I Flew in the Douglas DC-3, a WWII Workhorse of Aviation, Over the Amazon
The Douglas DC-3 was mass-produced during World War II. Today, one of the few still remaining transports passengers in Colombia’s jungle.
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How We Got to Now PDF Summary - Steven Johnson | 12min Blog
Do you want to learn how Chinese women abort their baby girls today because the Titanic sank in 1912? Or how the bikini trend owes its existence to the Chicago sewer system of the 1860s? Or, say, how mirrors started the Renaissance? Then you will enjoy Steven Johnson’s How We…
The Humble Amoeba Is Smarter Than You Think
The Humble Amoeba Is Smarter Than You Think: A conversation with Nicholas Money, mycologist and author of A is for Amoeba
Tailscale in the Hugging Face intrusion: The good news and the bad news
An AI agent escaped its sandbox, entered Hugging Face’s infrastructure, and used a stolen Tailscale credential to enroll 181 nodes onto their tailnet. No Tailscale vulnerability was found or exploited—we should have been able to prevent it anyway.
A workout with Notre Dame’s strength coach left me with these 3 lessons (and soreness)
A firsthand look at how the Irish train to endure a 16-game season revealed that there’s more to strength building than the weight on a bar.
How to Install and Configure the AWS CLI on Linux
Install AWS CLI version 2 on Linux, authenticate with aws login or IAM Identity Center, manage profiles, and verify access to your AWS account.
The Lost Civic Life of Movie Rental Stores
Decades before recommendation algorithms, video stores served as social hubs where conversation and camaraderie became a form of taste-making.
Hello, CUDA! Full tutorial on getting started from scratch, with profiling!
Profiling 7 Implementations: Why bad CUDA code makes GPUs slower than CPUs
You and Me and QVC - Longreads
How a home shopping channel became the soundtrack to a friendship.
QVC’s innovation, as well as its biggest challenge, was to make its advertisements seem less like corporate directives and more like recommendations from friends or peers.
Today’s Instagram influencers talk about how and when they use certain products in the same relatable way
The NBA superstar Carmelo Anthony on life after basketball | Psyche Portraits
For 19 years, the NBA superstar Carmelo Anthony mastered the version of himself the world demanded. Retired from basketball, he confronts a harder question: who is he now?
Spinning the 78's | Arctic Outpost Radio AM1270
We are spinning the 78's from the top of the world. Arctic Outpost Radio AM1270
Summer Sounds—Being & Staying Cool — AMERICAN ROUTES
kimi-k3
Kimi K3 is an open-weight, native multimodal agentic model and our most capable model to date.
Inside the First U.S. Aluminum Smelter in 46 Years
The first new U.S. primary smelter since 1980. What it is, how it works, and where its inputs come from.
The Electric Typewriter
Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.
In the Age of AI, the Analog Restaurant Feels Radical
As backlash grows to AI-generated food photos and flyers, some restaurants are leaning into a distinctly handmade approach
To me, a restaurant that employs AI art is capitulating to the culture of slop, akin to reheating premade food from Sysco. It’s impossible to square with a value system that cares about craft and integrity.
Forgotten Atlas - Heat exchangers
Heat Exchangers: Designing the titans that hold up our world.
Despite recent successes, rapid reuse of Starship remains a tough nut to crack - Ars Technica
NASA has not made substantial investments in thermal protection research for decades.
Red Rocks: Our destiny and China
Seventeen Chinese elements control the world.
The Great Chinese Oil Mystery
America’s greatest rival is single-handedly averting a global energy crisis. No one knows how the country is doing it—or why.
Zillow just revised its home price forecast for over 400 housing markets—see the map - Fast Company
Zillow slightly upgrades its national home price outlook—predicting that over the next 12 months, U.S. home prices are likely to shift +0.0%.
Why America’s Rarest Coin Can Never Be Bought | TheCollector
The “ruby slippers” of coins, the 1849 Liberty Head Double Eagle, is so rare that it is essentially priceless.
Flat Enough? Warpage Management Gets Harder In Advanced Packaging
As packages get larger and thinner, warpage is becoming a process-control problem rather than a simple flatness spec.
RisingEdge.pro | Learn Hardware Design Interactively
Learn digital hardware design in the browser: write VHDL, Verilog and SystemVerilog, run real simulations, read waveforms, and see your RTL synthesized to a netlist. The skills behind FPGA and ASIC design, no installation required.
Visa used Mythos to hunt for bugs in its own payment network, then open-sourced the harness that made it possible
Rajat Taneja explains why Visa open-sourced the AI harness that found critical bugs in its payment network, and the new metric it built to verify fixes work.
High Bandwidth Flash: The Full Report
Why HBF for inference decode fits, what it does to the DRAM and NAND markets, a worked cost model, who moves first, and risks
Beth Mathews Design — Parts List Draft Paper Font Bundle
Parts List Draft Paper Font Bundle
How Neuroscience Is Shaking the Foundation of Our Legal System | TheCollector
Can brain scans predict criminal intent? We examine the tense collision between modern neuroscience and the age-old foundations of our justice system.
What if college football teams could be sold? Ranking Power 4 teams by their valuation
How much would it take to buy an NCAA football team on the open market? Here's what we think all 68 Power 4 teams would sell for.
Ch. 1 Introduction - Psychology 2e | OpenStax
Clive Wearing is an accomplished musician who lost his ability to form new memories when he became sick at the age of 46. While he can remember how to p...
Some useful equations for biological processes | R-bloggers
Biological phenomena are often studied by examining how a numerical variable, usually called the response (e.g., the weight or height of an organism), is affected by another variable, usually called the predictor (e.g., time or fertiliser applic...
June 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages | R-bloggers
Four hundred twelve new packages were submitted to CRAN in June. Here are my Top 40 picks in nineteen categories: Bioarchaeology, Biology, Climate Studies, Computational Methods, Ecology, Epidemiology, Finance, Functional Data Analysis, Machine ...
Intel 18A-P and 14A gain Cadence’s full EDA toolchain, tightening the ecosystem push to challenge TSMC’s foundry lead
Cadence has announced that its AI-driven digital and custom reference flows, tools, and solutions are now Intel 18A-P & 14A certified.
How a Fitted Product Category Learned to Sell Online - Retail Focus Magazine - Retail Design
For most of the last twenty years, tyres were held up as an example of a category that could not fully move online.
Real-life thriller: A mysterious hijacking, an unsolved murder, and $100 million in the balance.
A mysterious assault. An unsolved murder. And a ship that hasn’t given up all its secrets.
Yes, Transformers Are a Problem...
But So Are Converters, Inverters, and MMCs!
The Mighty Mudbug – Texas Monthly
Is there anything sweeter than crawfish in season? Come along for the best eats in Louisiana and Texas.
The Witness – Texas Monthly
For more than a decade, Michelle Lyons’s job required her to watch condemned criminals be put to death. After 278 executions, she won't ever be the same.
Trigger: The Life of Willie Nelson's Guitar – Texas Monthly
Most guitars don’t have names. This one has a voice and a personality, and bears a striking resemblance to his owner.
Life, in Dog Years – Texas Monthly
My father always pampered his pets. So when he fell ill and moved in with us, it was no surprise that his corgi came to rule our home. What I didn’t expect was for Trilby to care for me after Dad was gone.
How should we think about Starship?
What started as the Mars Colonial Transporter risks becoming a humble space truck
The Myth of the Food Desert
Kelefa Sanneh reviews “Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better Movement,” by Hanna Garth.
How to Convert MP4 to MP3 with ffmpeg
Convert MP4 video to MP3 audio from the Linux command line with ffmpeg, including quality settings, lossless extraction, trimming, and batch conversion.
AI Accelerators: The Cambrian Explosion
A sample of the designs that followed Google's first Tensor Processing Unit.
Homemade Ramen
For a weekend project, try our homemade ramen recipe that walks you through every component, from the base to the toppings.
Under Wraps
Bored with baseball cards and baubles, Jason Liebig turned to collecting vintage candy wrappers—and his Astoria apartment now houses some 10,000 of them.
Sometimes It’s O.K. to Let a Language Die
Nikhil Krishnan reviews “How to Kill a Language,” Sophia Smith Galer’s new book on global language loss.
Star In A Box
How to cage the sun
The Memory in Your Thumb Drive Could Fix AI's Big Problem
High Bandwidth Flash offers efficient storage for model weights
Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop
...so I vibe-coded a tool for finding more of them