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Val Sopi
You Probably Can! "I can't do this!" —— that's what my mind was telling me. I was running on the beach when that...
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"I can't do this!" —— that's what my mind was telling me. I was running on the beach when that thought popped up in my head. It was pitch perfect weather. Morning. A vail of a cloud slightly blocking the full radiation of the sun. However, if meditation has taught me one thing,...
Fonts In Use – Blog...
The arcane alphabets of Black Sabbath Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: fontsinuse.com Nick Sherman. License: All Rights Reserved....
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Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: fontsinuse.com Nick Sherman. License: All Rights Reserved. Black Sabbath’s first four studio albums – Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Master of Reality, and Vol 4, released in rapid succession between 1970 and 1972 – laid much of the...
Global Inequality...
New Capitalism II: Compositional vs income inequality Are all class-based societies unequal?
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The Marginalian
Kiss: Ellen Bass’s Stunning Ode to the Courage of Tenderness as an Antidote to Helplessness There is no greater remedy for helplessness than helping someone else, no greater salve for sorrow...
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There is no greater remedy for helplessness than helping someone else, no greater salve for sorrow than according gladness to another. What makes life livable despite the cruelties of chance — the accident, the wildfire, the random intracellular mutation — are these little acts...
Flashbak
Dublin in 1991: Photographing The Feeling Of A City On The Edge “The photo always holds two layers, the concrete and the emotional. You must involve your own...
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“The photo always holds two layers, the concrete and the emotional. You must involve your own experience and perception when decoding the photo, and only then does it disseminate its full message” – photographer Krass Clement     In 1991 Danish photographer Krass Clement took...
The Marginalian
Hold On Let Go: Urns for Living and the Art of Trusting Time Ceramics came into my life the way the bird divinations had a year earlier — suddenly, mysteriously,...
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Ceramics came into my life the way the bird divinations had a year earlier — suddenly, mysteriously, as a coping mechanism for the confusions and cataclysms of living. I was reeling from a shattering collision with one of life’s most banal and brutal truths — that broken people...
99% Invisible
Constitution Breakdown #1: Nikole Hannah-Jones This is the first official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the U.S. Constitution. This...
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This is the first official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the U.S. Constitution. This month, Roman and Elizabeth discuss the Preamble, alongside Nikole Hannah-Jones. Nikole is an investigative reporter for the New York Times Magazine and the Knight Chair in Race and...
Flashbak
Various Episodes of Human Life Performed by Monkeys, 1635 This small print series is called ‘Verschillende Bedrijven uit het Menselijke Leven Door Apen...
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This small print series is called ‘Verschillende Bedrijven uit het Menselijke Leven Door Apen Voorgesteld’ (Various episodes of human life performed by monkeys) from designs by the Flemish printer Quirin Boel (or Coryn Bol; 25 January 1620 – 1668) and compatriot painter David...
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Building competency is better than therapy The world is waking to the fact that talk therapy is neither the only nor the best way to cure a...
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The world is waking to the fact that talk therapy is neither the only nor the best way to cure a garden-variety petite depression. Something many people will encounter at some point in their lives. Studies have shown that exercise, for example, is a more effective treatment than...
Yale E360
A Third of Slum Dwellers at Risk of 'Disastrous' Floods Close to 900 million people across the Global South live in densely packed urban slums, which often...
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Close to 900 million people across the Global South live in densely packed urban slums, which often sit in floodplains. A new study finds that one in three slum dwellers is at risk of "disastrous" flooding, a risk that is set to grow as warming spurs more intense rainfall around...
Yale E360
A Third of Slum Dwellers at Risk of 'Disastrous' Floods Close to 900 million people across the Global South live in densely packed urban slums, which often...
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Close to 900 million people across the Global South live in densely packed urban slums, which often sit in floodplains. A new study finds that one in three slum dwellers is at risk of "disastrous" flooding, a risk that is set to grow as warming spurs more intense rainfall around...
Yale E360
A Third of Slum Dwellers at Risk of 'Disastrous' Floods Close to 900 million people across the Global South live in densely packed urban slums, which often...
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Close to 900 million people across the Global South live in densely packed urban slums, which often sit in floodplains. A new study finds that one in three slum dwellers is at risk of "disastrous" flooding, a risk that is set to grow as warming spurs more intense rainfall around...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 128: AI Action Plan July 25, 2025.
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Atoms vs Bits
Is This Anything? 10 youtube + Francis Bacon
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Quanta Magazine
Quantum Scientists Have Built a New Math of Cryptography In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the root of modern...
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In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the root of modern encryption. A new proof shows how. The post Quantum Scientists Have Built a New Math of Cryptography first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Machine Learning for...
Digital hygiene part 2 How to be safe, private, and have a good time online
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Rest of World -...
Saudi Aramco wants a Google spinoff to turn its waste into wealth The world’s biggest crude producer is partnering with SandboxAQ to turn captured carbon into...
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Open Culture
How Disney Fought Fascism with Propaganda Cartoons During World War II & Averted Financial Collapse Today, the Walt Disney Company seems like one of those entities that’s “too big to fail” — but...
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Today, the Walt Disney Company seems like one of those entities that’s “too big to fail” — but during the Second World War, fail it nearly did. Like the big-thinking entertainer-businessman he was, Walt Disney himself had been re-investing the company’s profits into ever more...
David Heinemeier...
You expect principles but should wish for none People seem to be continuously disappointed by the fact that public companies are run by...
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People seem to be continuously disappointed by the fact that public companies are run by professional managers who don't operate from deep principles. But they shouldn't be. It's in everyone's interest that corporations set their sails to the wind and whims of the prevailing...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Is SoftBank Still Backing OpenAI? Earlier in the week, the Wall Street Journal reported that SoftBank and OpenAI's "$500 billion" "AI...
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Earlier in the week, the Wall Street Journal reported that SoftBank and OpenAI's "$500 billion" "AI Project" was now setting a "more modest goal of building a small data center by year-end." To quote: A $500 billion effort unveiled at the White
Retail Design Blog
Guess Flagship Store – Las Vegas Located in the heart of Las Vegas at The Forum Shops within Caesars Palace, the 1,153 sqm Guess...
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Located in the heart of Las Vegas at The Forum Shops within Caesars Palace, the 1,153 sqm Guess flagship store...
Arduino Blog
Introducing the Arduino Nano R4: small in size, big on possibilities We’re excited to welcome a new member to the Arduino Nano family – the Nano R4. Powered by the same...
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We’re excited to welcome a new member to the Arduino Nano family – the Nano R4. Powered by the same RA4M1 microcontroller that’s at the core of the popular UNO R4 boards, this tiny-yet-mighty module is here to help you take your projects from prototype to product, smoothly and...
Computer Things
Programming Language Escape Hatches The excellent-but-defunct blog Programming in the 21st Century defines "puzzle languages" as...
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The excellent-but-defunct blog Programming in the 21st Century defines "puzzle languages" as languages were part of the appeal is in figuring out how to express a program idiomatically, like a puzzle. As examples, he lists Haskell, Erlang, and J. All puzzle languages, the author...
Both Are True
i've weaseled my way into a business camp for newsletter writers what could go wrong????
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Quanta Magazine
Why Did The Universe Begin? In this episode of The Joy of Why, Thomas Hertog discusses his collaboration with Stephen Hawking on...
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In this episode of The Joy of Why, Thomas Hertog discusses his collaboration with Stephen Hawking on a provocative theory arguing that the laws of physics evolved with the universe, and how this could have shaped a cosmos fit for life. The post Why Did The Universe...
Charlie Becker
Fumbling Toward Truth and Beauty in Used Bookstores CBL #95 | A dispatch from a Sunday at the store
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Rest of World -...
Unleashing the AI jobs revolution in Africa While there are concerns that AI will eliminate jobs, in many developing countries, it can help...
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While there are concerns that AI will eliminate jobs, in many developing countries, it can help create jobs that never existed before.
Open Culture
The Nazis’ 10 Control-Freak Rules for Jazz Performers: A Strange List from World War II Like the rock and roll revolution of the 1950s, which shocked staid white audiences with...
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Like the rock and roll revolution of the 1950s, which shocked staid white audiences with translations of black rhythm and blues, the popularity of jazz caused all kinds of racial panic and social anxiety in the early part of the twentieth century. Long before the rise of European...
Flashbak
Let’s Hear It For The Toilet Paper: 25 Vintage Snapshots of People And Toilets Have you been? Do you need to go? We’ve seen Janet Leigh on the toilet in the Psycho bathroom, men...
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Have you been? Do you need to go? We’ve seen Janet Leigh on the toilet in the Psycho bathroom, men of all ages on the pot and admired the bog at New York’s CBGB club and the dawning of the 1980s bathroom. In this gallery, photograph collector Robert E. Jackson share vintage...
History Today Feed
Shakespeare’s Lost Years Shakespeare’s Lost Years JamesHoare Thu, 07/24/2025 - 09:14
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Open Culture
Plato, Aristotle & Other Greek Philosophers in Raphael’s Renaissance Masterpiece, The School of... Among the wonders to behold at the Vatican Museums are the larger-than-life forms of the titans of...
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Among the wonders to behold at the Vatican Museums are the larger-than-life forms of the titans of Greek philosophy. It’s widely known that at the center of Raphael’s fresco The School of Athens, which dominates one wall of the twelve Stanze di Raffaello in the Apostolic Palace,...
Yale E360
On Controlling Fire, New Lessons from a Deep Indigenous Past For centuries, the Native people of North America used controlled burns to manage the continent's...
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For centuries, the Native people of North America used controlled burns to manage the continent's forests. In an e360 interview, ecologist Loris Daniels talks about the long history of Indigenous burning and why the practice must be restored to protect against catastrophic...
Yale E360
On Controlling Fire, New Lessons from a Deep Indigenous Past For centuries, the Native people of North America used controlled burns to manage the continent's...
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For centuries, the Native people of North America used controlled burns to manage the continent's forests. In an e360 interview, ecologist Lori Daniels talks about the long history of Indigenous burning and why the practice must be restored to protect against catastrophic...
Yale E360
On Controlling Fire, New Lessons from a Deep Indigenous Past For centuries, the Native people of North America used controlled burns to manage the continent's...
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For centuries, the Native people of North America used controlled burns to manage the continent's forests. In an e360 interview, ecologist Lori Daniels talks about the long history of Indigenous burning and why the practice must be restored to protect against catastrophic...
Laetitia@Work
Careless People: how power destroys empathy Laetitia@Work #83
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charity.wtf
How We Migrated the Parse API From Ruby to Golang (Resurrected) I wrote a lot of blog posts over my time at Parse, but they all evaporated after Facebook killed the...
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I wrote a lot of blog posts over my time at Parse, but they all evaporated after Facebook killed the product. Most of them I didn’t care about (there were, ahem, a lot of status updates and “service reliability announcements”, but I was mad about losing this one in particular, a...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Polly Marix Evans Hello, I’m Polly, and I’m a linocut printmaker based in the Eden Valley in rural Cumbria. Much of my...
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Hello, I’m Polly, and I’m a linocut printmaker based in the Eden Valley in rural Cumbria. Much of my work features a character known as Bun-Head, a feisty woman who has come to hold a special place in the hearts of her many followers.  My prints are simplistic, using contrasting...
Global Inequality...
New Capitalism in America Richest capitalists and richest workers are increasingly the same people
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Trying to Understand...
Layer Upon Layer. It's Empires all the way down.
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Citation Needed
Issue 89 – Crypto wins in Washington with midnight calls, chocolate bars, and a $141 million threat Trump stands to profit from a $2 billion bitcoin bet as the crypto industry pushes through bills...
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GeoCurrents
Mapping the Return of the Gray Wolf to California One of the most surprising aspects of the recovery of the gray wolf in the United States is the...
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One of the most surprising aspects of the recovery of the gray wolf in the United States is the return of the species to California. Wolves had been eliminated from the state in the 1920s and were not expected to return any soon time, if at all. But in 2011, a single wolf made...
David Heinemeier...
It's a Beelink, baby It's only been two months since I discovered the power and joy of this new generation of mini PCs....
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It's only been two months since I discovered the power and joy of this new generation of mini PCs. My journey started out with a Minisforum UM870, which is a lovely machine, but since then, I've come to really appreciate the work of Beelink.  In a crowded market for mini PCs,...
Archinect - Features
Archinect Meets: The Daily Splice Cutting up, piecing together, remixing, and collaging have been essential and time-tested elements...
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Cutting up, piecing together, remixing, and collaging have been essential and time-tested elements of the creative process, including architecture. British graphic designer and animator Adam Hale, however, takes the medium to another level with a steady stream of often humorous —...
Atoms vs Bits
No Sex Before norms, and possible norms
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The Beauty of...
A Change of Course – Honing Network Rail’s Wayfinding Guidance Finding your way around a Network Rail station is becoming another step easier. The publication of...
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Finding your way around a Network Rail station is becoming another step easier. The publication of the most recent version of Network Rail’s Wayfinding design manual represents the latest step in the company’s quest to design the best possible signage system for stations. Given...
The Works in...
Tram trains How to build cheap transit in smaller towns
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Quanta Magazine
The Cells That Breathe Two Ways In a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, a microbe does something that life shouldn’t be able...
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In a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, a microbe does something that life shouldn’t be able to do: It breathes oxygen and sulfur at the same time. The post The Cells That Breathe Two Ways first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Cheese and Biscuits
Bo.Tic, Corçà You will probably be aware that Catalonia has well more than its fair share of influential...
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You will probably be aware that Catalonia has well more than its fair share of influential restaurants, a tradition that runs from El Bulli through Can Roca and Disfrutar and has fanned out in all kinds of interesting ways across all levels of the culinary scene, from the most...
The Marginalian
A Plasticity of Being: What a Rare Bird of Prey Reveals about the Deepest Meaning of Intelligence “True teachers are called into being by the contradictions generated by civilization,” the poet Gary...
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“True teachers are called into being by the contradictions generated by civilization,” the poet Gary Snyder reflected in his reckoning with the real work of life. “We need them.” We have always needed them because we need each other, because we have always been each other’s...
Retail Design Blog
Pradtke office by Zeller & Moye Architecture studio Zeller & Moye has created an office in Bochum, Germany, which includes numerous...
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Architecture studio Zeller & Moye has created an office in Bochum, Germany, which includes numerous wooden planters, an indoor garden...