Geeking-Out February 12, 2026
Curated by Julian Montoya
I’m spiraling over the Secret Mall Apartment documentary. It’s a wild story about artists living in a mall’s “void” for four years, but it raises a haunting question: How can we have millions of square feet for retail, yet “no room” for the people sleeping on the street outside?
In his book Supercommunicators, the writer Charles Duhigg argues that you can learn to get better at connecting with people. A rich, deep conversation can be wonderful, yet feels rare in day-to-day life....
Maria Torres-Falcon of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Manuel Castellanos Beltran of the National Institute of Standards and Technology worked together to create a system to send life-saving weather information to diverse audiences....
“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.” – Edvard Munch...
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