Well, it’s been awhile since I’ve done one of these but I’m gonna skip the apologies and get right into it. Here ...

This is a great piece from Jamelle Bouie on the likely death of the Voting Rights Act and, zooming out, the end of an era in Ameri ...

In this video, Maurice Moves highlights a pair of flashlights that are extremely useful & well-designed but also shockingly affo ...

1787: “Caroline Lucretia Herschel became the first woman to receive a salary as a scientist and hold a government position i ...

Motherfucking windfarms. In Europe, they’re called Royale with Breeze. (I stole that joke from Bluesky.) ...

Always Stand on the Side of the Egg In 2009, novelist Haruki Murakami controversially accepted the Jerusalem prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society in the aftermath of Israeli military ...

Forthcoming book from Bill McKibben: Here Comes the Sun. “Energy from the sun and wind is suddenly the cheapest power on the planet and growing faster than any energy source in history — if we can ...

The End of America as a Center of Science Ross Anderson writes about how scientific empires, from the ancient Sumerians to the Nazis to the Soviet Union in the 1950s, have crumbled (or been willfully ...