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Can Birmingham’s balti come back from the brink? - Birmingham’s once-thriving balti scene has shrunk from hundreds of restaurants in the 1990s to about 20 today. A campaign for heritage recognition aims to revive the dish, protect authentic balti houses, and attr…
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Online Trolls Harassed Her Six-Year-Old. That Was Only the Beginning - A woman describes how college sports fans harassed her daughter online after a photo with Iowa State basketball star Audi Crooks, and how she tried to identify the people behind it.
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They're Made Out of Weights - A short speculative fiction piece riffing on Terry Bisson’s “They’re Made Out of Meat,” imagining large language models as things made of weights, with a humorous conversation about whether there’s anything “home” inside the machine.
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The Man Who Reads Books for a Living (One Every Two Days) - A profile of Clarke Speicher, a professional book reader who evaluates manuscripts for screen adaptation. It follows how he turns novels into detailed coverage, what makes a book cinematic, and how a onc…
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Carving and Printing a Simple Wood Engraving - A step-by-step look at transferring a design to a wood-engraving block, carving the white areas with fine tools, and printing the finished image. The post also shares practical tips for working with stained blocks an…
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How to interpret medieval marginalia - A brief guide to recurring themes in medieval manuscript margins, showing how these images often connect to the surrounding text, religious symbolism, humor, and visual inversion rather than random doodles.
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How embryos shape their limbs: key discovery of “genetic brakes” - Researchers at Université de Montréal and the IRCM found that two Polycomb protein systems work together to switch off early limb-development genes at the right time in mice, allowing later develo…
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Why Vampires Conquered the Novel and Beyond - From folklore to Gothic fiction, vampires evolved from undead folkloric figures into charismatic literary monsters in works by Polidori, Le Fanu, and Stoker. The article traces how the vampire became a lasting symbol…
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The Paperboy’s Secret - Peter Hessler recalls his first journalism job delivering the Columbia Missourian as a child in Missouri, and the unsettling kindness of a regular customer whose quarters came with unwanted touches. The piece traces how a paper route sharp…
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Encephalitis - Andrew Gallant shares a personal update about being diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, describing the early symptoms, misdiagnosis, treatment, and recovery so far.
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You’re on Vacation. You Leave Your Kid in Your Hotel Room With a Baby Monitor. What Could Go Wrong? - A cautionary look at the risks of relying on a baby monitor and an iPhone to keep tabs on a child left in a hotel room, and at how “convenience” can create new p…
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We Must Change How We Source Morality - Robin Hanson argues that modern morality has drifted too far from inherited norms and individual reflection, and that a more specialized social structure may be needed to adapt moral norms effectively.
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Fluid Simulation for Dummies - A step-by-step, programming-focused introduction to simple 3D fluid simulation. It explains the basic cell-based model, the core operations of diffusion, projection, and advection, and walks through the C data structures and functio…
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Lake Turkana’s rising waters and hungry crocodiles threaten Kenyan communities - Kenya’s Lake Turkana, the world’s largest permanent desert lake, is rising and reshaping life around it. Fishing communities that depend on the lake now face flooding, changing shore…
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What I've learned about the trombone - A trombonist explains how slide positions, lip embouchure, standing waves, and tuning choices shape pitch, partials, and tone on the instrument.
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How Japan stopped civil war - Japan’s Tokugawa rulers kept peace for centuries by concentrating samurai and daimyō in Edo, where elite families were effectively held hostage and movement was tightly controlled. The result was a huge, heavily zoned capital that he…
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Every byte matters - A look at how CPU cache lines and working-set size can make small data-layout choices matter far more than asymptotic complexity suggests. Using a Monster example, it compares array-of-structs and struct-of-arrays layouts, then shows how larg…
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Reach Out And Touch a Building - A 1950 photograph of Manhattan’s elevated Third Avenue line near Hanover Square is used to identify the view north up Pearl Street, the nearby buildings, and how tightly the train, street, and fire escapes fit together in lower Ma…
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Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground - New declaration argues the technology jeopardizes the field’s values and culture
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Jonathan Franzen on Talent, Theatre, and His Next Novel - Deborah Treisman talks with Jonathan Franzen about his story “A Talent for Seeming,” the pull of acting and theatre, religious belief, and how the piece connects to his forthcoming novel.
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