Someone noticed hermit crabs using plastic for their shell. They created an organization that cleans beaches and offers hermit crabs actual shells.
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Hermit crab conservation
Someone noticed hermit crabs using plastic for their shell. They created an organization that cleans beaches and offers hermit crabs actual shells.
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Home run swing off
When the Major League All-Star game ended with a miniature home run derby, it felt like something out of Banana Ball.
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Roland Garros French Open poster art
Roland Garros has been creating posters for the French open since 1981. It’s interesting to see the aesthetics and styles change over 40+ years.
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ChatGPT Is Changing the Words We Use in Conversation
ChatGPT Is Changing the Words We Use in Conversation
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Jordan Harper – She Rides Shotgun
She Rides Shotgun will soon be a movie. The book that it’s based on tells of Nate McCluskey and his daughter, Polly, attempting to escape an Aryan Nation branch in Southern California. Jordan Harper writes a taut, propulsive story with hard boiled lyricism, mixing violence and pathos. Definitely recommended as a quick, engaging, easy read.
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Deleting a second brain
Joan Westenberg writes: For years, I had been building what technologists and lifehackers call a “second brain.” The premise: capture everything, forget nothing. Store your thinking in a networked archive so vast and recursive it can answer questions before you know to ask them. It promises clarity. Control. Mental leverage. But over time, my second…
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Solar Sponges: Turning Sunlight Into Freshwater
Scientists have developed a new type of solar sponge that can turn salt water into freshwater. Reporting in ACS Energy Letters, a team of scientists created a sponge-like structure filled with long, microscopic air channels that harness sunlight to turn saltwater into fresh, clean water. In an outdoor test, this simple system—just the sponge and…
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Praise for the expert generalist
Reading about the expert generalist explains my career: attaining a broad set of skills and connecting them as needed. So over the last year or so we have started to resist this industry-wide push for narrow skills, by calling out this quality, which we call an Expert Generalist. Why did we use the word “expert”?…
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Have AI attend that meeting for you
AI bots are attending meetings in people’s stead. Some of the AI helpers were assisting a person who was also present on the call — others represented humans who had declined to show up but sent a bot that listens but can’t talk in their place. The human-machine imbalance made Sellers concerned that the modern…
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Glastonbury 2025 photos
Photographer David Levene put a camera on a monopod and capured Glastonbury from a unique perspective.