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Matter vs. Force: Why There Are Exactly Two Types of Particles. “Collectivist...
Matter vs. Force: Why There Are Exactly Two Types of Particles. “Collectivist bosons account for the forces that move us while individualist fermions keep our atoms from collapsing.” (Honestly, same.)...
From Beautiful Public Data, a look into the Internet Archive’s collection of...
From Beautiful Public Data, a look into the Internet Archive’s collection of 5000 images from the NASA Ames Research Center. “Browsing through this amazing archive gives you a unique view...
How AI Wreaked Havoc on the Lo-Fi Beat Scene. “The music’s association...
How AI Wreaked Havoc on the Lo-Fi Beat Scene. “The music’s association with aimless, unfocused listening — vibe music before vibe became a buzzword — means people aren’t paying as...
The Surreality of Japanese Playgrounds at Night
For years now, photographer Fujio Kito has been documenting cement playground equipment in Japan, often capturing them at night, lit up in captivating ways. (via laura olin and present &...
Elderly Woman Keeps Mind Active Justifying Trump’s Actions. “I’m developing new neural...
Elderly Woman Keeps Mind Active Justifying Trump’s Actions. “I’m developing new neural pathways each time I shrug off Trump’s clear violations of the Constitution and his total contempt for our...
Iceland’s 36-hour workweek has been a huge success. “On his free days,...
Iceland’s 36-hour workweek has been a huge success. “On his free days, he loves to sleep in, then to make long phone calls to his fellow pigeon fanciers while cleaning...
A comprehensive illustrated article on how screens work. This is the first...
A comprehensive illustrated article on how screens work. This is the first part of a new work-in-progress called Making Software that aims to explain how software systems & tools work...
The Design Museum’s Upcoming Wes Anderson Exhibition
I don’t think anything could be more up my alley, in my wheelhouse, in my lane, my cup of tea, my speed than this upcoming retrospective of Wes Anderson’s work...
The winners of Core77 Design Awards. Categories include apps, packaging, transportation, branding,...
The winners of Core77 Design Awards. Categories include apps, packaging, transportation, branding, consumer tech, and more. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Finding of a recent survey of 90,000+ trans Americans: “trans people who...
Finding of a recent survey of 90,000+ trans Americans: “trans people who go back to living as their sex assigned at birth do so because of transphobia, not because of...
I haven’t watched the NBA in years and I only know about...
I haven’t watched the NBA in years and I only know about Joel Embiid by media osmosis, but for some reason I spent 45 minutes this morning reading this profile...
From Smithsonian Magazine, the story of how Reading Rainbow came about, in...
From Smithsonian Magazine, the story of how Reading Rainbow came about, in part as an effort to combat schoolchildren’s summer reading slumps. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
A collection of photos from the 70s & 80s of kids jumping...
A collection of photos from the 70s & 80s of kids jumping their bikes, sometimes over other kids. In that first pic, there is no way the two kids at...
I had no idea Subaru actively courted lesbian car buyers with targeted...
I had no idea Subaru actively courted lesbian car buyers with targeted ad campaigns in the early 90s; here’s a 2016 Planet Money episode about it: When Subaru Came Out....
The Pedestrians Who Abetted a Hawk’s Deadly Attack. “The hawk appears to...
The Pedestrians Who Abetted a Hawk’s Deadly Attack. “The hawk appears to have learned to interpret a traffic signal and take advantage of it, in its quest to hunt. Which...
Photos Show the Vast Scale of China’s Solar Power Projects
Over at the Atlantic, Alan Taylor has collected a bunch of photos showing just how hard China is pushing on solar energy. As the Trump administration’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” eliminates...
Let Your Kid Climb That Tree. “Your fear that your kid will...
Let Your Kid Climb That Tree. “Your fear that your kid will get hurt is depriving them of something they’ll never get back.” (The bit about “kinematic movers” is really...
Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the...
Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness. “My depression is spewing like an oil spill all over the beautiful turquoise-green gulf...
Writing Advice and Literary Wisdom from the Great E.B. White. “A blank...
Writing Advice and Literary Wisdom from the Great E.B. White. “A blank sheet of paper holds the greatest excitement there is for me — more promising than a silver cloud,...
A great look at how Baltimore’s investment in an “ecosystem of community–oriented...
A great look at how Baltimore’s investment in an “ecosystem of community–oriented interventions” has drastically reduced violent crime in the city by treating crime as a public health crisis. 💬...