From Stanford professor of neurobiology and bioengineering Michael Lin, this is an excellent 31-page PDF presentation (Slideshare) | Continue reading
Social distancing has been recommended by epidemiologists and public health officials as a way to slow the spread of COVID-19, fla | Continue reading
Hello all. I know there's a pandemic going on out there, but I wanted to take a moment to celebrate kottke.org turning 22 years ol | Continue reading
People under quarantine lockdown in Italy due to the country's COVID-19 outbreak have been singing and playing music out their win | Continue reading
A message from Wu Tang Clan on Instagram about what to do about the COVID-19 pandemic. This is better guidance than we're gettin | Continue reading
Most humans have been washing their hands since childhood, but I bet very few of us have been doing it correctly. Because of the e | Continue reading
According to an ongoing investigation at The Atlantic, the US has tested only about 14,000 people for COVID-19 so far (a stat CDC | Continue reading
The number one recommendation on the list of protective measures for COVID-19 from both WHO and the CDC is to regularly wash your | Continue reading
This is an oldie but a goodie. Watch as a single busking bass player grows into the Vallès Symphony Orchestra and a p | Continue reading
Many stores have long since sold out of hand sanitizer in the US and washing your hands is a better move anyway, but if you'd like | Continue reading
Yesterday I watched a bit of the Champions League match between PSG and Borussia Dortmund, played at the Parc des Princes stadiu | Continue reading
Designer Kunel Gaur, head of a creative agency called Animal, has redesigned the packaging for several familiar brands using | Continue reading
This video from Vox is a few days old but is still a good look at why diseases like SARS and COVID-19 originate in China. It inv | Continue reading
In recent years, many media outlets have joined publications like the WSJ and NY Times in erecting paywalls around their online of | Continue reading
In a media briefing that's still ongoing as I'm writing this, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director General of the World He | Continue reading
Stanford professor Marshall Burke, who does research on the social and economic impacts of environmental change, wrote a post ab | Continue reading
Yascha Mounk writing for The Atlantic:These three facts imply a simple conclusion. The coronavirus could spread with frightening | Continue reading
From 3blue1brown's Grant Sanderson, this is an excellent quick explanation of exponential growth and how we should think about i | Continue reading
Amber Share of Subpar Parks is producing illustrations of real one-star reviews of America's National Parks from apparently dissat | Continue reading
For Wirecutter, Roxane Gay talks about her love of baking and how her KitchenAid stand mixer helps her achieve the consistent resu | Continue reading
For the Atlantic, Alan Taylor compiled a bunch of photos of normally bustling places that are a lot emptier due to the COVID-19 cr | Continue reading
A few days ago, Dr. Daniele Macchini, a physician in Bergamo, Italy, made a long post on Facebook (also reprinted here) about how | Continue reading
For New York Apartment, an art project commissioned by The Whitney, artists Sam Lavigne and Tega Brain compiled actual NYC real | Continue reading
British rapper and actor Riz Ahmed released an album last week called The Long Goodbye. It's a breakup album with a twist -- Ahm | Continue reading
Gretchen McCulloch, author of Because Internet, has developed a Weird Internet Career as an internet linguist. In the first instal | Continue reading
To celebrate being alive for a billion seconds, Daniel Bruin built a machine with 100 gears with a 10-to-1 gear ratio...meaning th | Continue reading
If you look at online light pollution maps, most light pollution comes from cities, but Alex Altair noticed that there are some un | Continue reading
For decades, mapmakers working for the Swiss Federal Office of Topography have defied their mandates to create the most accura | Continue reading
When the Ottomans invaded and conquered Constantinople in 1453, the Orthodox Christian church Hagia Sophia was converted into a mo | Continue reading
The Valdivia Expedition, led by German marine biologist Carl Chun in 1898-1899, was the first time humans had explored the o | Continue reading
For his Cartoon Fossils series, Filip Hodas used 3D modelling software to create fossilized skulls of cartoon characters like | Continue reading
Late last year, NASA's Curiosity rover took over a thousand photos of the Martian landscape while exploring a mountainside. NASA | Continue reading
To celebrate being alive for a billion seconds, Daniel Bruin built a machine with 100 gears with a 10-to-1 gear ratio...meaning th | Continue reading
Animator Pinot Ichwandardi, designer/illustrator Dita Ichwandardi, and their three young children decided to remake some of the | Continue reading
Overview celebrates the potential passing of "Peak Car" with a series of satellite imagery that shows just how much | Continue reading
From The Correspondent, this is an article by Dutch historian Rutger Bregman about why poor people make low-quality decisions. In | Continue reading
When it opened in 1977, Randall Park Mall in Ohio was (briefly) the largest shopping mall in the world. But the place was ne | Continue reading
Illustrator Jerry M. Wilson has drawn a series of constellations that explore the etymology of the constellations' names and r | Continue reading
Using an infrared camera, Nathan Wirth took some great black & white photos of redwoods from the Lady Bird Johnson Grove i | Continue reading
I was reading this NY Times piece on their policies for reporters and editors around impartiality and politics -- "newsroom s | Continue reading
In a six-part series on his blog, Roman military historian Bret Devereaux took a close look at the Siege of Gondor in Peter Jackso | Continue reading
With a mandatory steep drop into a narrow chute with rock walls on two sides, Corbet's Couloir at Jackson Hole in Wyoming is one | Continue reading
Clean the World is a non-profit organization that works with hotels to recycle used soap & other toiletry products left behind | Continue reading
There are certain links I've posted here that I think about more often than others. One that I think a lot about -- weekly at leas | Continue reading
Even though larger animals like elephants and blue whales have up to 100 billion more cells than humans in their bodies -- and t | Continue reading
Over a period of four years, Davis Vilums cycled every street in central London. A map and a time lapse of his journeys:Incl | Continue reading
Remember a few years ago when the owner of a credit card payment processing company based in Seattle raised the minimum wage of hi | Continue reading
These aerial photos of oceans, sand, and other natural landscapes taken by Tobias Hägg will make you stop in your tra | Continue reading