New book from Ed Yong! Life Beyond Measure:...

New book from Ed Yong! Life Beyond Measure: Nature’s Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. “A bristlecone pine rounds the corner of its fifth millennium; shorebirds fly without stopping across the world’s largest ocean…” Out in April, pre-order now.

Yes, this summer really was as hot as you think it was ....

Yes, this summer really was as hot as you think it was. This summer “was the hottest on record for the contiguous U.S., beating the previous champions of 1936 and 2021 by 0.4°F. Compared to the average over the 20th century, this summer was 3° hotter.”

Using a Railway as a Massive Flatbed Scanner

By taking a camera, pointing it out the window of a train, and keeping track of how fast the train is moving, you can create very wide panoramic scans of the scenery. It’s a little more complicated than that — all the details are here — but you’re essentially using…

Japanese architect Tadao Ando designed a floating...

Japanese architect Tadao Ando designed a floating children’s library and donated it to Kagawa prefecture. “We created reading spaces throughout the ship. A large circular bench was placed on the rear deck, and children can even lie under the sun.”

The New Camp Snap 110D is the One Gen Z Will Love

The folks over at Camp Snap surely know how to play with a millennial heart; at least that's what the new Camp Snap 110D is making me think. This new digital camera is styled after all the older cool 110 cameras of photography's past and even improves on what the company has don…

The Rumpus Book Club event for this month is a...

The Rumpus Book Club event for this month is a conversation between Debbie Millman, Roxane Gay, and Emily Wilson about Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey. Sept 25th at 7pm ET on Zoom, free for all.

The Star Wars Archives. 1977-1983. From Taschen. Looks...

The Star Wars Archives. 1977-1983. From Taschen. Looks fantastic.

The Third-Party Lens Sony Photographers Should Own for Every Day Work

Sony photographers have a wide array of lenses to choose from. The company creates the best lenses, and then you have some of the most fantastic ones from third-party makers. If you are someone who is looking to buy an all round lens, then this model from Tamron is for you.

With Adapted Sailing, the Sea Is for Everyone ....

With Adapted Sailing, the Sea Is for Everyone. “The program and others like it across the world are opening up a new frontier for people with reduced mobility, out on the open sea, free from the limitations of buildings and streets.”

Max Verstappen vs. 100 Normies in Go-Karts

This is fun: Red Bull took over one of the karting tracks at Silverstone (home of the British Grand Prix), put 100 regular folks in karts, positioned four-time F1 champ Max Verstappen at the back of the pack, and gave him 75 minutes (or 30 laps) to pass everyone. Spoiler aler…

The Fun in Multiple Exposure Portraits

Let's be honest, standard photography is really, really boring. AI can do it. Do you want to make images that AI can make? Ultimately, we should be leaning into the idea that photography can and should be a far more experimental process. Get ready to stop simply just pressing th…

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What You Actually Get With a Phoblographer Membership

A Phoblographer membership costs $25 a year, and while the headline benefit is an ad-free reading experience, that's not the only thing members get. We've been rolling out additional perks over time, and it's worth laying them out clearly for anyone who's been on the fence.

Genius Design Details: Pips and Nubs

The gang from Craighill explains the origins and uses of three seemingly small design details that show up everywhere: pips, nubs, and the very useful union of pips and nubs. You’ve seen pips on dice and dominos, nubs are used for Braille text, and the pips/nubs combo is us…

Usenet-Rewind : search over 1 billion Usenet text posts...

Usenet-Rewind: search over 1 billion Usenet text posts from 1981 to the present.

“ Figures show Japan is now home to 107,677...

“Figures show Japan is now home to 107,677 centenarians, the highest number in the world, of whom 88% are women. The oldest woman is Kishimoto Fuyo, a 114-year-old from Kyoto City and the oldest man is Kato Hikaru, a 112-year-old from Kumamoto.”

Best Concert Photography Lenses for Shooting in Low Light

Music events, such as festivals and concerts, are a pretty impressive opportunity for photographers. One can get some really creative images, thanks to the mixed lighting set-up, and some truly impressive moments in the crowd. However, concert photography lenses have one thing i…

Why Charlotte Should Build a Museum of Broadcasting in the Antenna Age

In the foreground are three towers standing on nineteen acres in Charlotte’s south side. They transmit the signal of WBT/1110 AM, a 50,000-watt giant, with a signal that stretches from Canada to Cuba at night: WBT was born 104 years ago and is about to die, because the land un…

Danny MacAskill Plays in the Endless Light of Norway

Scottish trials rider and mountain biker Danny MacAskill, who I first featured on the site more than 17 years ago, recently took his Santa Cruz eMTB north of the Arctic Circle to Narvik, Norway. He rode three different mountains and the result is this incredibly beautiful vid…

Hidden in Pieces: Live at the Royal Albert Hall . A live...

Hidden in Pieces: Live at the Royal Albert Hall. A live album from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs? Hell yes yes yes! 13 songs are available now plus 9 more tracks when the full album drops in October.

Paul Ford: Aided by LLMs, people & companies are...

Paul Ford: Aided by LLMs, people & companies are producing lots of software. But where are the AI-coded killer apps? “[AI is] very good at reproducing things that look and feel like what came before.”

Panasonic LUMIX 20mm f2.5 Review: The Lens You’ll Want to Bring Everywhere

The Panasonic LUMIX 20mm f2.5 is a fantastic lens not just for the LUMIX S9, but for any full-frame LUMIX camera you may use. And it's not just because of the image quality as there's a lot to love about this thing. Looking back at my time with the Panasonic LUMIX 20mm f2.5 duri…

Size-Specialized Memory Allocation

The Go Blog Size-Specialized Memory Allocation Michael Matloob 16 September 2026 Go 1.27 includes faster memory allocation for allocations of fewer than 80 bytes. Allocations can be up to 20-30% faster, making allocation-heavy programs up…

The All of the Above Trail Fest is “deconstructing...

The All of the Above Trail Fest is “deconstructing the very definition of a trail race, refiguring it into something more expansive and inclusive”. There are no gender divisions and winners are decided by who gets closest to their predicted finish time.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 2027 Brings New AI Tools to Make Editing Easier

Today, Adobe announced the latest update to its Photoshop Elements software for Mac and Windows PCs. The latest version of Photoshop Elements brings over AI tools, like Generative Expand and Generative Upscaling as well as additional filters, search and editing assistant. While…

The Powerful Connection Between Smell & Memory

One thing I didn’t get a chance to work into my post about the unexpected memory bomb triggered by my spice drawer was the tight, deep connection between smell and memory. I first learned about this relationship in college when I read A Natural History of the Senses by Diane A…

We Must Create the Shit Machine . “I asked...

We Must Create the Shit Machine. “I asked everyone I know at the BIG TECH HUMAN CENTIPEDE ROUNDTABLE, and we all agreed that UNCONTROLLABLE SHIT-RAIN IS USEFUL AND GREAT, and that EVERYONE WANTS IT.”