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pick up the receiver, dial a number, and speak with the one you miss
The War Against Misinformation Is Over. The Lies Won.
Top US FEMA official claims to have teleported to a Waffle House before
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Google releases Gemma 4 open models
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Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)
Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards real world agents
George Goble has died
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The Australian government has announced gambling advertising reforms
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JSON Canvas Spec (2024)
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Significant progress made on Xbox 360 recompilation
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OpenAI Acquires TBPN
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Why Doesn't Anybody Realize We're Going Back to the Moon?
Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket
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Sources detail Fidji Simo's moves at OpenAI, including spearheading the TBPN acquisition and pushing OpenAI to cut Sora and avoid other social media products (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
Sources: Meta has told members of its Oversight Board that it may stop funding the board after 2028, though eliminating all funding is not its preferred option (Casey Newton/Platformer)
Amazon adds a 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge to fulfillment fees for US and Canadian third-party sellers from April 17, as the Iran war drives up oil prices (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
LinkedIn job posting data: companies added 640K AI-related jobs from 2023 to 2025 in the US, including 225K "head of AI" jobs, up 49% from the prior four years (Te-Ping Chen/Wall Street Journal)
Sources: SpaceX is floating a $2T+ valuation to prospective investors in its IPO; SpaceX's acquisition of xAI reportedly valued the combined company at $1.25T (Bloomberg)
Source: OpenAI bought TBPN, which was set to generate $30M in 2026, for "low hundreds of millions of dollars"; OpenAI says TBPN will be editorially independent (George Hammond/Financial Times)
The CFTC sues Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois over their actions against prediction markets, saying it has the "exclusive" authority to regulate such markets (Alex Harring/CNBC)
Mental health startup Kintsugi is shutting down and open-sourcing its AI tech to detect depression and anxiety, after failing to secure FDA clearance (Robert Hart/The Verge)
OpenAI acquires tech news show TBPN; Fidji Simo says the move aims to "help create a space for a real, constructive conversation about the changes AI creates" (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal)
OpenAI acquires popular tech news show TBPN; the show will stay the same and will continue to air live at 11am PT weekdays (John Coogan/@johncoogan)
Cursor launches Cursor 3, an "agent-first" coding product designed to compete with Claude Code and Codex by letting developers manage multiple AI agents (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
Flipboard launches Surf, an app for creating custom feeds from Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, RSS, podcasts, and YouTube, after over a year in beta (David Pierce/The Verge)
Google adds new features to its video editing app Vids, including directing and customizing avatars through text prompts and Veo 3.1 support (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Google launches Gemma 4, its "most intelligent" open model family, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows, under an Apache 2.0 license (The Keyword)
Coinbase says it has won conditional approval from US banking regulators for a national trust company charter, which could let it issue stablecoins and more (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

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Claude Code Unpacked: What actually happens when you type a message into Claude Code?
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NumPy as Synth Engine - Kenneth Reitz
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Apple at 50: Some great Apple history books – Six Colors
Good CTE, bad CTE | boringSQL
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Kin - Everyday tools. No strings.
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Macs of unusual size - by Scott Knaster
Sycamore
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[2603.21687] MIRAGE: The Illusion of Visual Understanding
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VHDL's crown jewel - Sigasi
ReKindle
Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked: here's what we know | VentureBeat
The AT Protocol
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Top Brussels official urges Europeans to work from home and drive less – POLITICO
You Can’t Escape the AI Tax - The Atlantic
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New Apple Silicon M4 & M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays
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Trump DOJ Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration — ProPublica
Obsolete Sounds
Copilot Edited an Ad Into My PR
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Artemis II Completes First Day of Its NASA Lunar Mission
Artemis II Moon Mission: See the Launch, Photos and Video
He Studied How to Transport Blood to Wounded Marines
Can Science Predict When a Study Won’t Hold Up?
Fossil of Pincer-Wielding Crawler Reveals Origins of Spiders, Scorpions and Others
Meet the Astronauts of NASA’s Artemis II Moon Mission
The Fragile Hope for Salmon Recovery in Maine
Did Scientists Just Detect an Exploding Black Hole?
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Trump’s Budget May Target Climate Programs. Here’s What Survived the Last Cuts.
China’s Aiming for the Moon, and NASA Is Looking Over Its Shoulder
4 tiny spacecraft have tagged along with Artemis II.
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As NASA Sent Astronauts to the Moon, Some Rejoiced and Others Barely Noticed
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When Will NASA’s Artemis II Mission Reach the Moon?
What China sees as NASA launches Artemis II.
A flight to the moon like no other.
Artemis, Orion, Integrity: What’s in 3 names?
For the Superfans of Spaceflight, Artemis II Can’t Launch Soon Enough
Meet ‘Rise,’ Artemis II’s Adorable Zero-Gravity Indicator
Here’s where and when you can see the rocket in the sky.
Who Made the Artemis II Rocket and Space Capsule?
Why NASA’s Artemis II Astronauts Won’t Land on the Moon
Jeremy Hansen, an Artemis II Astronaut, Is the First Canadian on a Crewed Moon Mission
Christina Koch Will Be the First Female Astronaut to Journey Around the Moon
How NASA Is Keeping the Astronauts Safe During the Artemis II Mission
Victor Glover, the Artemis II Pilot, Will Be the First Black Astronaut to Circle the Moon
Who Is Reid Wiseman, Commander of the Artemis II Moon Mission?
Before Artemis II, there had to be an Artemis I.
How to Watch NASA’s Artemis II Moon Launch Online
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NASA’s Mission Back to the Moon
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Why the Artemis II Astronauts Will Be Wearing Orange
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Edward Russo Says Donald Trump Is an ‘Environmental Hero’
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First Canadian Astronaut Will Travel to the Moon Amid Fraying U.S.-Canada Relations
For Trump, the Artemis II Moon Mission Offers a Shot to Cement His Legacy
Vermont Hits Back at Trump’s Effort to Block ‘Climate Superfund’ Law
NASA Is Launching Astronauts to the Moon, but Americans Aren’t That Excited

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Regular physical activity in midlife cuts risk of early death
Artemis II is go: humans head to the Moon after half-century absence
The Moon belongs to all of us — not just countries that can afford to reach it
‘Treasure trove’ of antiviral proteins could inspire powerful molecular tools
How procrastination can rob you of career fulfilment in science
‘It’s a real shock’: quantum-computing breakthroughs pose imminent risks to cybersecurity
China is planning to land people on the Moon — and might beat the United States to it
Mix-and-match synthesis of 3D small molecules
Breakthrough computer chip tech could help meet ‘monumental demand’ driven by AI
Why some cancer-fighting immune cells lose their strength inside tumours
Structural modifications in strain-engineered bilayer nickelate thin films
These scientists chased a jet to learn more about ‘lean-burn’ contrails
These advanced solar cells have an antique source: old bullets
DNA damage burden causes selective CUX2 neuron loss in neuroinflammation
Entanglement and electronic coherence in attosecond molecular photoionization
The 1000 Chinese Pangenome empowers medical and population genetics
Gene regulatory landscape dissected by single-cell four-omics sequencing
Developmental organization of sensory and sympathetic ganglia
Dopaminergic mechanisms of dynamical social specialization
A µ-opioid receptor superagonist analgesic with minimal adverse effects
Moiré engineering of Cooper-pair density modulation states
Electric dipole moment drives the dynamics of the TNFR1 complex I signalosome
Evidence of the pair-instability gap from black-hole masses
Expansion of outer cortical CUX2 neurons requires adaptations for DNA repair
AhR inhibition promotes axon regeneration via a stress–growth switch
Substantial aircraft contrail formation at low soot emission levels
Investigating the reproducibility of the social and behavioural sciences
Stoichiometric FeTe is a superconductor
Investigating the replicability of the social and behavioural sciences
Nanoscale transfer-printed full-colour ultrahigh-resolution quantum dot LEDs
Angle evolution of the superconducting phase diagram in twisted bilayer WSe2
Flexible ensheathment of axons enables myelination of complex CNS networks
Evolution of pandemic cholera at its global source
Investigating the analytical robustness of the social and behavioural sciences
Dual-symmetry-guided assembly of complex lattices
A chelicera-bearing arthropod reveals the Cambrian origin of chelicerates
An enteric neuron ionotropic receptor regulates salt stress resistance
Deconstruction of a spino-brain–spinal cord circuit that drives chronic pain
General scales unlock AI evaluation with explanatory and predictive power
Hydroxy-induced cobalt oxides for syngas to light olefins
Active dissociation of intracortical spiking and high gamma activity
Reproducibility and robustness of economics and political science research
Catalyst diverts course of industrial process to make valuable hydrocarbons
Lift off! Artemis II mission sends humans to the Moon — opening a new era of exploration
Super-potent opioids could be safer-than-expected alternatives to conventional painkillers
Is social media addictive? Why a formal diagnosis is still out of reach
Struggling to focus on research when the world is ‘on fire’? Some ways to cope
Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?
Daily briefing: The countdown to NASA’s Artemis II Moon mission launch
Cutting aircraft soot emissions is not enough to curb contrail clouds
Half of social-science studies fail replication test in years-long project
Pincer movement: fossil pushes origins of chelicerate arthropods back to the Cambrian period
‘Replication games’ test the robustness of social-science studies
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Why science has a credibility problem — and how to address it
Huge meta-research project puts claims in social-science papers to the test
100 years of synthetic fuels
Author Correction: Signatures of ambient pressure superconductivity in thin film La3Ni2O7
Structure of the mouse cytoplasmic lattice
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Schrödinger’s carbon’: The misclassification of carbon capture and storage as standard mitigation
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A solar system is born
A responsible authorship culture is needed — it is a collective responsibility
AI used in warfare needs a strong ethical framework
The hidden costs of ‘helpful’ AI
Artemis II mission is about to fly humans to the Moon — here’s the science they’ll do
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Humanity is heading back to the Moon — why aren’t more scientists thrilled?
Static electricity is a mystery but invisible carbon may be key
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The new stakes of space exploration
Young blood
IL-22 from enteroendocrine cells promotes early-life gut motility in zebrafish through the microbiota
The dawn of the Phanerozoic: A transitional fauna from the late Ediacaran of Southwest China
Pearling drives mitochondrial DNA nucleoid distribution
Mitochondrial metabolism and signaling direct dendritic cell function in antitumor immunity
DefensePredictor: A machine learning model to discover prokaryotic immune systems
Atomic-resolution imaging of gold species at organic liquid-solid interfaces
Flexible, abstract rhythm perception in bumble bees
A sensory system for mating in octopus
Bromine-mediated electrochemical propane dehydrogenation by self-assembled ionic liquid-SnO2 hollow spheres
Concurrent L1 retrotransposition events promote reciprocal translocations in human tumorigenesis
Protein and genomic language models uncover the unexplored diversity of bacterial immunity
Harnessing viral strategies to reverse cognitive dysfunction through the integrated stress response
Blood-catalyzed n-doped polymers for reversible optical neural control
A SWI/SNF-specific Ig-like domain, SWIFT, is a transcription factor binding platform
Onset of millennial climate variability with the intensification of Northern Hemisphere glaciation
A 36-ring zeolite with intrinsic cylindrical mesopores
Targeting modulated vascular smooth muscle cells in atherosclerosis via FAP-directed immunotherapy
Strategies for achieving healthy, sustainable, and equitable dietary transitions
A call to serve
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An overlooked sentinel at risk in Africa
Cosmic illusions
Fight against neonatal mortality is losing steam
Agency for patient care research is in dire straits
Two years after it emerged, ‘cow flu’ still baffles scientists
Scientists brace for expansion of Alzheimer’s blood tests
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U.S. blockade hits Cuba’s health care and science
The great education contradiction
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The Awe of a Moon Launch in an Age of Trump, Turmoil and Tribal Divisions
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Investigators Said to Look at Whether LaGuardia Controller Stepped Away
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OpenAI Buys Streaming Show ‘TBPN,’ Aiming to Change Narrative on A.I.
Blake Lively’s Retaliation Case Against Justin Baldoni Heads to Trial Without Harassment Claims
Ex-Turnstile Guitarist Charged With Attempted Murder of Bandmate’s Father
Zendaya and Robert Pattinson on Marriage, Secrets and ‘The Drama’
‘The Drama’ Review: Her Secret Is His Crisis
The One Thing Trump Wanted That Pam Bondi Failed to Deliver
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Biruté Galdikas, 79, Who Worked to Save Wild Orangutans in Borneo, Dies
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The Next Attorney General Has an Impossible Job
Today’s Atlantic Trivia: Missions to the Moon
Rachel Carson Has Known the Ocean
Pam Bondi Couldn’t Possibly Succeed
Twilight of the ‘Cougar’
Don’t Mess With the Housewives of Ukraine
What the Birthright Case Is Really About
The Manosphere Feels Betrayed
Trump’s Cozy Transportation Secretary
The Intellectual Right Is Mad at the Mess It’s Made
A Private Company Wants to Block the Sun, Responsibly
Hitler’s Edifice Complex
We’re All Real Housewives Now
Young People Are Falling Behind, but Not Because of AI
The Album That Made Me Fall Back in Love With Heavy Metal
How the Left Accidentally Bolstered the Nativist Right
Maybe Trump Should Not Have Given This Speech
Why Doesn’t Anybody Realize We’re Going Back to the Moon?
Trump’s Absurd Citizenship Arguments Went Nowhere
Public Anger Is Rising
What Tracy Kidder Stood For
I Am Here to Watch the Birthright-Citizenship Arguments, but Not in a Threatening Way
Atlantic Trivia for April 1, 2026: Computer Games
TV’s Failing Cure for Middle-Aged Malaise
Watching War From the Strait of Hormuz

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Tenn. library director fired over refusal to move LGBTQ+ books to adult section
Death of refugee left in parking lot by Border Patrol ruled a homicide
Catastrophic sewage spill followed years of delay on repairs, Post review finds
Judges are increasingly using AI to draft rulings and prepare for hearings
Higher social media use linked to lower support for democracy, poll shows
Marines scramble to reassure families after report of ICE at boot camp
Retirees receive six times as much in federal dollars as young people
Hegseth exonerates helicopter crews over Kid Rock flyby, nullifying Army probe

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As Trump doubles down on Iran war, markets shudder and oil prices climb
Sudanese rebels used rape as a weapon, aid group says
Israelis celebrate Passover in a parking garage turned bomb shelter
Migrant workers keep Dubai running but can’t afford to flee Iranian strikes
Wartime fuel shortages spawn panic, robberies and killings in Asia
American journalist Shelly Kittleson kidnapped in Baghdad
Risky commando plan to seize Iran’s uranium came at Trump’s request
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Nations priced out of Big AI are building with frugal models
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EVs were meant to bypass oil. Now they’re stuck at the Strait of Hormuz
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A Board Asked Its President to Resign. He Won’t.
Rutgers Faces a Lawsuit Over Its Hundreds of Millions in Athletics Debt
Government's Demands for Employee Data to Identify Antisemitism Unsettle Academics
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In This State, 'Free College' Isn't Totally Free Anymore
Nearly Everyone's Using AI at Cal State. And Nearly Everyone's Worried About It.
How Did Ted Carter’s Tenure at Ohio State Go So Wrong?
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The Hostile Takeover of Higher Education
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Thursday Reading & Recommendations | April 02, 2026
Short Answers to Simple Questions | April 01, 2026
April Fools Post-Event Round-Up
The President of Iran just wrote an open letter to the American people in which he made multiple large claims about Iranian history. To what degree are these claims accurate or inaccurate?
What do most people get wrong/misconceptions about the French Revolution?
In what era did patronymics like "Anderson" go from literally meaning "Son of Anders" to being intergenerational last names?
Why was the Pahlavi era (shah regime) in Iran 'bad'?
Has there ever been a time in recorded human history that there wasn't a war or conflict happening somewhere?
Are there historical examples of someone who was unjustifiably vilified and got redeemed later on in your field of expertise?
I (35/m/HRH) just lowered tea taxes on my colonies (166/gender neutral) and now they're throwing the tea in the harbor. AITAH?
What could one buy with 30 pieces of silver?
Where did the practice of a judge striking a gavel originate? And how did it evolve into the thing we see today?
Why was there so many murderers in the 60s 70s and 80s?
Did the Mughals consider themselves Indian?
Western Christianity: why universalism?
How did the Vatican investigations into miracles work?
How did the Eastern Orthodox Church involve itself, if at all, with the Catholic Church’s schisms or other religious disputes, such as the appearance of antipopes or the Cathars, after the Great Schism?
AITA FOR LEADING 300 SPARTANS TO THEIR DEATHS?
How prevalent was voter fraud in the past?
Creating an Informed Citizenry in the Early Republic with Dr. George Oberle
Cars haven't been invented yet, so I'm traveling by horse. Can I rent one for the trip, or do I have to buy it for life? Or can I expect to just sell it off at my destination?
How did roman people proof citizenship? Especially after being moved outside of Rome for example?
I don't understand the Radio City section in "Catcher in the Rye", what kind of entertainment was this?
What was life like during the Siege of Candia (1648-1669)?
It's commonly said Victor Emanuel allowed Mussolini's march on Rome (despite being able to crush him) because he wanted him to crack down on worker revolts. But if Victor had an army more powerful than the black shirts why didn't he just handle the repression himself?

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Q&A weekly thread - March 30, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
Masato Kobayashi (2025) - Hill Korwa of Kado Pani: Outline Grammar, Text and Glossary of a North Munda language
Q&A weekly thread - March 23, 2026 - post all questions here!
Humans share acoustic preferences with other animals
Beyond the pronoun: On neopronouns, nounself pronouns, and the ever-changing politics of language acceptability
Fact checking Geoffery Pullum's claims about Daniel Everett in Brazil
Q&A weekly thread - March 16, 2026 - post all questions here!
Connectives in Asur: A North Munda Language
Loanwords: Core Concepts and the Case of Wasei Eigo
A neuroimaging study of language impairments across the biological continuum of Alzheimer's disease (from healthy older adults to dementia).
Language Contact and Deliberate Change - Sarah Thomason (2007)
“Inside the kaleidoscope: unravelling the ‘feeling different’ experience of bicultural bilinguals”
Q&A weekly thread - March 09, 2026 - post all questions here!
Thoughts on critique of CDA?
Q&A weekly thread - March 02, 2026 - post all questions here!
Negativas: A Prototype for Searching and Classifying Sentential Negation in Speech Data
SPATIAL CODE AND CULTURAL GESTALT IN THE MEDIA FRAMING OF BUSINESS DISCOURSE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
An outline of Proto-Indo-European
Lusitanian language and onomastics of Lusitania: 25 years later (2021) [Spanish]
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!

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Fiction About Trans People
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Adventures in Higher Education Marketing
spider mapping
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Claude 2028 -- Yes Claude is running for president
Track the Oscar nominees you've watched and pick your winners
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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
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Open Culture

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How Everything in a Medieval Castle Worked, from Its Moats to Its Dungeons
Discover the Retirement Home for Elderly Musicians Created by Giuseppe Verdi: Created in 1899, It Still Lives On Today
How James Cameron Shot Titanic’s Hugely Complex Sinking Scene
Discover the First Horror & Fantasy Magazine, Der Orchideengarten, and Its Bizarre Artwork (1919–1921)
How Many Lives Does God Take in the Bible: An Investigation into a Surprisingly High Body Count
A Free Course on Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume 1 from Yale University
How Kraftwerk’s 22-Minute Song “Autobahn” Became an Early Masterpiece in Electronic Music (1975)
Watch Errol Morris’s Tune Out the Noise Free Online: A Documentary About the Financial Revolution That Transformed Investing
When Soviet Youth Bootlegged Western Rock Music on Discarded X‑Rays: Hear Original Audio Samples
An Introduction to Brutalism: The Iconic Postwar Architectural Style That Combined Utopianism and Concrete
Meet the “Telharmonium,” the First Synthesizer (and Predecessor to Muzak), Invented in 1897
See the Climactic Ending of Steven Spielberg’s Breakout Duel Recreated Entirely with 3D-Printed Models
How the Hoover Dam Works: A 3D Animated Introduction
Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom
Watch Jazzy Spies: 1969 Psychedelic Sesame Street Animation, Featuring Grace Slick, Teaches Kids to Count

NYT > Technology

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How A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8 Billion Company
A.I. Could Change the World. But First It Is Changing Silicon Valley.
The Revival of the Fashion-Tech Love Affair
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Files to Go Public, Setting Stage for Huge I.P.O.
OpenAI Buys Streaming Show ‘TBPN,’ Aiming to Change Narrative on A.I.
Europe Pushes for a Gentler Internet for Children
Worried About A.I. Taking Your Job? That’s Not Very ‘Agentic’ of You.
Goodbye ‘Geeky Hunk’? Gmail Users Can Now Change Their Usernames.
Apple’s Fitness Chief, Who Was Accused of Harassment, Is Retiring
A.I. Companies Shatter Fund-Raising Records, as Boom Accelerates
WhatsApp Whistle-Blower Suit Is Dismissed
Can Science Predict When a Study Won’t Hold Up?
One of Apple’s First Employees Looks Back at 50 Years
OpenAI Adds Another $12 Billion to Latest Funding Round
How Instagram’s ‘PG-13’ Branding for Teens Unraveled
A Cat-and-Mouse Game of Russian Internet Restrictions and Evasion
Whoop, a Wearable Health Device Maker, Raises $575 Million
What to Know About California’s Executive Order on A.I.
States Plow Ahead With A.I. Regulation, Defying Trump
From Foe to Ally: The S.E.C. Is Now Writing Crypto-Friendly Policies
Chromebook Remorse: Tech Backlash at Schools Extends Beyond Phones
What Is YouTube’s Dominance Doing to Us? We Asked Its C.E.O.
Elon Musk Joins in Phone Call Between Donald Trump and Narendra Modi
The Ezra Klein Show: How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy?
An Invisible Bottleneck: A Helium Shortage Threatens the Chip Industry
Why the Verdict Against Meta and YouTube Could Change Social Media
Judge Stays Pentagon’s Labeling of Anthropic as ‘Supply Chain Risk’

NYT > Arts

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‘The Drama’ Review: Her Secret Is His Crisis
Kanye West Plays First American Concert Since 2021
Danish Shows to Watch While We’re Still at Peace
A Senegalese Artist Who Crossed Boundaries Others Didn’t Dare
Desi Lydic Wants Trump to Take a Hint About the Ballroom
Everybody Wants to Sing Nate Amos’s Songs
Gainsborough’s Powdered Wig Portraits Are Suddenly Hot in New York
The Age-Old Obsession With Living Forever
How ‘American Psycho’ and Marina Abramovic Fed the Met Opera’s ‘Tristan’
When Stars’ Plastic Surgery Is Played for Your Entertainment
Bruce Springsteen Brings Fiery Speeches and Songs to Minneapolis
Lucy Sante on Collage: ‘You Have to Kill One Thing to Make Another.’
The Best Movies and TV Shows Streaming in April 2026
Jane Fonda, Jennifer Tilly and More Star in Off Broadway Shows This April
Blake Lively’s Retaliation Case Against Justin Baldoni Heads to Trial Without Harassment Claims
Art Gallery Shows to See in April
Ex-Turnstile Guitarist Charged With Attempted Murder of Bandmate’s Father
‘The Blue Trail’ Review: A Drifting Journey Into Freedom
Ancient Artifacts Stolen in Dutch Museum Heist Are Recovered
‘The Truth and Tragedy of Moriah Wilson’ Review: Behind a Cyclist’s Death
‘Pizza Movie’ Review: Dude, Where’s My Pie?
‘The Stranger’ Review: An Unexamined Life
‘Living the Land’ Review: Rural China in Transition
‘A Great Awakening’ Review: An Unlikely Founding Friendship
‘DJ Ahmet’ Review: Finding Hidden Music in the Forest
Eugene Mirman, ‘Bob’s Burgers’ Voice Actor, Seriously Injured in Car Crash
Bettina Köster, a Leading Voice in Berlin’s 1980s Avant-Garde, Dies at 66
The Good List: 7 Things to Add Some Delight to Your Day
Bravo’s ‘Summer House’ West Wilson and Amanda Batula Scandal, Explained
Fosse! Robbins! Making the Case for Vintage Broadway Dance
The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix in April
Josefina Aguilar, Who Depicted Mexican Life in Clay, Dies at 80
Megan Thee Stallion Rushed to the Hospital During Moulin Rouge Broadway Performance
Adaptations of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ and ‘Titus Andronicus’ Explore Themes of Life, Death and Joy
New York City Ballet in 2026-27: A Rare Balanchine and Ratmansky’s ‘Romeo’
Sadie Sink, Noah Jupe and the Wonder of Young Love, in ‘Romeo and Juliet’
‘Star Spangled to Death’: Ken Jacobs’s History of the United States
34 Fun Things to Do in N.Y.C. in April
10 Short Books for Spring
Stephen Colbert Blames ‘The Bachelorette’ Cancellation for $4 Gas
Slava Tsukerman, Who Directed the Cult Classic ‘Liquid Sky,’ Dies at 86
Melvin Edwards, Sculptor Who Wove Black History Into Art, Dies at 88
At the National Archives, the Declaration Gets More Company
‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Review: It’s-a Meh
10 Synth-Pop Songs That Bring the Drama
Eurovision Song Contest to Add Asian Edition This Year
Three Great Documentaries to Stream
The Next British Invasion Is Here, and It’s Led by Women
International Booker Prize Shortlist: 6 Novels With ‘Burning Humanity’
How Instagram’s ‘PG-13’ Branding for Teens Unraveled
‘The Book of Mormon’ Is Sorry if You Were Offended for 15 Years
Morton Feldman Was Loud. His Music Was Quietly Haunting.
Stephen Colbert Marvels at ‘No Kings’ Rallies Worldwide
‘Dog Day Afternoon’ on Broadway, With Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Is Underbaked
Ben Stevenson, Choreographer With Global Reach, Dies at 89
Mary Beth Hurt, Actress Acclaimed in ‘Interiors’ and ‘Garp,’ Dies at 79
Celine Dion Announces Comeback Concerts in Paris
Agosto Machado Is Dead; Artist Memorialized New York’s Avant-Garde
Mark Morris’s Stations of the Cross: Simple and Stinging
Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse Artworks Are Stolen in 3-Minute Museum Heist, Police Say
For a High Priestess of Extreme Theater, Death Is Gentler Than Life
‘Death of a Salesman’ on Broadway Has Help From Something Old
Symphony Space to Undergo a $45 Million Makeover

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
Are these artificial islands in Hainan, China used for anything besides tourism?
Australia’s “Red Centre” after weeks of heavy rainfall
In your opinion, do Baltic countries belong in Northern or Eastern Europe?
What are examples of places that are considered uninhabited but still have people living in them?
Why does Sudan have so many border disputes?
How quickly does the Mississippi river move around?
What city you consider the Center of Europe?
Did google show somaliland as disputed before? I never noticed this
Most unique setting for a high school?
Why is rent in Poland so expensive relative to local incomes?
What other US state has significant geographical oddities like Minnesota?
Weird patterns near river
North East India contains the wettest place on Earth, it gets astonishingly high amount of annual rainfall. (Case Study on NE India, and NZ)
What is this double dotted line in Cyprus?
What is this apparently man made structure in the Alps
Number of rice growing seasons per year
Gridlines in the Saudi Arabian sand dunes
Was the desertification of the Mesopotamia (and Fertile Crescent in general) one of the first man-made ecological disasters? Was it because the agriculture practices and irrigation systems weren't sustainable?
If Mongol, British and Spanish empires were reunited today, which one would come on top?
The aravalli range in north west india is one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world formed 2 billion years ago
what causes this weird line in temperature?
Do yall have any free open sources of geography on the internet?
In your opinion, do Balkan countries belong in Southern Europe or in Eastern Europe?
I'm addictes to making maps on mugs

The Public Domain Review

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

The Quietus

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Wanderfal Festival at The Cornish Bank for April 10 – 11
Smack Down: EYEHATEGOD Versus Iron Monkey & The Heaviest LP Of 1996
The Band Whom the Trees Loved: SUNN O))) by SUNN O)))
Xylitol – Blumenfantasie
The Shits – Diet Of Worms
Inner Ear: Croatian Music for April, by Jakub Knera
The Strange World Of… Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Our Subscriber-Exclusive Playlist for March 2026
Triple Threat: An Interview with Orcutt Shelley Miller
Prince’s Parade (Under The Cherry Moon) 40 Years On
Irreversible Entanglements – Future Present Past
The Yugoslav Psy-Op That may have Given us Laibach… and Inspired Rammstein
Robyn – Sexistential
Fishing for Pearls: Ghostface Killah in 2006
London’s MOTH Club Secures “Huge Win” After Nearby Development Application Refused
Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of March 2026
The Strange World Of… Ladytron
Reissue of the Week: Fall Heads Roll by The Fall
Iztok Koren & Raphael Rogiński – Nocturnal Consolations
Actress and Suzanne Ciani Unveil Collaborative Album, ‘Concrète Waves’
Symphonies from Destruction: Kinshasa in Action by KinAct
Taupe – Waxing | Waning
Judas Priest, Sad Wings Of Destiny & The Birth Of Modern Metal
Why we made a film about Mark Fisher called We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher
Natalie Marlin on The Chemical Brothers’ Hanna OST
Lee “Scratch” Perry’s ‘Final’ Album, a Collaboration with Mouse On Mars, Set for Release
Vince Clarke Launches Covers Project with Benge and Blancmange’s Neil Arthur
EFG London Jazz Festival Announces First Acts for 2026 Edition
james K Unveils ‘Friend’ Remix Album
Outside the Box: Sarah Nixey’s Favourite Albums
Ladytron – Paradises
FKA twigs Sues The Twigs Over Trademark Dispute

Bandcamp Updates

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The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
Larrison, “Connecters Volume 1: Original Recordings, 1992–1999”
The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, March 2026
The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
Robber Robber, “Two Wheels Move the Soul”
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, March 2026
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
Various Artists, “Fight The Fire: Digital Reggae, Conscious Roots and Dub in Nigeria 1986–91”
The Best Punk on Bandcamp, March 2026
Maryam Saleh’s Secret
Foote/Dickow, “High Cube”
The Best Hip-Hop on Bandcamp, March 2026
Inside the Miraculous Return of Neurosis
The Montvales, “Path of Totality”
The Best Albums of Winter 2026
The Rise, Fall, and Revival of sugar plant, Japan’s Indie Darlings
Parlor Greens, “Emeralds”
Side Door No. 2: How Taper’s Choice Became One of the Jam World’s Most Exciting Bands
Stuck, “Optimizer”
The Unclassifiable Excepter
A Puzzle Game Soundtrack That Plays With Your Head
dälek, “Brilliance of a Falling Moon”
On Their Own Terms: How the AACM Built a New American Music
Preserving the French Underground: A Guide to Souffle Continu
Building a Home for Brazilian Funk in Japan
Essential Releases, March 20, 2026
Dagmar Zuniga, “in filth your mystery is kingdom / far smile peasant in yellow music”
The Long, Joyous Tradition of Cajun and Creole Accordion Music
God Knows and MuRli: Ireland’s Hip-Hop Gamechangers
Crouch, “Breaking the Catatonic State”
Chicha Forever: The Evolution of Peruvian Cumbia
Xylitol, “Blumenfantasie”
The Ictus Ensemble Chart Classical Music’s Next Frontier
Duncecap & Samurai Banana, “Comfortably Suffering”
Cut Worms, “Transmitter”
Clover Records Is An Indie Pop Good-Luck Charm

dusted

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Brown Horse — Total Dive (Loose)
Kim Gordon — Play Me (Matador)
dEUS — Worst Case Scenario + In a Bar, Under the Sea (30th Anniversary Reissues) (PIAS)
Jason Stein / Marilyn Crispell / Damon Smith / Adam Shead — Live At The Hungry Brain (Trost)
Hässlig / Opresija — Kali Yuga Aural Terror (Self-released)
Chronotope Project — Kaleidoscope (Spotted Peccary)
Third Coast Percussion — Standard Stoppages (Cedille)
This House — Soft Rains Will Come (Pink Cotton Candy/Ramble/Red Wig)
Dust, Volume 12, Number 3
a hug of songs for Jenny
bobbie — Lessons (Orindal)
Sunn O))) — S/T (Sub Pop)
Healing and Peace — A Treatise (Self-Release)
The Notwist — News From Planet Zombie (Morr Music)
Barbaric Oath — Sword, Sorcery, Vengeance (Caligari)
Isabel Pine — Fables (Kranky)
Pan•American — Fly the Ocean in a Silver Plane (Kranky)
Mors.Void.Discipline — Txketh)ëké (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
Tinariwen — Hoggar (WEDGE)
Gunner — Reality Soldier (Iron Lung)

Pitchfork

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Pooh Shiesty Charged with Robbery, Kidnapping Over Alleged Gucci Mane Label Dispute
King Princess to Star in Aimee Mann’s Girl, Interrupted Musical
Olivia Rodrigo Announces New Album You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love
Ex-Turnstile Guitarist Brady Ebert Arrested for Attempted Murder of Brendan Yates’ Father
Of Montreal Prep New Album Aethermead
Loukeman Announces Album and Shares Extremely Canadian Video for “To the Sky”
Kanye Wades Through the Fog at SoFi Stadium: Live Review
WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA
Connecters Vol. 1: Original Recordings, 1992–1999
THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE.
Paradises
Converge Announce Second Album of 2026, Share New Song
Sturgill Simpson Lines Up Johnny Blue Skies Tour
Hear Anne Hathaway Sing a New FKA twigs Song for Mother Mary
Shakira Announces Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran U.S. Arena Tour
Cass McCombs and Hand Habits Team Up for New Split 7"
Watch Tems Perform “What You Need” on Fallon
Rochelle Jordan Shares Chic “Doing It Too” Video
Megan Thee Stallion Releases Statement After Hospitalization: “My Body Finally Said ‘Enough’”
Bully
Skeletor
Companion
THE COMEDOWN
Third Man Records to Reissue “Lost” Ted Lucas Album
Wendy Eisenberg, The Soft Pink Truth Lead New Benefit Compilation
Dry Cleaning Share New Song “Sliced by a Fingernail”
Bob’s Burgers Should Cover More Joy Division Songs
Fucked Up’s Damian Abraham Is Now Making Movies
Jeff Parker Announces ETA IVtet Album Happy Today
Billy Strings Sets Fall 2026 U.S. Tour

Cool Tools

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Happiest Countries/Monthly Flight Pass/Favorite US Airports
What’s in my NOW? — Elisa Michelet
Tacopedia / Rude Cakes
Weeders
The Gentle Romance / Career Dreamer / Skull
Book Freak #203: Knowledge, Reality, and Value
Book Freak #202: Determined
Airplane Speakerphone Ban/Slomad Paradox/Colors of Asia
What’s in my NOW? — Mark Rae Peet
Quidditch Through the Ages / Hurts Like a Mother

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
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