Mélanie Francès runs "My Book Hunter", a club where she picks one awesome work of fiction each month and sends it to you handwrapped. This month is "Almost Famous Women"… Read the rest of the article: The joy of a monthly book club: "My Book Hunter"

If you've been watching The Jinx, HBO's documentary miniseries on Robert Durst, that eerie, ethereal music occasionally in the background is the musical saw, played by Natalia Paruz, NYC's "saw… Read the rest of the article: The "musical saw" is on the soundtrack to "The Jinx"

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Homeless shelters are simply more expensive.

tutorialWatch this video on YouTube Behold Lunate, an intriguing swipe-based system for typing on an Apple watch. You can try it out yourself right now by downloading the Lunate app… Read the rest of the article: How to type on an Apple watch

Why did violins slowly develop f-shaped sound-holes? Because it makes them more acoustically powerful than their ancestors, which had holes shaped liked a circle — as a team of MIT… Read the rest of the article: Why violin makers adopted the f-shaped hole

I've recently become obsessed with Waterlogue, an Iphone-only app that takes photos and transforms them into watercolor-style images.

Hey folks! I'm Clive Thompson, and I'm a journalist who writes about the impact of technology and science on everyday life. I'm the author of Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing… Read the rest of the article: I'm Clive Thompson, the next guestblogger

Clive Thompson says that there are three principal biases that today's digital tools introduce to human thought.