Jane Goodall died today. While smarter and more informed people will talk about her work, I want to share a snippet from her Wikipedia page - the two greatest paragraphs ever on Wikipedia. The first parts are amusing and interesting, but the last sentence elevates it to high art.

Maulana Rumi and the Sultans of Rome In the heart of Anatolia, in the erstwhile Roman city of Iconium, stands the tomb of one of the world's great poet philosophers: Maulana Rumi.

Reminds me of this graphic from @tedgioia

When a YouTube commenter comes out of nowhere and absolutely nails it

Tucked away in a small corner of Tamil Nadu lies one of the greatest clusters of palatial mansions in all of India

always be growing up and you’ll never miss the timing; the world is full of curious things to tinker with.

"They're made out of meat." "Meat?" "Meat. They're made out of meat." "Meat?" "There's no doubt about it. We picked several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, probed them all the way through. They're completely meat." "That's impossible.

“For the first minute (after the final whistle) I couldn’t speak,” says Kevin Day, the writer, comedian and lifelong Crystal Palace fan. “Then I looked around me and I was the only one not in tears. It was incredible. Mates of mine who I’ve known for so long, stoic people, who

The earliest surviving animated feature, and a stop-motion masterpiece From: The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), dir. Lotte Reiniger

Completely agree. LLMs being possible should feel like insane magic.

•Cunha giving up football•

STAR WARS was released 48 years ago today. Hollywood’s biggest movie phenomenon, and the film that launched the career of star Harrison Ford, the behind the scenes story is as spectacular as blowing up the Death Star… 1/37

Which speech by an ancient figure would you go back in time to listen to?

SETI@Home was released to the public 26 years ago Today; most part of the observational data it processed was from the Arecibo observatory and it was one of the most inspiring projects for young people of all ages. https://t.co/1etjORuTkR

A thank you to Liverpool supporters ❤️ Arne Slot's programme notes 🗣️

It's crazy the number of times friends, family, and customers have mentioned that they wish finance was taught when they were in school. Unfortunately, it's too late to fix that - that ship has sailed 😬 We can, however, make sure our kids learn about money. We're doing a

What the salad tried to do to us. The first ambition of any plant is to make itself uneatable. Long before anything clever walked on earth, plants settled on poisoning anything with a mouth. If you can’t run, you better taste terrible. The only way to stay alive was to face

Please remember the next time you casually install an app on your Android device, it is being broadcasted to the whole world and it will be used to determine how much you will be asked to pay next time when you decide to order a samosa.

One of the funniest things I’ve seen

This is an excellent teardown of the impact of tariffs across the life cycle of a specific product. beautifully illustrates the knock on effects within the supply chain and secondary impacts beyond.