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I invite you to visit this site, provided by Al Jazeera: Know Their Names

We exist in the minds of others.

The phrase “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” has been declared antisemitic by supporters of Israel.

Soldiers on tiktok, Dancing on death With glee celebrate A baby’s last breath

O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

I grew up in a Jewish household.

Depending on your news sources, you may not be fully aware of the industrial level of death and destruction Israel has wrought on Gaza.

Some people see the situation in Gaza as a religious war.

I’ve hesitated to write about this tragedy, because I know this article is going to offend some people.

Like an old infomercial claim (“It slices!

Great conversations flow effortlessly and collaboratively.

I really enjoyed seeing Colin Hay perform live in London last Friday night.

Imagine growing up in an English-only household, in a rural village in Japan, fully immersed, for your entire life, in two very different cultures.

Growing up surrounded by poverty and gang violence, this inspiring and mesmerizing short film tells the story of a young man who found his path to happiness on a surfboard.

What would an alien civilization think of us if the only record of our existence was Google Reviews?

Check out this visual explainer about sound.

Check out this fascinating thread on Mastadon, which is the distributed messaging app many people have migrated to since Twitter started imploding.

Another case where AI does things we can’t explain: apparently male and female retinas are different enough that a computer can guess your gender just by looking at your eyes.

After 20 years in the Marine Corps, including tours of duty in Afghanistan, Mac returned home with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and a deep seated hatred toward all Muslims.

I recently heard something amazing: July is the worst month in which to undergo a medical procedure because the risk of a mistake is higher in July than in any other month of the year.

Congratulations, NASA has selected you to visit the planet Zog but before you go, you’d better learn something about their currency.

The best video I saw this week was this incredible fingerstyle guitar rendition of Chicago’s classic hit from 1970 “25 or 6 to 4”.

This is the best thing I watched this week.

This short video is not something you watch as much as something you experience.

The best thing I read this week was this gripping and beautifully written story about a building engineer who, in 2013, fell five stories from a church attic, shattered half the bones in his body, and somehow managed to survive.

One of the most compelling reads of my week was this odd tale from the New York Times about a compulsion unlike any you’ve heard of before.

I like puzzles that are easy to state and don’t require a lengthy explanation.

The answer to each clue is the name of a well known person, where the last name of each answer gives the first name of the next answer (give or take a slight variation).

In what should surprise no one, human gender identity is more complex and nuanced than the conceptual frameworks on which most of us were raised.

From longreads.com, I found this beautifully written short story, by William Torrey, about a man self-medicating his way through the pandemic, while attempting to keep his increasingly dysfunctional life intact.

Beginning around 2040, the US will experience a sudden jump in the crime rate, especially so in the red states.

By one second.

I’ve been following this YouTube channel for a few years and it never ceases to amaze me.

I missed my Mom today.

You and two of your friends (not facebook friends, real world friends, remember those?)

This puzzle is an original trivia quiz where the answers are linked together into a chain.

I wrote this document for internal use at Google, but I believe it has broad applicability, not just in tech but in any field where people undertake team projects.

If you had to guess, how many people would you estimate you could reasonably call friends?

Stop what you’re doing.

Do you remember when you first fell in love?

Imagine you have nine uniformly sized white balls, eight of which weigh precisely the same amount, and one is heavier or lighter than the others.

This creative video reshoots several short vignettes from the classic Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo and shows us the originally filmed locations side-by-side with the current (circa 2019) views.

This piece from The Guardian was the best article I read last week.

Here’s a video I made this morning explaining the so-called Normal or Gaussian distribution.

Imagine tossing a coin repeatedly until you get a certain pattern, let’s say HTT (head, tail, tail).

Looking for something to take you away from your phone but tend to get bogged down by long novels?

One of my favorite movies is Adaptation, in no small part because of the way it cleverly refers to itself.

In no particular order, here are the best books I read this past year.

You’re a pharmacist and you’ve just taken delivery of ten bottles of 1,000 pills each.