) ...

The decline of criticism might explain the sense that our culture is stagnating. How can we bring it back?

Donald Trump’s abandonment of honest economic statistics highlights what’s been true for a while: The way we measure economic activity has long been inadequate for modern political challenges.

A new history of societal collapse by an expert in existential risk argues that our globalized society is edging toward the precipice.

Morioka Shoten is a tiny bookstore of “a Single Room with a Single Book” in Tokyo. It sells only one book; more precisely, multiple copies of one title that changes weekly, with a small book-inspired ...

Looking for life beyond Earth changes the way we perceive life right here at home.

A technique for focusing and optimally allocating effort. The 60 Choose the single-most important goal in life and dedicate 60% of effort to accomplishing that goal. Once it is completed, re-examin...

Superionic materials have spawned hope for a new generation of power packs for electric cars, with a promise of greater range, faster charges and more safety. But scaling up won’t be easy.

Making the economic case for nature is an essential task for securing development in our planetary age.

What if Americans care more about the cost of climate disasters than carbon-free energy?

Capturing carbon 35 times faster than the Amazon, seagrasses have faced centuries of decline. Now restoration projects across North America are seeing their meadows quadruple in size.

Let's have three abstraction layers: nature, middle, and human. The Human layer is designed for humans to effortlessly engage. The buttons on a dishwasher, the knobs on a stove. A keyboard. Paper wit...

No.374 — Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble ⊗ Invest in your expeditionary teams ⊗ Young people in China are embracing AI therapy ⊗ The Evolving Doughnut

If Europe wants to build a new AI Stack it should stop listening to critics who claim to lead the way but only offer resistance.

The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.

We should direct our attention less to the political Right and more to the political Left. Our leaders have failed us, and we need to understand why. Then we may be able to formulate a path to better

Climate Change and the Unthinkable

The end of the world is over. Now the real work begins.

Where have the amateur researchers gone, and how do we bring them back?

From superorganisms to superintelligences, how studying crabs could reveal that we are unintentionally building an artificial world brain.

There’s a lot of rumors of a big impending UI redesign from Apple. Let’s imagine what’s (or what could be) next for the design of iPhones, Macs and iPads.

Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.

How I went from an agent of change to an agent of care

Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence multiple times.

Ancient practices hold important lessons for farmers facing drying lands, but they were often more complex than modern societies realize. Glacier loss adds to the challenge today.

This map took me a long time to make, and is very detailed, but will always be incomplete and inaccurate due to the nature of language. Why this map is so detailed The diversity of English dialects in...

What if the most game-optimal play in the new system is actually to become relentlessly, unapologetically you?

How the under-appreciated art of idleness can transform the world

Jewelry makers and an embroiderer are among the craftspeople whose creations reflect the Indigenous people’s heritage.

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