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Samsung unveils the Galaxy Z TriFold, with a 6.5-inch outer screen, a 10-inch 120Hz inner screen, three rear cameras, and a 3.9mm profile at its thinnest point (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
Marques Brownlee plans to shut down his wallpaper app Panels on December 31; Appfigures: it had 900K downloads and $95K in user spending since its 2024 launch (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
Amazon launches Amazon Now, a new service that aims to deliver household essentials and groceries in ~30 minutes or less, available in Seattle and Philadelphia (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
Kalshi says users can now trade tokenized versions of their wagers on Solana, in a bid to court crypto holders; Polymarket already allows on-chain trading (Liz Napolitano/CNBC)
Apple says its AI chief, John Giannandrea, is stepping down; former Microsoft executive Amar Subramanya will lead AI, reporting to Craig Federighi (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
Vanguard will allow ETFs and mutual funds that primarily hold cryptocurrencies to be traded on its platform starting Tuesday, reversing a longstanding position (Emily Graffeo/Bloomberg)
Dozens of US universities and colleges have announced new AI departments and programs over the last two years; an AI program is now MIT's second-largest major (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
Shopify suffers an outage, leaving some merchants unable to log in or access POS systems, and says it has fixed an issue and is seeing signs of recovery (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
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Michael Saylor's Strategy creates a $1.44B cash reserve funded by stock sales after cutting full-year profit and BTC yield targets due to bitcoin price drops (Stephen Alpher/CoinDesk)
Car sharing service Zipcar UK plans to shut down after London extended its Congestion Charge to EVs; Zipcar had losses of £11.7M in 2024 vs. £364,000 in 2023 (Simon Hunt/City A.M.)
Tutor Intelligence, which makes AI-powered warehouse robots, raised a $34M Series A led by Union Square Ventures, bringing its total funding to $42M (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
Swiss and German law enforcement agencies jointly shut down Cryptomixer, a major bitcoin mixing platform suspected of laundering money from criminal activities (Ludwig Burger/Reuters)
The reaction to NYT's David Sacks story aside, Sacks is pushing policies to help the US win the AI race, which also benefit him, his allies, and even his foes (Dan Primack/Axios)

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Russian Launch Site Mishap Leaves Country’s Space Program in Limbo
Inside the Bird-Flu Vaccine Trial for Monk Seals
NASA Rover Discovers Lightning on Mars
At Last, a Name for the Murderous Face in a Holocaust Photo
To Get a Man’s Attention, Meow Harder
Did the Giant Heads of Easter Island Once Walk?
He’s Beautiful, but He Has a Huge Blind Spot
U.S. Nuclear Arms Chief Warns Against Leaks of Secret Information
Mapping the Brain’s Sense of What Goes On Inside the Body
FEMA Won’t Reinstate Suspended Workers Who Signed Letter Criticizing Trump
Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War
Female Cardiothoracic Surgeons, Unlocking the Male Fortress
F.D.A. Seeks More Oversight of Vaccine Trials and Approvals
A Different Type of Dementia Is Changing What’s Known About Cognitive Decline
Beekeepers, Farmers and the Fight to Save a Century-Old Research Hub
E.P.A. Delays Requirements to Cut Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas
Paul Ekman, Who Linked Facial Expressions to Universal Emotions, Dies at 91
Trump Vowed Fewer Regulations and Lots More Oil. He’s Delivered on One.
U.S. Announces Negotiated Prices for 15 Drugs Under Medicare
Seal Milk Is the Cream of the Molecular Crop

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Editorial Expression of Concern: Cytokinesis failure generating tetraploids promotes tumorigenesis in p53-null cells
CD8+ T cell stemness precedes post-intervention control of HIV viremia
Sustained HIV-1 remission after heterozygous CCR5Δ32 stem cell transplantation
Correlates of HIV-1 control after combination immunotherapy
AI finds signs of life in ancient rocks
The mystery of emerald green — cracked
Climbing through the silver mine: my work as a geologist
Cooking up a storm of air pollution
Nature at its weirdest: what metamorphosis reveals about science and ourselves
Antibodies and T cells join forces for sustained HIV remission
David Baltimore obituary: virologist whose enzyme discovery transformed understanding of cancer and HIV/AIDS
China wants to lead the world on AI regulation — will the plan work?
Spineless creatures, possibly the world’s oldest beer receipt and more: 2025’s best Books in brief
Author Correction: Diversity-oriented synthesis yields novel multistage antimalarial inhibitors
Author Correction: Evidence for improved DNA repair in the long-lived bowhead whale
Audio long read: Faulty mitochondria cause deadly diseases — fixing them is about to get a lot easier
Laser cooling traps more antimatter atoms than ever before
Author Correction: Nasal delivery of an IgM offers broad protection from SARS-CoV-2 variants
Author Correction: Matrix viscoelasticity promotes liver cancer progression in the pre-cirrhotic liver
Author Correction: Inhibiting membrane rupture with NINJ1 antibodies limits tissue injury
Large language models are biased — local initiatives are fighting for change
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
A structured system: the secrets of Germany’s scientific reputation
Author Correction: Photocatalytic low-temperature defluorination of PFASs
This is what lightning on Mars sounds like
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Thalamocortical transcriptional gates coordinate memory stabilization
NSD2 targeting reverses plasticity and drug resistance in prostate cancer
Ferroelectric transistors for low-power NAND flash memory
Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces
Slipknot-gauged mechanical transmission and robotic operation
Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain
Multi-qubit nanoscale sensing with entanglement as a resource
Ethylene modulates cell wall mechanics for root responses to compaction
iHALT unlocks liver functionality as a surrogate secondary lymphoid organ
Inhibitory PD-1 axis maintains high-avidity stem-like CD8+ T cells
Inhibitors supercharge kinase turnover through native proteolytic circuits
Ancient DNA from Shimao city records kinship practices in Neolithic China
New finds shed light on diet and locomotion in Australopithecus deyiremeda
Evolution of taste processing shifts dietary preference
No meta-analytical effect of economic inequality on well-being or mental health
Land-use change undermines the stability of avian functional diversity
Glasses-free 3D display with ultrawide viewing range using deep learning
Detection of triboelectric discharges during dust events on Mars
Progressive coevolution of the yeast centromere and kinetochore
Entanglement-enhanced nanoscale single-spin sensing
Healthy forests safeguard traditional wild meat food systems in Amazonia
Operating two exchange-only qubits in parallel
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A distinctive human genetic lineage persisted in central Argentina for 8,500 years
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Mystery owner of African hominin foot identified
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Land-use changes threaten the safety net for birds
Author Correction: Spatial fibroblast niches define Crohn’s fistulae
Polyclonal origins of human premalignant colorectal lesions
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A human history of machines
Whither the world’s winds
Monkeys have rhythm
Programmable higher-order nonequilibrium topological phases on a superconducting quantum processor
Avian-origin influenza A viruses tolerate elevated pyrexic temperatures in mammals
The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago
Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization
Rapid compensatory evolution within a multiprotein complex preserves telomere integrity
Realization of three- and four-body interactions between momentum states in a cavity
Structural basis of T-loop–independent recognition and activation of CDKs by the CDK-activating kinase
Full utilization of noble metals by atom abstraction for propane dehydrogenation
Elasticity of davemaoite as a primary contributor to lower-mantle heterogeneities
Laser annealing enables rapid, degradation-free ambient processing of perovskite solar modules
Spectral kernel machines with electrically tunable photodetectors
Liquid-state dipolarcaloric refrigeration cycle with nitrate-based salts
Seasonal dynamics of Earth’s glaciers and ice sheets
Active learning framework leveraging transcriptomics identifies modulators of disease phenotypes
Targeted protein degradation in the transmembrane and extracellular space
A fish story
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Political appointee tells CDC to end monkey research
Curious gravitational wave may hint at primordial black holes—or just be noise
Despite Trump chaos, NSF avoided feared dip in research financing
Contrails may not be the climate villain once feared
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Hegseth Ordered Lethal Boat Strike but Not the Killing of Survivors, Officials Say
For Trump, Hegseth’s Approach to Venezuela Strikes Is a Growing Liability
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To Avoid Pharma Tariffs, U.K. Agrees to Trump’s Demand to Pay More for Drugs
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Hong Kong Contractors Used Unsafe Netting at Fire Site, Officials Say
The Transgender Cancer Patient and What She Heard on Tape
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Russian Launch Site Mishap Leaves Country’s Space Program in Limbo
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Goodbye, Price Tags. Hello Dynamic Pricing.
A Crucial Week in Ukraine Peace Negotiations
Starbucks to Pay $39 Million in Landmark N.Y.C. Labor Law Settlement
Floods in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam Have Killed Over 1,200. Here’s What to Know.
Reginald T. Jackson, A.M.E. Bishop With Political Power, Dies at 71

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Trump Seizes Back the Spotlight
Today’s Atlantic Trivia: Shakespeare and Company
Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now
Tom Stoppard Made a Spectacle of History
2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar
Trump’s Boat Strikes Could Make the Cartel Problem Worse
Rising Prices Are Bad, but Plummeting Prices Are Worse
What History’s Fallen Societies Have in Common
The Long History of the Hamnet Myth
When Donald Trump Fired David Rubenstein
The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI
The Bubble-Wrapped President
The New German War Machine
The Eloquence
The World Still Hasn’t Made Sense of ChatGPT
Five Books to Read on Your Next Flight
The Movies Got Small, and So Did We
Why the Gulf Monarchs Shower Trump With Gifts
What Is RFK Jr. After?
How to Change Your Sleep Patterns
The Germans Who Stood Up to Hitler
Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize
Today’s Instagram Trivia Answers
America’s Slide Toward Simulated Democracy
The Comedian Dismantling the Alpha-Male Persona

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What we know about the National Guard shooting in D.C.
Northwestern to pay $75 million to end Trump administration probes
Ludwig Minelli, founder of leading assisted suicide group, ends his life at 92
How Trump’s ICE crackdown is impacting Chicago’s economy
4 killed, 11 injured in shooting at family celebration in California
A widow and widower fell in love during water aerobics. They wed in the pool.
In Houston suburbs, Abbott’s attacks on CAIR unnerve Muslim residents
Deepfake of North Carolina lawmaker used in award-winning Whirlpool video
Why you may not want lower prices as much as you think you do

World

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Hegseth, with White House help, tries to distance himself from boat strike fallout
Unsafe netting used at Hong Kong fire site, officials say, as toll rises to 151
Ludwig Minelli, founder of leading assisted suicide group, ends his life at 92
Conservatives virtually tied in Honduras election after Trump endorsement
In war-weary Lebanon, many look to Pope Leo for peace
How China is using AI to extend censorship and surveillance
As more speak Irish in Northern Ireland, some Brits bite their tongues
Trump says Hegseth denied issuing order to kill boat crew
Trump’s embrace of ‘remigration’ echoes Europe’s far right
More than 500 dead across Southeast Asia after record rainfall, floods
Acclaimed ‘Inconvenient Indian’ reveals he’s not Indigenous
Climate change, aging farmers endanger Japan’s ‘Rolls-Royce of pearls’
Indian outreach to Taliban is ratcheting up Afghan-Pakistani tensions

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H-1B to Plan B: India’s top tech talent looks beyond the U.S.
ChatGPT turns 3
Chinese businesses are transforming Mexico City’s poshest neighborhood
The UAE’s AI strategy winds through Silicon Valley
U.S. gains in AI race as Gulf nations ditch China for chips
Meet the tech leaders bringing Syria into the digital age
China is setting the pace in the EV race, and the West can’t keep up
China starts a food fight over Western EV tariffs
ChatGPT is huge in India. These locally focused startups found a way to compete
Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar paycheck depends on the markets he’s losing
China wants electric cars to feed power back to the grid
Gaza’s tech community reflects on two years of war

The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice

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A Conservative Student Got a Zero on Her Paper about Gender. Did She Deserve It?
Tracking Trump’s Higher-Ed Deals
How to Get the Quiet Ones to Speak Up
The Trump Administration Detained a Longtime Faculty Member, Saying He's an Undocumented Immigrant
How a New Law Could Change the Way Low-Income Students Access College
A Professor Was Released After 3 Days in ICE Detention. His Colleagues Fear a ‘New Normal.’
Deborah Lipstadt's Fight Over Fighting Antisemitism
Robert P. George and the Great Campus Vibe Shift
Beware Bespoke Deals With Trump
Schools of Civic Thought Are on the Rise. Are Students Interested?

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Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | November 30, 2025
Short Answers to Simple Questions | November 26, 2025
In ‘Bullshit Jobs’, David Graeber ponders how 20th century female secretaries often would have done most of their bosses’ actual jobs, without credit. Like him, I wonder how many documents, plans etc., might have been written in this way. Have any significant examples ever come to light?
Basque is a language isolate, unrelated to any other known language. How much do we know about the origins and early history of the Basque people themselves?
How did the 5-pointed star ⭐️ become the “canonical” star shape?
Where does the Rambo ramble that "somebody didn't let us win" come from?
My name is Clifton Crais and I am here to talk about my new book which explores a central question: How did Violence Make the Modern World? The Killing Age will be published by University of Chicago Press in November in North America, and by Picador elsewhere.
Were dreams and character motivations drastically different pre-1000 BCE?
Beauty standards and aesthetic preferences change over time. Was there a time when the German language was considered especially beautiful or elegant by its neighbors? When and by whom?
Why didnt goats become a common livestock in Japan?
What events/people/movements/etc were deemed important enough to be included in a U.S. History course in 1900 and not one today, given that U.S. history has (obviously) gotten longer whereas class terms have not?
I've heard that gendered variations of the pronoun tā in Mandarin Chinese are a relatively recent thing in the language and that, prior to the 20th century, it was gender-neutral. Is this true and if so, what prompted this change?
Why did Austria not join the German Empire during unification in 1871?
Will AI corrupt the historical record?
How did (video)gaming come to be a gendered activity? How does this compare to the formation of gender roles elsewhere?
Were the problems on the set of The Wizard of Oz unusual for the time?
How did the Democrats and Republicans come to be the main default parties of the US?
How accurate was the Gregorian Calendar in naming the birth of Christ at 0 A.D and his crucifixion at 33 A.D?
In the aftermath of the Lincoln assassination by gunshot, was there any discussion of gun control in the US?
How realistic would be that people in the year 1190, England, would still identify as "Saxons" and still hold pagan beliefs as depicted in the new Robin Hood series?
Why were there no Age of Sail "dreadnoughts"?
Why did clement Attlee lose the 1951 election to the conservatives?
What was the point of drawing swords in a knight’s duel?
At the end of US Prohibition, how common was it for speakeasies to turn into legal bars?
"After the border incursion that led to the Cambodian-Vietnamese war, why did the UN choose to ignore complaints? Why was Vietnam's complaint dismissed and why did that lead to the war?"

Linguistics

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Q&A weekly thread - December 01, 2025 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
Paul Kiparsky on Pāṇini | History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences
Moral foundations and language ideologies: how different moral concerns predict endorsement of linguistic diversity, prescriptivism, and purism
AMA with Indiana University Computational Linguistics
Q&A weekly thread - November 24, 2025 - post all questions here!
Development of Aspect and Tense in Semitic Languages: Typological Considerations by Vit Bubenik
Q&A weekly thread - November 17, 2025 - post all questions here!
Vindicating the role of ideophones as a typological feature of Basque. Ibarretxe-Antuñano (2023)
Italian dialects and language contact. Theory, typology, data. An introduction. Wild, Negrinelli, Breimaier, Cristelli, Loporcaro & Paciaroni. (2025).
Q&A weekly thread - November 10, 2025 - post all questions here!
Is this that? The Nitty-Gritty on Reduplication: So Good, You Have to Say it Twice. - JSTOR Daily
Q&A weekly thread - November 03, 2025 - post all questions here!
Zellig Harris, Noam Chomsky and the verbal auxiliary
Harvard researcher Dr. Tiffany Hogan explains how speech and language shape literacy — fascinating interview
Research Preview: "A Descriptive Study of Factors Affecting English (L2) Pronunciation”
The prehistory of generative grammar and Chomsky’s debt to Emil Post
Old Irish Slang & Jargon: a Grammatical Approach, lecture by David Stifter
Akabea (Great Andamanese) as an anumeric language and the problem of Akabea ordinals. Comrie & Zamponi (2024). Italian Journal of Linguistics, 36/2: 3–28.
Q&A weekly thread - October 27, 2025 - post all questions here!
On the comparative method, internal reconstruction, and other analytical tools for the reconstruction of the evolution of the Basque language: An assessment -Hualde 2020
Calunga, a lesser known language from Brazil:
Semantic Shift in Old English and Old Saxon Identity Terms
New study finds no evidence for the classic 'phoneme effect' on the Mismatch Negativity (MMN) brain response, suggesting the brain's automatic sound discrimination may not be as language-specific as previously thought and challenging its use as a benchmark for language
Q&A weekly thread - October 20, 2025 - post all questions here!

MetaFilter Projects

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Motif: create patterns, see them repeat
Short Fiction about Academic Tech
TSOFA - The Simple, Offline Flashcard App
Tri-Con: The Trident Conference for Speculative Fiction
DOCTYPE magazine
The Immortal Remains
Metformin (Glucophage) may have made me smarter.
Agent Cupcake: The Unicorn Spy
Halloween costume: the night sky
Jabo's Annual Halloween Cartoon 2025
New York City election endorsements (ballot proposals and judges)
New MeFiCoFo board elected
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Resynthesizing "Invention in D Minor" from Switched-On Bach
The 1% Guild
I gave a lecture about my Egyptian furniture replicas
Dot Battle - a Javascript Physics Toy
Pettable Croutons, for you and for me
Vote for the MeFiCoFo Board of Directors here
Archive/Convert your Typepad Blog

Open Culture

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Inside Disney’s Long, Frustrated Quest to Create Artificial Human Beings: A Six-Hour Documentary
An Immersive, ASMR-Style Look at Japanese Woodblock Printing
How the “Marvelization” of Cinema Accelerates the Decline of Filmmaking
The Illustrated Version of “Alice’s Restaurant”: Watch Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture Classic
What Was the Most Revolutionary Painting of the 20th Century?: The Case for Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
Thanksgiving Menu at the Plaza Hotel in New York City (1899)
How to Improve Your Attention Span: Daniel Pink’s Strategies for the Digital Age
Watch Winsor McCay’s The Sinking of the Lusitania, the First Major Animated Propaganda Film (1918)
200 Ansel Adams Photographs Expose the Rigors of Life in Japanese Internment Camps During WW II
Take a 2‑Hour Walking Tour Through New York City: Architects Reveal the Secrets Behind Its Most Iconic Buildings
How IKEA Revolutionized Furniture-Making
Why Movies Don’t Feel Real Anymore: A Close Look at Changing Filmmaking Techniques
J.R.R. Tolkien Expressed a “Heartfelt Loathing” for Walt Disney and Refused to Let Disney Studios Adapt His Work
An Introduction to Hilma af Klint: Once a Forgotten Painter, Now a Celebrated Pioneer of Abstract Art
The Great Wave Off Kanagawa by Hokusai: An Introduction to the Iconic Japanese Woodblock Print in 17 Minutes

NYT > Technology

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College Students Choosing A.I. Majors Over Computer Science
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Hard Fork’s 50 Most Iconic Technologies of 2025
David Lerner, a Mr. Fix-it of Apple Computers, Dies at 72
Take Command of Your Powerful New Smartphone Camera
Fears About A.I. Prompt Talks of Super PACs to Rein In the Industry
The Interview: How Wikipedia Is Responding to the Culture Wars
What Is Agentic A.I., and Would You Trust It to Book a Flight?
A.I. Can Do More of Your Shopping This Holiday Season
I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.
RealPage Agrees to Settle Federal Rent-Collusion Case
An Auto Holy Grail: Motors That Don’t Rely on Chinese Rare Earths
X Displays Users’ Locations, Fueling Scrutiny Over Political Accounts
How OpenAI’s Changes Sent Some Users Spiraling
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality
A.I. Toy Bear Speaks of Sex, Knives and Pills, Consumer Group Warns
Cryptology Group Held an Election, but Can’t Decrypt the Results
The Fate of Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly Is Now in a Judge’s Hands
We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.

NYT > Arts

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The ‘Race Against Time’ to Save Music Legends’ Decaying Tapes
On the Eve of Art Basel Miami Beach, a Case of the Jitters
Miami Beach’s New Art Installation Frolics With the Fishes
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Demands Netflix Drop 50 Cent Series, Citing New Footage
‘The Artist’ Blends Degas and Dollars, Murder and Mandy Patinkin
Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf to Star in ‘Death of a Salesman’ on Broadway
Pace, Di Donna and David Schrader Join Forces to Form New Art Gallery
It’s a Homophobic Slur. What’s It Doing in So Much Theater?
Two Galleries Form New Art Prize
The Oxford 2025 Word of the Year Is ‘Rage Bait’
Nashville Closed a Red Grooms Masterpiece. Now the City Wants It Back.
When Tom Stoppard Confronted His Background in His Final Play ‘Leopoldstadt’
Tom Stoppard Wrote Dialogue for Indiana Jones and Obi-Wan Kenobi
13 Plays to See in December Featuring Michelle Williams, Matthew Broderick and More Stars
‘The Merchants of Joy’ Review: Cutthroat Christmas Tree Sales
The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Disney+, Amazon, HBO Max, Peacock and More in December
The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix in December
28 Fun Things to Do in NYC in December 2025
Norton Art Museum Hosts Old Masters From the Leiden Collection
Untitled Art Fair in Miami Spotlights Hard-to-Define Artists
Why Is Budapest, the ‘City of Baths,’ Running Out of Bathhouses?
‘Heated Rivalry,’ Plus 8 Things to Watch on TV This Week
‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Season 1, Episode 6 Recap: Daddy’s Little Girl
Daniel Woodrell, ‘Country Noir’ Novelist of ‘Winter’s Bone,’ Dies at 72
Biyouna, Algerian Star With Tart Tongue Onscreen and Off, Dies at 73
Stream Movies Written by Tom Stoppard: ‘Shakespeare In Love’ and More
Review: It’s Hard to Breathe in This ‘Walküre’
Glenn Close, Ethan Hawke and Others Mourn Tom Stoppard
Beyond Art Basel Miami Beach, a Lesson in Cuban American History Awaits
Headed to Art Basel Miami Beach? Here’s What to Know.
Jack Pierson in Miami: An Artist and a City in Transformation
The Language of Tom Stoppard, Ablaze With Energy and Urgency
The Grand Ole Opry Toasts 100 Years and Considers What’s Next
Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88
Jason Schwartzman Finds Peace at the Library
What’s on Your Best-Of List for 2025? We Want to Know.
5 Podcasts to Help You Savor Coffee
‘Hamilton’ Has Had Quite a Run: An Artist Looks Back
The Beguiling, Misunderstood Theremin
For Detectives on TV, the Messiest Case Is Often at Home
Ellen Bryant Voigt, Poet With a Musical Ear, Dies at 82
Five Action Movies to Stream Now
At Tate Britain’s Turner and Constable Show, You Don’t Have to Pick Sides
7 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
Three Great Documentaries to Stream
John Tesh Keeps Bouncing Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba Back
The Great Beatles Documentary That’s Nearly Impossible to See (Legally)
In ‘The Tale of Silyan,’ the Storks Are Watching
‘The Holiday’: A Festive Cocktail, Equal Parts Charm and Cringe
Louvre Raising Ticket Prices for Non-European Visitors
Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, Photographer of Dreamlike Tableaux, Dies at 82
At New York City Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker,’ Bring on Fritz and Brat Winter
How a Rediscovered Klimt Got Swept Up in an International Dispute
Robert A.M. Stern, Architect Who Reinvented Prewar Splendor, Dies at 86
‘Blossoms Shanghai’ Review: In the Mood for Commerce
5 Years After His Death, John Prine Gets a Cinematic Send-Off
A Guide to NYC Holiday Events: Rockefeller Tree Lighting, Ice Skating and More
‘You Got Gold: A Celebration of John Prine’ Review: Paying Tribute in Nashville
‘The Thing With Feathers’ Review: Parenting Without Your Better Half
‘The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo’ Review: Freelancing Woes
‘Left-Handed Girl’ Review: An Electric Portrait of Taipei

Geography

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Today I learned that the US Census Bureau considers Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia as part of the Southern US.
Ice Age: Was it possible to cross from North America to Europe via Greenland and Iceland?
What single country or union has the potential to become a global/continental superpower if everything went right?
Why is the israeli/gaza/sinai coast so smooth?
Why is Indonesia not talked about enough or relevant enough considering its size?
The tides in the Bay of Fundy are so extreme that boats can go from floating to touching the bay floor twice a day! What's another area of the world that experiences similar tidal extremes?
Laos is turning 50 tomorrow. Which other countries have been in existence for less than 50 years? How are they doing?
Is Seoul the only megacity that contains more than half of its country’s population?
Is there any reason this color of the arabian desert is such a different color?
Why is western north america so continuously mountainous?
Reykjavik is a European capital that geologically is in North America as it lies just west of the fault line the cuts through the country.
Where in the world is East Bromwich? Can Birmingham be considered it?
What is the most influential river in the world?
Why do we rarely hear anything about these countries?
Why is this populated area of Wisconsin not called the "Wisconsin Triangle"
There are towns named North, South, East and West Bend in the USA
That's Mount Washington, NH. Despite looking like somewhere in Colorado, Wyoming or Montana, it's actually in New England. What's another example of a place that seems to be in a completely different state?
The Brazil–Paraguay–Argentina Triple Frontier is one of the most dynamic places in the Americas. It is home to the Iguazu Falls and one of the largest hydroelectric plants in the world, Itaipu. But the main highlight is the region’s commercial hub, which is one of the busiest in the world.
Which remote location on Earth is the most interesing for you?
What factors might explain why East Asia wins a lot more Olympic medals than the rest of the continent?
This beach seems to be in Italy or Greece, but it is actually in the UK. What's another beach that doesn't seem to be in the country it actually is?
Percentage of Indigenous people by state in Brazil:
Romani people by country. Any surprises with this data?
Oversized Atlas for Children?
Showing just cargo ships

The Public Domain Review

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“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
The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920)
Trojan Pig: Tiny Cryptic #11
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 Drift of Things: David Goodman Croly’s Glimpses of the Future (1888)
Sartorial Codes: Tiny Cryptic #3
Gustatory Wisdom: Bruegel the Elder’s Twelve Proverbs (1558)
What Is It Like to Be a Bass? Fish-Eye View Photography (1919–22)
The Cat’s Meat Man: Feeding Felines in Victorian London
Paws for Thought: Tiny Cryptic #2
Reality Iced: Robert J. Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922)
Pied Beauty: Wari Tie-Dye Textiles (ca. 425–1100)
George Baxter’s Print of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (ca. 1854)
“Relaxations for the Impotent”: Ben Hecht’s Fantazius Mallare and the Contradictions of American Smut
Fantazius’ Folly: Tiny Cryptic #1
Peckish Alphabetics: The Tragical Death of a Apple-Pye (ca. 1793–1796)
A Wetted Beak: Engravings from Pauline Knip’s Les Pigeons (1811)
Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes
Designing the Sublime: Boullée and Ledoux’s Architectural Revolution
Happy Together: The Laughing Prince: A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1921)
Alfred G. Mayer’s On the Color and Color-Patterns of Moths and Butterflies (1897)
Perpetual Movement: Francis Picabia’s 391 Review (1917–1924)
Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive
Happy Public Domain Day 2025!
Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2024
The Color of Memory: Albert Kahn’s Archives of the Planet

The Quietus

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Kara-Lis Coverdale – Changes In Air
The Quietus Albums of the Year 2025 (In Association with Norman Records)
De La Soul – Cabin in the Sky
Aphex Twin Uploads Two New Songs to SoundCloud
Dekmantel Introduces New Morning Programming for 2026 Edition
Rewire Reveals First Acts Playing 2026 Edition
Brian Eno, Neneh Cherry and More to Collaborate on New Palestine Charity Single
The Magical Spectrum: Bianca Scout & Cajm Interviewed
Elijah Minnelli – Clams As A Main Meal
Here Are the 25 Best Dancefloor Bangers of the 21st Century So Far…
My Bloody Valentine, YHWH Nailgun and More Join No Music For Genocide Campaign
Talking Heads Unveil Rarities Compilation for Record Store Day Black Friday
NTS Radio to Mark 15th Anniversary with Series of London Events
KIK – Nightshift
Laser Focussed: FRKWYS Vol. 18: Extended Field by Arnold Dreyblatt & Horse Lords
The Strange World Of… David Lynch
Organic Intelligence L: The Legacy of Bollywood Disco Legend, Bappi Lahiri
Been Around The World: The Magical Odyssey Of The Avalanches’ Since I Left You
Spotify to Increase US Subscription Prices in 2026
James Holden & Wacław Zimpel Share Recording of MUTEK 2025 Set
Why Ivor Cutler is my Spirit Guide, by Hamish Hawk
Anton Anishchanka – Krope
Noise is a Healing Force: My Bloody Valentine Live
A Representation of Life: Makaya McCraven Interviewed
Lia Kohl – Various Small Whistles and a Song
Kindred Spirits: FearDorian & osquinn Interviewed
Jimmy Cliff has Died, Aged 81
Major Labels Sign Licensing Deal with AI Music Company Klay Vision Inc.
Kraftwerk Memorabilia Auction Fetches Record Sale Prices
Why Edge Of Darkness Makes So Much Sense in 2025
Jugaad – Re-Semblance
Murderers Among Us: Owen Hatherley Picks Over the ‘Rubble Films’ of Post-War East Germany

Bandcamp Updates

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The Tape Label Report, November 2025
Various Artists, “Ghana Special: Highlife”
The Best Latin Music on Bandcamp, November 2025
Iona Zajac, “BANG”
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, November 2025
The Best Punk on Bandcamp, November 2025
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, November 2025
The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, November 2025
MJ Noble, “Songs From My Castle Tower”
The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, November 2025
The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, November 2025
The Best Hip-Hop on Bandcamp, November 2025
أحمد [Ahmed], “سماع [Sama’a] (Audition)”
The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, November 2025
The Bug vs Ghost Dubs, “Implosion”
The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, November 2025
Indie Pop’s Big Year Out
Caroline True Obsesses Over Compilations So You Don’t Have To
DJ Lag, “Southside Mixtape”
Suck on This, Squarehead: A Guide to Foetus
Jessica Williams, “Blue Abstraction: Prepared Piano Project 1985–1987”
Music Made With Non-Instruments
Paul Kidney Experience, “PAUL KIDNEY JAPANESE EXPERIENCE”
Music for Many Holidays
Reveries & Ritual: A British Solo Acoustic Guitar Primer
Hélène Barbier, “Panorama”
Essential Releases, November 14, 2025
Red River Dialect, “Basic Country Mustard”
Sister Irene O’Connor, “Fire of God’s Love”
“Jazz With A Cowboy Hat:” An Introduction to Western Swing
Shungu, “Faith In The Unknown”
Bands Left Behind By Streaming
Roseblood Festival Brings a Femme Focus to the Bay Area Underground
When Worlds Divide: Terry Riley and La Monte Young’s Parallel Universes

dusted

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Sharp Pins — Balloon Balloon Balloon (K / Perennial)
Rachel Bobbitt — Swimming Towards Sand (Fantasy)
Happy (American) Thanksgiving from Dusted to all who are celebrating. As usual, we will be off the…
Burning Death — S/T (Caligari)
Joel Cusumano — Waxworld (Dandy Boy)
Pat Thomas — HIKMAH (Tao Forms)
Pang Attack — Tears for the Wave (Independiente)
Andrew Weathers Ensemble — Fuck Everybody, You Can Do Anything [10 Year Anniversary] (Debacle)
Cattlemass — Alpha 1128 (Seeing Red)
Dust, Volume 11, Number 11
Listed: Jessica Moss
Morton Feldman— Intermission 6 (Another Timbre)
Mara Gibson — Unseen World (Mark)
Flowers We Are — Flowers We Are (Klanggalerie)
Feeo — Goodness (AD 93)
Jessica Moss — Unfolding (Constellation)
verity den — Wet Glass (Amish)
Jakub Šimanský — What Do You Mean By That? (8592786 Records DK2)
Optik Sink — Lucky Number (Feel It!)
Anthony Braxton — Quartet (England)/1985 (Burning Ambulance Music)

Pitchfork

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FKA twigs Announces 2026 Tour, Shares New “Love Crimes” Video: Watch
Radiohead Postpone European Tour Dates Due to Thom Yorke’s Throat Infection
The 100 Best Songs of 2025
Balloon Balloon Balloon
Charlie Puth, Brandi Carlile, and Coco Jones to Perform at 2026 Super Bowl Pregame
How You Been
Red sky at morning
Aphex Twin’s SoundCloud Updated With Two Songs: Listen
Strangers From the Universe
My Bloody Valentine Live Review: Embrace the Volume
Jack White and Eminem Unite for Halftime Show at Detroit Lions Thanksgiving Game: Watch
New Stranger Things Season 5 Soundtrack Announced
6 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Mavi, Jessie J, and More
The Best Music Merch Gifts of 2025
What of Our Nature
Brian Eno, Neneh Cherry, and More Unite for Palestine Benefit Single
Watch De La Soul Perform Songs From New Album on Kimmel
Talking Heads to Release New Rarities Compilation on Record Store Day Black Friday
An Interview with Lawrence, Icon of the Pop Underground
Warner Joins Forces With AI Song Generator, Suno, That It Was Suing
Oneohtrix Point Never Announces European Tour Dates for Spring 2026
Shine
sorry i thought you were someone else
50 Cent’s Diddy Docuseries Gets Title and Netflix Release Date
Nas and DJ Premier Announce New Album Light-Years
The Sword & the Soaring
Panorama
FKA twigs, Sturgill Simpson, and Bonnie “Prince” Billy to Star in New Movie The Lonely Woman
Speed Win Inaugural AU$80,000 New South Wales Music Prize
“Big Daddy”

Cool Tools

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Apps for China Travel/Airline Stopovers/Unlimited Budget Flights
What’s in my NOW? — Emma Christley
Dark Night / Ciro’s Nightclub of the Stars
Micro-Lending
Feeling Through Art / Revealing read / Airport rides
Gar’s Tips & Tools – Issue #206
Pricier Mexican Residency/SteriPEN Ultralight/Expat Issue Discussions
What’s in my NOW? — Molly Harris
The Creative Architect / How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Coral

McMansion Hell

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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
pre-recession, post-taste
Bonus McMansion Hell: Ye Olde Barrington

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?
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