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Found via Reddit: Burrfect. From the Reddit announcement: “A major struggle we’ve had brewing at home is that espresso recipe info is incredibly thin and fragmented. Maybe 85% of the time, there’s nothing available. … So we’re opening up our database: 1,300+ roasters and 800+ dialed-in…
Morgan Meis | The Smart Set | 14th February 2014 | U
They are among the most mysterious paintings. But it is very hard to say why. Nothing much happens in the paintings. People engage in simple tasks. A man and a woman sit at a table and speak. A…
Daniel Greco | Greco & Wansley | 8th January 2026 | U
In most universities, academic departments are grouped into divisions, such as life sciences, physical sciences, social sciences, and humanities. And philosophy is almost always placed in the humanities.1 I’m a professor in a philosophy department, ergo, I’m…
Eric Schwitzgebel | Splintered Mind | 13th February 2026 | U
Moral diversity, Olivia Bailey and Thi Nguyen say (in a draft paper shared with Myisha Cherry's Emotion and Society Lab), is valuable. It's good that people have different ethical personalities, opinions, and concerns. (Within reason: Nazis not welcome.)
Keith Lowe | Engelsberg Ideas | 9th February 2026 | U
From ancient times, people have always tried to pass on messages to others by drawing pictures. Sometimes these pictures are self-explanatory, like the drawings of mountains or trees on a map. Sometimes they represent quite complex ideas that need…
James Willis | Antigone | 16th February 2026 | U
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"The point is not ecology or technology, but the refusal of that split."
Yogi Hale Hendlin for Aeon: https://aeon.co/essays/in-solarpunk-cities-of-the-future-tech-follows-natures-lead
#Longreads #Essay #Solarpunk #Nature #Environment #Future #Cities #Ecology
"Rubbing some communal chunk of who-knows-what on your own personal skin? Madness." —Dan Kois for Slate https://slate.com/life/2026/02/bathroom-soap-bar-cleaning-health-america.html?src=longreads #essays #longreads #nowreading #soap
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Introducing The Longreads Questionnaire, a new series exploring how writers read, write, and create.
Maria Popova, the creator of The Marginalian and author of the new book TRAVERSAL, kicks off our inaugural edition.
https://longreads.com/2026/02/17/questionnaire-maria-popova/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
#Longreads #Interview #Writers #Writing #Reading #Creativity
A list focused on people who curate third party posts and those who do a good job linking out.
The net is healthier when people link out to other sites. Adding a few related links to a post sets up a vast linked network to explore and discover.
Welcome to Web Curios, a regular(-ish) newsletterblogtypething all about stuff on the internet that its author finds interesting and thinks you might too.
I think good curation is important, so I frequently recommend #links to other blogs, have carefully selected a list of bookmarks and maintain a postroll.
from JSTOR, nonprofit library for the intellectually curious
Welcome to omb!: a blog showcasing other blogs. Curated by kmrowe.
The opposite of doomscrolling: Every two weeks (roughly) I send you a collection of the best Internet reading I've found -- links to culture, technology, art and science that fascinated me.
UK based, Daily Link Blog. This is Lima Mike Golf. Shall we blog?
The latest The Sunday Papers articles from Rock Paper Shotgun.
A collection of interesting links, a few a day.
An awards-based anthology designed to grant a platform to a diverse and growing collection of writers and publishers who are building an online literary landscape that seeks to break free of traditional publishing.
News and resources covering social media, search engines, databases, archives, and other such information collections. Since 1998. Note: there is an alternate feed where each item is a single post. I picked this one to not crowd out other feeds.
Fix The News is the world's leading solutions journalism newsletter. We find hidden stories of progress and share them with more than 67,000 subscribers from 195 countries. Steven Pinker calls us "the best source for positive news on the internet."
Every Sunday, you get a collection of the best sentences I've come across all week. That's pretty much the whole idea. Pay what you want, if you can.
Rediscover the joy of online exploration! Web Wandering shares a hand-picked selection of unique and captivating websites you won't find anywhere else.