New York's Garment District is a dense commercial neighborhood in the heart of Manhattan where the American fashion industry did much of its business for decades. At one time, all aspects of apparel ...

In the olden days of the WWW you could just put a robots.txt file in the root of your website and crawling bots from search engines and kin would (generally) respect the rules in it. These days, ...

Nepenthes is a worm that creates infinite maze-like traps to target crawlers, who scrape data to train large language models (LLMs). The author warns that Nepenthes 'actually eats everything that gets ...

West 38th Street? I’ll admit I did a double-take when I first heard where the Garment District’s coolest men’s shop is. Nepenthes (a drug that makes one forget grief or trouble) is tucked behind a ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Deep in the forests of Malaysian Borneo lurks a most peculiar ...

Some species that grow where insects are scarce encourage animals to poo in their pitchers Nepenthes carnivorous plants look like toilets, trapping insects and other small creatures in a bowl-shaped ...