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kottke.org Jul 31, 2025
1787: “Caroline Lucretia Herschel became the first wo…
1787: “Caroline Lucretia Herschel became the first woman to receive a salary as a scientist and hold a government…
kottke.org Jul 31, 2025
Two Ways To Film The Same Scene
In a review of City of Angels, the 1998 Hollywood remake of Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders, Roger Ebert says: To com…
kottke.org Jul 31, 2025
Two of the most promiscuous snack brands, Oreo and Reese&#8…
Two of the most promiscuous snack brands, Oreo and Reese’s, are teaming up to bring the eating public two new tre…
kottke.org Jul 31, 2025
The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US. “I did not...
The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US. “I did not write an ‘end of term’ Supreme Court review piece this …
kottke.org Jul 31, 2025
How to Upload an Image to a Bird
Entertaining YouTuber Benn Jordan built a setup to record and analyze bird sounds, songs, and calls. He used it to re…
kottke.org Jul 31, 2025
Motherfucking windfarms. In Europe, they’re called Ro…
Motherfucking windfarms. In Europe, they’re called Royale with Breeze. (I stole that joke from Bluesky.) …
kottke.org Jul 31, 2025
Always Stand on the Side of the Egg
In 2009, novelist Haruki Murakami controversially accepted the Jerusalem prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Soc…
kottke.org Jul 31, 2025
Forthcoming book from Bill McKibben: Here Comes the Sun. &#…
Forthcoming book from Bill McKibben: Here Comes the Sun. “Energy from the sun and wind is suddenly the cheapest p…
kottke.org Jul 31, 2025
Bill McKibben: Rooftop Solar Is a Miracle. Why Are We Killi…
Bill McKibben: Rooftop Solar Is a Miracle. Why Are We Killing It With Red Tape? In many countries, getting rooftop sola…
kottke.org Jul 31, 2025
Rebecca Solnit: The renewable energy revolution is a feat o…
Rebecca Solnit: The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology. “It is nothing less than astonishing and…
kottke.org Jul 31, 2025
The End of America as a Center of Science
Ross Anderson writes about how scientific empires, from the ancient Sumerians to the Nazis to the Soviet Union in the 1…
kottke.org Jul 31, 2025
Side effect of the Tour de France: pro riders gobbling up a…
Side effect of the Tour de France: pro riders gobbling up all the Strava top times (King of the Mountains) across Franc…
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