An impresario of scientists
On trust
Front matters
The picket fence effect
Ingrid Fetell on the distinct joy of images that feature …
In praise of standing still
Human time zones
The pre-post- era of publishing
Web education on The Big Web Show
Math, the makeover
Excel and flow
Travel, it makes you smarter
Foreknowledge
You can’t trust someone who’s done this for a living …
The supermarket switch
Timing it
A demographic dictionary
Staying alive
The sociology of public space
This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your …
Zinsser and the hill
A list list
Violence of the new
Celestial history
The art of the possible credo
Berenice Abbott, 1921. Photographer: Man Ray. “Photography can never grow …
Text playlist
The charisma of disorder
If listening with honey can make a Scandinavian warrior great, …
The Askers and the Guessers
It is all worth it. Every day, even a sad …
Collected onomatopoeia
43 stylebooks
Long-distance dedications
Truther
The underdog unadvantage
Conan on writing
Good prose is like a window pane. George Orwell. He …
City on location
Encyclopedic education
Ware writ large
Underdog plants
Summer school
Write to please just one person. If you open a …
Selling why
Interesting work for interesting people
A canceling culture
Psychogeography
The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a …
Design from a diagram