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Ozu in Color (Every Frame a Painting)
posted Aug 17 @ 10:58 AM by Jason Kottke · gift link Ozu in Color (Every Frame a Painting) For TCM, Every Frame a Painting’s Taylor Ramos & Tony Zhou tell us how legendary Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu made the…
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The Winners of the 2026 International Pano Awards
The winners of the 2026 Epson International Pano awards were announced recently, featuring some of the best panoramic…
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Why Do Some Places Just Feel Right?
Gregory Wieber does these engaging, info-rich videos on tech history — I posted his HyperCard Changed Everything video…
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NPR’s Planet Money recently did a show on tariff refunds...
NPR’s Planet Money recently did a show on tariff refunds and interviewed Panic’s Cabel Sasser about how they decided…
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How Hunting Owls Use Sound to “See” Under the Snow
The great grey owl basically has a sound cone for a face, which helps it hunt down voles burrowing through snow in the…
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Q: “An AI tool with all your passwords or a bear in the...
Q: “An AI tool with all your passwords or a bear in the woods?” Signal president Meredith Whittaker : “Look, I know…
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Anthropic says that, as of Sept ‘26, they were merging...
Anthropic says that, as of Sept ‘26, they were merging 30,000 code changes per day , a 12-fold increase from just four…
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So Many Different Mes
Japanese photographer and artist Tomoko Sawada works primarily in self-portraiture. For her first project, she visited…
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Is American Culture Simply Bad Now? I’ve been hanging...
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In the wake of her divorce, Curtis Sittenfeld revisits...
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Homer’s Catalogue of Ships from the Iliad. Where the...
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Ed Sheeran tried to stay neutral on a moving train. “If...
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Naomi Klein : “Extreme wealth has a deranging...
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Meat proxy (noun) : “A person who forwards...
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Analysts Warn U.S. Economy Becoming Overly Dependent On...
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The area known as Tornado Alley continues to shift...
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“Draw any shape and hear it as a drum.”...
The article discusses a unique feature that allows users to draw shapes and hear them as drum sounds. This innovative…
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Craig Mod wrote about his recent adventures using LLMs:...
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Tron: Legacy (Recording Sessions) by Daft Punk
A fan-assembled album of the recording sessions for Tron: Legacy by Daft Punk and Joseph Trapanese has been…
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Thing that I am now invested in: this woman has spent 30...
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Surfing Alaska’s Turnagain Arm (home to a twice-daily...
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“Long live Hyrule jazz!” The Z Suites is “a...
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How Podcasts Ruined America . This is an odd claim and...
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What Are the Most Untouchable Records in Sports?
Women's Tennis offers some impressive and long-standing records. Court, Graf and Navratilova still retain a number of…
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The Beauty of Doing Nothing Together . “What...
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It’s Cool to Be Weird
The author received a quiz result indicating that only 0.594% of US adults share their combination. They reflect on…
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Participants in a recently published study spoke 28%...
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The Thomas Crown Affair? Directed by and starring...
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Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary?...
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Please Use AI . “Be sure to use AI when planning that...
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How the Words We Teach English Language Learners...
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Don’t use AI until you’re 40 . “We have been so...
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Trump’s Assault on Science Continues
When I talk to people about this subject (and that includes some journalists as well) and say what I’m about to at the…
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New orca behavior unlocked. They’ve been known to sink...
Researchers have made a new discovery about orca behavior. Orcas have been observed exhibiting a previously unknown…
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A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the...
A teen reporter embarked on a journey to find his community. He searched for a sense of belonging and connection with…
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I’m a Scholar of Genocide. We’re Entering a Terrifying...
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The Meaning of Nolan’s The Odyssey
As it turns out, it was 10,000% important that Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey was delivered in American accents,…
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“A star located about 1,300 light-years from Earth...
A star located about 1,300 light-years from Earth is the subject of a recent discovery. The article does not provide…
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Ocean Vuong has a photograpy show opening at The...
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New Patricia Lockwood for the London Review of Books: A...
The article discusses a new piece by Patricia Lockwood for the London Review of Books. To access the full article, one…
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Our Lives Are “an Orchestrated Shuffle of Technology”
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America: Birth Of A Nation
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My Family Has Been Here Since 1621. That Is Not What...
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A Retro 70s TV Intro for Andor . “Get ready to...
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Who wins the 2026 World Cup if “not football” decides?...
The article discusses an alternative approach to determining the winner of the 2026 World Cup, focusing on factors…
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Criterion’s Massive Stanley Kubrick Box Set
Criterion is releasing a massive Stanley Kubrick box set. The box set will include a collection of Kubrick's films and…
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Lifts in Film : a collection of movie & TV scenes...
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