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Chinese brain-computer interface startup Gestala raised $21.6M co-led by Guosheng Capital and Dalton Venture at a $100M to $200M valuation, per CEO Phoenix Peng (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
Sources: Alibaba-backed PixVerse, which develops AI video generation tools, raised a $300M Series C led by CDH; the company says the round values it at $1B+ (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)
Bernstein: 42% of China's 20K+ humanoid robot shipments in 2025 were for learning and R&D; data collection and human-robot interaction services each made up 19% (Ryan McMorrow/Financial Times)
Mastercard unveils a Crypto Partner Program with 85+ companies, including Binance, PayPal, and Ripple, to link blockchain tech with its payments infrastructure (CoinDesk)
How Amazon pushes employees to integrate AI across their workload despite their concerns that the company's "half-baked" tools are creating more work (Varsha Bansal/The Guardian)
Apple's MacBook Neo validates a vision that began with Windows on ARM, which to this day is still held back by Microsoft's commitment to x86 compatibility (Steven Sinofsky/Hardcore Software)
IDC: Motorola holds 50% of the foldable market in the US and 55% in Latin America, ahead of Samsung and Google; Motorola only holds 13% of the European market (Will Sattelberg/9to5Google)
A small cottage industry offering OpenClaw installation services and preconfigured hardware emerges in China as the tool becomes the country's latest tech craze (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)
Apple updates iOS and iPadOS for older devices, including iPhone 6s, iPad Air 2, and iPod touch (7th gen), to address the Coruna exploit disclosed last week (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
Sources: India is drafting new smartphone manufacturing incentives linking subsidies to exports and greater use of local components, benefiting Apple and others (Bloomberg)
The US SEC and CFTC announce an agreement to coordinate operations where their duties overlap, including building a combined crypto oversight framework (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
SEC filing: Oracle sets aside an additional $500M for restructuring, bringing FY total to $2.1B, as it prepares to cut jobs and hails efficiencies from AI tools (Financial Times)
Uber partners with Nissan and Wayve to offer robotaxi services in Tokyo, its first autonomous-vehicle partnership in Japan, with a pilot planned for late 2026 (Kosaku Narioka/Wall Street Journal)
Source: Anthropic is in talks with Blackstone and other PE firms to form a JV selling consulting services for integrating Claude into portfolio companies (The Information)
Google spins off GFiber, formerly Google Fiber, forming an independent provider with investment firm Stonepeak's Astound; Google will retain a minority stake (Ari Levy/CNBC)

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Britons' attitudes towards technology
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Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’
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When People Never See Your App: Designing Brands for the Agentic Economy | Bain & Company
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Fediverse invitation | Stefan Bohacek
Opinion | A.I. Is Changing the Way We Think About Good and Evil - The New York Times
Gemini Embedding 2: our first natively multimodal embedding model (Google)
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Notes on Writing Wasm
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V-bucks are getting more X-pensive | The Verge
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My “grand vision” for Rust | Hacker News
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How to Audit a Rails Codebase: Legacy App Playbook
Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies | The New Yorker
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Corpus Christi careens toward water catastrophe
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Why Falling Cats Always Seem to Land on Their Feet
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
Viral Outbreaks Take a Common Path from Animals to People, Study Finds
‘Don’t Worry About It’: NASA Satellite to Burn Up in Fall to Earth
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A Night Light in the Sky? Reflect Orbital Wants to Launch a Big Space Mirror.
In Criminal Cases, Moss Is Often Underfoot and Overlooked
Her Lab Worked to Future-Proof Fruits and Vegetables
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
Cancer Haunts Neighbors of Canada’s Oil Sands Wastelands
Oil Prices Will Remain High as Iran War Continues
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Lemurs Love This Fruit That Is Choking Madagascar’s Forests
For These Design Materials, It’s Goodbye and Good Riddance
Divisive F.D.A. Vaccine Regulator Is Resigning
NASA’s Asteroid-Smashing DART Mission Sped Up Space Rock’s Orbit Around the Sun
From 1968: Lise Meitner, Physicist, Is Dead at 89; Paved Way for Splitting of Atom
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From Endangered Plants Come Whiffs of Inspiration
Superfood Fuels Mating Frenzy for Critically Endangered Kakapo
Fewer Pregnant Women Received Acetaminophen in E.R.s After White House Warnings
Feeling the Effects of 260,000 Federal Jobs Lost
Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently
Should New York City Burn Its Parks? This Scientist Thinks So.
You’ve Never Seen Ants Like This Before
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Author Correction: Gut stem cell necroptosis by genome instability triggers bowel inflammation
This supernova is too bright – now astronomers might know why
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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
Snapshots of the dynamic basis of NTSR1 G protein subtype promiscuity
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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Nanophotonic waveguide chip-to-world beam scanning
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Immune evasive DNA donors and recombinases license kilobase-scale writing
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Ageing promotes metastasis via activation of the integrated stress response
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Gene conversion empowers natural selection in a clonal fish species
A mechanism to initiate emergency type 2 myelopoiesis
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
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Quantum entanglement as a tool to image distant astronomical objects
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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
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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
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U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says
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Ex-DOJ prosecutor who proclaimed ‘this job sucks’ will run for Congress
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War against Iran expands into Lebanon as Israel battles Hezbollah
Nations agree to release oil reserves as war in Iran hits global economy
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As Israel targets Iran, Gaza’s nascent recovery stalls and Hamas gains strength
UAE, an oasis for business and partying, faces war
Pentagon says about 140 troops wounded, 8 severely, in war with Iran
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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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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
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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
After ICE Surge, Colleges in Minnesota Saw Enrollment Drop and Disengagement Spike
Why It's So Hard For Professors To Say Anything Good About Academe
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The Spokesperson for NYU Law Wrote a Novel Skewering Law Schools
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Colleges Face Widespread Closures. So Why Are They Still Resisting Change?

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Where to donate Nazi photographs?
What were Japanese soldiers doing in the jungle until the 1970s?
Is it true black tea became popular in England, because the countries that sold it to them didn't know how to make it taste good?
Why didn't french people immigrate to Latin american countries or even just in general immigrate to other countries in mass numbers like the Spanish, Portuguese and Italians?
Were the Iliad and the Odyssey ever believed as religious truth? Did people believe that Circe turned men to pigs or that Achilles was killed by an arrow to the heel, or even in Homer's time were they understood to be fictional stories?
Why did it take so long to establish a Limited Test Ban Treaty after the dangers of nuclear fallout were publicized by the Castle Bravo test?
Is there a reason why German POWs who died in the US during WW2 weren’t returned to Germany after the war?
I am a deserter who escaped from the battlefield. Where do I go from there?
Did individually portable hydration lead to a change in life expectancy?
Why didn't Judaism spread nearly as far as other abrahamic religions like Christianity and Islam did?
Did Otto Frank ever document his own Holocaust experiences, separate from Anne Frank’s diary?
Why was knowledge of Ancient Mesopotamian culture and history seemingly loss for thousands of years?
How Did WWII Veterans In College On The GI Bill React To Campus Life?
Professor says that Medieval Period and the Middle Ages are different periods of time?
Did the Romans have jokes or stereotypes for people from different provinces?
Do we know if Justin II actually did any of the crazy things mentioned by John of Ephesus?
How did the Cultural Revolution affect historical sources ?
Are these research questions on the fall of the Roman Republic too broad for a university paper?
What happened to the Muslims during and after Reconquista in Spain and Portugal?
I am living in Medieval Europe, and have decided to become a teetotaler. How is my community going to react to this?
Great Books on Otto Von Bismarck?
Books on the political role played by café owners in 19th century france?
how much does the world knew about mesopotamia civilizations and what does they think of it before the 1800s discovery?

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
“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
Q&A weekly thread - January 26, 2026 - post all questions here!
Pāṇini - Paul Kiparsky, 2022
Philosophy of Grammar in Ancient India: Reinterpreting the Gārgya Controversy in Nirukta 1.12–1.14

MetaFilter Projects

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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
An experiment in reading resumes under time pressure
gradient.horse
New York City Housing Visualization
Relationship Evaluation Form, redux
I made Apple Syrup!
Hamster Mortis Audioboook
"See all the other memes I made"
Long Dog (and other elongated animals)
mynderMail v2 - send a note to yourself others as fast as you can type it
Eating Litter (a poem)
Ideal Conditions Calculator
Motif: create patterns, see them repeat
Short Fiction about Academic Tech

Open Culture

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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
The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the Oldest Surviving Animated Feature Film, Is Now in the Public Domain (1926)
Rome in 1890 Captured in Color Photographs: The Colosseum, Forum, Trevi Fountain & More
Behold the First Realistic Depiction of the Human Face (Circa 25,000 BCE)
The Greatest Double Agent Ever: How a Spanish Chicken Farmer Became the Most Important Double Agent in WWII

NYT > Technology

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A.I. Incites a New Wave of Grieving Parents Fighting for Online Safety
Meta Acquires Moltbook, the Social Network Just for A.I. Bots
YouTube Adds Tool to Help Public Figures Report Fake Videos
Former Meta A.I. Chief’s Start-Up Is Valued at $3.5 Billion
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
Coders Coded Their Job Away. Why Are So Many of Them Happy About It?
They Don’t Want Their Company’s Surveillance Tool Used by ICE
Boeing Says Wiring Issue Will Delay Some 737 Max Deliveries
How Do You Use A.I. for Daily Life?
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
Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s Dance With the Pentagon: What to Know
‘Designed to Wreak Havoc’: The Cheap Drones Shaping the War With Iran
Are A.I.-Generated Videos Changing How We See Animals?
From 2017: Frances Gabe, Creator of the Only Self-Cleaning Home, Dies at 101
OpenAI’s Fog of War + Betting on Iran + Hard Fork Review of Slop
Pentagon Officially Notifies Anthropic It Is a ‘Supply Chain Risk’
Demand for AI Data Centers Sends Prospectors Hunting for Land and Power
The Smart Home Never Quite Worked. Now It’s Getting an A.I. Reboot.
How $800 Monthly Car Payments Are Hurting Car Sales
You’ve Never Seen Ants Like This Before
A Word to the Wise: Don’t Trust A.I. to File Your Taxes

NYT > Arts

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Histories of Native American Treaties and Anti-Chinese Violence Win Bancroft Prize
Oscars 2026 Predictions: Who Will Win Best Picture, Actor and Actress?
Bill Cosby, Out of Prison and the Public Eye, Faces Civil Trial
The Secret History of Rock’s Wildest Stage Prop: P-Funk’s Mothership
On the Hunt for 24 Hours of Drag in N.Y.C.
‘Undertone’ Review: And Now a Word From Our Demon!
In Shaker Design, a Zeal for No Zeal
Top-End Auction Sales Help Pull Global Art Market Out of Slump, Study Says
An Artist Renounced His Family. They Sued to Acquire His Life’s Work.
Through Violent Memes on Social Media, Trump Promotes the War on Iran
How ‘The Sopranos’ Came to Life
To Pay the Bills, a Cult Band Becomes a Doors Tribute Act
At This Festival, the Dead of Winter Is the Life of the Party
Minecraft’s Uncensored Library Adds a United States Wing
5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
A New Oscar for Best Casting
A Giant Pigeon Is Leaving the High Line
‘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
Dark and Stormy Thrillers by Stephen King, Ruth Ware and More
Jimmy Kimmel Addresses the Notion of a Drone Strike on California
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
Quentin Tarantino Plans ‘Swashbuckling’ Play for London’s West End
In Japan, Making Wooden Kokeshi Dolls
Dan Simmons, Genre-Leaping Author of ‘The Terror,’ Dies at 77
Jessie Buckley Became a Mother for ‘Hamnet.’ Then She Became a Real One. (Encore)
Late Night Makes Fun of Pete Hegseth’s Fruit Baskets
Suspect in Rihanna Shooting Is Charged With Attempted Murder
How ‘Sync Music’ Became the Soundtrack to Our Lives
Bill Kurtis to Leave NPR’s ‘Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!’
Harry Styles and 8 More Boy Band Stars Who Went Solo
Dozens of States Weigh Continuing Live Nation Antitrust Case
Review: A New ‘Tristan und Isolde’ at the Metropolitan Opera
‘Scarpetta’ Review: Nicole Kidman Stars in Long-Awaited Forensics Drama
New York Philharmonic Announces 2026-27 Season
Alma Allen Signs With Mega-Gallery After Venice Biennale Fallout
At 100, György Kurtág Is Still Searching for the Right Note
‘Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare’ Review: An Emotional Choice
Michelle Pfeiffer Makes It Look Easy. It Isn’t.
How the Oscars Best Picture Winner Is Chosen
Book Review: ‘Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! A Memoir,’ by Liza Minnelli
Late Night Scolds Trump Over Gasoline Prices
Fed Up With High Costs, American Theater Takes a Trip to London
Monti Rock III, Gleefully Untalented ‘Tonight Show’ Favorite, Dies at 86
‘Let’s Go for a Walk’: Three Dance Artists Strip Down Movement
Greg Greeley, Former Amazon Executive, to Lead Simon & Schuster
After Kennedy Center Exit, Washington National Opera Returns
Review: Jealousy, Deception and Another Round of ‘Othello’
Review: Harry Styles Hits the Club on ‘Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.’
Live Nation, Ticketmaster’s Owner, Settles Antitrust Case With Justice Dept.
‘Testament of Ann Lee’ and the Entwining of Dance and God
Don’t Fence Ted McGinley In
Casting, Which Will Be Celebrated at This Year’s Oscars, Has Changed Drastically
For Longtime Kennedy Center Patrons, a ‘Lifeline’ Has Been Cut
‘Scarpetta,’ Plus 7 Things to Watch on TV This Week
After a Shooting at Rihanna’s Home, a Woman Is Held on Suspicion of Attempted Murder

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
Australia 🇦🇺 to Canada 🇨🇦 size comparison
What usually happens on the land around center-pivot fields in Kansas?
Brooks Range (United States and Canada). One of the major Northernmost Mountain Range. Largely unexplored frontiers in North America.
what is a isthmus, but instead of surrounded by 2 bodies of water, its has 3?
What is the biggest urban area in the world by size?
What are some cities whose relevance has waned or faded completely?
Map of Glacial Lake Missoula at its max size.
What is this valley-like region called located in the NW border of Mongolia with Russia?
The Strait of Hormuz: A comparison of a Google Maps image and an allegedly real satellite image published by Reuters
Here a map of an interesting study I found in Southern identity in the Upper South, Oklahoma, and the former Border South States of Missouri, Maryland, and Delaware -Info below
The largest endorheic river of Indian subcontinent (Case Study)
Why are there no major cities on the Amu Darya, one of the most important rivers in central Asia?
Large population centers and public land
If you could build a new Suez/Panama-style canal anywhere in the world, where would you put it and why?
Canada’s Population Crisis
What are some places on earth that are toxic to humans?
How does the Hudson River's saltwater content vary throughout the year?
Did geography play a role in distinguishing the Kipchaks from Oghuz and Karluk Turkic peoples?
How can I use geography to teach students about class issues?
Is this the most underpopulated land on earth?
How'd you compare these desert regions in terms of hostility to humans(climate-wise)?
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano sends fiery lava 400 metres into the air
Every Dot is 100k people in The Horn of Africa
50 Largest US Counties by GDP in 2024

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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Hot Metal: 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
Justin K. Broadrick Halts Godflesh Live Shows Following Abdominal Surgery
Carla dal Forno to Release New Album, ‘Confession’
Aldous Harding Details New Album, ‘Train On The Island’
Mr Smith Goes to Dalston: John Smith on The Girl Chewing Gum at 50
Crimes of the Future: Torn by Cobrah
Ragger – Euphonic Sounds
Seefeel Reveal First New Album in 15 Years
Green Man Unveils Lineup for 2026 Edition
The Auteurs Sing Uber Hate: After Murder Park At 30

Bandcamp Updates

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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
Midori Hirano, “ OTONOMA”
The Bug Remembers
Big Ups: Gorillaz Pick Their Bandcamp Favorites
Chris Crack, “Too Late to Start Following the Rules Now”
Steve Shelley’s Sonic Afterlife

dusted

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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)
Various Artists — Music From The Mountain People Of Central Vietnam (Sublime Frequencies)
Dog Chocolate — So Inspired So Done In (Upset the Rhythm)
Vorago — Morulus (Amor Fati)

Pitchfork

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Trying Times
Of the Earth
Strictly 4 the Scythe
star scum city
CFCF Announces New Album L.U.V.
“Dry Spell”
Animal Collective’s Avey Tare and Geologist Form New Duo Croz Boyce
Listen to Robyn Cover Her Own 2002 Single “Blow My Mind”
The Knife’s Olof Dreijer Readies Debut Solo Album
Kacey Musgraves Reveals New Album Middle of Nowhere and Single
Iceage Return With First Single in Five Years
“Star”
Bad Bunny Wins Dismissal of Sample-Clearance Lawsuit
Mutiny After Midnight
A Rush to Nowhere
a short history of decay
Somersaults
Dionne Warwick Claims Rights Firm Stole Millions in Royalties
Modest Mouse Return With First New Song in Five Years
Big Thief Set 2026 North American Tour
Travis Scott, Young Thug Petition Supreme Court Over Use of Rap Lyrics in Death Sentence
Lucy Dacus Plots 2026 North American Tour
Rostam Details Tour and First Album in 5 Years
Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE, and Surf Gang Made an Album Together
Kim Gordon Shares Play Me Title Track, Announces 2026 Tour
“How Shit Go”
Woman Accused of Shooting at Rihanna’s Home Charged With Attempted Murder
Ex-Dead Kennedys Singer Jello Biafra Hospitalized After Stroke
Make-Up Is a Lie
IOWA

Cool Tools

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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
E-Books
Free sports TV / Hot and cold face wand / Best pencil

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
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
Lomi Composter Review: Here’s Whether It’s Worth It (or Not)
Spice World: A Look Inside the Serious Eats Team's Spice Cabinets
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