The Beauty of Slag

Science at the Edge of the World

Why Tech (&) Media is complicated – Om

Where did southern Australia's record-breaking heatwave come from?

mRNA cancer vaccine shows protection at 5-year follow-up, Moderna and Merck say

Winapp, the Windows App Development CLI

Not all Chess960 positions are equally complex

How Much Is Eight Dollars?

Mammals have evolved into ant eaters 12 times since the dinosaur age – study (2025)

Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity: Managing the Risks [pdf]

Bad Science, Good Politics

In the Time of the Mad King

Shaping Things by Bruce Sterling

US to slash routine vaccine recommendations for children in major change

2026: The Year AI Will Break Something Big

'Blind into Caracas' – By James Fallows

New at the Nursery: Tomato and Potato = TomTato

Willie Nelson Sees America

Quadratrix of Hippias

Advancing Low-Light Raw Enhancement by Retasking Diffusion Models for Camera ISP

With Apple's help, storytellers are figuring out Vision Pro

The Great Emu War: How Flightless Birds Beat the Australian Army

Montreal's New Rail Line Is the Future – Macleans.ca

A woman who discovered black holes

"They're not designed for that": An ocean robot's lucky Antarctic discoveries

Phreeli: The Privacy-by-Design Mobile Carrier You Can Trust

Double Blind Armadillo: Cryptographic Architecture for Anonymous Phone Service [pdf]

Flight Ready brings immersive F-18 fighter pilot footage to Apple Vision Pro

A jaw-dropping JWST image of a fantastically terrifying star system

Shell climate change report – 28 November 1985

Strandbeest Evolution 2025 [video]

An oral history of Bank Python

AI Friends Too Cheap to Meter

Multilingualism and Extending Healthspan – By Eric Topol

A 400-Year-Old Ring That Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavens

Life After Cars

I want to learn Quantum Computing, and I'm not a Physicist

Apple reaches groundbreaking deal for Women's Superleague football

Apple and Formula 1 ink five-year US streaming deal, bringing races to Apple TV

California's solar and battery combo packs a transformational punch

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Verizon buys the not-quite-5G wireless ISP Starry to expand wireless broadband

Ants trapped in a Soviet nuclear bunker survived for years (2019)

They Pump So Much Stuff into Those Beautiful Little Babies – McSweeney's

Washington Monthly's 2025 College Guide and Rankings – Washington Monthly

China's Electrification Gambit – Canada's National Observer: Climate News

America Against China Against America

The Technium: Everything I Know about Self-Publishing

The biggest frogs build their own ponds

Climbing catfish filmed scaling waterfalls

Odd this day. 17 August 1942

Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky – early 20th century color photographer

Astronomers Discover Rare Distant Object in Sync with Neptune

Baltimore's Extraordinary Year

Razor, Gun, Fence – Kieranhealy.org

Scientists discover giant 3k-year-old trees never seen before

Scripting News: I hate CSS

An emulation of a 30-qubit quantum computer

I'm a physicist by trade, not by training, and that matters

Chronic Denial

How Maglev Trains Work

The American Dream Is Broken. This $50M Bet Could Help Rebuild It