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UK's Ofcom launches an investigation into Telegram over concerns of CSAM being shared on the platform and it being used by predators to groom children (Muvija M/Reuters)
The UK proposes an amendment to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill to ban smartphones in all schools in England; a ban was previously just advisory (Sally Weale/The Guardian)
Tim Cook's 15-year legacy by the numbers: Apple's market cap grew from $350B in 2011 to $4T+ now, net income rose ~700% to $112B for FY 2025, and more (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
A profile of John Ternus, a mechanical engineer by background, who joined Apple in 2001 and whose biggest success was helping Mac's transition to Apple Silicon (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal)
Longtime colleagues say John Ternus will bring back Jobs-era decisiveness, shifting from Cook's era when decisions were made collectively by top executives (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
A look at EU efforts to cut reliance on US tech; study: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google hold ~70% of EU cloud and US vendors get 80% of enterprise software spend (Politico)
Tim Cook reshaped Apple in his own image and exits as CEO on his own terms, seemingly picking the right successor in John Ternus, much like Jobs did with Cook (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
A look at transnational scam syndicates in Cambodia, running hundreds of online scam operations and call centers and infiltrating Cambodia's ruling class (Wall Street Journal)
Chinese PCB maker Victory Giant surges ~57% in its Hong Kong trading debut after raising ~$2.6B in its IPO, the largest in the city so far this year (Eunice Xu/South China Morning Post)
Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus is close to a $10B fundraising deal, which includes an initial $6.2B raise in November, at a $38B post-money valuation (Financial Times)
In an email to employees, Johny Srouji details newly combined hardware engineering and hardware technologies division, organized across five key areas (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Apple says Tim Cook, as executive chairman, "will assist with certain aspects of the company, including engaging with policymakers around the world" (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
The US Air Force cancels RTX's ground-control network for the US' next generation of GPS satellites after years of delays and cost overruns (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg)
Q&A with Canva CEO Melanie Perkins on the company's growth in enterprise, competing with AI labs, token pricing, investing in its own models, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
A US jury finds Uber liable for a sexual assault by a driver in 2019, handing Uber a second consecutive defeat in its first trials of 3,000+ pending lawsuits (Emily Steel/New York Times)

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Blue Origin’s Failure May Hamstring NASA’s Moon Plans
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How Bruce the Parrot Landed Atop the Pecking Order, Without a Beak
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These Salmon Got High on Cocaine. That Wasn’t the Craziest Part.
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How Female Anglerfish Evolved to Have It All
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The Help That Many Older Americans Need Most
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‘Proof’ Review: Ayo Edebiri as a Math Girl, Interrupted
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Analysis of Alzheimer’s Drugs Stirs Debate About Their Effectiveness
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AI doom warnings are getting louder. Are they realistic?
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No humans allowed: scientific AI agents get their own social network
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Immune cells have a surprising role in exercise endurance
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Venus’s impenetrable haze could be made of cosmic dust
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‘Science needs defending’: record number of researchers run for office in US mid-terms
The nine-to-five PhD: mere myth or an achievable goal?
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Cytoplasmic lattices are megadalton storage complexes in mammalian oocytes
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Monolithic 3D integration of tantalum pentoxide nonlinear photonics
Linear RAG scanning mediates editing of Igκ variable region repertoires
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Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia
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mRNA vaccines engage unconventional pathways in CD8+ T cell priming
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A mechanism for adaptive genome regulation in cancer
Molecular basis for methylation-sensitive editing by Cas9
Emergence of oncofetal plasticity is ubiquitous in early colorectal cancers
Template-driven scaffolding of SCFFBXO42 regulates PP2A degradation
Continuously tunable coherent pulse generation in a semiconductor laser
The neural mechanisms supporting the rise and fall of maternal aggression
Language models transmit behavioural traits through hidden signals in data
Pixelated quantum-dot superlattice LEDs
300-unit-per-second roll-to-roll manufacturing of visible metalenses
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The life and legacy of George Schaller
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Stem cell control in the lung by an autocrine injury-activated Igf complex
Determination of the Solar System contribution to the soft x-ray sky
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Guidance of cellular nematic elastomers into shape-programmable living surfaces
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Structural basis for DNA processing and membrane translocation by ComEC in natural transformation
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Is Hurry the Great Enemy of Spiritual Life?
The Film That Explains Contemporary America
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The FBI Director Is MIA
The Donald J. Trump Guide to Classic Fairy Tales
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Louisiana gunman who killed eight children masked his rage before rampage
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U.S. delegation set to leave for Islamabad as Iran ceasefire nears expiration
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Electives Are Coming Under Scrutiny. They May Never Be More Valuable.
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Why Higher Ed Won't Look Itself in the Mirror
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Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | April 19, 2026
Friday Free-for-All | April 17, 2026
The Strokes made 8 historical claims onscreen about the US and the CIA during their final song at Coachella yesterday. How historically accurate are the claims?
A body has been discovered, clearly stabbed in the back. How do the police of ancient Rome investigate the crime?
When Europeans first reached Japan in the 1500s, what did ordinary Japanese people think of them?
How many Europeans emigrated and left Europe from the beginning of colonization in 1492 until 1800? What was the distribution by country and why did some countries send way more then others in both % and numbers?
Did Calvinists really do this?
What kept a count in the early medieval period from declaringhimself King of his county?
Why is young earth creationism and biblical literalism more common in the US than in western Europe?
Why did America and the USSR have rivalry showcases?
Why the Grand-Duchy of Tuscany joined the Kingdom of Sardinia in the 1848 war with the Austrian Empire?
Were Executions Actually Seen As Entertainment In Medieval Times?
What was the reason for the urbanization in Russia and Ukraine in the early and high middle ages compared to previous periods? Cities like Kiev, Chernigov, Rostov and Novgorod etc. appear to have popped into existence out of no where.
When did Akkadian /Aramaic stop being the language in Eastern Arabia?
Why didn't the Tokugawa shogunate collect taxes from Daimyo?
Which explanation for the death of Antinous is considered most plausible by historians?
Why didn't the roman polytheist religion become as popular in contemporary culture as the greek, norse or egyptian ones?
I'm Dr. Charles L. Ponce de Leon here to talk about my new book on the founding and early development of Rolling Stone magazine. It's called "Rolling Stone and the Rise of Hip Capitalism: How a Magazine Born in the 1960s Changed America." AMA!
When the Roman Senate voted to make emperors a "god", how did they define god?
How common was it for the American eugenics movement to advocate for or discuss potential policies like mass euthanasia, and other policies that we'd all see as resembling the crimes against humanity of the nazis?
Was Juan Peron aware that the Massacre at Ezeiza was going to take place?
what parts of Einhards Life of Charlemagne are inaccurate, over exaggerated, etc.?
Why were the Bolsheviks so dismissive of the Russian peasantry if their ultimate goal was to redistribute land and wealth by eradicating the bourgeoisie?
How did banks and lenders keep track of borrowers who owed them money during the wild west era?
Why did so many ruling dynasties in Europe face issues of succession due to childlessness from 1700 onwards?

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Q&A weekly thread - April 20, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
Linguistic Anthropology: One special issue & one "cluster" on LLMs
A historical grammar of Phrygian (Sorgo 2026)
Q&A weekly thread - April 13, 2026 - post all questions here!
Statistical structure and the evolution of languages
Bad Hittite, Good Hattian: Linguistic Interference in the Old Hittite Oracle KBo 18.151 (2025)
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
Q&A weekly thread - April 06, 2026 - post all questions here!
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!

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[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

Open Culture

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Gandhi Writes Letters to Hitler: “We Have Found in Non-Violence a Force Which Can Match the Most Violent Forces in the World” (1939/40)
The Greatest Documentary You’ve Never Heard Of: An Introduction to Wang Bing’s Nine-Hour Tie Xi Qu
Try the Oldest Known Recipe For Toothpaste: From Ancient Egypt, Circa the 4th Century BC
The $666 Board That Built Apple: How the Apple I Changed Computing 50 Years Ago
A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity
How George Orwell Predicted the Rise of “AI Slop” in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
Watch La Linea, the Popular 1970s Italian Animations Drawn with a Single Line
10,000 Chicago Concert Recordings Are Being Uploaded to the Internet Archive: Nirvana, Phish, Sonic Youth, They Might Be Giants & More
Leo Tolstoy Calls Shakespeare an ‘Insignificant, Inartistic Writer.’ Then George Orwell Fires Back
Watch 35 Short Films by Charles and Ray Eames: “Powers of Ten,” the History of the Computer & More
Isaac Asimov Reviews George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Calls It “Not Science Fiction, But a Distorted Nostalgia for a Past that Never Was”
Sci-Fi Writer Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future in 1964: Artificial Intelligence, Instantaneous Global Communication, Remote Work, Singularity & More
What You Would See and Feel While Traveling Near the Speed of Light
Explore 1,000,000 Digitized Artworks from Across the UK: Paintings, Sculptures, Street Art & More
9 Things a Woman Couldn’t Do in 1971

NYT > Technology

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Tim Cook Will Step Down as Apple C.E.O.
Apple C.E.O.s Through the Years: From Michael Scott (Not That One) to John Ternus
Amazon Plans to Invest Up to $25 Billion in Anthropic
California Accuses Amazon of Price Fixing in Legal Filing
A Wish List for the Man Replacing Tim Cook as Apple’s C.E.O.
Elon Musk Ignores French Prosecutors, Widening Tech Rift With Europe
White House and Anthropic Hold ‘Productive’ Meeting, Aiming for a Compromise
Cerebras, an A.I. Chip Maker, Files to Go Public as Tech Offerings Ramp Up
How Do You Measure an A.I. Boom?
A.I. Backlash Turns Violent + Kara Swisher on Healthmaxxing + The Zuck Bot Is Coming
Through A.I. Glasses-Powered Translation, Korea’s Theaters Hope for a K-Pop Moment
Pentagon Seeks Help From Ford and G.M.
Sneaker Company Allbirds Plans to Pivot to A.I. Yes, A.I.
Ford Says Doug Field, Who Led Company's E.V. Push, is Leaving
Ad Companies Settle With F.T.C. Over Claims of Harm to Conservative Sites
What Is ‘Jagged Intelligence’ and How Can It Reframe the AI Debate?
Spice Up Your Cooking Skills With Help From Your Phone
We Don’t Really Know How A.I. Works. That’s a Problem.
They Were YouTube’s First Stars. Here’s What They Wish They’d Known.
How Older Adults Are Using VR to Counter Social Isolation
Like Anthropic, OpenAI Will Share Latest Technology Only With Trusted Companies
Amazon Buys Globalstar for $10.8 Billion, Movingto Expand Its Satellite Internet Service

NYT > Arts

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Adrien Brody, Tessa Thompson and the Truth Behind ‘The Fear of 13’
On ‘This Is a Gardening Show,’ Zach Galifianakis Plays Dirty
America Is Anxious About Its 250th Birthday. So Are Historians.
For Italy’s Art Pioneer, a New Bronze Age
How John Dowland Built a Music Career on Tearful Melancholy
‘Funny Pages,’ ‘BlackBerry’ and More Streaming Gems
Stolen Letters That John Keats Sent to His Beloved Are Found
New York City Ballet’s Spring Season: Dancers to Watch
Singer D4vd Charged With Murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez
How Coachella Became a Pop Spectacle With Surprise Guests Like Madonna and Olivia Rodrigo
Review: Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara Seduce in ‘Fallen Angels’
With Orban Out, the Pianist András Schiff Plans a Return to Hungary
‘Reefer Madness,’ the P.S.A. That Backfired Spectacularly
To Play a Man With Tourette’s, He Swapped the Script for Real Life
Jimmy Kimmel Refers to Kash Patel’s Job in the Past Tense
How an Art Event in the California Desert Became a Community
An Artist Asks: Without Darkness, Who Are We?
‘Schmigadoon!’ Review: Oh, What a Beautiful Sendup
An L.A. Artist Devoted to the Process of Paint
The Next Frontier in Design? The Humble Birdhouse.
Patrick Muldoon, Actor on ‘Days of Our Lives’ and ‘Melrose Place,’ Dies at 57
Could ‘A River Runs Through It’ Have Been a Hit Today?
Met Gala 2026 Guide: Theme, Hosts, Dress Code and More
‘Half Man,’ and 5 More Things to Watch on TV This Week
‘The Comeback’ Season 3, Episode 5 Recap: No Captain
U.S. Museums Reach Deep into America’s Past
Gwendolyn Chisolm, Who Rhymed on Rap’s First Female Hit, Dies at 66
Group Efforts Succeed During Milan Design Week
At Milan Design Week, Function and Form Take on New Meanings
Vintage Designs Take on New Lives at Milan Design Week
At Milan Design Week, Creative Seating Brings Fresh Ideas to the Table
A Fountain of Creativity from Arid Uzbekistan
How Two Men with Hard Heads Broke Through Murano’s Glass Ceiling
With Trump Novices, Can the U.S. Win the ‘Art Olympics’?
A Time of Growth for Museums for Children
A New Museum in California Aims to Draw Children to Science
Marshawn Lynch on ‘Euphoria’ and Not Disappearing Into His Roles
Wisconsin’s Chazen Museum of Art Explores New Ways to Display Its Collection
After the Heists: Securing Museums Without Closing Them Off
A Dance Party for Martha Graham With Ariana DeBose and Padma Lakshmi
Paul Waldman, Creator and Curator of Art Museum for Birds, Dies at 89
Luca Guadagnino Wants a Difficult Opera to Break Free of Polemics
A Chicago Man’s 10,000 Concerts on Tape Are Becoming Digital History
Lana Del Rey, Prince: 10 Songs We’re Talking About This Week
At Milan Design Week, Noodling Around With an Italian Classic
Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel in a Spooky, Tangled Thriller
Barber Osgerby, a British Design Team, Is Honored in Milan
How Jason Chambers Runs a Tight Ship on ‘Below Deck’
Lawsuit Against Alec Baldwin for ‘Rust’ Shooting Heads Toward Trial
The Politically Charged Art of Celeste Dupuy-Spencer
Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Painter of Hotly Topical Images, Dies at 46
An Explosion Rattles a Toronto Neighborhood. A Drake Video Was to Blame.
Kanye West’s Concert in Poland Is Canceled Amid Furor Over Antisemitic Comments

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
Why do I never hear about the Coast Mountains of Canada?
What are these brownish-yellowish places in Devon?
what’s this settlement in the Darien gap?
Is there a sadder case of a natural resource being slowly strangled by civil engineering than the Aral Sea?
Why there is so many lakes in Alpes and so few in Caucausus?
What region of the US do the locals consider Wheeling, West Virginia to be in? Northeast? South? Midwest? Combo platter?
What explains English ethnic ancestry being more majorly concentrated towards the south and northeast of the USA, with German ethnic ancestry being more concentrated towards the north and central regions of the US?
Is The Hague the only city in the world which has 2 names for its citizens based on their socio-economic status?
USA Summer Humidity Map
Why does China have this kind of unique mountains? Why are they not found elsewhere in earth?
Does Gulf of Mexico moist air mass make it all the way to the northwest USA and the western Canadian Prairies? And how come the prevailing westerlies dont prevent the moist gulf air from going west?
Any idea why these areas in Asunción, Paraguay have no street view?
Why is water around The Bahamas so shallow compared to rest of the region?
How did China avoid becoming Aryan?
Why is Brazil's massive size so often underestimated, even when it's larger than the contiguous US?
Is there really no official prediction on how much oil there is left in the world?
Am I crazy or should Afghanistan count?
Can people outside of East Asia distinguish between Chinese characters and Japanese characters?
Flag of Ohio if it was annexed by Denmark (give me ideas for more)
Pare vs. Alto Reason?
Why we don't have a global earth exploration body ?
Global Water Bankruptcy: The $58 Trillion Crisis the World Isn’t Ready For
Climate Classification Map of USA (Revised Köppen Thresholds)
I'm a geologist who's starting a teaching career in geography, help me fill in the gaps with some recommendations

The Public Domain Review

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“A Beautiful Purplish Hue”: Frank Dudley Beane’s Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884)
Introducing PDR Press Minis
Broken Ground: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
Songs from the Commons: A Q&A with Simon Close about the Public Song Project
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)

The Quietus

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Nine Inch Noize – Nine Inch Noize
Combustible Material: Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Tinderbox at 40
Graham Dunning – Quern
Guest Playlist: Mark Jenkin
A Different Beast: Abigail Snail Interviewed
Naná Rizinni – Epiblast
Portraits of the Artist: Künstlerromane in an Age of Uncertainty
Kraftwerk Lose Long-Running Copyright Dispute
Djrum, Laurel Halo and More Remix Lyra Pramuk on New Release
Abigail Snail – Rad Berms
Reissue of the Week: The Beastie Boys’ To The 5 Boroughs
Boards Of Canada Share New Track, ‘Tape 05’
Massive Attack Collaborate with Tom Waits on New Song, ‘Boots On The Ground’
Organic Intelligence LV: Dies Irae in Popular Culture
ADULT. – Kissing Luck Goodbye
Thickened Moments: Life Day by Kristen Gallerneaux
The Field Reveals First Release in Eight Years
Oneohtrix Point Never Shares New Track, ‘Dim Stars’
Dean Blunt Releases New Babyfather EP, ‘icl’
Madonna Unveils ‘Confessions On A Dance Floor’ LP Sequel
How Big Tech Co-opted DIY – and how to Fight Back
Drass – On The Hill
The Strange World Of… Spacemen 3
Radwan Ghazi Moumneh & Frédéric D. Oberland – Eternal Life No End
Gaswerk Music Days Announces First Acts Playing 2026 Edition
Rough Trade to Mark 50th Birthday with Southbank Centre Takeover
Primal Scream to Play ‘XTRMNTR’ in Full on UK Tour
Warp Records Hints at Boards Of Canada Return with Mysterious Posters
Björk Reveals New Album to be Released in 2027
Greg Anderson & Stephen O’Malley of SunnO))) on Hiking
Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Spring, by Patrick Clarke
My New Band Believe – My New Band Believe

Bandcamp Updates

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Blu is The Warmest Color
This Bob’s For You: A Guide to Guided By Voices
Neo Geodesia, “Oknha Stamina”
How Sunn O))) Taught Us to Listen Beneath the Surface
Eve Maret, “Diamond Cutter”
Essential Releases, April 17, 2026
The Breathless Energy of Mexican Rave
How Nic Dalton’s Half A Cow Became an Australian Indie Mainstay
Rocketship, “A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness (30th Anniversary Edition)”
Hannah Lew, “Hannah Lew”
Trip Hop Strikes Back
Roger Doyle, Ireland’s Electronic Trailblazer
Rosa Pistola, “Incorregible”
Side Door No. 3: How Skerik Became the Noisy Punk Deviant of the Jam Band World
Prism Shores, “Softest Attack”
Through Label Drama and Divorce, Eleventh Dream Day Endures
Nate Garrett on the Trials and Tribulations Behind Spirit Adrift’s Final LP
Juni Habel, “Evergreen In Your Mind”
Essential Releases, April 10, 2026
The Art of Rock
Après la Révolution: The Sound of the ’70s French Underground
Lero Lero, “Lero Lero”
The Tape Label Report, March 2026
Makthaverskan, “Glass and Bones”
The Sidepeices Are Hip-Hop’s Hottest New Duo. Also, They Just Met.
The Best Latin Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
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

dusted

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Souled American — Sanctions (Jealous Butcher)
Irreversible Entanglements — Future Present Past (Impulse!)
Damaged Bug — ZUZAX (DEATHGOD CORP)
Wednesday Knudsen — Atrium (Spinster/Feeding Tube)
Marcelo dos Reis Flora — Our Time (JACC)
Tanya Donnelly & Chris Brokaw  —The Undone Is Done Again (Fire)
Poison Ruïn — Hymns from the Hills (Relapse)
Young Fresh Fellows — Loft (Yep Roc)
Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection — s-t 3 (Full Time Hobby)
Various Artists — Indian Talking Machine Part Two: Instrumental Gems From the 78rpm Era (Sublime Frequencies)
Prism Shores — Softest Attack (Meritorio/Having Fun)
Robert Humber — Into Air (Redshift)
Yankee Bastard — Seongun (Sex Fiend Abomination)
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)

Pitchfork

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Brian Eno, Massive Attack, Sigur Rós Call for Eurovision 2026 Boycott
Yo Favorite Trappa Favorite Rappa
Cost of Living
Carve
I Don’t Know Right From Wrong: Lost La Peste 1976-1979, Vol. 1
Coachella 2027 Dates Announced
Grimes Says She Made an Album Called Psy Opera
Someone Stole Madonna’s Coachella Outfits
Shaboozey Returns With New Album The Outlaw Cherie Lee & Other Western Tales
Tiga, Massive Attack, and Nine Inch Noize: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects Playlist
Jane Remover Lines Up North American Tour
Lorde, Geese, Turnstile, and More to Play Form Arcosanti 2026
Ruth Garbus Readies New Album Profound
Beth Orton Announces New Album and Tour
Superbloom
HOTLIFE
Frog for Sale
COLLIDE
Tory Lanez Sues California Prison System Over Inmate Stabbing
The Strokes Close Coachella Set With Video Denouncing U.S. Foreign Intervention
Olivia Rodrigo Performs with Addison Rae at Coachella
Watch Justin Bieber Bring Out SZA and Billie Eilish at Coachella
Listen to Madonna’s New Song “I Feel So Free”
Life for Rent
“Dum Maro Dum”
Nine Inch Noize
“High Rollers”
“Tape 05”
Wu Lyf Postpone North American Shows
Listen to Kacey Musgraves’ New Song “Middle of Nowhere”

Cool Tools

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Drawing
Paint pens / Budget espresso / AI bird feeder
Young Adult Destinations/Bag Check Hikes/Hotel Labor Shortage
What’s in my NOW? — Augie Nielsen
Beautiful Birds / The Botanical Treasury
Music Production
Best weather app / Airport delay tracker / Mars photos
Book Freak #205: Mindset
JetBlue Bag Gouging/2026 Summer Bargains/Canadian Immigration
What’s in my NOW? — Semi Chellas

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
Losh Kebabs (Armenian Grilled Meat Patties)
19 Sides to Go With Wings
The Best Kitchen Shoes, According to the Serious Eats Team
Is the Instant Pot Duo Crisp Ultimate Lid a Good Air Fryer?
12 Spicy Snacks That Bring the Heat
We Tested 13 Wine Decanters and Came Away with 2 Favorites
We Tested 8 Mini Whisks And Came Away with Three Favorites
16 Easy Noodle Recipes for a Quick Meal Any Time of Day
We Tested 13 Carbon Steel Pans—Three Stood Out
Moin Moin (Nigerian Steamed Bean Cake)
18 Date-Night Recipes for a Cozy Meal at Home
Homestyle Bibimbap
How to Deep-Clean Your Dutch Oven (and Keep It Looking Like New)
Malloreddus Alla Campidanese (Sardinian Ridged Pasta With Saffron and Pork Ragù)
Khorovats (Armenian Shish Kebabs)
Efo Riro (Nigerian Stewed Greens)
How to Roast Butternut Squash
Madeleines
We Tested 13 Nakiri Knives—Three Sliced Through the Competition
Puntarelle Alla Romana (Puntarelle Salad With Anchovy and Garlic Dressing)
21 Recipes to Make With Your Newly Gifted Gear
Fake 'Nduja
We Reviewed Anyday Cookware: Are the Microwavable Dishes Worthwhile?
We Reviewed 3 Cast Iron Bread Ovens and Recommend All of Them
The Best New Year's Kitchen Sales
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