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The Bird in the Heart: Terry Tempest Williams on the Paradox of Transformation and How to Live with Uncertainty
The Marginalianby Maria Popova·7d ago
The Bird in the Heart: Terry Tempest Williams on the Paradox of Transformation and How to Live with Uncertainty By Maria Popova It is strange how, in a universe governed by relentless change, human...
Scientists discover a natural Arctic cloud factory missing from climate models
ScienceDaily·8d ago
Scientists discover a natural Arctic cloud factory missing from climate models - Date: - August 18, 2026 - Source: - University of Birmingham - Summary: - A newly discovered Arctic process can...
There's Something Dangerous About Sam Rockwell - Longreads
Longreadsby Brendan Fitzgerald·8d ago
Kevin Dupzyk’s profile of Sam Rockwell, a “legendary scene-stealer” now in his fourth decade of work, is a crisp and entertaining one-act, with journalist and actor holed up in a spare Manhattan...
Free for a Week! I Tried Selling My Body for Money—I Was Surprised By What I Found
Narrativelyby Jerry Portwood·8d ago
This post has been receiving quite a bit of attention behind the scenes! To all the new subs who came here for it, welcome.
Drills Cut By Trump Are Central To The U.S.-South Korea Alliance, Observers Say
World Newsby Hyung-Jin Kim·8d ago
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — For decades, the United States and South Korea have regularly staged military drills to prepare their soldiers to work together smoothly in the event of a crisis or...
Mysterious waves sweeping across your brain may help turn sensory chaos into what you see
ScienceDaily·8d ago
Mysterious waves sweeping across your brain may help turn sensory chaos into what you see - Date: - August 18, 2026 - Source: - Salk Institute - Summary: - Traveling electrical waves sweeping...
When AI art has no author: Study finds generated images often can’t be traced to training data
History of MITby Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL·8d ago
When an artificial intelligence image generator produces a portrait, whose work went into it? The question sits at the center of lawsuits, licensing deals, and proposed regulations worldwide.
The Phone Scammers Next Door - Longreads
Longreadsby Krista Stevens·8d ago
The house with the red-brick exterior, huge old-growth maple, and sprawling back patio on Castle Frank Crescent in Toronto’s pricy Rosedale neighborhood seemed like the perfect symbol of...
Anthropic’s Text Watermarking Proves AI Companies Do Not Care at All About Writing
404 Mediaby Jason Koebler·8d ago
Earlier this month, Anthropic announced that future versions of Claude will generate text that includes watermarks showing it was AI-generated.
The Athletic teams up with sports creators to reach new (and younger) audiences
Nieman Labby Hanaa' Tameez·8d ago
Last month at the National Sports Card Convention in Chicago, creator Brandon Pereira, who posts as Coach Koe, met a kid named Dominic.
Anthea Coster awarded International Union of Radio Science Appleton Prize
MIT Newsby Nancy Wolfe Kotary | MIT Haystack Observatory·8d ago
MIT Principal Research Scientist and Haystack Observatory Assistant Director Emerita Anthea J. Coster was awarded the prestigious Appleton Prize at the International Union of Radio Science (URSI)...
Iran Moves to Outlaw All Contact With "Hostile" Foreign Media
OCCRP·8d ago
Reported by Iran’s parliament has approved the general framework of a bill that would criminalize speaking to or sharing data with foreign media outlets deemed "hostile."
A Key Food Source Collapsed Off West Africa’s Coast as Chinese Ships Ground the Species Into Fishmeal
OCCRP·8d ago
Reported by As the day draws to a close in Bubaque, a remote island in Guinea-Bissau, fishermen are arriving with their day’s catch, pulling canoes onto a muddy bank teeming with crabs.
Georgia O’Keeffe on the Art of Seeing
The Marginalianby Maria Popova·8d ago
Georgia O’Keeffe on the Art of Seeing By Maria Popova In her stunning autobiographical reflection on the moment she understood what it means to be an artist, Virginia Woolf beheld the cosmos of...
'Maddie’s Secret?' John Early’s Indie Hit is Now a Viral Sensation Thanks to Streaming
Vanity Fairby Chris Murphy·8d ago
John Early is no stranger to the adoration of the internet. The actor and comedian, who starred on five seasons of Search Party and released the 2023 HBO comedy special Now More Than Ever, has a...
The Secret History of the Antichrist
Open Cultureby Colin Marshall·8d ago
PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel has spoken publicly on a variety of issues from contrarian entrepreneurship to technical stagnation to geopolitical struggle.
Marc Jacobs Reveals What Comes Next for His Brand
Vanity Fairby José Criales-Unzueta·8d ago
“All I’ve ever been is a fashion victim,” Marc Jacobs declares. He’s sitting in the showroom of his office in SoHo, on the other side of a long glass table.
What Spider-Man gets right — and wrong — about turning off superpowers
Science Newsby Tina Hesman Saey·8d ago
Note: Slight spoilers for Spider-Man: Brand New Day. A plot device in the new Spider-Man movie is real-world science.
US Unseals 25-Count Indictment in $165M Crypto Case
OCCRP·8d ago
Reported by Federal prosecutors in Georgia have unsealed a 25-count indictment against an American man accused of orchestrating a $165 million cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that defrauded thousands...
Neurodiversity in the Clinic - JSTOR Daily
JSTOR Dailyby Livia Gershon·8d ago
Some autistic people have long criticized the “medical model” of disability, which treats atypical development as a pathology and seeks to “cure” it, or at least help patients become as close as...
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