Saving Academics from Themselves
Asterisk Magazineby Kevin Munger·1 Jul 2026
The received wisdom among a certain class of Bay Area/rationalist/AI-pilled thinkers is that universities are a hopelessly broken epistemic technology, especially now that AI is widespread.
How to Find Time for Learning - Scott H Young
Scott H Youngby Scott Young·30 Jun 2026
A major theme in my work is trying to find ways to learn more effectively—how do we gain skill or knowledge with less wasted time and effort?
Diagrams for Travel from the *Qanoon-e-Islam* (1832)
Public Domain Reviewby Mathilde Montpetit·30 Jun 2026
If you were a nineteenth-century merchant bringing diamonds from the Kollur Mine near Bezawada (now Vijayawada) to Golconda (now Hyderabad), going northwest along the Krishna River, your best bet...
UX design and onboarding: How a teaching method built on outdated constraints and assumptions got mistaken for the best way to learn.
A List Apartby by Shrey Shah·30 Jun 2026
Every language app in your pocket inherited a teaching method built for Latin. Understanding why that happened is a more useful design lesson than anything the apps themselves will teach you.
Homeless at ‘Harvard High School’
Narrativelyby Heather K.M. Lewis·26 Jun 2026
From the get-go, when we were going through the 2025 Memoir Prize entries, Heather K.M. Lewis’ essay stuck out.
Paging Charity! How can engineering leaders avoid becoming Bond villains?
Stack Overflow Blogby Charity Majors·26 Jun 2026
Q: Paging Charity! Our industry tends to espouse the value of collaboration, but then places on pedestals the worst models of authoritarian leadership.
[Podcast] Brand Associations & Why Most Brands Are Forgotten with Ulli Appelbaum
JUST™ Creativeby Jacob Cass·26 Jun 2026
Brand builders spend a lot of time thinking about logos, messaging, campaigns and creativity, but ultimately, brands live in the mind. The real question is not just what your brand says.
The Nesting Instinct: Why We Feel the Urge to Renovate
Psychology Blog·24 Jun 2026
Most people know the feeling. One day the walls look fine. The next, they feel wrong. A sudden need to paint, rearrange, or tear something out takes hold, and it rarely announces a reason.
Women Behind the Wheel: The First Circumnavigations of the Globe by Automobile | History is Now
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine·24 Jun 2026
By the mid-1920s, one in six American families owned a car, and the Federal Highway Act of 1921 had funded a national network of roads suitable for automobiles. Europe lagged far behind.
War by Other Means
Palladium Magazineby John Severini·23 Jun 2026
In December 2024, the Ukrainian National Guard’s 13th Khartiia Brigade carried out a combined ground and air assault near the town of Lyptsi.
The Doomers Are All Right
Asterisk Magazineby Ozy Brennan·23 Jun 2026
“I think that in most timelines, humans will simply be irrelevant and extinct,” one interviewee said. I heard that a lot.
The Lonely Race to Save Ukraine’s Past - bioGraphic
bioGraphicby bioGraphic·18 Jun 2026
Leonid Gorobets hovered anxiously over his computer screen. With his body tucked between two wooden cabinets for safety, he scanned the catalog of imaged specimens, noting what was missing and...
The Gateless Gateless Gate of the Poem
Guernicaby John Wall Barger and Jérémie Guiguen·15 Jun 2026
In him, another dialectic appears, trying to find expression; the contradiction of the terms yields in his eyes by the discovery of a third term, which is not a synthesis but a translation...
Young Lad
Guernicaby Jamie Guiney and Joe Oswald·15 Jun 2026
Young Lad yawns under a cobwebbed bulb that may well have come from Noah’s Ark itself. As he runs water into two large bottles, screws on their caps, the old and jaundiced kitchen clock slogs...
LABOR | Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviewsby Kirkus Prize Winners; Finalists About the Kirkus Prize Jurors·15 Jun 2026
by Eric H. Nogia ‧ RELEASE DATE: tomorrow A short, affecting story of one man’s search for stability and dignity.
Why Were Time Zones Were Created by American Railroads in 1883? | History is Now
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine·11 Jun 2026
Before November 18, 1883, noon in New York was not noon in Philadelphia. Not noon in Pittsburgh. Not noon in Chicago.
Che Guevara: Life Before Becoming Che and a Marxist Revolutionary | History is Now
History in 28-minutesby History Is Now Magazine·10 Jun 2026
In the first of three articles we will focus on the life of one of South America’s most famous historical personalities, Ernesto Guevara, who later became more widely known as the Marxist...
The Rival Theologies of Artificial Intelligence
Palladium Magazineby Duncan Umphrey·6 Jun 2026
Last month, Pope Leo XIV presented the papal encyclical Magnifica humanitas, laying out the Catholic Church’s definitive response to the crisis occasioned by the explosive growth of the AI...
Covers from *Cerîde-i Adliye*, a Turkish Law Journal (1924–26)
Public Domain Reviewby Mathilde Montpetit·3 Jun 2026
It is hard to tell, at first glance, what information is being imparted. A tuft of grass emerges from a rounded pile, which is sectioned like a table.
THE EYE: Cultivate Your Interior Styling & Creative Vision — decor8
decor8by Holly Becker·27 May 2026
THE EYE: Cultivate Your Interior Styling & Creative Vision I'm so thrilled to finally share a very special project that I’ve been pouring my heart into behind the scenes, a journey that actually...
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