Heaven and Hell
Oliver Burkeman: Scheduling is the best way to get creative work done.
The largest ever analysis of film dialogue by gender.
Beware the grinning emoji, my son! The teeth that bite, the renderings that mismatch!
I don’t normally link technical how-tos, but this was a godsend when attempting to install Slack on my iPhone 4: How to download and install apps on older versions of iOS (entirely legitimately).
How Internet mapping turned a remote farm into a digital hell. How the Internet turned a remote town into a digital heaven.
How humanity first killed the dodo, then lost it.
Marine heatwave in Tasmania puts species at risk.
Dolphins have a language. Surely we knew that thirty years ago?
Clive James: “I’ve got a lot done since my death”, but “still being alive is embarrassing”. He’s writing for The Observer again and just reviewed Game of Thrones in The New Yorker, which might even prompt me to start watching it. Plus he has a new verse book about Proust out this week.
The world’s first Pastafarian wedding.