I enjoyed Randall Munroe’s take on what he thought adult life would be like as a kid…in the form of a graph, natural ...

In this excerpt from Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive, author Eliot Stein travels to a city in Sardinia to learn how to make the world ...

In this excerpt from Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive, author Eliot Stein travels to a city in Sardinia to learn how to make the world ...

Tim Carmody has a great appreciation of HTML in Wired magazine: HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me. HTML is someho ...

Meta abandons fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram in favor of Community Notes. Facebook, Instagram, and Threa ...

Have you ever wanted to browse art from the Metropolitan Museum in a first-person shooter interface? You are in luck because ...

Every month, my friend Jodi Ettenberg sends out one of the best links roundups around, her *free* Curious About Everything ...

Biocubes is a visualization comparing the mass of the living world (biomass) to the mass that’s been generated by humans ( ...

Well, I really don’t know what happened here. One minute it was the second week of January 2024 and the next minute we&#82 ...

Yesterday was Public Domain Day and Duke University’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain has the scoop on what work ...

Since January 2020, Sophie O’Neill has been keeping an embroidery journal. Each day, she sews an “icon” to represent that day ...

In the city of Poznań, Poland, a group of eight clams controls the local water supply through a clever bio-monitoring system: ...