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Love in the Time of Dinosaurs

In 1824, studying a set of large fossil bones discovered in a quarry near Oxford two centuries earlier, the English theologian, geologist, and paleontologist William Buckland kept looking at the fragment of the lower jaw. Something didn’t add up. As he examined it more closely, he realized these were not the remains of an elephant, as previously thought, but of an enormous carnivorous reptile with no analogue in the fossil record or in the living world. He christened it Megalosaurus — the first named dinosaur — and set out to compose a complete account of the ancient beast. Because nobody… rea

Brain Pickings · EN

Arkivism is a search and visual discovery engine for...

Arkivism is a search and visual discovery engine for millions of public domain works from the collections of the Smithsonian, The Met, NASA, Library of Congress, National Gallery of Art, Rijksmuseum, and more.

Kottke · EN

Simon Willison: The October Inflection Point for Vibe...

Simon Willison: The October Inflection Point for Vibe Game Development . “The thing I find both exciting and shameful about this is that I have got interesting results from so little creative input.”

Kottke · EN

Mestiz Installs Monumental Día de Muertos Altar in NYC

The 7-tier installation transforms handwoven marigolds into a public gathering place that celebrates Mexican craftsmanship and traditions

Design Milk · EN

Six Decades of Gio Ponti, All at Once

A retrospective at Donzella reveals rare works by the Italian designer not seen in 20 years.

Curbed · EN

What Do New York City’s Ballot Proposals Mean?

A brief guide to the infrastructure and streetscape questions on the slate.

Curbed · EN

Country House / Arquipélago Arquitetos

Located 100 meters above sea level, in the Caboclo neighborhood of Paraty , the house is immersed in a natural incline of Atlantic forest that extends to form the Serra da Bocaina.

ArchDaily · EN

Akartz House / Ápiron

Casa Akartz was developed from a composition of independent volumes whose arrangement responds to solar orientation, the irregular geometry of the site, and its topographic variations.

ArchDaily · EN

This “Bentley of Bikes” sports 5 layers of paint, and packs a 206Hp engine underneath

This “Bentley of Bikes” sports 5 layers of paint, and packs a 206Hp engine underneath Five layers of paint. That’s how many Norton applied to the bodywork of its new Manx R, enough that the engineers had to factor paint...

Yanko Design · EN

Jackery shrank its power station into a 96Wh cube with 140W USB-C

Jackery shrank its power station into a 96Wh cube with 140W USB-C Jackery’s new Explorer 100D looks like it should play AM radio. The squat little cube has a framed front panel, orange slatted vents down its...

Yanko Design · EN

MagBoard Clipboard Rearranges Notes Without Tearing Pages

MagBoard Clipboard Rearranges Notes Without Tearing Pages I’m a big fan of notebooks, as evidenced by the ton of used and unused ones that I have sitting at home. But there are...

Yanko Design · EN

This 400-Square-Foot A-Frame Tiny Home Makes Room for a King-Size Bed and a Soaking Tub

This 400-Square-Foot A-Frame Tiny Home Makes Room for a King-Size Bed and a Soaking Tub A king-size bed and a freestanding soaking tub are generous starting points for a 400-square-foot cabin. Zook Cabins’ A-Frame Studio makes both central to its...

Yanko Design · EN

Hal Jordan has to recharge his ring, but the NoxTi titanium EDC lantern glows for decades

Hal Jordan has to recharge his ring, but the NoxTi titanium EDC lantern glows for decades Every Green Lantern has the same annoying chore. Once a day, the ring needs a top-up, so our cosmic cop has to press his fist...

Yanko Design · EN

10 Art Books to Curl Up With This November

Celia Paul’s latest essay collection from Venice, Salman Toor’s painted worlds, the secret herbarium of Rosa Luxemburg, a new Roy Lichtenstein catalog for old fans, and more.

Hyperallergic · EN

A Midterm Election Guide for Artists and Arts Workers

Issues touching on arts funding, censorship, AI regulation, and more are at stake for the country’s cultural sectors across key Senate, House, and Gubernatorial races.

Hyperallergic · EN

Packaging Design: LeNOSE Fine Fragrance Hand Soap Identity

Explore LeNOSE's witty packaging design and fine fragrance development, pairing geometric die-cut labels with $10 luxury hand soaps. Somewhere over the last decade, washing your hands turned into a bi...

Abduzeedo · EN

Product Design: COLLECTIBLE NYC Opens This Week Uptown

Opening this week at 210 East 86th Street, COLLECTIBLE New York 2026 showcases boundary-pushing 21st-century product design and furniture. If you are anywhere near Manhattan over the next few days, cl...

Abduzeedo · EN

Momotaro Coffee: Small-Batch Packaging Design System

Pomodoro Design crafts modular packaging design for Bucharest roaster Momotaro Coffee using recycled paper sleeves and warm serif type. Micro-lot coffee roasting moves way too fast for traditional pri...

Abduzeedo · EN

Claymation, Zoetropes, and 3D-Printed Blasters: Join Our Live Two-Minute Film Festival Roundtable!

(clockwise from top left) Operation: Blitz Tag by Freesia Gaul; (M)other Moon by Will Nava; Dimension Cafe by Lauren Meichtry; and The Myth of Pandora by David Thulin. Imagine building a compelling cinematic experience, coordinating practical VFX, and telling a story—all in less than 120 seconds. On Wednesday, November 4 at 4:00 p.m. PST, Make: […] The post Claymation, Zoetropes, and 3D-Printed Blasters: Join Our Live Two-Minute Film Festival Roundtable! appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers .

MAKE Magazine · EN

Kitbash a Cardboard Star Wars Control Panel

No 3D printer? “Kitbash” this Star Wars: Andor control panel prop from cardboard, caps, and scraps! The post Kitbash a Cardboard Star Wars Control Panel appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers .

MAKE Magazine · EN

6 ESP32 projects to build including an OLED pulse oximeter

Julian Horsey writing for Geeky Gadgets rounds up six ESP32 builds from Hacktuber, starting with a pulse oximeter. It pairs a pulse oximeter sensor with the ESP32 to read heart rate and blood oxygen saturation, then shows the numbers on a small OLED screen. The rest cover a good spread of what the chip can […]

Adafruit Blog · EN

The solar system may have a sixth dwarf planet, hidden against the Milky Way

Zo Ahmed, writing for TechSpot, reports on an icy object beyond Pluto that could become the solar system’s sixth dwarf planet. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory team in Chile announced it this week under the provisional name 2026 ED138. It sits about 46 astronomical units from the Sun. Pluto averages around 40. Nobody has measured […]

Adafruit Blog · EN

CutScape v0.6.0: an InkScape extension for outputting to 2D plotters, cutters, engravers, and CNC…

Developer jetpax has released version 0.6.0 of CutScape, an Inkscape extension that sends drawings out to 2D plotters, vinyl cutters, engravers and CNC machines. The release is posted on GitHub. This version adds presets for Secabo’s C IV, S and T series cutters. CutScape’s messages no longer trigger Inkscape’s warning dialog, and the whole interface […]

Adafruit Blog · EN

Killed by Ubuntu, Linux Mint is bringing this classic feature back

Abhishek Prakash writes at It’s FOSS that Linux Mint is bringing hibernation back. The Mint team previewed a new Sleep Modes page in its System Administration tool, planned for Mint 27 in December. It turns hibernation on and sets it up without hand-editing config files. Suspend keeps your open apps and windows in RAM and […]

Adafruit Blog · EN