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How did pineapple become so intrinsically linked with ham?
When Edmund Hillary climbed Everest in 1953, was there any doubt that there could possibly be a higher peak in antarctica?
My friend was crucified by the Romans. He just died. Can I ask a Roman soldier to take him down or is he left there to rot?
Where does the flat earth conspiracy come from? Is it rooted in government distrust or religious faith or both?
Why do people say that empires “collapsed”? Isn’t that at least sometimes an inaccurate description of how they ceased to be?
A recent Radiolab episode on antibiotic resistance mentioned that bacteriophages are less used in modern medicine because during the Cold War bacteriophages were more of a Soviet studied science. To what extent is this true?
I would like to read 12 books next year about 12 female rulers. I have one I wish to read about, can you help me fill in the other 11?
How to get from Egypt to Scandinavia in the Classical era?
Why didn't South Korea collapse like South Vietnam despite having similar authoritarian history and corruption like South Vietnam during the Cold War era?
Why didn't Napoleon face much opposition in his ascension to Monarch?
A couple questions about Anne Frank/friends?
Did people get help carrying their cross?
Before the Nazis became the dominant force in the German right, what were the dominant groups and parties in the German right during the Weimar period?
How close was the United States to outlawing slavery when it was first founded?
As someone of Iranian descent, my immigrant parents always emphasized that we were white and not brown, I recently heard this was rooted in how the Shah changed the educational curriculum so people would be more favorable to Europeans, is there any truth to this?
Scholarly sources analyzing the accuracy of piracy in modern film?
Did the fascists read Lenin?
Bavaria's Weihenstephan Brewery claims to be the oldest in the world. In the 1950s, it started dating itself to 1040 rather than 1146, but cited the same document for both claims. Why did this difference start mattering after WWII? Would either date actually make it the oldest?

Linguistics

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Q&A weekly thread - April 06, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
Shared universal pressures in the evolution of human languages - Nature Human Behaviour
75% of medicinal plant knowledge is recorded in only one language. 86% of those languages are threatened. New research suggests the most scientifically accurate knowledge is also the most linguistically vulnerable.
The application of "Word Embeddings as Metric Recovery in Semantic Spaces"(Hashimoto, Alvarez-Melis & Jaakkola (2016) ):Mapping Latin Prefixes into 4D Semantic Space: Analyzing super-, supra-, inferior-, infra- via RBF Interpolation
Endangered languages conference (Boston area)
Q&A weekly thread - March 30, 2026 - post all questions here!
Masato Kobayashi (2025) - Hill Korwa of Kado Pani: Outline Grammar, Text and Glossary of a North Munda language
Q&A weekly thread - March 23, 2026 - post all questions here!
Humans share acoustic preferences with other animals
Beyond the pronoun: On neopronouns, nounself pronouns, and the ever-changing politics of language acceptability
Fact checking Geoffery Pullum's claims about Daniel Everett in Brazil
Q&A weekly thread - March 16, 2026 - post all questions here!
Connectives in Asur: A North Munda Language
Loanwords: Core Concepts and the Case of Wasei Eigo
A neuroimaging study of language impairments across the biological continuum of Alzheimer's disease (from healthy older adults to dementia).
Language Contact and Deliberate Change - Sarah Thomason (2007)
“Inside the kaleidoscope: unravelling the ‘feeling different’ experience of bicultural bilinguals”
Q&A weekly thread - March 09, 2026 - post all questions here!
Thoughts on critique of CDA?
Q&A weekly thread - March 02, 2026 - post all questions here!
Negativas: A Prototype for Searching and Classifying Sentential Negation in Speech Data
SPATIAL CODE AND CULTURAL GESTALT IN THE MEDIA FRAMING OF BUSINESS DISCOURSE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
An outline of Proto-Indo-European
Lusitanian language and onomastics of Lusitania: 25 years later (2021) [Spanish]

MetaFilter Projects

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In the Shadow of the Tower: A Skyline Murder Mystery
BanRay.eu – a sticker prohibiting AI wearables
Tiny single-page app for the 3/3/3 productivity system
Fiction About Trans People
Taeliana Creative
Parasite Personality Quiz
The Pelican
The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock
PartPerfect - practice app for a cappella singers
[AI] What If You Could Actually Know What Your Judge Did Last Summer?
Adventures in Higher Education Marketing
spider mapping
Glasses Cleaning Simulator
Claude 2028 -- Yes Claude is running for president
Track the Oscar nominees you've watched and pick your winners
'Well, it's twinkle, twinkle, little star, /
Analyzing 5 years'-worth of heart rate and fitness data
The Sound of Ocean Heat Energy
Training chatbots on specific topics
[AI] The Machines Built a Church While You Were Sleeping

Open Culture

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John Cage’s Silent, Avant-Garde Piece 4′33″ Gets Covered by a Death Metal Band
Discover Gadsby: The 50,000-Word Novel Written Without Using the Letter E (1939)
Watch 434 Avant-Garde and Surreal Short Films Online: Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Luis Buñuel and Many More
How a Clean, Tidy Home Can Help You Survive the Atomic Bomb: A Cold War Film from 1954
Watch the Titanic and Lusitania Sink in Real Time: One Fast, One Slow
How Everything in a Medieval Castle Worked, from Its Moats to Its Dungeons
Discover the Retirement Home for Elderly Musicians Created by Giuseppe Verdi: Created in 1899, It Still Lives On Today
How James Cameron Shot Titanic’s Hugely Complex Sinking Scene
Discover the First Horror & Fantasy Magazine, Der Orchideengarten, and Its Bizarre Artwork (1919–1921)
How Many Lives Does God Take in the Bible: An Investigation into a Surprisingly High Body Count
A Free Course on Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume 1 from Yale University
How Kraftwerk’s 22-Minute Song “Autobahn” Became an Early Masterpiece in Electronic Music (1975)
Watch Errol Morris’s Tune Out the Noise Free Online: A Documentary About the Financial Revolution That Transformed Investing
When Soviet Youth Bootlegged Western Rock Music on Discarded X‑Rays: Hear Original Audio Samples
An Introduction to Brutalism: The Iconic Postwar Architectural Style That Combined Utopianism and Concrete

NYT > Technology

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How Accurate Are Google’s A.I. Overviews?
The Big Bang: A.I. Has Created a Code Overload
A.I. Is on Its Way to Upending Cybersecurity
What Teens Are Doing With Those Role-Playing Chatbots
Forget the A.I. Apocalypse. Memes Have Already Nuked Our Culture.
Uber and Lyft Offer Gas Price Relief, but Drivers Say It’s Not Enough
NASA’s Artemis II Astronauts Took iPhones Into Space
Big Banks Seeking a Piece of SpaceX’s I.P.O. Must Subscribe to Elon Musk’s Grok
The Future of Addictive Design + Going Deep at DeepMind + HatGPT
OpenAI Buys Streaming Show ‘TBPN,’ Aiming to Change Narrative on A.I.
Europe Pushes for a Gentler Internet for Children
Worried About A.I. Taking Your Job? That’s Not Very ‘Agentic’ of You.
The Revival of the Fashion-Tech Love Affair
How A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8 Billion Company
A.I. Could Change the World. But First It Is Changing Silicon Valley.
Goodbye ‘Geeky Hunk’? Gmail Users Can Now Change Their Usernames.
Apple’s Fitness Chief, Who Was Accused of Harassment, Is Retiring
A.I. Companies Shatter Fund-Raising Records, as Boom Accelerates
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Files to Go Public, Setting Stage for Huge I.P.O.
WhatsApp Whistle-Blower Suit Is Dismissed
Can Science Predict When a Study Won’t Hold Up?
One of Apple’s First Employees Looks Back at 50 Years
OpenAI Adds Another $12 Billion to Latest Funding Round

NYT > Arts

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Irvine Wanted a New Concert Venue. But Not on Live Nation’s Terms.
Duchamp Made a Urinal Into Art in 1917. We’re Still Discussing It.
Protests in Mexico Challenge Move of Frida Kahlo Trove to Spain
At Broadway’s ‘Rocky Horror Show,’ Fan Participation Is Tricky
Presto! In Chicago, a High-End Magic Palace Appears
Review: ‘Innocence’ Tackles School Shootings at the Met Opera
‘Becky Shaw’ Review: Funny vs. Likable? Funny Wins.
Wireless Festival Canceled After U.K. Blocks Kanye West From Entering Country
Netflix Explores a Buzzy Chess Cheating Scandal
How Duchamp Inspired These 4 Artists
Justice Dept. Resolves Broadway Touring Company Investigation
How Did Black Music Take Over the World? Let Melvin Gibbs Explain.
Is This Bach’s Most Underrated Music?
Europe’s Museums Confront the (Literal) Skeletons in Their Closets
Joe Conzo Sr., Guardian of Tito Puente’s Legacy, Dies at 83
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Bids to Buy Universal Music Group
A Brief History of 4 Urinals
“Cats: The Jellicle Ball” Live From the New York Times Office
Finding Trends in Sports Stats and ‘Wheel of Fortune’ Puzzles
Stephen Colbert Mocks Trump’s Expletive-Filled Post Threatening Iran
In Paris’s Catacombs, Can a Restoration Breathe New Life Into City’s Dead?
Ronald H. Spector, Who Traced Social History in Books on War, Dies at 83
Elisabeth Waldo Dies at 107; Fused Indigenous and Western Music
In Savannah Guthrie’s Return to ‘Today,’ a Rare TV Example of How to Live With Not Knowing
The Volcano Lover: An Anarchic Young Composer’s Masterpiece
Forget the A.I. Apocalypse. Memes Have Already Nuked Our Culture.
‘Firebird’ Finds Its Wings Again at Dance Theater of Harlem
‘Euphoria,’ Plus 8 Things to Watch on TV This Week
‘The Comeback’ Season 3, Episode 3: The Aww-Ick
On ‘S.N.L.,’ Bondi Boasts of Being ‘First Woman Ever Fired as Attorney General’
Despite Poor Reviews, ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Is a Megahit
‘Hacks’ Has the Last Laugh
How Did You Feel About ‘The Drama’ Plot Twist? Tell Us Your Thoughts
How Scientifically Accurate Is ‘Project Hail Mary’? Experts Weigh In
U2, Anne Hathaway: 9 Songs We’re Talking About This Week
Regé-Jean Page on the Album He Considers Flawless
After 11 Years in Court, Heir Reclaims a Modigliani Looted by the Nazis
Carol Mullins, Who Illuminated Dance for Decades, Dies at 86
Dolores Keane, Singer Known as the ‘Soul of Ireland,’ Dies at 72
‘The Drama’ and the Secrets That Can Unravel a Relationship
Chekhov Plays for an Un-Chekhov Time
Pedro Friedeberg, Whose Hand Chair Drew Outsize Attention, Dies at 90
In ‘Burnout Paradise,’ Running on Treadmills Is Only the Half of It
Five International Movies to Stream Now
Who Is the Polka-Dot Band That Plays Virtuosic Rock? Angine de Poitrine.
On ‘Company Retreat,’ Anthony Norman Finished the Job
Nadav Lapid’s Film ‘Yes’ Is Intended to Anger Both Israel’s Right and Left
8 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
What to Know About ‘The Testaments,’ a Sequel to Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
Seats Left Empty on Smithsonian Board as Strain With White House Persists
‘Jimmy & the Demons’ Review
Ben Lerner’s ‘Transcription’ Shows Us Why the Novel Will Never Die
Late Night Says Goodbye to Pam Bondi
Megan Thee Stallion Makes Her Return to “Moulin Rouge”
‘The Pitt’ Season 2 Episode 13 Recap: Should He Stay or Should He Go?
Blake Lively’s Harassment Claims Against Justin Baldoni Dismissed as Case Heads to Trial
Art Gallery Shows to See in April
Ex-Turnstile Guitarist Charged With Attempted Murder of Bandmate’s Father
‘The Blue Trail’ Review: A Drifting Journey Into Freedom
Ancient Artifacts Stolen in Dutch Museum Heist Are Recovered
Danish Shows to Watch While We’re Still at Peace

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
Passau, Bavaria is the city where the three rivers Danube, Inn and Ilz meet
So, who controlls north syria now?
Satellite imagery of the dried up Zayandehrud in Isfahan, Iran
Why did Port Au Prince develop into the mountains to the south before filling up the easier flat valley?
Is it the norm for capital and larger cities to be more ethnically diverse than the rest of the country? Are there any major/capital cities where the city is more ethnically homogenous then the general country itself?
The Raccoon Mountain Pumped-Storage Plant. A reservoir on top of a hill to store energy.
Hey guys. Google is useless so that's why I'm asking you. What is this huge man-made structure on the On Island?
the great lakes formed between 20 kya - 3kya. how did they form so fast?
The Bodélé Depression in Chad is the largest source of dust in the world
What US city could this be?
3 ciudades grandes en la misma foto
Why is it easier for a European to travel to Hong Kong than for a Chinese, even though Hong Kong is a part of China?
I went to the USA today without going through customs
Are these larger lakes in and around Dallas swimmable?
Why do Latin American cities feel more European than US/Canadian cities despite having a smaller population with European ancestry
I keep noticing a lot of blue roofs across Asia and the Middle East. Any reason why?
Which middle eastern country is best to live in all things considered? (HDI, quality of life, safety, etc)
Realistic current map of Israel
All of Iraq’s lakes, reservoirs and marshes are beginning to fill up following the rainiest season in the last 40 years
The Keys
[OC] Interactive map river basins and watersheds North and South America (HydroSHEDS)
Why Are People Building Cities in the Amazon?
Mediterranean pollution
First-ever map documents 33 glacial lakes hidden under the Canadian Arctic

The Public Domain Review

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The Great Majority: Body Snatching and Burial Reform in 19th-Century Britain
Elizabeth I’s Manuscript Copy of Pierre Boaistuau’s Histoires Prodigieuses (1559)
“Wretches, Speak Evil of Me”: Goethe and Schiller’s Xenions (1896 edition)
Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)
Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its History
Calicornication: Postcards of Giant Produce (1909)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915)
Wayang Kulit: Raden Soelardi’s Illustrations of Javanese Puppets (1919)
The Blinkered Flâneur: Walking with Franz Hessel in 1920s Berlin
Unbridled Passions: The Eight Horses of King Mu, Son of Heaven (ca. 1300)
Pigeons Transmogrified: Hannah Glasse’s Art of Cookery (1751 edition)
Snail Homes, Bog Bodies, and Mechanical Flies: Robert Testard’s Illustrations for Les secretz de l’histoire naturelle (ca. 1485)
Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)
Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces
Sara Weiss’ Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903)
Autobiography of a “Jeep” (1943)
Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch
Flights of Fancy: The Nine Birds of Jacques de Fornazeris (1594)
A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22)
Peter Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)
Happy Public Domain Day 2026!
Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2025
A Thousand and One Nights in Italy: The Moorish Fantasias of Cesare Mattei and Ferdinando Panciatichi
Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s)
Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237)
Luke Howard’s Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865)
The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser!
“Quaint Dessert Dishes” in American Homes and Gardens (1911)
Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902)
Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting
Too Computerised? Too Cold?: 1999 A.D. (1967)
New T-Shirts (Now in 100% Organic Cotton) and New Mugs in Our Shop!
Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival
Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season - 2025
Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley
Animal Costumes from the 1862 Fairytale Ball of the Jung-München Artist’s Association
PDR's Halloween Reader
“That’s Why We Become Witches”: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (1926)
Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science
A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790)
Paramaribo and the Plantation: Gerrit Schouten’s Dioramas of Suriname (1810–30)
The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)
The Adventures and Experiences of the First Slovak Novel
Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition)
Birth of the Pearl (1901)
The End of the World as We (Didn’t) Know It: Now and Then #5
The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850)
“You Think Me a Bold Cheat”: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess
A Collection of Old English Customs, and Curious Bequests and Charities (1842)
Ivan Aivazovsky’s Miniature Seascapes (ca. 1887)
The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)
Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura
Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago (1928)
Flowers of Fealty: Wilhelm Dilich’s Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598)
Breaking the Celestial Ceiling: Now and Then #4
Through the Magnifying Glass: The Cheese Mites (1903)
Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle
Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929)
The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903)
Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography
Trojan Pig: Tiny Cryptic #11
The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920)
Strings Attached: Helen Haiman Joseph’s A Book of Marionettes (1920)
Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)
Imagining an Idle Countess: George Wightwick’s The Palace of Architecture
Under Construction: Tiny Cryptic #10
Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s Peruvian Art in the School (1926)
Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772)
Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition)
The Old, Old, Very Old Man: Thomas Parr and the Longevity Trade
Old Tricks: Tiny Cryptic #9
“The Great Enigma of Our Times”: Henry George’s Poverty and Progress (1881 edition)
In the Penal Colony: Now and Then #3
Gilded Fish: Illustrations from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780)
Charles Butler’s The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 edition)
As Bright as a Feather: Ostriches, Home Dyeing, and the Global Plume Trade
Warburg’s Werewolf: An Anamnesis
Mudpots and Fumaroles: Lithographs of Yellowstone’s Thermal Springs (1883)
Feather Tickler: Tiny Cryptic #8
A Popeless Situation: Now and Then #2
Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521)
Nikolai Agnivtsev’s Little Screw (1925)
Confessional Boxes: Tiny Cryptic #7
“I Am Making the World My Confessor”: Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte
Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll
Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917)
Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883)
Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss’ Retrofuturism
Zig-a-zig-ah: Tiny Cryptic #6
Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind’s Katzensymphonie (1868)
“The Form of a Demon and the Heart of a Person”: Kitagawa Utamaro’s Prints of Yamauba and Kintarō (ca. 1800)
Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896 edition)
Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century
Boxing Clever: Tiny Cryptic #5
Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912)
Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s)
The Mermaid “at Home!” (1809)
A Princely Ploy: Inside the Ruse of a French-Armenian Scammer
Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia and the Ostrich in Ancient and Modern Times (1926)

The Quietus

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Parasocial Security: Why Harry Styles’ Meltdown is Fireproof
Kanye West Blocked From Entering the UK, Wireless Festival Appearances Cancelled
Norman Records Announce Birthday Special Edition LPs
Different League: Mark Gatiss’ Favourite Albums
Rum Music for April Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan
Mclusky – I Sure Am Getting Sick Of This Bowling Alley
Mr Vast – Upping The Ante
Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE & SURF GANG – Pompeii // Utility
The Sounds of War: Drones Over Ukraine
Reissue of the Week: Connecters by Larrison
Ghosts in the Machine: Vince Clarke, Neil Arthur and Benge Talk Doublespeak
Thundercat – Distracted
Wanderfal Festival at The Cornish Bank for April 10 – 11
Smack Down: EYEHATEGOD Versus Iron Monkey & The Heaviest LP Of 1996
The Band Whom the Trees Loved: SUNN O))) by SUNN O)))
Xylitol – Blumenfantasie
The Shits – Diet Of Worms
Inner Ear: Croatian Music for April, by Jakub Knera
The Strange World Of… Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Our Subscriber-Exclusive Playlist for March 2026
Triple Threat: An Interview with Orcutt Shelley Miller
Prince’s Parade (Under The Cherry Moon) 40 Years On
Irreversible Entanglements – Future Present Past
The Yugoslav Psy-Op That may have Given us Laibach… and Inspired Rammstein
Robyn – Sexistential
Fishing for Pearls: Ghostface Killah in 2006
London’s MOTH Club Secures “Huge Win” After Nearby Development Application Refused
Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of March 2026
The Strange World Of… Ladytron
Reissue of the Week: Fall Heads Roll by The Fall
Iztok Koren & Raphael Rogiński – Nocturnal Consolations
Actress and Suzanne Ciani Unveil Collaborative Album, ‘Concrète Waves’

Bandcamp Updates

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Scissor Fits, “It Wasn’t Nothing”
Better Call Paul
The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
Musica Transonic + Mainliner, “Solid Static”
Time Enough At Last: A Guide to Cluster
The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, March 2026
Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE & SURF GANG, “POMPEII // UTILITY”
The Hotlist, Spring 2026
The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
Larrison, “Connecters Volume 1: Original Recordings, 1992–1999”
The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, March 2026
The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
Robber Robber, “Two Wheels Move the Soul”
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, March 2026
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
Various Artists, “Fight The Fire: Digital Reggae, Conscious Roots and Dub in Nigeria 1986–91”
The Best Punk on Bandcamp, March 2026
Maryam Saleh’s Secret
Foote/Dickow, “High Cube”
The Best Hip-Hop on Bandcamp, March 2026
Inside the Miraculous Return of Neurosis
The Montvales, “Path of Totality”
The Best Albums of Winter 2026
The Rise, Fall, and Revival of sugar plant, Japan’s Indie Darlings
Parlor Greens, “Emeralds”
Side Door No. 2: How Taper’s Choice Became One of the Jam World’s Most Exciting Bands
Stuck, “Optimizer”
The Unclassifiable Excepter
A Puzzle Game Soundtrack That Plays With Your Head
dälek, “Brilliance of a Falling Moon”
On Their Own Terms: How the AACM Built a New American Music
Preserving the French Underground: A Guide to Souffle Continu
Building a Home for Brazilian Funk in Japan
Essential Releases, March 20, 2026
Dagmar Zuniga, “in filth your mystery is kingdom / far smile peasant in yellow music”
The Long, Joyous Tradition of Cajun and Creole Accordion Music
God Knows and MuRli: Ireland’s Hip-Hop Gamechangers

dusted

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Last Dream Of The Morning — Sharp Illusion (Fundacja Sluchaj)
Petr Válek, Ondřej Merta, Jara Tarnovski — Punctum (Flaming Pines)
Happy Easter weekend from us at Dusted! We hope you enjoyed our spring preview earlier today, and…
Incoming: Dusted writers flag the records they’re excited about for spring
Brown Horse — Total Dive (Loose)
Kim Gordon — Play Me (Matador)
dEUS — Worst Case Scenario + In a Bar, Under the Sea (30th Anniversary Reissues) (PIAS)
Jason Stein / Marilyn Crispell / Damon Smith / Adam Shead — Live At The Hungry Brain (Trost)
Hässlig / Opresija — Kali Yuga Aural Terror (Self-released)
Chronotope Project — Kaleidoscope (Spotted Peccary)
Third Coast Percussion — Standard Stoppages (Cedille)
This House — Soft Rains Will Come (Pink Cotton Candy/Ramble/Red Wig)
Dust, Volume 12, Number 3
a hug of songs for Jenny
bobbie — Lessons (Orindal)
Sunn O))) — S/T (Sub Pop)
Healing and Peace — A Treatise (Self-Release)
The Notwist — News From Planet Zombie (Morr Music)
Barbaric Oath — Sword, Sorcery, Vengeance (Caligari)
Isabel Pine — Fables (Kranky)

Pitchfork

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Iceage Announce New Album For Love of Grace & the Hereafter
New Music Releases and Upcoming Albums in 2026
M.I.A. Launches M.I.7 With New Song “Everything”
Kurt Vile Announces First Album in Four Years and Massive Tour
Kanye West Banned From Entering UK
Coachella 2026 Lineup & Schedule: All the Set Times You Need to Know
Distracted
Boiling Point
Dear Nashville
DJ-Kicks
Migos’ Offset Shot at Florida Casino
Wireless Festival Stands By Kanye West Booking Amid Calls for UK Ban
Lil Nas X to Have Battery Charges Dismissed If He Continues Treatment
Lady Gaga and Doechii Preview New Song “Runway” in Devil Wears Prada 2 Trailer
Los Thuthanaka, 41, Ravyn Lenae, and More: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects Playlist
“Do the Ratchet”
Sabrina Carpenter Goes Bling Ring in New “House Tour” Video
The Strokes Announce New Album Reality Awaits
Charli XCX’s Team Downplays Claim That Wuthering Heights Includes Old Sky Ferreira Demos
Mall Walking With dexter in the newsagent
POMPEII // UTILITY
Age of the Ram
Hymns From the Hills
Fathoms
Here’s What Happened at the xx’s First Show in Eight Years
Watch Jack White and Jack Black Reimagine “Seven Nation Army” on SNL
Generation X
Sunn O)))
“Fables of Faubus”
James Gadson, Prolific Funk and Disco Drummer, Dies at 86

Cool Tools

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The Science Book / Encyclopedia of Sensors
Folding Bikes
Retro Recomendo: Followable
Book Freak #204: Living for Pleasure
Happiest Countries/Monthly Flight Pass/Favorite US Airports
What’s in my NOW? — Elisa Michelet
Tacopedia / Rude Cakes
Weeders
The Gentle Romance / Career Dreamer / Skull
Book Freak #203: Knowledge, Reality, and Value

McMansion Hell

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mctuscan heaven
for patreon i wrote about getting stranded in tomorrowland as an 8th grader, michael sorkin’s…
chud atlantis
For Patreon, I wrote about developer slop flooring, the history of walking on plastic, and what fake…
glam metal modern but also your contractor is going to jail dawg
FYI, this post is now available for all to read!
McMansion Hell urges all New Yorkers to Rank Zohran Mamdani #1 for Mayor of NYC
Bonus Post: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a treatise
simulacra for bootlickers
About my last few months.
on neuschwanstein castle (part 1)
New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, “wonderful” rooms!“
new jersey “19th century” “eclecticism”
2007-core nostalgia extravaganza
namesake mcmansion
the motel room, or: on datedness
texas gothic revival
ode to a faux grecian urn
Hello everyone! The word is out – I am writing a book!
we’ve found it folks: mcmansion heaven

Serious Eats

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We Tested 9 Olive Oil Dispensers—Here Are Our Favorites
Food Processor vs. Blender: What's the Difference?
We Tested 12 Flatware Sets to Find the Best Ones for Everyday Use
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We Tested 20 Bread Machines—Three Proved They Were The Best
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16 Easy Noodle Recipes for a Quick Meal Any Time of Day
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13 Make-Ahead Desserts for the Holidays
The 12 Days of Christmas Cookies
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Nigerian Beef Stew
Tepache (Mexican Fermented Pineapple Drink)
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