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The Amazon rainforest’s impending “tipping point”
🌎 The Amazon Basin has been warming at an average of 0.27 degrees Celsius per decade...
What We’re Reading: Trying to understand the climate future
Photo by Kyle Cleveland on UnsplashHi,If you’re like me, the act of trying to come to...
The perks of being a capable novice
👟 It’s Friday, and today marks the 127th anniversary of the first Boston marathon. Here’s Amby...
The walk sign is on
🎂 It’s April 18th, which means happy birthday to Rick Moranis, Conan O’Brien, Kourtney Kardashian, America...
How Big Food is co-opting the anti-diet movement
👋 Welcome to the Daily EditionAlso today: Julian Assange, an AI music experiment, not your same-old...
The 48-year search for the “God particle”
👋 Welcome back to the Daily EditionToday: Slow creativity, the math powering neural networks, and a...
Is the “anxious generation” really a thing?
💰 Today is Tax Day in the U.S. — 66% of our tax dollars fund human...
What We’re Reading: One million members and counting
Photo by Felipe Santana on UnsplashHi everyone,We’re celebrating something really special at Medium this week: Passing...
The truth about living with autism
🧠 In honor of World Autism Month, three neurodivergent people share their stories Also today: A...
What plane crashes teach us about (mis)communication
🍎 Today is the 48th anniversary of the release of the first Apple computer. It was...
The first college admissions season post-affirmative action
👋 Welcome back to the Daily Edition.Today: Pranking the BBC, how to cook fish, and your...
Thank you for one million members
Yesterday we had 999,268 members. Today we have 1,000,275.We’d debated making a fuss about the million...
How musicians are fighting AI for fair wages
🎶 Did you know it takes a million streams to earn $3,000 on Spotify?Also today: How...
The weirdest things that happen during an eclipse
🌚 Unicode doesn’t have an emoji for “total solar eclipse,” but this is the closest one...
You can’t over-engineer success
🍾 It’s Friday, y’all! We made it through another industrial-revolution-inspired five-day workweek. Any fun weekend plans?...
Richard Serra and the beauty of making disagreeable art
🌙 The moon is in its waning crescent phase tonight — it will keep getting skinnier...
Welcome to Medium
Hi. I’m Tony, CEO of Medium. Welcome! I’ve been writing on Medium since it launched in...
It’s National Poetry Month; here’s how to find your new favorite poem
👋 It’s Wednesday, welcome back to the Daily EditionToday: The First Amendment’s apocryphal origins, Barack Obama’s...
How to find meaning in your summer vacation
✈️ This year, global air travel is expected to finally surpass its pre-pandemic peak (of 9.2...
100% humiliation-free April Fools’ humor
🍺 Two Medium publication editors walk into a bar…Also today: Is everyone else really better off...
Does age matter for a president?
🗳 221 days until the U.S. presidential electionToday: The antitrust case against Apple and a guide...
Uncovering the origins of science class skeletons
🏛️ FYI: In its 2024 budget, the federal government has $155 million allocated for museums (down...
My keynote talk for Medium Pub Crawl
On Tuesday, March 19, we hosted our very first Pub Crawl, a 24-hour virtual meetup that...
Why many physicists believe in the multiverse
🪐 Good morning to you and all the parallel universe versions of you.Today: The dark side...
Would you bet $100K that Covid-19 started in a lab?
📅 It’s been approximately 1,561 days since the first known case of Covid-19Today: The largest book...
How game theory explains why the four-day workweek is stalled in the U.S.
☀️ Welcome back to another five-day workweek, an 86-year-old tradition many attribute to Henry Ford —...
Three tips for avoiding virtual scams
👋 Hi, and welcome to the Daily Edition. It’s the 12th Friday of 2024.Today: A lawyer...
We’re ramping up efforts to protect the Medium community from spam and fraud
We know you’ve seen it: spammy comments that say nothing of value. Generic posts with head-scratching...
Can you tell the difference between an AI-generated poem and a human-written one?
✍️ What’s your favorite poem of all time? Let us know in the responses. (I like...
The best leaders are tireless investigators of the humans around them
🔎 Who’s the best boss you’ve ever had? What made them special? Respond to this email...
Our curation team’s approach to keeping AI-generated content out of your recommendations
Vetting content for quality — the job of Medium’s curation team — is especially challenging right...
A very gentle introduction to large language models (without the hype)
🌻 Today is the vernal equinox, aka the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere....
Your next job will come from someone you barely know
⌛ It’s Monday, March 18, and we’re 21% of the way through 2024Today: The law of...
It happened on Medium: February roundup
In February 2024…You published 2.4 million new stories.1,633 stories were Boosted this month, based on 2,374...
What it’s really like working at TikTok
☘️ Sunday is St. Patrick’s Day — ironically, the eponymous patron saint of Ireland was likely...
Pi, pie, and the making of a mathematical star
🥧 or π? Which decimal place does your birthday show up in Pi? Find out with...
What the Kate Middleton photo scandal means for the future of photography
Thanks to smartphones, we’re all photographers now. We’re also all photo editors; AI-powered tools like Pixel...
The case for caring about awards, even if the system is rigged
Whether you were one of the 19.5 million people who watched the Oscars last Sunday night...
How typography reflects the past and future
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but...
What We’re Reading: Celebrating International Women’s Day
Photo by Vonecia Carswell on UnsplashHi everybody,Long before Beyoncé became a country star, she wrote a...
The anti-establishment origins of International Women’s Day
♀️ Happy International Women’s Day! Only 130 more years to go before we close the gender...
Realistic solutions to the U.S. border crisis
A Gallup poll surveying American voters last month found that immigration is the single most important...
How billionaires decide where to invest
When I lived in San Francisco a few years ago, I started hearing people toss around...
TikTok, Reesa Teesa, and the history of Black digital storytelling
I spent the last few days working my way through Reesa Teesa’s riveting 52-part TikTok memoir:...
What the end of Vice.com tells us about the future of media
Vice, the website whose voice was so distinctive it once spawned parodies like “I went to...
