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EVs Could Last Nearly Forever—If Car Companies Let Them
Jun 15, 2024 | The Atlantic
An electric car capable of running for 1 million miles is within reach.
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted gifts worth millions of dollars over 20 years, analysis finds
Jun 10, 2024 | CNBC
The justice took gifts worth a total nearly 10 times the value of all gifts received by his fellow justices during the same time, according to a new analysis.
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Q&A: Xiao Qiang on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square and the right to information in China
Jun 06, 2024 | www.cjr.org
Censorship, Surveillance, and Detentions in Hong Kong Ahead of 35th Anniversary of Tiananmen Massacre
Jun 04, 2024 | China Digital Times (CDT)
For decades on June 4, Hongkongers rallied in their thousands at the city’s Victoria Park to commemorate the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre. Hong Kong was the only location in China where such large-scale public vigils could take place....
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How I make news comics
May 30, 2024 | blog.apps.npr.org
William L. Moore was murdered on a civil rights protest walk. Here's how I made a comic about one man's campaign to create a marker about it.
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Ken Burns: “Be curious, not cool. Insecurity makes liars of us all.”
May 28, 2024 | alumni.brandeis.edu
GBH lays off 31 employees, suspends production of 3 TV shows - The Boston Globe
May 22, 2024 | BostonGlobe.com
The job losses affected 13 departments and represented 4 percent of the workforce.
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Are home prices still rising? See how prices have changed in your area.
May 22, 2024 | Washington Post
Search by zip code to see how home prices are changing in your area.
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You Might Not Want PMTiles
May 22, 2024 | protomaps.com
PMTiles is the open archive format that underlies the Protomaps ecosystem. It’s a single file that enables deploying an entire world map as a static artifact, making mapping accessible to the widest audience of front-end developers and neogeographers....
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How I Made Google’s “Web” View My Default Search
May 20, 2024 | Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.
Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. You just need one URL parameter.
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How Magneto Became Jewish
May 19, 2024 | Vulture
As the X-Men movie saga comes to an end with Dark Phoenix, it’s worth remembering how it began — with the darkest chapter in Jewish history.
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Fog Today
May 19, 2024 | fog.today
Is it sunny at the beach? Check the latest fog conditions in the Bay Area with Fog Today.
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The Judgment Of Magneto | Defector
May 18, 2024 | defector.com
Somewhere beyond death, in a realm of judgment and pain, a concrete labyrinth filled by countless names, a man walks. He is Jewish, and has been made hard and cruel by his experiences in the Nazi death camps. He’s also a mutant, gifted with the power...
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A Plea for Sober AI
May 17, 2024 | Drew Breunig
The hype is so loud we can’t appreciate the magic
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Migration is about migrants
May 15, 2024 | Zach Seward
In praise of news organizations that understand whose "crisis" to focus on.
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The USDA’s gardening zones shifted. This map shows you what’s changed in vivid detail
May 13, 2024 | NPR
There's a good chance your zone shifted when the USDA updated its plant hardiness map in 2023. Zoom in on what that means for your garden.
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The Revenge of the Home Page
May 11, 2024 | The New Yorker
As social networks become less reliable distributors of the news, consumers of digital journalism are seeking out an older form of online real estate.
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Modern WordPress - Yikes!
May 07, 2024 | dbushell.com
The one where I share my dislike for WordPress (again)
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Star Wars’ Expanded Universe helped rescue Phantom Menace and the prequel trilogy
May 05, 2024 | Polygon
The Phantom Menace is back in theaters — and it looks different now, after 25 years of support material
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