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The most beautiful thing about life is that we never have to stop learning, and that's good news, because we could all stand to learn a bit more.

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A curated collection of interesting things from
around The Internet to help you learn.

Articles

Music

Videos

Websites

Goods

Mystery

June

2021

My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?

The joys of being an absolute beginner – for life

May

2021

TikTok and the Vibes Revival

Unseen City

An Important but Rarely Discussed Lesson of the Stanford Prison Experiment

Detergent packs are kinda wishy-washy (Dishwashers Explained)

April

2021

How to sound smart in your TEDx Talk | Will Stephen | TEDxNewYork

Oatly: The New Coke

One Year Alone in Forest of Sweden | Building Log Cabin like our Forefathers

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

What is environmental racism?

I made a hair cutting machine

March

2021

No More Boring Apps

VAN NEISTAT: Fantasy Fixing

'I'm totally anonymous': the man who has made millions from your children's favourite TV shows

Defending Avocado Farms From Drug Cartels

Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

How Tyler Perry Became A Billionaire | Forbes

February

2021

How Do Nuclear Submarines Make Oxygen? Smarter Every Day 251

Think you drink a lot? This chart will tell you.

Tesla's Founders On Elon Musk And The Early Days

Same Energy: Visual Search Engine

Hell Yeah or No

How Many People Did Nuclear Energy Kill? Nuclear Death Toll

SPECIAL REPORT: GOOD COLLABORATIONS ARE ART, GREAT ONES ARE KITSCH

This Could Be Our Future

The Lovely Swiss Villas That Could Destroy An Army

January

2021

Becoming a better interviewer

No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees

Ring’s crazy, flying security cam watches all corners of your home

Illusions of Time

DALL·E: Creating Images from Text

Community Takes All: The Power of Social+

This is the best explanation of gerrymandering you will ever see

December

2020

How Bad Is Your Spotify?

I am an Uighur who faced China’s concentration camps. This is my story.

A New Satellite Can Peer Inside Some Buildings, Day or Night

How China Broke the World's Recycling

Can Shopify Compete With Amazon Without Becoming Amazon?

Yanis Varoufakis on Making Billionaires Richer

Building an Antilibrary: the Power of Unread Books

How Apple Missed Its Chance to Fix Credit Cards

November

2020

The Rise of Community-Curated Knowledge Networks

Where the U.S. Hides its Secrets

Why Does Nutrition Advice Always Seem to Be Changing?

Building an Artificial Sun that Looks Unbelievably Realistic

Browsing e-commerce: An Untapped $250B+ Opportunity

I got COVID - Now What?

October

2020

Website Carbon Calculator

The Observer Effect

When You Live in the Swiss Alps, You Can Paraglide to Work

Grapefruit Is One of the Weirdest Fruits on the Planet

Overview

Wealth, Shown to Scale

Inventing Virtual Meetings of Tomorrow with NVIDIA AI Research

Expectations

September

2020

Trump won’t commit to peaceful transfer of power if he loses the election

Virtuous Circle

Trump Just Signed an Executive Order Claiming That Anti-Racism Is the Real Racism

Material-Archiv

Millennials will pay the price for their parents’ luck and self-indulgence

The CEO with an Empty Calendar

Drowning in Plastic

How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled

The Town That Facebook Built

The Future of Community Ownership with RAC

August

2020

The Unraveling of America

Cheap Words

The Internet Warriors

Half Life: The Decay of Knowledge and What to Do About It

Finding Peace at the Top of the Music Industry

TikTok and the Sorting Hat

July

2020

The Definition of Design

Looks Like You Need Iceland

How Many Priorities Can You Have?

Ed Hardy: the Godfather of Tattooing

Reasons to be Cheerful

Stuff You Should Know

How Two Companies Dominate The $67 Billion Art World

The Building Blocks of Interpretability

June

2020

On the Design of Escaped Realities

Drive & Listen

Being Alone

What's taboo in your country?

Life is a Single Player Game

Slow-Reading is the New Deep Learning

May

2020

The Other Crisis

Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results

Outgrowing Advertising: Multimodal Business Models as a Product Strategy

Gallery of Web Design History

The Amazon Effect

This is How Easy It Is to Lie With Statistics

Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big

April

2020

Why Zoom is Terrible

The Intellectual Yet Idiot

Ego Is the Enemy

Charles Bukowski's Crappy Life

Humanity's Temporal Range

Signaling as a Service

Neil Pasricha: Happy Habits

March

2020

Google Earth Timelapse

Zero Trust Information

Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You

Yehwan Song wants to radically change how people think about the web

Why We Should Turn CO2 into Concrete

The Disinformation Issue

Name It, and They Will Come

February

2020

The Golden Age of White Collar Crime

I have APHANTASIA (and you may too...without realising it!)

The growing global movement to end outdoor advertising

The Urban Village Project

Regenerative agriculture could save soil, water, and the climate. Here’s how the U.S. government actively discourages it.

January

2020

The Pressing Need for Everyone to Quiet Their Egos

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

11 Reasons Not to Become Famous

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place

The New Luxury and Why the Days of Brands Staying Neutral Are Over

December

2019

Ghost in the Machine

How an 18th-Century Philosopher Helped Solve My Midlife Crisis

Creator's Mixtape #004

Gravitas Impetus

There’s More to Life Than Being Happy

November

2019

Year One Mementos

Creator's Mixtape #003

The Future of Banking Is … You’re Broke

Life Handed a Boy an Apple Tree

Will Smart Machines Kill Jobs or Create Better Ones?

Trump Investigation Guide: Impeachment, Inquiries, Lawsuits

October

2019

Have we Gone Too Far to Ever Switch Off

Creator's Mixtape #002

I Feel Like This

September

2019

Data is Like Uranium

The Price of Self-Delusion

Creator's Mixtape #001

John DeLorean Reinvented The Dream Car. Then He Totaled It.

August

2019

‘Plastic recycling is a myth’: what really happens to your rubbish?

Overnight Success

How Quentin Tarantino Steals From Other Movies

The Birth of the Semicolon

Less

Do schools kill creativity?

How the sound in your home affects your mood

A brief history of extremism

‘Beautiful and terrifying’: revisiting American cities in darkness

July

2019

To Cheat and Lie in L.A.

This Is What Hip Hop’s Billboard Top 10 Sounded Like, Back In 1995

Who Actually Feels Satisfied About Money?

Was the Automotive Era a Terrible Mistake?

Smile more often

June

2019

The Perfect Irony that ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Film was also a Real-Life Scam

Death of the Calorie

The Psychological Trap of Freelancing

The Hottest Chat App for Teens Is … Google Docs

Why Breaking Out of Prison is Legal in Germany

The Secret to Warren Buffett’s Investment in Coca-Cola and Heinz

Why Success Isn’t the Answer – Mike Poser