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“Germans love their potatoes … but the exceptional glut of potatoes … inspired one farmer to organise a potato dump on Berlin”
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“Shape of Dreams”, starring Zendaya and written and directed by Spike Jonze
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“The Manhole”, a 1988 HyperCard game by the guys who made Myst, is available on Internet Archive
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[Am]Trak Suits
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[Re]branding Superhuman (and Grammarly and Coda)
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12 Booker Prize ’25 nominees share their writing spots
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21 facts about throwing good parties
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21 ways people are using AI at work
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3 design books & potato font & Wikipedia of you
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50 Design Ideas You Really Need to Know
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65 essential children’s books
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7,000-year-old underwater wall raises questions about ancient engineering and lost-city legends
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8 beautiful gardens
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A compendium of transit tickets collected by a brand designer
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A data love letter to the Subway
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A garage became a crisp art studio
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A look inside Red Wing’s boot factory
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A love letter to architectural follies
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A Map of Us
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A Sheffield supermarket going viral for the symphonic sound of its freezers
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A short history of the business card, from Versailles to Microsoft Word
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A visual explainer on the physics of how GPS works
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Acme Weather (from the Dark Sky folks) visualizes forecast uncertainty
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Aeris displays flights in realtime by altitude
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After enclosing a horse, now let your horse run
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Age of Audio is a documentary exploring podcasts as a media type with the likes of Ira Glass, Marc Maron and Roman Mars
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AI agent deletes entire company database (and backups) in 9 seconds
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Also in classics: How Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups are made
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An hour and twenty-two minutes of excellent jazz on vinyl
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An interactive map of walking routes between towns, cities and landscapes
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An interview with Charlize Theron
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An up-close look at NASA’s Artemis II mission to return humans to the moon
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At home we’ve been watching Widow’s Bay on Apple TV
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Author Andy Weir on the 99% scientific accuracy of his film Project Hail Mary
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Bar Far imagines what it’d be like to throw a bar and an art gallery in a blender together
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Bees use a map of the sky to give precise directions on where to find food to each other
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Bird feeders have caused a dramatic evolution of California hummingbirds
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Bookpile gives you a landing page for any book by ISBN and shows where to get it
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Brandon Consultants rebrands Fabulosa cleaning supplies for the TikTok era
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Bush’s Baked Beans Summer Multipack contains “summer’s newest flavors like you’ve never imaged”
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Channel Surfer turns YouTube into a ‘90s TV
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Charles E. Cheese arrested for credit card fraud
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Choose Impact helps you compare the merits of a job to your expectations
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Cinnamon Toast Vanilla Sourdough Cookies
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Color Palette Pro is like a sound mixing board but for colors
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CrankGPT is an offline, off-the-grid AI box you turn a crank to operate
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Crocheted early web textile works by artist Nicole Nikolich
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Crocs made giant Lego Crocs
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Dataguessr is a game that helps you update your knowledge of the world
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Dead Eyes is a podcast documenting one actor’s quest to discover why Tom Hanks fired him from a small role in the 2001 HBO miniseries Band of Brothers
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Decoding Shakespeare’s food references tell us about characters’ temperament and morality
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Design for Ferrari, glitching sun, fake movies
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Designer Thomas Moes will have 52 obsessions
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Dialed, a color memory game
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Dinosaurs, speeding tickets, the shape of learning
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Elegant intergenerational terracotta house
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Enclose Horse, a game where you have limited walls to create the largest possible horse pen
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Enter books you’ve read, get recommendations on what to read next
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Everything Kevin Kelly knows about self-publishing
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Explore 70 years of IKEA catalogs
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EyeDrop creates automatic, private, instant image captions on your Mac
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Fancy bakery Jolene’s logo was drawn by a six-year-old
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Ferrari’s first all-electric car, the Luce, features very clever dashboard design
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Field Guide to Dollar Tree Trees
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Find the mazes you’ve been looking for with Labyrinth Locator
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Freakpages is a community-curated directory of esoteric articles across the internet
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Google has a secret reference desk
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Greek architect Katerina Kamprani designed ordinary objects for truly terrible user experiences
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Grief is unexpressed love—we never get “enough” time with each other
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Grok, a conference for folks who touch the web, is this April
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Grug make design. Grug not know much
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Holy Brutalism, this house!
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How did the world get so ugly?
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How I do web design
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How IMAX 70MM film is projected
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How the commercial spreadsheet reshaped America
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HVD Bodedo is the timeless font Bodoni but made with potatoes
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I listened to the soundtrack for Wilding as I worked last week
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I’m currently reading Dungeon Crawler Carl
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I’m trying out Record Club, basically Letterboxd for music
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If that’s not your thing: The best site in the world for booking train travel
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Illustrations of how a retractible pen, mechanical pencil, lighter and PEZ dispenser work
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ILM Visual Effects artist breaks down hidden VFX
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In Finland, speeding tickets are based on speed—and income
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In the mountains of Hokkaido, Goro Obata traded city rules for freedom
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In the sands at the Dakar Rally
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Inside George Nakashima’s Japanese-style home and workshop
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Issue 5 of The HTML Review features interactive writing
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It’s insulting to read your AI-generated blog post
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It’s still what computers can’t do
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James Nasmyth made what look like photos of the lunar surface at home in 1874
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Japan runs out of robot wolves in fight against bears
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Just learned that my favorite aesthetic has a name: “Cassette Futurism”
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Keke Palmer on her two non-negotiables with creative projects
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Kevin Kelly, author and founder of Wired, dishes out 50 years of travel tips
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Labyrinth locator, moon mission, make it easy
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Launch it 3 times
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Lay’s revamps brand to make clear that chips are made from potatoes
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Learning to love light roast espresso
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Letters to young creators
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Letters to young creators, weather, 6 weeks only
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Locate yourself with Where Now? app
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Looks like dinosaurs are headed to the ‘26 Olympics
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Loved coming across the term sloppypasta (noun): “Verbatim LLM output copy-pasted at someone, unread, unrefined, and unrequested”
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Madeleine, a short film about two friends
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Magnus Carlsen plays a guy who started chess yesterday but the game is rigged
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Maintenance of Everything: Part 1 explores radical (and unglamorous) acts of upkeep
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Make It Easy
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Make your own microforest
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Mario as themeable UI & content marketing
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Meet the 2025 National Book Award finalists
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Montreuil, an experimental font from OH No Type Co
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Mulder and Scully getting into and out of rental vehicles for 71 minutes
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Narooma House is a sanctuary
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Nikita Busyak sketches landscapes with lines in sketchbooks
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Non-negotiables & 4 lessons from Mr. Rogers
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Notchie gives your MacBook a tiny teleprompter for Zoom meetings
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Nuclear seafoam green, award winning bathrooms, horses
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NYC’s best cubano is hidden in Times Square
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Onewheel made the ‘70s-style electric minibike of your dreams
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Open a window somewhere else in the world
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Or get outdoors and rebuild a vintage bike frame instead
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Otherworldly photos of forests
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Overflight Fee Calculator
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Paper books with audio tracks that follow in real-time as you turn the physical pages
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Peanut butter cups & 3 articles
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Pessimists Archive jogs our collective memory about hysteria, technophobia and moral panic
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Photographic brilliance—click the toggle at the top right
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Photos of dogs surfing at the World Dog Surfing Championship
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Poorly Explained Movies (a game)
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Portraits of fathers and sons holding hands
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Preached whales
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Quantum weirdness may be quietly blurring time itself, say physicists
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RageCheck analyzes any article or post for manipulative, emotionally baiting language
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Reading Rainbow to return
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Rebranding Superhuman & mapping the next internet
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Residents of Minneapolis put their cats in the window and the crowd stops to admire them
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Retrospekt refurbishes and sells old electronics like VCRs and Game Boys
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Robot wolves & quantum weirdness & PathCamp ’26
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Roost is a messaging app that travels at the speed of birds
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Scientists just figured out why the sun’s been “glitching”
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Scientists taught pet parrots to video call each other—and the birds loved it
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Scifi design, color game, potato chips
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Should your strategy be shipping “good enough” or taking the time to get it right instead?
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Size of Life compares the relative size of all living things
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Snatch is a non-destructive way to convert bags into comfortable slings
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Sometimes a poem arrives
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Space Exploration Logo Archive
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Space logos & plan to launch in record time
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Speaking of branding: Collins’ identity for Sun Day features an (intentionally) incomplete logo
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Speaking of cars: The history of the Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon
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Speaking of movies: In praise of “comfort films”
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Speaking of podcasts: Podcast “Shell Game” is back for season 2
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Speaking of refurbishing classics: Star Wars (1977) will be back in theaters in ‘27—un-Special Edition’d
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Speaking of space, Artemis II Tracker is a dashboard of live mission data from NASA
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Speaking of UX: Onboarding is a transaction
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Spiderlight & CrankGPT & questions vs. answers
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Star Wars Galaxy map shows everything from the Deep Core to the Outer Rim
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Staten Island bathroom wins major architectural award
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Stop Stealing My Attention
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Stop stressing about self-improvement or getting on top of things this year
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The 100 greatest novels ever published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide
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The 20 best food scenes in movies
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The 3 Phases Every Design Project Encounters
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The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock
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The age of audio & inside our Lab
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The annual Tournament of Books is in quarterfinals, approaching the championship round
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The BBC visits the Grand Theft Auto office right before launch in 1996
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The best chocolate chip cookies of your life
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The best science images of 2025
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The compound interest of design—what not to build
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The God of the Woods and The Husbands were the two best books I read last year
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The history of themeable user interfaces
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The ingenious design of the aluminum beverage can
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The insane VFX of old movies
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The joy of building slow
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The last quiet thing
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The last quiet thing, secret reference desk & Grok
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The Lunch Feeding Contraption
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art added 138 3D versions of important works of art
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The NYT lists the 25 most influential magazine covers of all time
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The pioneering coffee house serving since 1645
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The Secret to Creative Work
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The shape of design
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The shape of design & measuring what matters
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The Smithsonian is now on Unsplash
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The strange and curious tale of the last true hermit
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The third Knives Out movie, Wake Up Dead Man, hits Netflix in 10 days
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The Tiny Awards is back
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The Wall Street Journal staff tricked Anthropic’s AI vending machine into ordering a PS5, live fish and stun guns and giving everything away after converting to communism. Twice
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There is nothing to watch
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There’s something living inside fog, scientists find
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They made bone glue—oysters taught them how
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Three ways to evolve your logo—refresh, replant or reseed
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Tour a Mid-Century Modern house with the son of the architect who designed it
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Train jazz
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Train jazz & baked beans & LX Design
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Uncomfortable UX, channel surfing, Lego sets
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United States of Beauty
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Unsolicited: Jenny Volvovski hired herself to redesign the book covers in her personal library
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Vault is an open source, private, local organizer for notes, links and images
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VW sings “happy birthday” to itself with a chorus of screaming tires
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Watch free, public livestreams from around the world on IPTV Garden
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Web Design Museum curates old websites
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Weird Folders for customizing your MacOS
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What an unprocessed photo looks like
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What is dithering?
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What it’s like to define colors for Merriam-Webster
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What live/work spaces have looked like through the ages
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WhatCable is a Mac app that tells you in plain English what a connected USB-C cable can actually do/not do
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When composer Max Richter premiered Sleep in 2015, the concert lasted all night with audience members reclining in beds
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When design drives behavior
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When to ship "good enough" & a side project
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Whoami.wiki turns your uploads into a Wikipedia of you
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Why a good user experience isn’t enough
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Why don’t movies feel “real” anymore?
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Why peeling tape makes a screeching sound according to science
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Why Raiders of the Lost Ark still looks like a billion bucks
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Why so many nuclear control rooms were a very specific Seafoam Green
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Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring
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Wikipedia wormhole I went down: “Childlore”
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Wikipedia wormhole I went down: Critical Mass (cycling)
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Wikipedia wormhole: Safety glass was invented by accident in 1903 when chemist Édouard Bénédictus dropped a glass flask in his lab
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Wisecrack is a podcast that’s part standup and part true crime thriller
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