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Introduction For my main project I will be creating a safe with a circular vault door at 1/12 (dollhouse) scale. Growing up in Delaware, there was not much to do so I would often visit Philadelphia for its culture and history. The city of Philadelphia is the birthplace of banking in the United State...

A bowl of fool’s noodles might look unassuming, but its simplicity holds decades of history and cultural significance. Found in noodle shops across Taiwan, this dish consists of thin, chewy noodles tossed with scallions and a lightly seasoned oil-based sauce. Unlike most noodle dishes, it arrives at...

This seemed inevitable. You can't have a personal assistant if they don't have access to everything you do.

The Trump administration launched a massive deregulation spree that could gut environmental and health protections in the US, moves that are sure to face immediate legal and logistical challenges. Wednesday was “the greatest day of deregulation our nation has seen,” Environmental Protection Agency a...

Gemini can do more with your data if you let it.

With so many AI companies launching chatbots, Google is leveraging its biggest competitive advantage to make Gemini stand out: Search. With personalization enabled, Gemini can now automatically analyze your query to see if referring to your Search history can “enhance” its response. The feature is p...

Sediment samples from the Ross Sea coastline are revealing insights into how animals like elephant seals and Adélie penguins adapted to environmental changes long ago

In the comments on my recent post on books on the history of maths Fernando Q. Gouvêa jumped in to draw attention to the book Math Through the Ages: A Gentle History for Teachers and Others, which he coauthored with William P. … Continue reading →

Demilitarized zones—from Vietnam to Korea, Cyprus and Antarctica—require tourists to look beyond what exists and to find the real stories in what doesn’t

COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.

At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova explosions, a new study suggests.

by Alizah Holstein When a statement was issued last November stipulating that a new U.S. government department known by the acronym DOGE was to be formed, the medievalist in me snapped to attention. To me, “doge” was a word with distinctly medieval meaning. But hardly anywhere was this meaning being...

Introduction: Bringing Classic Hollywood to Life For my main project, I am creating a vintage-inspired clapperboard that captures the essence of classic Hollywood. The project is deeply rooted in my appreciation for film history and aesthetics, drawing inspiration from mid-century movie production t...

Highly recommend this week's New Yorker Radio Hour interview with Stephen Kotkin of Stanford. He's an expert on Russian history, biographer of Stalin, he talks about what Trump is doing, and as I listened I realized we have not filled in how crazy or challenged the leaders of the other huge powers a...

SPHEREx, NASA’s latest astrophysics observatory, has launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket alongside PUNCH, a mission studying solar wind. SPHEREx will create a 3D map of the universe, helping to uncover cosmic history and the building blocks of life. Its observations will complement those of telescopes...

Our Future Chronicles column explores an imagined history of inventions yet to come – this time how, by the mid-21st century, many people were opting for a "nose job" that would supercharge their sense of smell. Rowan Hooper is our guide.

Harvey Silikovitz tried 10 times to get on Jeopardy! over 24 years and finally made it. (And won!) “He’s pretty sure he has made history as the first Jeopardy! contestant to play with Parkinson’s.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

Congratulations, music industry – you've found a way to make people hate you even more than when you sued 12-year-olds for downloading Britney Spears songs. This time they're targeting the Internet Archive for the unforgivable crime of preserving history. According to Ars Technica, major labels are ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission has successfully communicated with Earth, marking the start of an ambitious journey to map the cosmos. Over the next two years, the telescope will scan the entire sky, gathering data from over 450 million galaxies and 100 million stars to unlock the universe’s origins. NASA’s ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:: “In order to ‘be in step with the times,’ in order to ‘keep in touch,’ they yielded to one of the most ignominious evils that history has ever known.” <- “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?”, 1967. <– Read the book –> ‘Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Commun...

I need to learn French. This is lovely. Who is this girl? Here's one clue. Another. Look for more. Never heard of her before today. Hello, I still love you. The Doors are 60 this year. Or would have been. Good and legendary as they were, I think they are woefully underrated. Manzarek, Densmore, and ...

Here’s a new-to-me cookie that’s in fact over 250 years old. Biscuits Rose have a long history in the Champagne region city of Reims, where they were, and I bet still are, dipped in and nibbled with glasses of bubbles. Sounds delightful…I’ll have to investigate more in person one day. Based on the n...

USAID ordered to destory classified records while DOGE has tried to operate in secret.

Can plants uncover the survival secrets of Earth’s darkest days? A research team from University College Cork (UCC), the University of Connecticut, and the Natural History Museum of Vienna has uncovered how plants responded to catastrophic climate change 250 million years ago. Their study, published...

A bit of Disney Parks synergy suddenly makes Han Solo's history surprisingly complicated.

Likely removed by Nazi researchers, the scrap of fabric is a small but crucial part of the tattered tapestry's nearly 1,000-year history

Established in 1987 by the Mexican Society of Cartoonists, this museum celebrates the country’s rich cartooning tradition. Political cartoons have long been popular in Mexico, reflecting its tumultuous history and the people’s relationship with the authorities. Some of the oldest works here are by t...

The Fraser River played a critical role in the history of British Columbia. It was the site of the gold discoveries in the 1850s that led to the creation of the province, and became a transportation corridor to the rest of Canada. Steamboats could travel as far as Yale, a gold camp downstream from t...

The following is an excerpt from “By Hound and Eye” by George Walker and Jim Tolpin; Illustrated by Andrea Love. It is a companion to the hardbound book “By Hand & Eye” by Walker and Tolpin. The two books are meant to complement one another. “By Hand & Eye” focuses more on the history behind...

Alan Dean and Charles Petersen at n + 1: The early days of the second Trump Administration have been greeted with both shock and a search for lessons from history. Journalists have turned to the Nixon Administration’s attempts to “impound” congressionally allocated funds as both a precedent for Trum...

Around 4 kilometers east of Old Goa, in the village of Gandaulim, India, on a hilltop, is an old church that has a fascinating connection with Croatia. The Church of Sao Bras (Saint Blaise) was a chapel built by Croatian sailors and traders in 1541 and was later elevated to the status of a parish ch...

Robert McMordie's A technical history of Acorn Computers is a concise and occasionally darkly funny hypertext concerning the 1970s British computing startup that made some excellent machines but ran out of time (only to eventually see a spin-off take over the world). — Read the rest The post Technic...

My notions of art were formed during high school. Three years of art history as part of a core of humanities classes made me something [...]

Last November we were fortunate enough to travel to Firenze and we were able to visit Santa Maria Novella where the well-known Masaccio is. If you’ve ever taken an art history class you likely learned about how this particular work — is “one of the first and foremost examples of Renaissance perspect...

It is my pleasure to announce the publication of Michael G. Michlovic’s An Archaeology of the Red River of the North from The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota. When the press first started, I had this idea that we could somehow contribute to archaeology and regional history. This book...

In the early years of the 1980s, the East Village, a neighborhood on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, had a population of roughly sixty thousand. But the worlds of art, music, and literature operating east of the Bowery and Third, south of Fourteenth, and north of Houston felt far smaller. The neighborh...

Monday, March 27, 1871 “At ten minutes to ten o’clock, the Bailiff of the Court entered the door and flung wide both its leaves. A figure entered, dressed in black and thickly veiled, leaning upon the arm of Dr. Trask. It was Mrs. Fair, and behind her walked her mother and little daughter. When she ...

Mark Gurman, Bloomberg: Apple Inc. is preparing one of the most dramatic software overhauls in the company’s history, aiming to transform the interface of the iPhone, iPad and Mac for a new generation of users. The revamp — due later this year — will fundamentally change the look of the operating sy...

The discovery that inert helium can form bonds with iron may reshape our understanding of Earth’s history. Researchers from Japan and Taiwan have made a groundbreaking discovery, demonstrating for the first time that helium—long considered chemically inert—can bond with iron under extreme pressure. ...

HP is famed for a long history of powerful and useful computer stuff, but its inket printers might better be considered infamous for how hostile they are to customers. Locked down by DRM, hooked up with ink subscriptions, and liable to turn into a brick at midnight. — Read the rest The post New HP p...

Rapper King Von is buried at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois, a resting place for many notable figures in Black history. His grave has become a symbol of his influence on drill music and the broader rap scene. Fans frequently visit King Von’s headstone to pay homage to the rapper. Dayvon Daquan...

In the old areas of Pune, India, one can come across many magnificent Wadas (mansions). These Wadas were constructed primarily during the 18th and 19th centuries during the Peshwa period, and they offer insight into the history and culture of India during that time. Today, some Wadas are in a crumbl...

Stahls Automotive Museum in New Baltimore, Michigan, hosts an extensive collection of 100 vintage cars, housed in a 45,000-square-foot industrial style building. The museum covers the full scope of automobile history, with vehicles manufactured from 1899 to today. The majority of cars on display are...

Online privacy isn’t just something you should be hoping for – it’s something you should expect. You should ensure your browsing history stays private and is not harvested by ad networks. By blocking ad trackers, Magic Lasso Adblock stops you being followed by ads around the web. As an efficient, hi...

XRISM has uncovered how galaxy clusters evolve—violent mergers create turbulence, preventing hot gas from cooling. This discovery solves a long-standing mystery and provides new insight into cosmic history. XRISM’s Advanced X-ray Spectrometer – Using its superior capabilities, XRISM detected oscilla...

tl;dr: Pyodide gets its name from being the first language plug-in for a defunct data science notebook project called Iodide.

Got to watch this at The Music Box with live accompaniment by the Alvin Cobb Jr Trio. The jazz music was a huge highlight, especially when the KKK rode at night and they transitioned to spacey spooky synths. There was a lot going on. For too many characters. And even though the theater’s opening pre...

Introducing Slotraptions, AI-assisted textual contraptions