This is an animated 3D visualization of the growth of Paris from 300 BCE to the present day. It was made with Blender (no AI) by ...

These photos by Chu Weimin show the mind-boggling scale of China’s green energy buildout. Last year China insta ...

These photos by Chu Weimin show the mind-boggling scale of China's green energy buildout. Last year China installed more than ...

London bakery The Dusty Knuckle cleverly used a loaf of bread as a graph to illustrate the costs of running their business: ...

London bakery The Dusty Knuckle cleverly used a loaf of bread as a graph to illustrate the costs of running their business: ...

There’s a guy named Orion who surfs the St Lawrence River in the winter, sometimes dodging massive chunks of ice and somet ...

The main point of Adam Bonica’s post The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls is about the optimism of this moment: that the ...

Bonica calls it "Latent America: the nation that would exist if our democracy functioned to serve the public rather than ...

Bees use polarized sunlight scattered by the atmosphere in order to navigate; they always know where the sun is, even if ...

Just wanted to drop a quick note to say that kottke.org moved servers over the weekend. You shouldn’t have noticed anything, ...

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