Leslie Jamison reviews “Dress, Dreams, and Desire,” a new book by the fashion historian Valerie Steele, and discusses the accompanying exhibition at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and the place that clothing had in the works of Freud and Lacan.
On the road with the musician, his band, and his family.
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files…
I traveled above the Arctic Circle to find out whether a town really can live free from the clock.
It’s here, the future of masonry layouts in CSS!
Streamline your financial data workflow with OpenBB. Learn setup, data extraction, and automation using Python—perfect for analysts and economists.
2025 Year in Review of LLM paradigm changes
Reinforce
Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR)
Why successful investors and businesspeople tell you to learn from business history — and what they do so survivorship bias isn’t a problem.
In my therapy office, I’ve found that to live with greater purpose, we must think differently about where it comes from
alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: A new study adds to the growing body of evidence that swearing can help us unleash our inner strength, improving physical performance, it seems, by helping people break through certain psychological barriers. [...] [Psychology…
How leaders can build a culture where employees feel valued.
Meet TARS — a simple, repeatable, and meaningful UX metric designed specifically to track the performance of product features. Upcoming part of the Measure UX & Design Impact (use the code 🎟 IMPACT to save 20% off today).
A far more detailed explanation of prompt caching than anyone asked for.
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Digiday charted how YouTube is a threat to Netflix, including watch time dominance, user base and its ability to reshape viewing behaviors.
Future AI Accelerators Might Need To Be Slower To Be Faster
This means a singular high-powered compute die consuming ~400W, with multiple 12-Hi HBM stacks.
peak GPU temperature of 69.1ºC, with the HBM silicon reaching around 60ºC in its worst case.
Richard Jefferson played with more than 100 teammates in his 17-year NBA career. He explains why three leaders stood out above the rest.
Fast casual restaurant chains are turning to merch, fashion, perfumes, apparel—and to fans, it’s no joke.
Learn what Shapley values are and how SHAP tools help explain machine learning predictions.
In this article, pioneering author and web designer [Andy Clarke](https://stuffandnonsense.co.uk) shows his techniques for creating [Toon Text titles](https://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/toon-text/index.html) using modern CSS and SVG.
Months before 9/11 a passenger seized control of a Boeing 747 and nearly crashed it into the Sahara. Everyone survived but no one quite recovered. How do you measure the cost of a disaster that didn't happen?
Our best longform journalism and essays from 2025.
The announcement of the planned Netflix acquisition of Warner Bros, one of the last remaining major studios, is shedding light on a key issue we often overlook when thinking about culture, creativi…
Sixty years after a team of American and Indian climbers abandoned a plutonium-powered generator on the slopes of Nanda Devi, one of the world's most forbidding Himalayan peaks, the U.S. government still refuses to acknowledge that the mission ever happened. The device, a…
I finally got around to watching Casablanca this year. I’m a little embarrassed it took this long. I think the delay was due to the fact that I already thought I’d seen it, on account of seeing clips of it so often. It’s part of the ether of pop culture. I knew all the famous […]
Our 10 most-read Longreads essays of 2025.
The AI industry has a trust problem that mirrors a paradox Daniel Kahneman identified decades ago in human decision-making: people
The rise and fall of yogh
Despite their outsize hold on popular imagination, Venus flytraps are native to a tiny corner of the globe: the Coastal Plain of the Carolinas. As development threatens, one town—spurred on by one tireless botanist—has taken up the shovel to save the world’s most fascinating…
Netflix is driving the Hollywood end game, likely confident it can increase the value of IP, and fend off YouTube.
A writer explores Vietnam, seeking to untangle the origin of the beloved noodle soup that is the country’s national dish.
A production-tested take on GraphQL in enterprise systems, why the honeymoon phase fades, and when its complexity outweighs the benefits.
Every day we’re presented with what seem like impossible challenges. Issues that you can’t crack, even after weeks, months, or years of trying. How do you approach these challenges? Do you have a strategy that you follow, or do you just hope for the best? There’s a better way to…
Dan Wheeler spent ten years sleeping in tents on his riverfront property before building anything permanent. The software engineer bought the land along Washington's Wenatchee River in 2010, drawn by years of rafting trips with friends through the area's rushing waters. Every…
We have hundreds of easter-egg logos (featuring our friendly mascot Dax Brown) that surface when you make certain queries on our search engine. Our subreddit is trying to catch ‘em all. They’ve certainly caught a lot, currently 504, but we keep adding more so it’s a moving…
“Extreme larks” get up naturally when some people have hardly gone to bed.
Everyone loves a good relationship theory, especially one that feels uncannily accurate. This one hit home for anyone who hates their job.
In the UK, new schemes to support mental health are introducing to people an unexpected skill: stand-up comedy.
Printable pdf. It’s been a few years since I wrote a broad post on energy, so I’m providing an update in one easy to read place. More detailed specific posts on energy are here. If you want t…
A new study suggests our brains welcome gibberish words that sound gentle and kind with open arms while rejecting the harsh ones.
These 10 user-experience articles published in 2025 were those that our audience read the most.
Mysterious late-night visits, an undercover hunt for Hitler's horses, and a Picasso on the couch are business as usual for the Dutch sleuth.
Frontier AI by hand ✍️
As fake news accelerates, we need to teach our children how to think critically. Finnish schools are leading the charge
Large cities move fast and need retail spaces that can keep up with shifting demand. Brands have started to rely on smaller stores that fit busy streets, tight corners, and varied foot traffic. Customers respond well to shops that feel simple, quick, and easy to use. These…
Explore Design Milk’s 10 most captivating architecture projects of 2025, from micro-studios and floating homes to serene lakeside retreats.
Self-talk is a proven way to boost motivation, think clearly and process your emotions. These tips will help you use it well
A typeface inspired by vintage forms, lists and gas station ephemera.
The technology of tokenization of real assets is a component of the general digitalization of financial processes in the economy.