How to Watch the Radiant Geminid Meteor Shower Tonight(smithsonianmag.com)

6 points by cjbarber 10 months ago | 3 comments

Bumblebee queens breathe underwater to survive drowning(smithsonianmag.com)

179 points by 1659447091 7 months ago | 40 comments

A Peek Inside Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Where Whimsical Puppets Are Designed(smithsonianmag.com)

17 points by pseudolus 3 months ago | 0 comments

Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch(smithsonianmag.com)

216 points by 1659447091 6 months ago | 68 comments

Sequoyah’s syllabary created a written language for the Cherokee(smithsonianmag.com)

188 points by grahambargeron 4 months ago | 117 comments

Drought in Iraq reveals tombs created 2,300 years ago(smithsonianmag.com)

152 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 24 comments

Writing summaries is more important than reading more books(andreasfragner.com)

350 points by 42point2 3 years ago | 152 comments

Andreas Fragner's blog post arguing that writing summaries of good books yields more comprehension than reading more books.

Amazon's Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff(bloomberg.com)

329 points by MurizS 2 years ago | 302 comments

Bloomberg news article reporting that Amazon-owned Twitch will cut about 500 employees, roughly 35% of its staff, to stem losses.

Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children and misled the public(time.com)

347 points by binning 11 months ago | 146 comments

TIME article reporting on court filings alleging Meta downplayed risks its platforms posed to children and misled the public.

The revolt of the reader(bcantrill.dtrace.org)

554 points by chmaynard 1 month ago | 269 comments

Bryan Cantrill blog post arguing, as a reader, against people publishing LLM-authored writing under their own names.

Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024)(needleful.net)

331 points by gudzpoz 11 months ago | 149 comments

A blog post in which the author attempts to read and understand Arthur Whitney's terse C code, such as his small K interpreter.

I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too(reedybear.bearblog.dev)

381 points by emschwartz 1 year ago | 160 comments

A Bear Blog post in which the author describes advocating for websites to support RSS feeds and urges readers to do the same.