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Kaiko: cumulative trading volume on crypto exchange Hyperliquid's perpetual oil futures surged to ~$7.3B on March 12 from $339M on February 28 amid the Iran war (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
Sources: ByteDance suspended the global launch of Seedance 2.0 amid copyright disputes with Hollywood studios and streamers; it was launched in China last month (The Information)
A survey of 1,000 hiring managers: 59% say they stress AI's role in layoffs or hiring freezes "because it plays better"; only 9% say AI has fully replaced roles (Gautam Mukunda/Bloomberg)
TSMC's N3 logic wafer capacity has become one of the AI industry's biggest constraints, which could push customers to explore greater foundry diversification (SemiAnalysis)
An interview with SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Patel on logic, memory, and power bottlenecks in scaling AI compute, Nvidia securing TSMC N3 allocation early, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)
An excerpt from the upcoming book Project Maven details how the Pentagon enlisted Silicon Valley to build AI-powered tools of war, now being used in Iran (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)
Mobile internet blackouts hit Moscow as the Kremlin tightens control; Roskomnadzor data shows average daily traffic is down ~20% in March compared to February (Anastasia Stognei/Financial Times)
Palantir software demos and DOD records show how the military may be using AI chatbots, including the kinds of queries and the data used to generate responses (Caroline Haskins/Wired)
Singapore-based MetaComp, which bridges traditional fiat payment rails and stablecoin settlement infrastructure, raised $35M across two pre-Series A rounds (Timmy Shen/The Block)
A survey of 1,692 US physicians: over 80% use AI professionally and the most common use cases are medical research summarization and clinical care documentation (American Medical Association)
The US Army awards Anduril a 10-year contract worth up to $20B to buy its software, hardware, and services; the deal includes a 5-year optional ordering period (Jen Judson/Bloomberg)
A US government website shows the Commerce Department withdrew a planned rule tightening AI chip exports; a draft was sent to agencies for feedback in February (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)
Sources: Meta plans sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, amid mounting AI infrastructure costs; it had ~79,000 employees as of Dec. 31 (Reuters)
A US judge questions Elon Musk's $134B claim for damages in his lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft but rules Musk can still make his case to a jury (Elon Musk/Financial Times)
$TRUMP memecoin surged as much as 60% after its promoters announced a gala luncheon at Mar-a-Lago with Trump; the White House hasn't confirmed his attendance (Bloomberg)

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DPS Board of Education Work Session - March 12, 2026: Durham Schools Weigh Living Wages and Cuts
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NASA Says Artemis II Moon Launch Is On Track for April 1
Space Jam: NASA’s MADCAP Team Directs Traffic at the Moon
In Criminal Cases, Moss Is Often Underfoot and Overlooked
Why Falling Cats Always Seem to Land on Their Feet
Her Lab Worked to Future-Proof Fruits and Vegetables
Slowly, Slowly, ‘Darwin’s Finches of the Snail World’ Return From Near Extinction
Bumblebee Queens Can Breathe Underwater
In Ancient Peru, a Parrot Trade That Crossed the Andes
Meteorite Crashes Through Roof in Germany After Fiery Light Show
‘How Low Can You Go?’ The Shifting Guidelines for Blood Pressure Control
How My Trip to Antarctica Unlocked a Family Discovery
Earlier Cholesterol Testing Can Reduce Heart Attacks and Strokes, New Guideline Says
E.P.A. Moves to Weaken Limits on Ethylene Oxide
Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle NCAR Research Lab
A New Lifeline Helps Inmates Transition to Life Outside the Bars
Palisades Fire Recovery Tests L.A.’s Ability to Invest in Resilience
His Harvard Lab Was Thriving. Then Came the Cuts.
Flowers Are Blooming in California’s Death Valley
Trump Administration Sues California Over Tailpipe Emissions Limits
How Trump Officials Embraced an Animal Rights Campaign
A Third of Americans Have Cut Spending or Borrowed Money for Health Care
Anthony J. Leggett Dies at 87; Won Nobel for Theories on Superfluids
Iran Shocks Could Spur a Shift to Clean Energy — But Also to Coal
In Talking to Parents About Vaccines, Pediatricians Navigate a Sea of Misinformation
‘Don’t Worry About It’: NASA Satellite to Burn Up in Fall to Earth
Cancer Haunts Neighbors of Canada’s Oil Sands Wastelands
Oil Prices Will Remain High as Iran War Continues
F.D.A. Opens Door to More Flavored E-Cigarettes
A Night Light in the Sky? Reflect Orbital Wants to Launch a Big Space Mirror.
Viral Outbreaks Take a Common Path from Animals to People, Study Finds
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Top brass in China reaffirm goal to be world leaders in tech, AI
Author Correction: SLAMF6 as a drug-targetable suppressor of T cell immunity against cancer
Polymers with purpose: molecules can squirm free of the pack
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How the classic computer game Doom became a tool for science
‘RAMmageddon’ hits labs: AI-driven memory shortage is impacting science
The problem with Canada’s plan to buy scientific prestige
Youthful antics predict lifespan — at least for these fish
Daily briefing: Vaccine-carrying mosquitoes could inoculate bats against rabies
No such thing as a shark? Genomes shake up ocean predator’s family tree
‘Einstein‘ bot sharpens debate over AI in the classroom
Reckoning with my ‘ghost years’: why a low publication rate doesn’t always reflect failure
‘Baked, not fried’: five highlights from nutrition research
How bioRxiv changed the way biologists share ideas – in numbers
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Author Correction: Gut stem cell necroptosis by genome instability triggers bowel inflammation
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The dynamic basis of G-protein recognition and activation by a GPCR
A large-scale coherent 4D imaging sensor
Capturing dynamic phage–pathogen coevolution by clinical surveillance
Multidimensional profiling of heterogeneity in supratentorial ependymomas
Structures of Marburgvirus glycoprotein and its complex with NPC1 receptor
Multimodal electron microscopy of halide perovskite interfacial dynamics
Lense–Thirring precessing magnetar engine drives a superluminous supernova
Facile induction of immune tolerance by an interleukin-2–TGFβ surrogate agonist
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Intestinal interoceptive dysfunction drives age-associated cognitive decline
Assembly of helper NLR resistosome clusters upon activation of a coiled-coil NLR
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B cell imprinting in children impairs antibodies to the haemagglutinin stalk
Nanophotonic waveguide chip-to-world beam scanning
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Immune evasive DNA donors and recombinases license kilobase-scale writing
Natural maternal immunity protects neonates from Escherichia coli sepsis
Ageing promotes metastasis via activation of the integrated stress response
Risk-adaptive therapy guided by dynamic ctDNA in nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Gene conversion empowers natural selection in a clonal fish species
A mechanism to initiate emergency type 2 myelopoiesis
Daily briefing: ‘Virtual cell’ simulates nearly every chemical reaction in the real thing
Memory loss is fuelled by gut microbes in ageing mice
China pledges billion-dollar spending boost for science
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Ultra-bright supernova wobbles like a spinning top
First bot, singular
How an all-female fish species defies evolutionary expectations
Quantum entanglement as a tool to image distant astronomical objects
Physics at risk: UK science leader on what’s wrong with the latest funding cuts
Using mosquitoes to vaccinate bats could curb the spread of deadly diseases
Photonic ‘ski jump’ steers light beam from silicon chip
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AI can ‘same-ify’ human expression — can some brains resist its pull?
A fellowship of the rings in plant defence
Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria
‘Black rain’ in Tehran — what are the health effects?
Gut microbes affect cognition during ageing
Marriage of adolescent girls in Nigeria reduced by 80% by ‘big push’ intervention
Scientists revive activity in frozen mouse brains for the first time
Maximizing carrier extraction in hybrid back-contact silicon solar cells
Alcohol group migration by proximity-enhanced H atom abstraction
Artificial general intelligence must be assessed in its scientific and societal context
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Live parrots were carried across the Andes before the Incas’ rise
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The imminent collapse of the Great Salt Lake
Antimicrobial resistance in India
Whole-embryo spatial transcriptomics at subcellular resolution from gastrulation to organogenesis
Strong and brittle lithium dendrites
Computational design of conformation-biasing mutations to alter protein functions
Seal and sea lion brains have evolved to support volitional control of vocal behavior and learning
Ravens anticipate wolf kill sites across broad scales
Lifelong behavioral screen reveals an architecture of vertebrate aging
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Cancer interception with KRAS inhibitors in preclinical models of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
Programmable genome editing in human cells using RNA-guided bridge recombinases
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Evolutionary adaptation to global change reduces sustainable fisheries yields
Rapid evolution predicts demographic recovery after extreme drought
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High-throughput single-cell omics using semipermeable capsules
Megabase-scale human genome rearrangement with programmable bridge recombinases
A global screen for magnetically induced neuronal activity in the pigeon brain
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Why Little Was Done to Head Off Oil’s Strait of Hormuz Problem
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Judge Rules Lawmaker Must Be Allowed to Join Kennedy Center Board Meeting
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Where Mamdani Has Refused to Moderate
The Art of Taking Smart Risks
How the Conflict in Iran Is Impacting the Global Energy Market
Raving at the End of the World
The Last Days of Franco
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One Situation After Another
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The Movie Star Hiding in Plain Sight
General McChrystal’s Dolly Parton Doctrine
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Anti-Semitism Is Becoming Mainstream
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A Deft Portraitist of Class in America
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Sculptor Thaddeus Mosley, who found international fame in his 90s, is dead
Did Trump cuts slow access to public records? We found 26 cases that say yes.
Satellite analysis provides first look at damage to structures across Iran during war
Texas jury convicts protesters charged with plotting ‘antifa’ attack
With years of planning and a ‘bit of luck,’ Michigan temple averted tragedy
Suspect in synagogue crash lost family in Israeli attack on Lebanon, official says
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Trump says U.S. struck Kharg Island, core of Iran’s oil economy
Kids in hospital help penguins woo mates with painted pebbles
What Earth’s longest-lived animals can teach us about aging better
Trump urged uprising, but as bombs fall, Iranians are ‘too scared to move’
They came to build China’s EV future. Investigators found conditions akin to ‘slavery.’
How Trump suspending sanctions on Russian oil helps Putin’s war effort
Hegseth vows thorough probe of school strike that Trump blamed on Iran
Cuba acknowledges secret meetings with U.S. as Trump dials up threats
6 dead after U.S. Air Force refueler crashes in Iraq while supporting Iran war
Trump administration allows for Russian oil sales as energy prices soar
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Western AI models “fail spectacularly” in farms and forests abroad
The Gulf war is reshaping how Asia works
The Gulf built oil pipelines to avoid Hormuz. It’s now doing the same for data
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China leads the humanoid robot race — but the U.S. still has a shot
Waiting for the check marks: The reality of connecting with family in Iran
Black-box AI and cheap drones are outpacing global rules of war
Meta’s Oversight Board races to govern the AI surge
Iranian drone strikes at Amazon sites raise alarms over protecting data centers
Big Tech’s Gulf megaprojects are trapped between two war choke points
An AI avatar is running to represent Indigenous voters in Colombia
Open-source AI hardware could weaken Big Tech’s grip on AI

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Kansas Proposal That Requires Colleges to Certify Cutting DEI Programs Advances
The New School Will Reduce Faculty and Staff by 15% Amid a Financial Reorganization
Economic Diversity Is Ticking Up at Elite Colleges. Why?
The Erasure of Black Studies
Why One Campus Told the Government It Has Ties With 1,200 Groups That 'May' Discriminate
Will a Merger Swallow This Small College's Sudden Success on the Court?
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Old Dominion Faculty Vote No Confidence in Leaders Over Plan to Compress Online Courses
The University of California Is Abandoning International Students
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Saturday Showcase | March 14, 2026
Short Answers to Simple Questions | March 11, 2026
I'm the Egyptian Pharaoh's cousin. What do I do for a living?
Did the invention of the automatic machine gun really cut down all the trees in No Man's Land?
Given that trade today can be shut down due to lack of insurance willing to cover in a war zone, how exactly did commercial shipping function during WWII? Was shipping effectively 100% nationalized with naval escorts?
Where did all the wealth of the mongols go anyway?
Say that I am a farmer living in middle age Scandinavia. What foods would I be eating during the winter?
Modern Hindu Nationalism appears to be far more popular in Northern India (the "Hindi belt" especially) than in South India. Is there any historical reason behind this geographic pattern?
During the 1347 plague, how would you be treated if you were infected with any of the plagues but survived?
What to do with old Yugoslavian slides found in an embassy?
How did armies in the past afford all the salt required to "salt the Earth" after razing a city?
Where did the particular American spelling of non-English surnames, like DiCaprio, DeVries, DeGeneres or LaGuardia, come from?
Why are is the booklist for Early Modern France so barebones?
Is it true that Europeans used to call Jews "Palestinians" and tell them to "go back to Palestine" before the start of the modern Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?
Why did Portugal remain an ally of Great Britain after the British screwed them over in 1890 with an ultimatum which coerced them into giving up a long-held major colonial claim in Southern Africa?
Usage of Indian?
The wheel was a great invention. But so was a spring. Why don't we read more about it?
I am an Athenian fisherman and believe I have in some way angered Poseidon, I fear going out to sea now, what is the common way for me to rectify the perceived divine insult?
After hurricane Katrina, how did civilian triage in emergency situations change?
How much blame for McClellan's defeats in the Civil War can be attributed to Pinkerton's?
"The Great Convergence": can anyone recommend any books for a casual reader?
Historically Accurate (to some extent) Video Games?
What exactly happened to Visigothic elites after the Islamic conquest of Spain in 711?
Did flight attendants used to give out sedatives and other drugs on air planes?
Duplicate on census; would servant have lived in boarding house or at home?

Linguistics

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Q&A weekly thread - March 09, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
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”
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]
Q&A weekly thread - February 23, 2026 - post all questions here!
A new study reveals that newborn chicks connect sounds with shapes just like humans, suggesting deep evolutionary roots of the “bouba-kiki” effect
A Grammar of Gaddi
A Sociophilological Account of the Formation and Evolution of the Term Língua Geral, with Emphasis on Amazonia
Q&A weekly thread - February 16, 2026 - post all questions here!
Polysynthesis in Sora (Munda) with Special Reference to Noun Incorporation (2017)
Q&A weekly thread - February 09, 2026 - post all questions here!
Language Ownership and Language Ideologies - Margaret Speas in Negotiating Culture: Heritage, Ownership, and Intellectual Property (2013)
There's a grain of truth in every "myth", or, Why the discussion of lexical classes in Mundari isn't quite over yet. (2005)
The Reconstruction of Indo-European Stop Systems: From the Traditional Model to Glottalic Theories (Kloekhorst & Pronk eds. 2026)
Q&A weekly thread - February 02, 2026 - post all questions here!
Minegishi, Makoto - Santali English Japanese Wordlist
Meta-Analysis of Verbal Negation Studies in the Northeast and Southeast Regions
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Open Culture

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Hear Seven Hours of Women Making Electronic Music (1938–2014)
The Monty Python Philosophy Soccer Match: The Ancient Greeks Versus the Germans
How the Long-Lost Body of Richard III Was Found Under a Parking Lot: Solving a 500-Year-Old Mystery
How to Rescue a Wet, Damaged Book: A Handy Visual Primer
The Met Releases High-Definition 3D Scans of 140 Famous Art Objects: Sarcophagi, Van Gogh Paintings, Marble Sculptures & More
Watch Peter Tork Quietly Mouth Other Actors’ Lines in The Monkees: A Strange Quirk You’ll Never Unsee
Who Would Be Emperor If the Roman Empire Still Existed Today?
The Futurist Cookbook (1930) Tried to Turn Italian Cuisine into Modern Art
AI Figures Out the Rules of a Mysterious 2,000-Year-Old Board Game from Ancient Rome
Inside the Automats Where Coin-Operated Machines Created a Modern, Democratic Dining Experience
Roman Statues Weren’t White; They Were Once Painted in Vivid, Bright Colors
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: From the Walls of Babylon to the Sewers of Rome
Bertrand Russell’s Advice For How (Not) to Grow Old: “Make Your Interests Gradually Wider and More Impersonal”
The First Robot Movie: Watch a Newly Discovered Georges Méliès Film from 1897
Download 60,000 Works of Art from the National Gallery, Including Masterpieces by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rembrandt & More

NYT > Technology

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U.S. Tech Giants Flocked to the Persian Gulf. Now They Are Targets.
Meta Delays Rollout of New A.I. Model After Performance Concerns
A.I. Chatbots Want Your Health Records. Tread Carefully.
A.I. Goes to War + Is ‘A.I. Brain Fry’ Real? + How Grammarly Stole Casey’s Identity
TikTok Investors Set to Pay $10 Billion Fee to Trump Administration
Adobe Settles With U.S. Over Hard-to-Cancel Subscriptions
Social Media Addiction Trial Nears End. Society Long Ago Rendered Its Verdict.
A.I. Writes Buggy Code. A Silicon Valley Start-Up Wants to Fix It.
Silicon Valley’s Image Takes a Dark Turn in Pop Culture
Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It
They Don’t Want Their Company’s Surveillance Tool Used by ICE
Meta Acquires Moltbook, the Social Network Just for A.I. Bots
A.I. Incites a New Wave of Grieving Parents Fighting for Online Safety
Boeing Says Wiring Issue Will Delay Some 737 Max Deliveries
How Do You Use A.I. for Daily Life?
YouTube Adds Tool to Help Public Figures Report Fake Videos
Former Meta A.I. Chief’s Start-Up Is Valued at $3.5 Billion
U.S. Solar Installations Fell in 2025 as Trump Attacked Clean Energy
Anthropic Sues Department of Defense Over ‘Supply Chain Risk’ Label
For OpenAI and Anthropic, the Competition Is Deeply Personal

NYT > Arts

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Prediction Markets? An 83% Chance That Oscars Pundits Hate Them.
Kennedy Center’s President, Richard Grenell, Is Leaving After a Tumultuous Year
The City That Inspired Rothko (It’s Not New York)
Michael B. Jordan of ‘Sinners’ Is a Star. But Is He an Oscar-Worthy Actor?
Gorillaz on ‘The Mountain’ and Celebrating Lost Musicians
What to Watch for at the 2026 Oscars: Best Actor Race, Conan O’Brien and More
Coalition of States Will Carry on Live Nation Antitrust Case
Kacey Musgraves, the Pussycat Dolls: 8 Songs We’re Talking About This Week
How Not to Become the ‘Dead Wife in a Movie’ Trope
Behind the Scenes of the 2026 Oscar Best Picture Nominees: ‘Sinners,’ ‘Hamnet’ and More
On the Road, Primal Screams Optional, With Mae Martin
Jack Harlow Was a Chart-Topping Rapper. He Doesn’t Want to Brag Anymore.
At Dinners, Over Jokes With Comedians, Epstein Honed His Networking
Crisis Follows Conductor’s Dismissal at the Boston Symphony
Jürgen Habermas Dies at 96; One of Postwar Germany’s Most Influential Thinkers
Forget ‘Marty Supreme.’ Meet the Real Table Tennis Champion of New York.
After DOGE Deposition Videos Go Viral, Judge Orders Them Taken Down
Margareta Magnusson,91, Dies; Wrote of Cleaning Up Before Dying
Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now
Kneecap Gets Serious on Its New Album, ‘Fenian’
5 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
1,865 Coats in 15 Minutes: A Fine-Tuned Opera House Team
How ‘Virgin River’ Became One of Netflix’s Biggest Hits
Why Dogs Are a Writer’s Best Friend
From ‘It Ends With Us’ to ‘Reminders of Him,’ How Colleen Hoover Captured Hollywood
Grasping Esoteric Dance? It’s Child’s Play
Late Night Unwraps ‘War’ vs. ‘Excursion’ vs. ‘Both’
Daniel Radcliffe Shines in ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ on Broadway
‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 10 Recap: Invisible String
Andrea Constand Testifies in Support of Another Bill Cosby Accuser
‘Antigone (This Play I Read in High School)’ Review: Tragically Uneven
Roscoe Robinson, Gospel Star Who Minted 1960s R&B Hits, Dies at 97
Pussycat Dolls Announce New Single and Reunion Tour
Remembering Marilyn Monroe, Draped In Diamonds and Coveting More
‘Bushido’ Review: A Samurai’s Dangerous Moves
Live Nation Slacks Reveal Employees Joking About ‘Stupid’ Fans
The Titan of Land Art Moves Indoors and Gets Intimate
Bughouse’ Review: Inside Henry Darger’s Unwieldy Mind
Maya Rudolph to Make Broadway Debut in “Oh, Mary!”
Chilean Architect Smiljan Radic Wins Pritzker Prize
Oscars 2026 Predictions: Who Will Win Best Picture, Actor and Actress?
Bill Cosby, Out of Prison and the Public Eye, Faces Civil Trial
5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
Histories of Native American Treaties and Anti-Chinese Violence Win Bancroft Prize
A New Oscar for Best Casting
A Giant Pigeon Is Leaving the High Line
On the Hunt for 24 Hours of Drag in N.Y.C.
‘Space Cowboy’ Review: A Sky-diving Cinematographer’s Highs and Lows
‘Slanted’ Review: Narratively Botched
‘Reminders of Him’ Review: A Second Chance at Love
‘Group: The Schopenhauer Effect’ Review: The Art of Being Patient
‘Undertone’ Review: And Now a Word From Our Demon!
In Shaker Design, a Zeal for No Zeal
The Secret History of Rock’s Wildest Stage Prop: P-Funk’s Mothership
Dark and Stormy Thrillers by Stephen King, Ruth Ware and More
Jimmy Kimmel Addresses FBI Warnings for Potential Iranian Drone Strike Ahead of Oscars
Top-End Auction Sales Help Pull Global Art Market Out of Slump, Study Says
Haitian President’s Widow Recalls Killers Spoke Spanish and Used Nicknames
Stephen Koch, 84, Dies; Champion of a Belatedly Hailed Photographer
Peter Schneider Dies at 85; His Novels Explored a Divided Germany
Angelika Saleh, the Angelika of Angelika Film Center, Dies at 90

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
If this is a sticker of a map (and not bird shit), what is this?
India's 2nd and 3rd longest rivers, the Godavari and Krishnaveni, have their deltas less than 30 kilometres apart.
Countries that are not landlocked but lack access to intentional waters
What is the most religiously diverse city in the world?
What are the factors that lead to a country having plenty of arable land and fertile soil?
Most geographically diverse country in the world?
Why does much of Jamaica's landscape have these rippling hills?
Could you help me date a globe I found in the garbage?
What's the reason California gets most of its rain in Winter meanwhile others in summer?
I built a free "Higher or Lower" game for geography nerds - guess which country has the bigger population, area, or GDP
Are there any developing countries that attract immigrants looking for a better life?
What are examples of countries/states/cities that have a large number of place names that are in a different language than the most dominant spoken language?
What if Australia and New Zealand were actually upside down?
Why does nebraska have this
[OC] Animated map of domestic migration flows between U.S. states in 2024
what is this area on google maps and why is it marked?
Is the proposed location for the relocation of siberion tigers into kazakhstan suitable enough?
Life as a Geography Master’s Student — Maps, Exploration, and Seeing the World Differently 🌍
What's with that random green splotch of Oceanic in the middle of East Texas?
Can the south aral sea be partially revived by diverting the water that is instead going into the lake on the bottom left?
“WhatsApp Community for Indian Geology Students and Early-Career Geoscientists” “New WhatsApp Group for Geology Students from IIT, NIT, ISM, CU, DU, JU & Other Institutes” “Informal Geology Network: Join the India-wide WhatsApp Community (Students & ECRs)”
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The Public Domain Review

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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)
Con Heir: Tiny Cryptic #4
Master of Claude de France’s Book of Flower Studies (ca. 1510–1515)
José Guadalupe Posada’s Engravings of Unusual Births (ca. 1880–1910)
For He’s a Jolly Bad Fellow: Now and Then #1
The Emperor’s New Clothes: Fashion, Politics, and Identity in Mughal South Asia

The Quietus

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A Cave of Wonders: Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten on the Record Shop that Made Him
Mabe Fratti and Bill Orcutt to Release Collaborative Album
Music Company Concord Acquires Ninja Tune
Reissue of the Week: Prostitute’s Attempted Martyr
Low Culture Podcast: Suicide’s Debut Album
Kim Gordon – Play Me
Rewire Completes 2026 Lineup
Kneecap Member Mo Chara Will Not Face New Trial After UK Government Loses Appeal
Tara Clerkin Trio Detail New Album, ‘Somewhere Good’
Ore Ore Ore: The Andrea True Connection’s More More More
The Four Seasons: Bill Orcutt’s Music In Continuous Motion
Phew and Danielle de Picciotto – Paper Masks
Olof Dreijer Reveals Debut Solo Album, ‘Loud Bloom’
Skaņu Mežs Announces First Artists Playing 2026 Edition
Modest Mouse Return with First New Song in Five Years
MIKE and Earl Sweatshirt Unveil Split Album, ‘POMPEII // UTILITY’
Iceage Share First New Song in Five Years, ‘Star’
That’s How We Make It Our Home: Will Oldham Selects 13 Valiant Records from Louisville, Kentucky
Tanya Tagaq – Saputjiji
BIG|BRAVE Detail New Album, ‘In Grief Or In Hope’
Live Nation and US Justice Department Edge Towards Settling Antitrust Lawsuit
Wasserman Agency Rebrands as The·Team
Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC for March
Okkyung Lee + Explore Ensemble – Signals
New UK Fund Established to Support Artists with Touring Costs
How Pet Shop Boys Sold City Glamour to Queer Suburban Kids
New Age Doom featuring H.R. – Angels Against Angels
More than Theoretical Girls: Adele Bertei on the Women of No Wave
Fugazi Share Previously Unreleased Recordings Made Alongside Steve Albini
The White Hotel Adds Kali Malone, Klein and More to Lineup for Blackpool Festival
Reissue of the Week: Darkthrone’s The Fist in the Face of God
Shabaka – Of The Earth

Bandcamp Updates

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Rapping with Kim Gordon
Essential Releases, March 13, 2026
Ora Cogan, “Hard Hearted Woman”
Underground Medicine #2
“Facts Aren’t Always Facts”: A Guide to Craven Faults
Mary Ocher, “Weimar”
ELUCID On The Chemistry That Powered His New Album
Bill Orcutt, “Music in Continuous Motion”
David Garland Picks His Bandcamp Favorites
Upset The Rhythm is One Big, Weird, Wonderful Family
The Notwist, “News from Planet Zombie”
Fugazi, “Albini Sessions”
The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, February 2026
The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, February 2026
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, February 2026
Various Artists, “HELP(2)”
Essential Releases, March 6th, 2026
Today is Bandcamp Friday
The Best Latin Music on Bandcamp. February 2026
The Tape Label Report, February 2026
The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, February 2026
Shabaka, “Of The Earth”
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, February 2026
NIMF, “Sirenoscape”
The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, February 2026
The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, February 2026
The Best Punk on Bandcamp, February 2026
Cryptic Shift, “Overspace & Supertime”
The Best Hip-Hop on Bandcamp, February 2026
The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, February 2026
Bill Callahan, “My Days of 58”
How Kuljit Bhamra Invented Punjabi Disco
Essential Releases, February 27, 2026
EXEK, “Prove The Mountains Move”
Converge Pick Their Bandcamp Favorites
Christine Ott and the Mysteries of the Martenot
El Gran Grupo, “Sí aquí llegó ya”
Feel the Darkness: The Story of Poison Idea
Dominique Fils-Aimé, “My World is the Sun”
The Women of Detroit House

dusted

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Gunner — Reality Soldier (Iron Lung)
A note from the organizer that they’re still accepting tracks for this until the end of the week….
Landowner — Assumption (Exploding in Sound)
Laura Cetilia — Gorgeous Nothings (Elsewhere)
Lande Hekt — Lucky Now (Tapete)
Dwellnought — Monolith of Ephemerality (Caligari)
Listed: Department
What Is Now — Both/And (Algorithm Free)
Ovella Negra — Va de Mescles! (Segell Microscopi)
Photo by Domenico Gruosso, used with permission.
Iron & Wine — Hen’s Teeth (Sub Pop)
Michael Pisaro-Liu / Forming — Concentric Rings in Magnetic Levitation (Sawyer Editions)
Dust, Volume 12, Number 2 — Part 2
Dust, Volume 12, Number 2 — Part 1
Hen Ogledd — DISCOMBOBULATED (Weird World)
Jackie West — Silent Century (Ruination)
Chad Taylor Quintet — Smoke Shifter (Otherly Love)
Heavenly — Highway to Heavenly (Skep Wax)
Bill Callahan — My Days of 58 (Drag City)
Marty Ehrlich, Julius Hemphill — Circle the Heart (Relative Pitch Records)

Pitchfork

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Paris in the Spring
“Ante Up (Robbing-Hoodz Theory)”
“Oh! Give me something to believe in”
Quavo’s New Street-Racing Movie Features Takeoff’s Final Acting Role
Watch the Sunny Music Video to ML Buch’s New Song
Oneohtrix Point Never on the Music That Made Him
The 2Slimey Roundtable
Mabe Fratti and Bill Orcutt Share First Songs From Collaborative Album
Lykke Li Shares “Knife in the Heart,” Her “Brutalist Nursery Rhyme Anthem”
9 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Kim Gordon, James Blake, and More
Listen to Broken Social Scene’s New Song “Hey Amanda”
PLAY ME
Lateral
early life crisis
Exuvie
Pras Michel Drops Lawsuit Against Ms. Lauryn Hill Over Fugees Reunion Tour
Live Nation Executives Brag About “Robbing” Ticket Buyers in Slack DMs
Beabadoobee and the Marías Team Up for New Song “All I Did Was Dream of You”
Morrissey Cancels Show Because He Is Sleepy
Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen Cover Pogues Songs for Shane MacGowan Tribute Album
Miles Caton’s No-Brainer Playlist
Lord Sear, Hip-Hop Radio Mainstay, Dies at 52
Tucker Zimmerman’s Final Album Set for Posthumous Release
The Pussycat Dolls Share First New Song in Six Years
Trying Times
Of the Earth
Strictly 4 the Scythe
star scum city
CFCF Announces New Album L.U.V.
“Dry Spell”

Cool Tools

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Book Freak #200: The 5 Types of Wealth
Wraparound Sleep Mask/Hotel Point Changes/Remote Worker Lodging
What’s in my NOW? — Paul Parkinson
What is a Witch / Rosalie Lightning
Dental Care
Maverick tours / Protocol cards / Kitchen sponge
Book Freak #199: Thinking in Systems
Ski Coat Sales/Delayed Luggage Tactics/Another United Devaluation
What’s in my NOW? — Amanda McClendon
Smuggler’s Cove / Hieronymous Bosch

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
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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
What’s the Deal With Instant Cold Brew Makers?
Why We Think Baratza Grinders Are worth the Money (Including Two That Are on Sale)
Should You Be Storing Coffee in a Coffee Canister?
We Tested 7 Pasta Makers to Find the Best Ones for Rolling and Cutting Dough
We Reviewed The Vitamix Immersion Blender (And It Was Almost Silly Powerful)
Honing Versus Sharpening a Knife: What's the Difference?
My KitchenAid Stand Mixer is Leaking Oil—What’s Going On?
How Do Keurig Coffee Makers Work, Anyways?
Does Your Beer Glass Really Matter? We Consulted a Beer Expert to Find Out
We Tested 7 Anti-Fatigue Mats—Here Are the Best Ones for Your Kitchen
We Tested 8 Countertop Ice Makers—Three Stood Out
We Reviewed 11 Bento Boxes to Find One We’d Pack Lunch In
How Do Air Fryers Work?
Balmuda: Our Review of the Pretty, Steam-Powered Toaster
The Spinn Coffee Maker Is One of the Only Automated Brewers We Like
We Tested 12 Garlic Presses—Two Smashed the Competition
The Breville Barista Express Impress Makes Home Espresso Approachable
We Tested 8 Enameled Cast Iron Skillets and Found Three Great Options
We Tested 11 Different Bundt Pans—Three Won Top Marks
We Tested 14 Popular Vegetable Peelers to Find the Best Ones
All of the Tools You Need to Make Really Great Baguettes at Home
Baking Steels vs. Stones: Which One Should You Buy?
Nespresso vs. Keurig: Which Coffee Maker is Better?
We Tested 10 Tofu Presses—Three Squeezed Out the Competition
We Tested 8 Mandolines to Find Ones That Could Slice with Ease
How a Food Dehydrator Can Help You Reduce Food Waste
We Tested the Anova Precision Chamber Vacuum Sealer
We Reviewed the Challenger Fermentation Mat and Recommend It for Sourdough Bakers
The Best Methods for Making Whipped Cream, Explained
17 Quick Dinner Recipes in 20 Minutes or Less
12 Freezer-Friendly Soups for a Warm Meal Whenever You Want It
What’s the Difference Between Glass and Metal Baking Pans?
We Tested 7 Squeeze Bottles to Find the Best for Your Kitchen
Chè Chuối (Vietnamese Banana, Tapioca, and Coconut Milk Dessert)
We Tested 20 Bread Machines—Three Proved They Were The Best
We Tested the Ankarsrum Stand Mixer for Months to Find Out if It’s Worth Buying
10 Cake Flour Recipes to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth
Palestinian Food 101: Recipes to Get You Started
Shack Sauce
Mansaf (Palestinian Spiced Lamb With Rice and Yogurt Sauce)
Ka'ak al Quds (Jerusalem Sesame Bread)
Kitchen Gear and Tools We Think You Should Have Two (Or More) Of
14 Last-Minute, Food-Related Valentine’s Day Gifts
The Breville Pizzaiolo Oven Makes Great Neapolitan Pizza—And It’s 20% Off This Week
Our Winning Milk Frother Is Finally Back in Stock—And It's On Sale
What is Sumac?
Why an Offset Spatula Is the Tool I Can’t Bake Without
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