RIP David Hockney. My post on his art is here.
Happy Juneteenth! My post on the history of the holiday is here.
Still uploading chapters of The Voice from the Darkness at Royal Road.
Noah Smith argues that 1) the US lost the Iran war, and 2) this may be "Trump's Katrina".
Alex Tabarrok on Montana's initiative to allow the use of early-stage pharmaceuticals.
Fascinating medieval bookmark.
Invasion fiction in 19th-century Britain.
Does the Russian Oreshnik missile have a fatal flaw that renders it inaccurate? Article, summary on Twitter/X.
Scott Siskind is not impressed by the Midjourney Scanner.
The Genovese crime family and the gay bar scene in 1960s New York. They owned the Stonewall Inn.
A new study asks, how much do teens regret social media use? Not so much.
Roman curse tablet from the Netherlands.
For the upscale pickleball player, artist-designed paddles. How better to impress the people you met on Match.com?
If you need something soothing, here's a lovely 45-minute video of lush Japanese gardens, with meditative music.
How the Catholic Church came to support usury.
Archaeologists find a wooden alignment near Stonehenge, more evidence that the locality had a long history as a sacred site tied to the sun.
Victim of violence found in a neolithic pottery kiln.
Ukraine blitzes the Moscow oil refinery with a major drone attack, just two days after another, smaller attack (Twitter/X 1, Twitter/X 2, AP, Fox News, Guardian)
Moderately interesting skyscraper design. And fitting new British houses into older neighborhoods in ways that do not copy the older designs but reflect them in interesting ways.
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