Physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on who should read books about physics. “The question of ‘What is space-time?’ doesn’t belong only to scientists. It belongs to everyone who has ever wondered about the bigger picture.” https://news.chanda.science/archive/who-gets-to-ask-the-universe-questions/

Quaker principles line up quite well with modern parenting research. “Infused in all of these practices is the conviction that children are not lesser proto-adults, but fellow beings worthy of respect and agency regardless of their behavior.” https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/04/quaker-parenting-research/682277/?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ4sTs5kqkba9XYSPvVQVBX4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

The Revolt Against the Girl Bosses… “Empowerment won’t fix the mess we’re in. Women know it now. They’re mad as hell. Anyone trying to sell them advice instead of a way to use that anger to build a better world for women deserves to be fired.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/opinion/reese-witherspoon-mel-robbins-girlboss-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ilA.cwQj.1ThB2bUj7WKP

The Night Witches were an all-female Soviet bomber regiment that attacked Nazi forces during WWII. "An attack technique...involved idling the engine near the target & gliding to the bomb-release point with only wind noise left to reveal their presence." https://kottke.org/26/05/the-night-witches-the-female-nazi-hunters-of-wwii

25 Books That Capture This American Moment. They include Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, Toni Morrison’s A Mercy, Make the Impossible Possible by Bill Strickland, and Rabbit Redux by John Updike. https://time.com/collection/our-america-250/2026/books-that-define-america

Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains. “[Some] developers who use AI at work report that they feel like they are de-skilling themselves and losing their ability to do their jobs as well as they used to.” https://www.404media.co/software-developers-say-ai-is-rotting-their-brains/

On “rich guy has an opinion” journalism, i.e. “entire news stories dedicated to the otherwise unremarkable opinion of a rich person, or news stories that fold the opinions of rich people into their otherwise neutral coverage”. https://stringinamaze.net/p/rich-guy-quote-journalism

This World History Timeline (2016) shows how nations, empires, and ruling groups shifted and evolved across the globe from 3000 BCE to the present. It's based on Joseph Priestley's A New Chart of History (1769). https://kottke.org/26/05/world-history-timeline

New York’s Neue Galerie Will Merge With the Metropolitan Museum. “The merger will significantly bolster the Met’s holdings of early 20th-century Austrian and German art…” https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/05/14/neue-galerie-metropolitan-museum-merger

The Neanderthal dentist: archaeologists found evidence of a decayed tooth being drilled out with a stone tools 59,000 years ago. “It’s now the oldest known evidence of dentistry — or any direct medical treatment.” https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/neanderthals-drilled-cavities-to-treat-a-toothache-59000-years-ago/