Shakespeare In Its Original Pronunciation
Speaking of inexpensive time travel, listen as David and Ben Crystal perform selections from Shakespeare in the original accent,
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How NASA Writes Space-Proof Code
When you write some code and put it on a spacecraft headed into the far reaches of space, you need to it work, no matter what. M
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Kottke.org Is 25 Years Old Today and I’m Going to Write About It
I realize how it sounds, but I'm going to say it anyway because it's the truth. When I first clapped eyes on the World Wide Web, I
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36 Things I Learned in 2022
Inspired by Tom Whitwell's annual list (here is 2022's), I kept a list of interesting things I learned this year. There are suppos
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The Secret to Enjoying a Long Winter
I grew up in Wisconsin, and have lived in Iowa, Minnesota, and New York. Except for a two-year stint in the Bay Area, I've exper
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The Remarkable Brain Waves of High Level Meditators
What's going on in the brains of people who meditate? Anecdotal evidence suggests that meditation does something to people's minds
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How Haiti became poor
In case you missed it, the President of the United States called Haiti, El Salvador, and African countries "shitholes,"
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Fighting authoritarianism: 20 lessons from the 20th century
Yale history professor Timothy Snyder took to Facebook to share some lessons from 20th century about how to protect our liberal de
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Is your smartphone betraying you?
Edward Snowden and Bunnie Huang are working on a system to help smartphone users determine whether their phones can be tracked.
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Kylo Ren's outtakes by the Auralnauts
The Auralnauts are back with their expertly made revisions of Star Wars movies (see also Star Wars Episode II: The Friend Zone)
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Some Kind of Quest
What compels people to do things? Especially things that don't make sense to other people? Bruce Zaccagnino has, by himself over
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Six million years of human history, explained in 10 minutes
Kurzgesagt gives us a short tour of human history, from the six different species of human that existed 100,000 years ago to the
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Cars are getting weird
Tesla has two cars, the S60 and the S75, that are physically more or less identical, but one costs $8500 more than the other. The
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Space Story
Luc Bergeron's Space Story is a mashup of more than 20 movies that take place in space, from Alien to Apollo 13 to 2001 to Star
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What if your mind's eye is blind?
Blake Ross is 30 years old and he just learned something about everyone else in the world: people can visualize things in their mi
