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ift.tt/2RGewNN Ever wondered what sentiments the various flowers express? The Victorians have you covered. via ift.tt/2NeRe3e ift.tt/1m2aii5

ift.tt/2Xc6P7W The flashier fruits of Albert Einstein’s century-old insights are by now deeply embedded in the popular imagination: Black holes, time warps and wormholes show up regularly as plot points in movies, books, TV shows. At the same time, they…

ift.tt/2J5IDu7 We Palestinians thought we had it bad the past 25 years since the signing of the Oslo Accords under the reign of American and Israeli technocrats and “security experts”. And with good reason. This revolving door of Foggy…

f52.co/2X1uS4T Good food is worth a thousand words—sometimes more. In My Family Recipe, a writer shares the story of a single dish that’s meaningful to them and their loved ones. My mother, Caroline Ragsdale Reutter of Caroline’s Cakes, had a…

ift.tt/2LhWRuG There are a million ways to cook with eggs and we’ve partnered with Pete and Gerry’s Organic Eggs—whose family-run, free-range farms produce delicious, all-organic eggs—to share a few of our favorites. Here, Assistant Editor Erin Alexander shares her riff…

Long news article (alternate source) on iPhone privacy, specifically the enormous amount of data your apps are collecting without your knowledge. A lot of this happens in the middle of the night, when you’re probably not otherwise using your phone:…

bit.ly/2J0qpu1 You’ve heard the rain. All that free water falling from the sky, keeping the hills and valleys green. But if you live in a drought-prone area that cooling summer rain may seem more like a fever dream than reality, and…

bit.ly/2ZE05fZ My wife and I have spent our entire adult lives sleeping on a mattress and box springs on the floor of our homes. Now that we’ve finally settled into our forever home, and our old mattress had given us…

bit.ly/2MYwXhV 1a If grilling, grill corn, bell pepper, and zucchini: Prepare your grill for high, direct heat. Oil the grill grates. Rub a little olive oil over the bell pepper. Place the red pepper and the corn (in their husks)…

f52.co/2J3Cm1Z Table for One is a column by Senior Editor Eric Kim, who loves cooking for himself—and only himself—and seeks to celebrate the beauty of solitude in its many forms. Every few months, Merriam-Webster adds a new Korean word to…

Matthew Green intelligently speculates about how Apple’s new "Find My" feature works. If you haven’t already been inspired by the description above, let me phrase the question you ought to be asking: how is this system going to avoid being…

f52.co/31B1xBC In case you haven’t heard by now, my favorite way to celebrate the Fourth of July—aka the real start of summer—is with a killer dessert table. This might mean a solid lineup of pies, ice cream, cookies, and so…

bit.ly/2KZzgic A beautiful image from the International Space Station. Here at mid- latitude the aurora is pretty rare these days; it is solar minimum after all. If you happen to listen to short wave radio or are an amateur radio…

bit.ly/2FfxeHa Did you know that search engines like Google give preference to fast-loading websites in their rankings? Visitors are also less likely to abandon your site if it loads quickly. Everyone expects a website to load as quickly as possible—if…

bit.ly/2Zvub5e … i stepped on the ball …  watch the thom browne spring 2020 men’s runway show live.  june 22nd. 2PM CET.  paris, france. via bit.ly/2XokQyE bit.ly/2LlB2MH

bit.ly/2FjIwKC Beijing has opened its new expressway for bicycles that cuts a typical two-wheeled commute from 90 minutes to 26 minutes. via bit.ly/31zVfSZ bit.ly/1Ka26ov

bit.ly/2x2GJot Spanish renewable energy giant and offshore wind energy leader Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy last week inaugurated operations of its electrothermal energy storage system which can store up to 130 megawatt-hours of electricity for a week in volcanic rock.  via…

bit.ly/2XUfCI1 Remember how last week I told you about Eleanor Lutz’s An Atlas of Space? Over the past year and a half I’ve been working on a collection of ten maps on planets, moons, and outer space. To name a…