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Notes on a (dying?) dream job

Why are we so obsessed with putting our belongings in metal boxes and then never looking at them again?

I love 2005’s Pride and Prejudice, starring Keira Knightly & Matthew Macfadyen and directed by Joe Wright. So I really enjoyed Danny Boyd’s video essay about the great cinematography in the film. Pride & Prejudice isn

Tom Goldstein argued before the Supreme Court and won nearly $100 million at poker. His double life was about to catch up with him.

Sky burial is a funeral practice in which a corpse is placed on a mountaintop to decompose while exposed to the elements, or to be eaten by scavenging animals, especially crows, vultures, bears and jackals. Comparable excarnation practices are part of Zoroastrian burial rites where deceased are expo

Every walk of note since 2013, as a linked index, map and ledger.

A lovely contemplative short video featuring Toshiyuki Ueno of the Japanese fashion brand Visvim talking about craftsmanship. We want to make things that people will get attached to and will use for a long time. And

Manchester City breached Premier League financial rules by creating ‘sham’ contracts to help inflate revenue and reduce costs by more than £900m over a nine-year period, an independent commission found

I'm going to take a wild guess here and say that you, like me, have a large pile (or digital equivalent) of books or articles you've been meaning to get around to reading, plus maybe a long queue of podcast episodes to which you'd love to listen, if only you had the time.

From the early 1970s until his death in 2021, Korean artist Kim Tschang-Yeul painted water droplets. From one of the galleries representing his work: The waterdrop was the starting point for a singular and iconic body

Rescuing a field from disappearing

The latest macOS is a nice step toward a good-looking Mac UI, but I do wish it had gone farther.

I keep a list of things I want to do for KDO in Apple Notes, organized into four sections: small, medium, large, and longshots/obsolete. This note contains tweaks, bug fixes, code refactoring, new site features, roadmap

Behind the beloved game lies a struggle over mathematical ideas, erased collaborators, offshore millions, and copyright power.

“Look, if you are still stuck on 'AI cannot really think, it’s just a stochastic parrot', please snap out of it and lock in, or you’ll keep repeating that line until you find yourself sitting in the corner chair, watching as ChatGPT™ has sex with your wife."

Over the past six months, dozens of people pitched in to create the MN Stolen Neighbors Quilt, which is made of 12,500 squares, each one representing an immigrant abducted in Minnesota by the Trump regime’s secret police

Eleven years later, the novelist revisits a guest essay she wrote about marriage.

The company’s researchers raised questions about the security of the model, known as GPT-6.1 Astra.

Nikole Hannah-Jones famously argued for sending her daughter to a regular public school in NYC. Ten years later, she revisits that choice.

“We didn’t add these songs to the album, but they were part of what I was feeling and discovering as we made it,” says Wonder

Matt Kirkland is a designer. He probably reads too much.

There is only one John Madden. Thanksgiving 2026. #MaddenMovie Inspired by a true story, MADDEN follows the football legend from Super Bowl glory with the Raiders to revolutionizing the game with Madden NFL. » SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/PrimeVideoSubscribe About Prime Video: Want to watch it now?

The power grid relies on thousands of aging, hand-built transformers. If enough fail, the blackout could last years.

'Now We Can Sing', the first single from Max Richter's new album 'While The Flood Rages', out 16 October.

Guess the Wikipedia article from its categories. 10 interesting people, places, and things to guess every day.

Play multiple recordings of Terry Riley's In C simultaneously. Adjust playback rate to sync tempos across performances. Scores of recordings spanning over a half-century.

The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and as…

The card can be used to permanently cancel the match if they “observe inappropriate behaviour from spectators or parents".

Recreate an iconic Spanish landmark as you build the impressively massive Sagrada Família cathedral replica model, the largest LEGO® building set to date! As you build, follow in order the real-life progression of its construction, marking the 100th anniversary of Antoni Gaudí’s passing.

It wasn't so much a choice at first. I spent much of the summer on the road, which meant that getting online was nearly always a struggle, and so when I didn't have to, I stayed off. And when I did get on—I was working my remote job doing book research—doing work was the focus. I didn't fall prey to

Using a handheld scanner, designer/illustrator Noah Nolet captures textures from surfaces in cities around the world, including Tokyo, LA, Paris, Kyoto, NYC, and Berlin. On his website, he offers city packs of hundreds o

Twenty-nine contingents, 1,186 ships, one map, and a Homeric galley you can walk around.

I’ve spent a lot of time considering the differences between the professional practices that have culminated from centuries of human progress and the innate behaviors of these cute but unusual creatures.  There are some surprising similarities.

Brad Pitt returns as Cliff Booth, only this time it’s 1977 and it’s a very different Hollywood. Directed by David Fincher from a screenplay by Quentin Tarantino, THE FURTHER MIS-ADVENTURES OF CLIFF BOOTH comes to IMAX November 25.

A daily puzzle. Figure out the recipe of operations that turns one list into another.

The fathers of Islamic science hold lessons for students: breadth over specialisation, and never let constraints get in the way

From Sinatra to SZA, Appalachian folk to Detroit funk, a journey through the music that showed one British critic this country’s soul

{Ira Glass voice} On this week’s episode of This American Life, the story of middle schoolers too young for social media chatting in the comments section of NPR’s podcasts on Spotify. From the transcript: And it was j

Earlier that morning, a worker at the Okomu Oil Palm Plantation, which borders the park, had spotted the baby wandering alone—a highly unusual sight.

I visited Jimbōchō today, a neighborhood that’s home to more than 100 used bookstores. Many sell only Japanese books, but some of them have books in English or sell magazines, posters, or visual books that are interestin

Where art thou? Here art thou: The feature project will be the filmmaker's next after his upcoming 'Werwulf.'

Play solitaire with the rest of the internet.

Celebrating artists who commit to long-duration and daily creative practices.

The film centers on a village police chief and his rookie deputy who must defend his local community from a mysterious creature after wildfires sever all communications, while a local hunting party finds itself being hunted deep in the mountains.

For New York magazine, Emily Gould writes about her quest to cry again: I Miss My Tears (archive). I looked over at my husband, Keith, whose eyes were red, and felt … nothing. Not a clench in my chest, not a pang, not

Adults first demonstrate tool use, then hand over the implements to their infants, who copy the behavior.

This maddening little web toy on vole.wtf challenges visitors to draw a perfect circle and judges them on how well they do. After dozens of tries with a mouse, I could only manage 92.9% perfection (which looks more like

Are you someone who thinks they have all the answers? Is your experience relevant here? Experts on the questions to ask yourself before giving advice