Petrichor, coined in 1964, describes the distinct earthy scent released when rain falls on dry soil. Derived from Greek words for 'stone' and 'fluid of the gods,' it's caused by plant oils and geosmin. This aroma evokes feelings of calm, renewal, and a connection to nature's magic. Image Credit:…

January 7, 2015 Movies can teach us a lot about the world. They show us the way things are, and help us determine the way we would like things to be. Some films set out with the explicit purpose to inspire thought and enlightenment. Other movies uncover small jewels of wisdom in deep seas of…

When I moved to Japan more than five years ago from the United States, where I worked for two design-forward digital media startups, I struggled with the Japanese internet. The first challenge presented itself even before I arrived. I spoke no Japanese, knew little about living in Japan and needed…

Most people put too much effort into everything they do. Here’s a good example from Kristijan around tension in his hands when touching and holding things: Something clicked about inhibition and non-doing (in Alexander Technique), and the strongest effect has been a relaxation of my hands. Like I…

Flagging Down the Double E’s is an email newsletter exploring Bob Dylan performances throughout history. Some installments are free, some are for paid subscribers only. Sign up here: Screengrab from Experiment Ensam Eleven years ago today, a Finnish online gaming company posted a 14-minute video…

let there be light A study in contrasts: The cinematography of Wake Up Dead Man Ars chats with cinematographer Steve Yedlin about bringing Rian Johnson’s Gothic vision to life. Jennifer Ouellette – Dec 12, 2025 1:58 PM | 31 Credit: Netflix Credit: Netflix Story text Size Width * Links * Subscribers…

I'm incredibly optimistic about the state of web development in 2025. It feels like you can build anything, and it's never been this easy or this cheap. AI is the thing everyone talks about, and it's been a great unlock — letting you build things you didn't know how to do before and simply build…

NGINX is designed as the network-facing policy boundary. It assumes responsibility for: Client connection handling Protocol normalization Request validation and limits Rate limiting and abuse mitigation The application itself is never exposed directly to the network. Security and Information…

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Americans are extremely angry about corporate power. Polling shows that views about big business are at a 15-year low, and overall perceptions of capitalism are dire. Videos on TikTok about weird corporate scams, dynamic pricing games, and junk fees are pervasive. Law firms that specialize in jury…

Pro-democracy Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai found guilty of colluding with foreign forces 13 minutes ago Kelly Ng, Koey Lee,Hong Kongand Danny Vincent,Hong Kong Getty Images Lai has been found guilty of national security offences for his role in the 2019 protests that rocked Hong Kong Hong Kong…

(Image credit: Microsoft) LG smart TV owners are reporting that a recent webOS software update has added Microsoft Copilot to their TVs, with no apparent way to remove it. Reports first surfaced over the weekend on Reddit, where a post showing a Copilot tile pinned to an LG TV home screen climbed to…

Illustration by Kristian Hammerstad Sam Carr was born in Cambridge in 1977. He is a psychologist and social scientist with the Department of Education and the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath. What’s your earliest memory? I am three years old. I’m standing in the kitchen and…

The future is (still) now The premier UX of the 21st century just got a little better: With chafa, you can now view very, very reasonable approximations of pictures and animations in the comfort of your favorite terminal emulator. The power of ANSI X3.64 compels you! Example You can get fair results…

A tool for tracking over three billion WhatsApp and Signal users has been publicly released. Just by knowing the phone number, attackers can determine when users come home, when they are actively using the phone, when they go to sleep, or when they are offline. They can also drain batteries and data…

Earlier this year, we shared some reflections on the limitations of Dockerfiles and BuildKit (Docker’s internal build engine). We talked to hundreds of teams about their CI/CD pipelines over the last 6 months and consistently see that docker build is slowing teams down. We considered the problems…

Listen to this post: Log in to listen A common explanation as to why Star Wars was such a hit, and continues to resonate nearly half a century on from its release, is that it is a nearly perfect representation of the hero’s journey. You have Luke, bored on Tatooine, called to adventure by a…

This essay analyzes the true risk of AI. It unfolds across four layers: structural, cultural, psychological, and philosophical. It examines how cultural memory, algorithmic systems, and power converge to keep us trapped in our past. And explores how AI shapes identity, suppresses novelty, and…

Gen Z is on a dopamine diet. A trend has swept TikTok, where young people are being bored on purpose: putting their phones down, staring into space, doing nothing. It’s symbiotic of an age where constant overstimulation has made boredom a luxury item. But can ‘Rawdogging Boredom’ actually help to…

Meshtastic offers an affordable alternative to stay connected with your crew or other boats without relying on cell towers, satellite services, or paid subscriptions. All you need are a few inexpensive LoRa-based messaging devices. We long-time cruisers often find ourselves often in places where…

Call for pages! Paged Out! hosts on its pages articles showing cool tricks & tips, small projects, cheatsheets, and so much more. And they are all entertaining, informative, and (sometimes) deeply technical. One article == one page! It is a challenge to take a topic and chip away at it until only…

Christ the King 2025 | October 30, 2025 Apologia The Bad News On losing one’s parents. About the author Kelly Scott Franklin teaches American literature and the Great Books at Hillsdale College. Read More The Lamp Magazine The Bad News My mom and dad were gone long before they died. My mom had been…

Do you ever feel too tired to work but too wired to relax? Brain fog, scattered thoughts, inability to focus no matter how hard you try. Do you ruminate? Are noises distracting and overwhelming? When was the last time you felt joy? Do the things you used to love now feel like “meh”? You, my friend,…

event streaming heading towards the event horizon, and the death of Kafka (as a business) I thought I’d capture in words a feeling a lot of people in the industry are experiencing, but nobody is publicly talking about. The stream is oversubscribed. In a real sense - there are too many companies…

The mission I originally titled my podcast The Lunar Society. I changed it to Dwarkesh Podcast eventually because people kept thinking it was a crypto podcast (”to the moon!!!”). I named it after The Lunar Society of Birmingham, an informal club that met in the late 18th century. Members included…

Sometimes I just feel like a bad joke. At the time my wife and I were beginning to date, I owned a broken bed. The box spring had a biggish crack on one side, which caused you to feel like you were being gradually swallowed in the night—an effect seriously exacerbated by the presence of a second…

Thomas Jefferson’s religious beliefs have long been a subject of public discussion, and were a critical topic in several of his important political campaigns as he was viciously and unfairly attacked for alleged atheism. Jefferson took the issue of religion very seriously. A man of the…

Jess Weatherbed is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. The latest update for Android 16 has arrived, marking the official end to Google’s annual release schedule. Compared to the…

Django 6.0 release notes December 3, 2025 Welcome to Django 6.0! These release notes cover the , as well as some you should be aware of when upgrading from Django 5.2 or earlier. We’ve . See the How to upgrade Django to a newer version guide if you’re updating an existing project. Python…

Hi, Welcome to Big, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here. First, housekeeping. I’m launching a new section of Big called “From the Mailbag,” which are emails from readers. The reason is that I got a bunch of interesting emails from ex-Boeing…

TL;DR: Today we’re releasing a new episode of our podcast AI & I. Dan Shipper sits down with Paul Ford, the cofounder of Aboard, a platform that helps enterprises build software with AI. They discuss Anthropic’s newest model, Claude Opus 4.5, which Dan has deemed a “paradigm-shifting model on the…

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Programs running in windowing environments, applications as we used to know them, have more complicated requirements than those run from a command line. Rather than embed all the resources they require for windows, menus and the rest in a single file, Mac OS broke new ground by putting those into…