In Praise of the Hot-Water Bottle The hot-water bottle is a simple invention that has been providing warmth and comfort for centuries. Despite the proliferation of more modern heating technologies, the hot-water bottle remains a reliable Clive Thompson 14 Dec 2022 · 2 min read
Drones and applications Drones, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are aerial vehicles that are operated remotely by a human pilot or autonomously through the use of computers. They are commonly used Clive Thompson 14 Dec 2022 · 2 min read
An Edible Drone, “Long Social Distancing”, and A Psychiatric Evaluation of Star Wars Characters 1) 🧵 The gorgeous curved wall-quilts of Emily Van HoffI’m a huge fan of quilting art and its geometric patterns. It’s a genre that looked incredibly modern, and even Clive Thompson 14 Dec 2022 · 9 min read
Rewilding Your Attention With An Old-School Blog Index As longtime readers of this blog probably know, I’m low-key obsessed with the idea of “rewilding your attention” — or, how to spend less time staring at the stuff that Clive Thompson 14 Dec 2022 · 4 min read
What’s A Minecraft Poem Worth? How much might a poem be worth? I thought of this while reading about the origins of the Minecraft “End Poem” this week. If you’ve never played Minecraft — but Clive Thompson 14 Dec 2022 · 6 min read
Tiny Snippets of Code That Changed The World In 1997, Ethan Zuckerman broke the Internet — by inventing the pop-up ad. He was working for Tripod.com, an online service that let people make little web pages for free. Clive Thompson 14 Dec 2022 · 5 min read
The Awesome Power of Well-Documented Code Okay nerds, this one’s for you. Back when I was researching my book Coders, I talked to a lot of folks who ran very successful open-source projects. “What”, I Clive Thompson 14 Dec 2022 · 4 min read
What I Learned About My Writing By Seeing Only The Punctuation I made a web tool that lets you spy your hidden literary styleBack in 2016, Adam J. Calhoun wrote a fascinating Medium post in which he showed off something quite Clive Thompson 13 Dec 2022 · 5 min read
