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Have you ever wanted to browse art from the Metropolitan Museum in a first-person shooter interface? You are in luck because ...

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Meta abandons fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram in favor of Community Notes. Facebook, Instagram, and Threa ...

Every month, my friend Jodi Ettenberg sends out one of the best links roundups around, her *free* Curious About Everything ...

Biocubes is a visualization comparing the mass of the living world (biomass) to the mass that’s been generated by humans ( ...

Yesterday was Public Domain Day and Duke University’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain has the scoop on what work ...

Since January 2020, Sophie O’Neill has been keeping an embroidery journal. Each day, she sews an “icon” to represent that day ...

Somehow I missed that Patrick Radden Keefe’s excellent book on The Troubles, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memor ...

The team at Howtown closed out 2024 by investigating the spice level (i.e. the Scoville ratings) of the lineup of hot sauces on ...

Somehow I missed that Patrick Radden Keefe’s excellent book on The Troubles, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, has been turned into a 9-part TV series (now available ...