William Lustig, 1982, ★★★½ That the majority of the soulless thugs prowling the streets in this film are in their 30s and 40s initially took me out of it a bit, but that notable em…

This is an animated 3D visualization of the growth of Paris from 300 BCE to the present day. It was made with Blender (no AI) by Christian Ivan, who notes that it’s a “simplification”…

The rate at which the universe is expanding differs depending on how it’s measured. Gravitationally lensed supernovas could solve the discrepancy; the lensing allows for the tracking of the…

The Ping-Pong Hustler Who Inspired ‘Marty Supreme’. “If Chalamet has found, in this role, an all-time character, it is surely in no small part because Reisman was an all-time character.…

How Russia’s Children Got So Violent. “There is no positive ideology for children in a country fighting a murderous war.” Ultranationalist & xenophobic violence is encouraged by Putin�…

This website is compiling a sourced list of ICE abuses in Minnesota. (Click on “List” for the full listing.)…

These photos by Chu Weimin show the mind-boggling scale of China’s green energy buildout. Last year China installed more than half of all wind and solar added globally. In May…

Happy Friday, Design Folks. Here's issue #67 of Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🏄‍♂️ ORION is a short film about Orion Miller,…

Wikipedia turns 25 years old. (I can’t believe it’s only been around for 25 years…trying to imagine the web without it is impossible at this point.)…

At the Stone Skimming World Championships in Scotland (at an old slate quarry), it’s distance that counts, not the number of skips. “Anyone who is familiar with slate could instinctively…

I got some wonderful bit of Hemmingway-esque consulting advice from the garage door repair guy.…

By All Measures. “Our scales are too imbalanced; we are unable to think the unthinkable. It goes without saying that it can be paralyzing, demoralizing, to be an individual acting as part o…

Visualizations of the growing undersea network of submarine cables, 2013-2025.…

The Florentine Codex is a 16th-century illustrated encyclopedia of indigenous Mexico, “the most reliable source of information about Mexica culture, the Aztec Empire, and the…

Many of us have “lost the future” during the radical uncertainty brought about by polycrisis. “I hadn’t fully grasped how the idea of a better future sustained me — now I, like many…

From XKCD, some common sailing rigs, including the ketch, schooner, offset rig, and oops all spinnakers.…

London bakery The Dusty Knuckle cleverly used a loaf of bread as a graph to illustrate the costs of running their business: From their post: This comes off the back of a big decision to i…

“This should be the year you stop trying so hard to turn yourself into a better person, and focus instead on actually leading a more absorbing life.”…

The Siksika Hierarchy of Needs is an Indigenous framework from the Siksika (Blackfoot) Nation that reimagines human needs from a collective, relational, and land-based worldview, rather than an indivi…

Grace Farms in New Canaan Connecticut is a truly inspiring space, both aesthetically as well in their mission. Would love to bring CreativeMornings to this venue. More billionaires like this, please.…

Left to its own devices, capitalism decides if people deserve what they need, and a fundamental American disagreement is whether that’s a bug or a feature. Tagged: January 2026, politic…

I am loving these book cover designs by Stephen Brayda.…

Not new, yet so good.…

“Divers documents the restless anticipation of walking to the platform’s edge and the fleeting serenity found in jumping.” Lovely. Just lovely. (via colossal) Tags…

Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White Woman, Dies at 86. “History had me glued to the seat.” Her refusal predates Rosa Parks’ similar stand, but she was deemed �…

Suzanne Saroff makes unusual photographic sculptures, including these dynamic olive oil shapes. Tags: art · food · photography · Suzanne Saroff…

I Was Kidnapped by Idiots. “Later, he tried the ‘good cop, bad cop’ routine on me but undermined the effect by playing both characters himself, on alternate days, which just made him se…

Jamelle Bouie: “The American public, then, is left not with a president but with a man who imagines himself master and behaves like a tyrant. A man whose agents brutalize ordinary citizens…

Stop complaining about paywalls existing. “These paywalls are attempts to make this dying field viable. When you get personally offended by paywalls, you’re essentially saying we should w…

Donald Trump Is Waging War Against Human Conscience. “The lust for mud has taken up many guises in our history and has been many given names of late — neo-reaction, post-liberalism, fasci…

Zoe Saldaña is now the highest-grossing actor of all time (bc of Avatar & Marvel). 2. Scarlett Johansson, 3. Samuel L. Jackson, 4. Robert Downey Jr., 5. Chris Pratt. Would be interested to s…

Currently listening to this Thai house mix from Meltmode, played from a tuktuk tooling around the streets of Bangkok.…

In the late 70s and early 80s, photographer Charles H. Traub roamed the streets of Chicago, New York, and Europe to take photos of people during the lunch hour. Colorful and direct…

North America kind of sucks at elevators. “Elevators cost nearly three times as much in North America compared to its peers. What is going on here?” (Maintenance fees can be 10x as expens…

How Will the Miracle Happen Today? “Kindness is like a breath. It can be squeezed out, or drawn in. You can wait for it, or you can summon it. To solicit a gift from a stranger takes a cert…

There’s a guy named Orion who surfs the St Lawrence River in the winter, sometimes dodging massive chunks of ice and sometimes riding them downstream, looking for waves. If you’ve ever…

Thoughtful lessons from a Google software engineer. “The punchline isn’t ‘never innovate.’ It’s ‘innovate only where you’re uniquely paid to innovate.’ Everything else should…

Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about this 2015 observation on Tumblr about the dangerous conflation of respect of personhood and the respect of authority.…

Today, I'm very excited to finally share the pre-release of Clauthbound (our latest typeface) with Secret Club members.✨Secret Club members get all of our fonts including pre-releases plus…

The main point of Adam Bonica’s post The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls is about the optimism of this moment: that the US could be ripe for a Berlin Wall-falling moment that opens the…

Astronomers have discovered an “almost-galaxy” called Cloud-9 (no, really), a failed galaxy that contains no stars. “There’s nothing like this that we’ve found so far in the univers…

Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a group of journalists grabbed it and are relaunching the food magazine as a worker-owned co-op. Love it.…

Discover the 100-Year-Old Self-Playing Violin, One of the Most Complex Music Players Ever Made. “It featured three vertically mounted violins, each with a single active string, played by a…