Against the backlit glow of the screen, paper is emerging in all its strangeness as a compelling object of study. @roguepages explores what we do with paper—and what it has done to us: buff.ly/3j9aIlr

Wow - What a turn out here at Letchworth State Park. Thousands of people are here to get a glimpse of the Big Boy train coming across the Genesee Arch Bridge around 12:20pm.

When James Dolan cancels the watch party outside MSG, we bring the watch party to you. Thanks to the @NBA, Knicks Game 4 is now playing on dozens of @LinkNYC screens across our city. LGK.

🚨 Zohran Mamdani has created NYC's first-ever Office of LGBTQIA Affairs.

Academics write for each other, not for people. Steven Pinker has spent over four decades doing the opposite, and thinks current academic writing is "enormous wasted effort." "There's an awful lot of brilliant work, really smart people in academia. Why are they doing it? Just to entertain each other? Taxpayers pay for it. It should be accessible. Why should I have to read a paragraph five or six times? It gets under my skin when academics devote so much brainpower into the scholarship and then just blow off the essential task of letting the world know what you've done."

CBS News boss Bari Weiss poised to oversee CNN editorial operations: report trib.al/5NN3tcd

collection of dead Millenialisms from the internet

New York City just had its safest first 5 months of a year in recorded history. Murders plunged 21%, and major crime overall is down 11%.

Connecting young people to digital networks serves no purpose if they remain disconnected from themselves, others, and their own interiority. We must help young people rediscover silence, reflection, the ability to ask questions, the depth of relationships, and openness to transcendence. To listen to the soul, we must lend an ear, because the soul's voice is not a shout, but a whisper.

You just won a 2-week, all-expenses-paid vacation to New York. But there’s a catch: you have to stay within one region the whole time. What are you picking?