The Constellation

A daily paper for the broadly curious.
Eight curated sections, dawn to dusk.

release schedule

Jul 20, 2026

The Seminar— one field, examined07:00 ET

The substance that may not exist

Soil science and the fight over whether humus exists
Scenes— subcultures & communities07:00 ET

The bells that keep sounding

English morris dancing and its men-only schism
The Gallery— the arts page07:00 ET

A poem, a painting, and a nebula in print

Sara Teasdale, 'Stars'·van Gogh, 'The Starry Night'·Trouvelot, 'The Great Nebula in Orion'
The Docket— from the courts07:00 ET

Two opinions, closely read

T-Mobile South v. City of Roswell (11th Cir.)·O'Rourke v. Nationwide (R.I.)
The Morning Brief— the morning report01:30 ET

Around the chokepoint, back from the brink

A memory standard that skirts the chip-packaging bottleneck·An 80-fold loggerhead-turtle recovery off West Africa·African money that crosses the continent without leaving it
Oddities— the off-beat file01:00 ET

A squid, a shipwreck, and a spreadsheet

A new squid family from a whale's stomach·The Skagerrak porcelain wreck, three centuries intact·A world championship fought in spreadsheets