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AWESOME! All-new awesome things posted daily here: The post #200 Actually making the right amount of spaghetti appeared first on 1000 Awesome Things.

…because the current crop of headlines suggests that’s not the case. The post Hey, America, are you all right? appeared first on The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century.

What might a people, subjected to unspeakable historical suffering, think about the ethics of vengeance once in power? - by Shachar Pinsker Read at Aeon

Captured by the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter, this is a closer-than-ever-before video of the sun’s outer corona, highlighting some of its features. My corona? It has a lime wedge in it. A beautiful video …

Emma Willard was a pioneer in Women’s education, opening the Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York in 1821—the first institution of higher education for women in the United States. The school was later renamed …

A superb poster for a brilliant gig last night at Future Yard.

Love this quest to make a mass-manufactured paper bottle (alc bev brands Diagro and Pernod Richard, along with CPG giant P&G, lead the way). Biggest hurdles have been shedding a plastic lining, leaks and retaining …

Review of The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture by Tricia Romano (PublicAffairs, 2024) ‘The Village Voice was the “loud, open mouth” …

https://pudding.cool/2023/06/groove/This interactive website exploring the way legendary hip hop producer J Dilla creates his wonky grooves is fun to play around with.

With colorful construction paper, scissors, white glue, a marker, a pencil, and some patience, this easy spring-themed craft project transforms beautifully into pompon-style paper flowers. The key to these poofy blooms is in the folding …

I know a lot of you probably aren’t going to take me up on this, but I recommend watching Summoning Salt’s feature-length documentary on the history of Tetris world records. I started watching in the …

Niba of SciShow explained how many Periodic Table elements actually exist in the human body and how these elements work to keep the body healthy. About 99.9% of your typical human body is made of …

[emoji] Emoji history: the missing years … A deep dive into the early history of emojis. ‘I couldn’t quite believe what I was seeing because I was under the impression that the first emoji were …

While we’re on the subject of money, and things people have said, let’s note these all together, shall we? It sounds so odd to phrase it this way that I’m a bit nervous about saying …

Image: Steel rebar construction for the concrete foundation of a wind turbine in Gilliam County, US. Image by Goose Chap, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Trapped in the Iron Age In 1836, Danish antiquarian and …

You might say female Surrealists are having a bit of a moment. Our forgotten Parisian bohemian queen, Leonor Fini stole the show at Art Basel’s 2023 fair in Miami, and this week, a painting by …

Robin Sloan, in his latest newsletter, on the “phase change” of AI training. When capability increases so substantially, the activity under discussion is not “the same thing, only faster”. It is a different activity altogether. …

A project called Cat Royale explores the possibilities of enriching cats' lives by having a robot play with them. It is a collaboration between the art collective Blast Theory and scientists from the University of …