The year in Zotero, 2022
What if failure is the plan?
Maps Mania: The Map of Stories
The Button That Could Have Changed the Internet
Tao of Photography by Andy Ilachinski: Transcendent Logic
The Boltzmann Brain Paradox: An Animated Thought Experiment About the Hallucination of Reality
The pandemic as portal
Montaigne on How to Succeed at Solitude and His Antidote to the Three Great Fears That Haunt Self-Knowledge
52 things I learned in 2022
The entire field of AI is being professionally gaslighted by Noam Chomsky and Gary Marcus
Welcome to the Rise of Zombie Trumpism
In search of a more "Bible accurate" Christmas
Remembering the Artist Aline Kominsky-Crumb, a Trailblazing Funny Woman
Autonomy, packet size, friction, fanout, and velocity
‘Extinction is on the table’: Jaron Lanier warns of tech’s existential threat to humanity
Happy Birthday, Omicron
Tao of Photography by Andy Ilachinski: Chain of Connection
What You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know About the Aurora Borealis: How the Northern Lights Work and How We Solved the Science of the Cosmic Spectacle
How the Eel Almost Became America’s Thanksgiving Food
Pacific Electric
Tansies, Horton Landing, NS
What Bernd and Hilla Becher Saw in the Remnants of Industry
12 Much Better Rules for Life
The Music of East meets West: Üsküdar neighborhood, Istanbul
A to-the-point explanation for why Musk bought Twitter
Tao of Photography by Andy Ilachinski: Improvisational Nature
The Eyes Are the Windows to the Soul
A Yaggy Cross Section and The Wiki Gap
Tao of Photography by Andy Ilachinski: Going with the Flow
The Woman Who Saved Native Song
Radar Trends to Watch: November 2022
Have You Experienced A Hyperstition?
Orme et pygargues, 1991, Horton-Landing
Paraprosdokian
How to Move a Mind: Barry Lopez on the Power of Metaphor Over Data
In Search of the Places in Robert Frank’s “The Americans”
What To Do if Lightroom Ver 12 CANNOT CONVERT The Ver 11 CATALOG
Maps Mania: The Mega Mega Warehouse Map
Bookmarklet to find Edyth and Friends in the Flickr Commons
A Look Back at Peter Schjeldahl’s Visionary Criticism
Word cloud + Streamgraph = WordStream
Word cloud + Streamgraph = WordStream
wyrd
On digital distance
Mindblowing High-Resolution Timelapse of the Sun Over a 20-Day Period
M.C. Escher on Loneliness, Creativity, and How Rachel Carson Inspired His Art, with a Side of Bach
Gigapixel Photo of Burning Man Shows Desert Festival in Extreme Detail
Fascinating Book of Victorian Mugshot Photos is Saved from a Dumpster
Biomanufactured materials are coming
Eliza Carthy: ‘Folk music is sexy and filthy and at the end of the night you fall over. That’s how I live’
Tao of Photography by Andy Ilachinski: Subjective Wholes
The Not-So-Silent Friendship of Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith
DALL-E image generator is now open to everyone
The Photographic Search for True West
Darwin Among the Machines: A Victorian Visionary’s Prophetic Admonition for Saving Ourselves from Enslavement by Artificial Intelligence
‘We had to leave home for a better future’: Kate Beaton on the brutal, drug-filled reality of life in an oil camp
Imaginative Project Fuses Photography and Art to Create Cloud Characters
Maps Mania: The Southeast Asia Map Collection
DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting
The Door Opened by “Gangnam Style”
‘Better late than never’: how Brian Eno and David Byrne finally laid a musical ghost to rest
Tao of Photography by Andy Ilachinski: Things Are What They Are
How to Weather the Ongoing Adderall Shortage
On Technique
The plastic Crisis has deep corporate Roots: to protect our Planet, they need to be exposed
Curran Hatleberg’s Florida, Past and Future
Tao of Photography by Andy Ilachinski: Mysterious Animal
Warm Waters, Winds head for East Antarctica, threatening eventual Massive Sea Level Rise
Tao of Photography by Andy Ilachinski: Mysterious Animal
Tao of Photography by Andy Ilachinski: Act of Perception
The Tech We Had No Idea Would Become So Critical
Tao of Photography by Andy Ilachinski: Light and Dark
These Stamp-Sized Ultrasound Stickers Can See Inside the Body
Hubble Photographs a Gorgeous Glittering Star Cluster
Tao of Photography by Andy Ilachinski: Beauty Everywhere
In a Library: Emily Dickinson on Why We Read and the Magic of Old Books
Tao of Photography by Andy Ilachinski: Geometric Patterns
Dumneazu: Hurka: The Tastiest Turd in Hungary
Tao of Photography by Andy Ilachinski: Like a Wave from the Ocean
Tao of Photography by Andy Ilachinski: Loosely Conjoined Cells of a Tissue
Tao of Photography by Andy Ilachinski: Inner Sound
Tao of Photography by Andy Ilachinski: Transient Beauty
Tao of Photography by Andy Ilachinski: Higher Dialectic
Cloud Chambers and Cosmic Rays: The Quest to Unravel One of the Most Dazzling Mysteries of the Universe
Photographer Donates a Million Photos of San Diego to Local Library
Only Known Photo of Mormon Founder Joseph Smith Found in Locket
To the Young Who Want to Die: Roxane Gay Reads Gwendolyn Brooks’s Lifeline of a Poem
Tao of Photography by Andy Ilachinski: Action Potential
cheeseparing, cheesepare
Histograms in Photography: A Guide
Road tripping on Route 66
cahoots
Dumneazu: Germany: It Gets Würst...
Where Mantras Trump Medicine, Vaccines Are a ‘Violation’
Building Blocks of RNA Spotted at the Center of the Milky Way
Nature and Creativity: The Science of “Soft Fascination” and How the Natural World Presses the Reset Button of the Brain’s Default Mode Network
The Final Stages of American Collapse
Weary, old, a little broken, but not letting go of the dream: edtech in the 21st Century
Settling in for the long haul
Into the Heart of Life: Richard Powers on Living with Bewilderment at the Otherworldly Wonder of Our World
Top 6 Worst Supreme Court Decisions in History
A revolutionary Ruling – and Striking Down Abortion Rights is only the Beginning
The oligarchs’ Supreme Court
American Democracy Is Dying — The Jan 6 Committee Is Trying to Shock it Back to Life
The Human Kaleidoscope and the Unwritten Story of the World: “Radiolab” Creator Jad Abumrad’s Superb Caltech Commencement Address
exgramination
Mapping the boundaries of history
The Only Valiant Way to Complain Is to Create: William Blake and the Stubborn Courage of the Unexampled
Marginalized Ecologies and Education: An Ethnographic snapshot from the Chars of Assam
How to Transfer Photos from iPhone to Computer in 2022
What happened to simple, basic web hosting?
The impossible scam of US drug plans
Population figures for the American Nations - 2020 census edition
What is Global in the Greek-Turkish 1922?
The 7 Deadly Sins of Friendship
Catching the Light of the World: The Entwined History of Vision and Consciousness
When it comes to Guns, the US is a Third World Country run by Corporate Lobbyists for a Profit
Dumneazu: Hungary: It Could be Wurst...
Reclaiming Choice and Agency in a Networked World
Maps Mania: A New Global Population Explorer
The Ever-Present Origin: Swiss Poet, Philosopher, and Linguist Jean Gebser’s Prescient 1949 Vision for the Evolution of Consciousness
Maps Mania: Madagascator & Mexicator
Not. Gonna. Happen.
The Aztec Way of Empire
‘GUILTY’ daughter-researcher: Ethnography, familial politics, and guilt
American history as imagined in liberal political philosophy
Quantum Computing without the Hype
Beef and the rainforest
The War in Ukraine Has Unleashed a New Word
The cognitive bias codex links to a definition of each cognitive bias
Maps Mania: What Two Numbers?
How chickens got so big and tasteless
How “Better Call Saul” Brilliantly Killed the Thrills of “Breaking Bad”
A Look Back at 'Diana & Nikon: Essays on Photography' by Janet Malcolm
The Magpie in the Mind: The Emerging Science of Thinking with the Whole World Beyond the Brain
Synecdoche: The Essence of Photography
Who We Are And How We Got Here - Part 5 - The Americas
Maps Mania: Europe's Refugee Backlog
The mystery of ⍼, a Unicode character of unknown purpose
From Mosul to Raqqa to Mariupol, Killing Civilians is a Crime no Matter Who Does it
Defying Classification: An Introduction to Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction
Watch (and hear) a prototype foot-operated "palm mute" device for piano
How to Face the Centuries with Confidence: The Mystery of the World’s Most Majestic Tree
A Look Back at 'Diana & Nikon: Essays on Photography' by Janet Malcolm
The Best Photos from GuruShots' 'Amazing Architecture' Challenge
Photojournalist goes from Extension School to Harvard Ph.D. program
Singularity: An Animated Ode to Our Primeval Bond with Nature and Each Other (Toshi Reagon Sings Marissa Davis)
The Magpie in the Mind: The Emerging Science of Thinking with the Whole World Beyond the Brain
Fragment: On the Value of Traditional Indexes in Full Text Search Environments
We Can Be Different: David Byrne’s Illustrated History of the Future
Closer look at cancer cells’ ability to rewire, thrive, survive
Dirge Without Music: Emmy Noether, Symmetry, and the Conservation of Energy (Amanda Palmer Reads Edna St. Vincent Millay, Animated by Sophie Blackall)
Legal Scholars Are Shocked By Ginni Thomas’s “Stop the Steal” Texts
Kyiv has faced adversity before – and a stronger Ukrainian identity grew in response
Find Out Which Cannabis Strains Are Best For You With A Cannabis DNA Test
Putin’s War on Ukraine Is About Ethnicity and Empire
Before the War
The Fog of History
Maps Mania: Mapping the Russian Advance
Want some roadkill to cook? There's an app for that.
Who We Are And How We Got Here - Part 5 - The Americas
The Dawn of Everything
Losing Love, Finding Love, and Living with the Fragility of It All
Why the Base Model Mac Studio is a Great Option for Photographers
The frog of war
A Confirmed Hallucination: HELGOLAND, Carlo Rovelli
Maps Mania: The Australian Land Cover Map
Remembering Ansel Adams Through the Life of One Student
Possible case of deer-to human Covid infection identified in Canada
What might the Ukraine crisis mean for academia?
Today is a palindrome and an ambigram
Tao of Photography by Andy Ilachinski: Web of Time
Coronaviruses are 'clever': Evolutionary scenarios for the future of SARS-CoV-2
My Life with Maus: Or How I Was Banned (Even If in a Second-Hand Way) by a Trumpian World
Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life During Seven Months on a Small Alaskan Island
Why Covid-19 vaccines are a freaking miracle
The future grows out of the past
Who We Are And How We Got Here - Part One - Introduction
Jordan Peterson Resigns as a Professor — Unsurprisingly
We Are Headed Towards The Most Ridiculous Crypto Pump And Dump Of All Time
3 Steps to Creating a Dramatic B&W Infrared Photo in Photoshop
Maps Mania: Population Density Around the World
This Swallowable Camera Can Take the Place of Traditional Colonoscopies
Nobel Prize or not
How To Keep COVID Away From Your Fucking Face (an Infographic)
Maps Mania: The Map of All Human Knowledge
The end of American democracy is unimaginable
Did a mega drought topple empires 4,200 years ago?
Interactive world map of lighthouses
How the Great Zen Master and Peace Activist Thich Nhat Hanh Found Himself and Lost His Self in a Library Epiphany
The Original Shock of the Pompidou Center
Tao of Photography by Andy Ilachinski: Kandinskian Delights
Maps Mania: An Atlas of Time
Tao of Photography by Andy Ilachinski: Early Morning Walk
The Antidote to Melancholy: Robert Burton’s Centuries-Old Salve for Depression, Epochs Ahead of Science
Ghosts [or Stories] in the [Internet] Machine
Ocean Heat is at Record Levels, with Major Consequences
Neal Stephenson’s ‘Termination Shock’
The Future is Here, and It’s Made of Apocalypse
In defense of presentism
What Happens When We Die
Maps Mania: Mapping the American Power Grid
Tao of Photography by Andy Ilachinski: Embodied Network
Our Leaders Are Running From the Mess They’ve Made of the World
'Protect our hospitals' might convince Britons to get Covid-19 vaccines, but it won't work in the U.S.
Tao of Photography by Andy Ilachinski: Being, Meaning, and Another Order
Merde! “Emmerder” les emmerde
‘Don’t Look Up’: Hollywood’s primer on climate denial illustrates 5 myths that fuel rejection of science
One year after the January 6 insurrection, is the United States on the Verge of Break-up?
Scale of black holes
The Internet Heist (Part I)
RealClimate: “Don’t Look Up”