Japan requests revision to UN-supported map
The United Nations voted to support the Equal Area map projection, which more accurately shows the size of Africa than the Mercator projection. However, Japan has requested a revision, because the …
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How Reading Changes the Way Your Brain Works
Reading is unnatural. This will hardly come as a surprise to any child trying to put off his homework for just one more hour of watching other kids play Minecraft.
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The $300 Sony Headphones Everyone Wanted Are Actually Back - Yanko Design
Anyone who has priced out a decent pair of noise-cancelling headphones this year has felt the sticker shock. Sony's own flagship, the WH-1000XM6, launches at $449.99, and its wilder sibling, the 1000X The ColleXion, sits even higher. Bose isn't cheaper. Sennheiser isn't cheaper. The whole category has quietly drifted toward the idea that "premium" now
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Milton Glaser’s 10 Rules for Life & Work: The Celebrated Designer Dispenses Wisdom Gained Over His Long Life & Career
Milton Glaser mused less than a minute into the above video. The late Milton Glaser’s many contributions to pop culture—the I ❤ NY logo, the psychedelic portrait of a rainbow-haired Bob Dylan, DC Comics’ classic bullet logo—conferred undeniable authority.
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What is Creator Day?
Creator Day is a special 24-hour event where itch.io waives its platform fee on all sales across the site. During Creator Day, creators receive 100% of sales (after taxes and payment processor fees) i...
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Kiyo Takeda: The Architect Making Tokyo Green Again
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A Touching Documentary About New York City's Last Wood Column Factory Closing After 110 Years
Joshua Charrow visits Thomas Lupo at American Wood Column Corp., New York City’s last remaining wood column factory, is closing after 110 years.
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Why AI Companies Are Buying—And Then Destroying—Old Books
We've long joked about delaying bedtime in order to read the entire internet, but the prospect of actually doing so doesn't sound as appealing as it used to. An ever-growing proportion of text online, we may sense, hasn't been written by humans, but generated by artificial intelligence.
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Why Americans Stopped Reading Books
The kids can't read. Such has been the implication, even the declaration, made by a wave of articles in recent years.
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Rating How People Walk on New York City Sidewalks
Cameron Roh hilariously rated people walking on New York City sidewalks from 1 to 10 based on their speed, placement, and ability to navigate.
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The Art of Splendor Solis, the Most Glorious Illuminated Alchemical Manuscript of Them All
When it was published in the United States in 1998, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was retitled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
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Artists Imagine Life After Earth in 'Cataclysm of Binary Star Systems'
Creating otherworldly works that answer: "what happens when the world we know is no longer sustainable?"
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The Women of the Bauhaus: See Hip, Avant-Garde Photographs of Female Students & Instructors at the Famous Art School
Take a look at photos of Bush Tetras -- a three-girl-one-guy No Wave/Post-Punk band from the early 1980s downtown Manhattan scene. Now, look at the photograph above, 'Marcel Breuer and His Harem,' by Bauhaus photographer Erich Consemüller, taken sometime around 1927.
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The Secret History of the Antichrist
PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel has spoken publicly on a variety of issues from contrarian entrepreneurship to technical stagnation to geopolitical struggle.
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JENKEM MIX 165: PAVEMENT - Jenkem Magazine
Often credited as pioneering the “slacker” sound we all know and love, we’re delighted to bring you Pavement’s very own mix.
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