Where to Be on Long Island This May: The Events Worth Putting on Your Calendar
From waterfront festivals to cultural openings, Long Island’s May 2026 event calendar is packed. Here’s Pawli’s curated picks for what’s worth your weekend.
Long Island Life
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Researchers Just Built a Neural Network That Explains Its Own Reasoning in Plain Language — Here’s Why That’s Harder Than It Sounds
A 2026 paper details a neural network that generates plain-language explanations of its own reasoning. Here’s what the research shows and why AI interpretability remains unsolved.
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How We Shot the Backyard at Night and Turned It Into a 360° Tour — From DJI Avata to Pannellum
From DJI Avata 2 capture to Photoshop color work to Pannellum — how the backyard night 360° on this site was actually made, start to finish.
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Paints People Who Don’t Exist. The Absence Is Entirely the Point.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye paints fictional Black subjects with Old Master technique. Her work sells fast and says more than most portraits ever will. Here’s why.
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The Other Patagonia: What Happens When You Cross into Chile Instead of Turning Back
Most people who come to the end of the world stop at Torres del Paine. A few keep going — into the channels, into the rain, into a landscape so extreme the Chilean Navy still considers parts uncharted.
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The Eelgrass Crisis in Peconic Bay — and Why Every Bayfront Buyer in Southold and Shelter Island Should Read the Water Quality Data Before Closing
Eelgrass coverage in Peconic Bay has dropped over 60% since 1987. For bayfront buyers in Southold and Shelter Island, this is an underdisclosed environmental variable with direct consequences for property value and regulation.
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The Block That Time-Locked: Why Port Jefferson Village’s Walking Culture Survived When Every Town Around It Didn’t
Port Jefferson is one of the only North Shore villages where you can walk to a hardware store, a diner, and a ferry without crossing a six-lane road. That’s not an accident.
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Building the Moon Buggy in Bethpage
Before silicon valleys and software, Long Island engineers built the machine that landed on the moon. The Grumman Lunar Module story — right off the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway.
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The Perfume Coast: Chasing Frankincense Through Oman’s Dhofar Region
Three thousand years ago, caravans loaded with Dhofari frankincense left for Egypt, Rome, and Jerusalem. The Boswellia sacra trees are still here. So is the smoke.
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Above the Arctic Circle, a Hotel Made of Ice Begins Again Every November
Since 1990, the ICEHOTEL in Jukkasjärvi has been built from scratch each winter by artists from around the world — and melted back into the Torne River each spring.
