Most weather apps don’t show you yesterday’s weather. Who cares, right? But it’s useful information if you want to know whether today will be warmer or colder than yesterday. Yesterday is a free ...

The Perfume of Silence is a collection of dialogues between nonduality teacher Francis Lucille and his students that points ...

There are a lot of tools and websites out there telling you how to get from one location to another, but the one I’ve had the best results from for years is Rome2Rio. While others seem to have blind ...

Maasai Shuka: My Maasai shuka represents my heritage and reminds me of the importance of preserving and sharing culture. My ...

THE BAR BOOK GIVES YOU A 360-DEGREE EDUCATION IN BARCRAFT. The Bar Book: Elements of Cocktail Technique by Jeffrey ...

For mathematical nerds, Henry Segerman is your channel. Segerman 3D-prints weird mathematical shapes, invents curious mathematical toys, constructs intricate mathematical models, and turns math into ...

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Aretha Franklin (1942-2018) began singing as a child in the 1950s at her father’s church in Detroit. Reverend C.L. Franklin became her manager when she was 12, so she could sing on the “gospel caravan ...

Footed, a collection of essays by Anna Botsford Comstock, Cornell’s first woman professor, while visiting the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles. The museum has a nice reading library, and I ...

Many people have found the intelligence of AIs to be shocking. This will seem quaint compared to a far bigger shock coming: highly emotional AIs. The arrival of synthetic emotions will unleash ...

Intellectual Things (1930) is Stanley Kunitz’s first book, published when he was 24. It has poems about the body, death, and the limits of reason. Kunitz was a lifelong anti-censorship activist, won ...

Claude Shannon invented the modern mathematical definition of information, casting it in terms of bits and entropy. Shannon also tinkered with odd contraptions, but his boldest most brilliant ...