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ift.tt/34WyewR Despite my deep affection for cheese, to the point that one of my favorite things to do on a New York City weekend is to dip into Murray’s and treat us to something crumbly or aged or rich and…

ift.tt/2KN4RWL Amsterdam is no stranger to floating homes, or even floating villages for that matter. There’s a new kid on the block though and he seems to be making waves. Taking over a previously industrial part of the city, Space&Matter…

ift.tt/2JziMiI As a White House resident, President Donald Trump is a goner. But his stranglehold on the GOP seems as tight as ever: Three in four Republicans say they believe their man won the 2020 election. Can the GOP channel…

ift.tt/35fKNBk This month, Google forced out a prominent AI ethics researcher after she voiced frustration with the company for making her withdraw a research paper . The paper pointed out the risks of language-processing artificial intelligence, the type used in…

ift.tt/38GHYMF Tracy J. Lee | Getty Images Michael Williams’ every move was being tracked without his knowledge—even before the fire. In August, Williams, an associate of R&B star and alleged rapist R. Kelly, allegedly used explosives to destroy a potential…

Recent news articles have all been talking about the massive Russian cyberattack against the United States, but that’s wrong on two accounts. It wasn’t a cyberattack in international relations terms, it was espionage. And the victim wasn’t just the US,…

ift.tt/3m5GXUq 2020 was a tough year for a lot of reasons, not least of which were breaches and hacks that visited pain on end users, customers, and the organizations that were targeted. The ransomware menace dominated headlines, with an endless…

ift.tt/3pyIq6B Navi is a beautifully crafted wall lamp, it art deco style, a 5-layer geometry LED lamp. It looks really cool in any place, but we highly suggest this lamp for your meditation room. You can adjust the brightness, colors…

ift.tt/37PwyXv This article has no byline and is on a website that is even more weirdly specific than this one is, but I appreciate the trick here. A seven-column grid makes for a calendar layout pretty quick. You can let…

ift.tt/3pqyqMp After a long, difficult year, the holidays are finally here. We deserve some time to relax with loved ones, decompress, and perhaps even take in a bit of culture. As you curl up to read books and get through…

ift.tt/34MJP19 Sustainability is taking over the world, and especially the design world as they come up with solutions, by a storm. You can see it everywhere from architecture to products and one of my favorite categories is packaging design. By…

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ift.tt/37PF7ln Enlarge / Two female Gila spotted whiptail lizards basking in sunlight, Aspidoscelis flagellicauda . This is one of several all-female species of whiptails that reproduce by means of parthenogenesis. Wild Horizons/Universal Images Group via Getty Images An Asian water…

How far would the wind carry its young bride? Across…

These are rock paintings that take your breath away: Stretched…

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ift.tt/3myE9Ox Years from now, we will forgive historians who, when documenting the Donald Trump presidency — its cold indifference to hundreds of thousands of Covid-19 deaths, its pandemic denialism, its migrant family separations, its use of the Justice Department as…

ift.tt/387wCRF Tiny homes are all the craze now, but they’re not simply a trend, it seems like they are here to stay. Sustainability and minimal and cleaner ways of living have never been more imperative. With the COVID-19 pandemic shaking…

ift.tt/37npgtV When the Khoisan hunter-gatherers of sub-Saharan Africa gazed upon the meandering trail of stars and dust that split the night sky, they saw the embers of a campfire. Polynesian sailors perceived a cloud-eating shark. The ancient Greeks saw a…

ift.tt/3nnBKY3 On Monday night, President Donald Trump retweeted a message posted by Ron Watkins. Watkins, who for years has been running the site where QAnon lives, has been indirectly boosted by Trump before, but Monday night’s retweet marks the culmination…