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STMicro plans to retrain workers and deploy humanoid robots in its older chip plants for repetitive and physically demanding tasks, aiming to avoid closures (Nathan Vifflin/Reuters)
Sources: HSBC and Standard Chartered are set to be among the first licensed stablecoin issuers in Hong Kong, as the city pushes to become a crypto hub (Bloomberg)
China approves the market launch of an invasive BCI system that helps restore hand movement, the world's first approval of such a device for commercial use (Reuters)
Alex Karp says AI disrupts the economic power of "humanities-trained, largely Democratic voters" and strengthens that of "working-class, often male voters" (Kelby Vera/HuffPost)
Docs: Binance investigators found accounts, including those of VIP Chinese traders and a suspected Iranian gold smuggler, helped move $1B to Iran-linked groups (Fortune)
Source: the perpetrators of the wiper attack on Stryker appear to have used Microsoft Intune to issue a "remote wipe" command against all connected devices (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
Sources: ByteDance is working with Aolani Cloud to deploy 500 Nvidia Blackwell systems in Malaysia, featuring ~36,000 B200 chips and likely costing over $2.5B (Wall Street Journal)
The European Commission says "X has submitted remedies in relation to its blue check mark" in the EU and the commission will "assess" the proposed remedies (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)
A survey of US adults: 75% say they have heard a lot or a little about data centers; 39% say they are bad for the environment, and 38% bad for home energy costs (Pew Research Center)
Developers on AI coding: many are enthusiastic and now feel more like architects than construction workers, some say software jobs openings may grow, and more (Clive Thompson/New York Times)
Apple is lowering its commission for its App Store in mainland China from 30% to 25%, starting on March 15, "following discussions with the Chinese regulator" (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Telus Digital confirms a security incident after ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen ~1PB of data from the Canadian outsourcing giant in a multimonth breach (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
Sources: Qualified Health, which helps health care organizations assess and orchestrate AI tools, is raising a ~$100M Series A from NEA, SignalFire, and others (Erin Brodwin/Axios)
Social media addiction trial: the plaintiff, Meta, and YouTube make closing arguments; jurors begin deliberations Friday on liability for harm to children (Associated Press)
Sources: UK-based cloud provider Nscale is in talks to buy a major data center site in West Virginia; Amazon and Meta have also expressed interest in the site (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)

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NASA Says Artemis II Moon Launch Is On Track for April 1
Space Jam: NASA’s MADCAP Team Directs Traffic at the Moon
In Criminal Cases, Moss Is Often Underfoot and Overlooked
Why Falling Cats Always Seem to Land on Their Feet
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His Harvard Lab Was Thriving. Then Came the Cuts.
Flowers Are Blooming in California’s Death Valley
Trump Administration Sues California Over Tailpipe Emissions Limits
How Trump Officials Embraced an Animal Rights Campaign
A Third of Americans Have Cut Spending or Borrowed Money for Health Care
Anthony J. Leggett Dies at 87; Won Nobel for Theories on Superfluids
Iran Shocks Could Spur a Shift to Clean Energy — But Also to Coal
In Talking to Parents About Vaccines, Pediatricians Navigate a Sea of Misinformation
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Oil Prices Will Remain High as Iran War Continues
F.D.A. Opens Door to More Flavored E-Cigarettes
A Night Light in the Sky? Reflect Orbital Wants to Launch a Big Space Mirror.
Viral Outbreaks Take a Common Path from Animals to People, Study Finds
MoMath Brings Prime Numbers to a Prime New Location
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Youthful antics predict lifespan — at least for these fish
No such thing as a shark? Genomes shake up ocean predator’s family tree
‘Einstein‘ bot sharpens debate over AI in the classroom
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How bioRxiv changed the way biologists share ideas – in numbers
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Author Correction: Gut stem cell necroptosis by genome instability triggers bowel inflammation
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The dynamic basis of G-protein recognition and activation by a GPCR
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Lense–Thirring precessing magnetar engine drives a superluminous supernova
Facile induction of immune tolerance by an interleukin-2–TGFβ surrogate agonist
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Intestinal interoceptive dysfunction drives age-associated cognitive decline
Assembly of helper NLR resistosome clusters upon activation of a coiled-coil NLR
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B cell imprinting in children impairs antibodies to the haemagglutinin stalk
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A big-push community intervention reduced rates of child marriage by 80%
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Natural maternal immunity protects neonates from Escherichia coli sepsis
Ageing promotes metastasis via activation of the integrated stress response
Risk-adaptive therapy guided by dynamic ctDNA in nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Gene conversion empowers natural selection in a clonal fish species
A mechanism to initiate emergency type 2 myelopoiesis
Daily briefing: ‘Virtual cell’ simulates nearly every chemical reaction in the real thing
Memory loss is fuelled by gut microbes in ageing mice
China pledges billion-dollar spending boost for science
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Quantum entanglement as a tool to image distant astronomical objects
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Dynamics of circulating tumour DNA can guide treatment decisions for improved outcomes
Statistics reach a 'crisis point': nations struggle with a critical lack of data
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A fellowship of the rings in plant defence
Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria
‘Black rain’ in Tehran — what are the health effects?
Gut microbes affect cognition during ageing
Marriage of adolescent girls in Nigeria reduced by 80% by ‘big push’ intervention
Scientists revive activity in frozen mouse brains for the first time
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Artificial general intelligence must be assessed in its scientific and societal context
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The imminent collapse of the Great Salt Lake
Antimicrobial resistance in India
Whole-embryo spatial transcriptomics at subcellular resolution from gastrulation to organogenesis
Strong and brittle lithium dendrites
Computational design of conformation-biasing mutations to alter protein functions
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Ravens anticipate wolf kill sites across broad scales
Lifelong behavioral screen reveals an architecture of vertebrate aging
Autophagolysosomal exocytosis inverts Src kinase onto the cell surface in cancer
Cancer interception with KRAS inhibitors in preclinical models of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
Programmable genome editing in human cells using RNA-guided bridge recombinases
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Evolutionary adaptation to global change reduces sustainable fisheries yields
Rapid evolution predicts demographic recovery after extreme drought
Multistep genomics on single cells and live cultures in subnanoliter capsules
High-throughput single-cell omics using semipermeable capsules
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A Weakened Iran Hits Back by Strangling the Vital Strait of Hormuz
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Inside the Dirty, Dystopian World of AI Data Centers
Oil Really Could Hit $200 a Barrel
Florida Is Trying to Ignore Measles Until It Can’t
A Strongman at The Hague
The Fog of AI
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The Atlantic’s April Cover: McKay Coppins on His Year as a Degenerate Gambler
The Real Reason California Can’t Build
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The Republican Party Continues Eating Its Own
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Trump Isn’t Even Trying to Sell This War
A Police Report About a House Candidate Surprised the White House
Dubai’s Army of Influencers Gets Back in Line
The Republican Who Wants to Banish His Own Constituents

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After 30 years of waiting, a father and son’s birthday wish comes true
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Ex-DOJ prosecutor who proclaimed ‘this job sucks’ will run for Congress

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4 dead after U.S. Air Force refueler crashes in Iraq while supporting Iran war
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Lebanon appeals to Israel’s allies to intervene and says hundreds are killed
U.S. sailors injured in fire aboard aircraft carrier supporting Iran war
Ukraine strikes Russian electronics plant that builds missile components
Nations agree to release oil reserves as war in Iran hits global economy
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Western AI models “fail spectacularly” in farms and forests abroad
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Black-box AI and cheap drones are outpacing global rules of war
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Why One Campus Told the Government It Has Ties With 1,200 Groups That 'May' Discriminate
Will a Merger Swallow This Small College's Sudden Success on the Court?
Is AI Making Us Stupid? Cal Newport Is Worried.
Old Dominion Faculty Vote No Confidence in Leaders Over Plan to Compress Online Courses
The University of California Is Abandoning International Students
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Why It's So Hard For Professors To Say Anything Good About Academe
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The Spokesperson for NYU Law Wrote a Novel Skewering Law Schools
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Thursday Reading & Recommendations | March 12, 2026
Short Answers to Simple Questions | March 11, 2026
Was it feasible for Ferris Bueller and friends in 1985-6 to do everything we see them do in a single Chicago school day?
Messages on bombs is a bit of a meme, but have we found arrows with propaganda or insults for the enemy?
What fuel did premodern Egyptians use for cooking?
Today, the name Einstein is synonymous with genius. Was he the first person to be immortalized like this?
Why did American settlers and explores in the old west name so many places/land marks after death or the devil? Devil’s this and Death’s that, for really esthetically pleasing places why are their names associated with evil and suffering?
How common was sexual violence between enslaved people during American slavery?
Did Hitler spend money on personal luxurious?
Watching Mad Men. The tv sets they show - was the reception really that bad?
I’ve heard that when laser was invented, it didn’t have an intended use and was described as ‘a solution looking for a problem’. Is that really true?
I'm a pioneer woman in 1870s Texas, and my husband has just passed away. We have no heirs, and very few relatives (the ones we do have live 2,000 miles away). Would I inherit my husband's house and land?
How was Ataturk able to secularize and build a modern nation state?
Did sarmatian women use hot metal to burn and stop the development of young girls's chest to make their arms suitable for fights?
How do historians assess the impact of the US embargo on Cuba’s economic development after the Cuban Revolution?
Was there any "long" version of the Spanish Flu similar to long COVID?
What was the typical education level/intelligence of transatlantic ship workers in the 17th and 18th centuries ?
How far did the 19th-century drill go in those early weeks of 1914?
How historically unique was Machiavelli’s loyalty to Florence after the fall of the republic and his torture and exile? Would he have known of past figures who remained patriots in similar circumstances?
In King of the Road, why is he going to Bangor?
Is it true that bakers in medieval Al-Andalus had to cover their faces while preparing bread?
What did medieval European peasants who could not afford wedding rings use instead?
Are there any active efforts to make private social media accounts accessible to future historians?
Was the fall of the roman empire just "the people in charge before were no longer in charge, and the people called romans before were no longer called romans", or was the change more fundamental?
Was Enver Hoxha purely paranoid when he built his bunkers or was there another cause?

Linguistics

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Q&A weekly thread - March 09, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
“Inside the kaleidoscope: unravelling the ‘feeling different’ experience of bicultural bilinguals”
Thoughts on critique of CDA?
Q&A weekly thread - March 02, 2026 - post all questions here!
Negativas: A Prototype for Searching and Classifying Sentential Negation in Speech Data
SPATIAL CODE AND CULTURAL GESTALT IN THE MEDIA FRAMING OF BUSINESS DISCOURSE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
An outline of Proto-Indo-European
Lusitanian language and onomastics of Lusitania: 25 years later (2021) [Spanish]
Q&A weekly thread - February 23, 2026 - post all questions here!
A new study reveals that newborn chicks connect sounds with shapes just like humans, suggesting deep evolutionary roots of the “bouba-kiki” effect
A Grammar of Gaddi
A Sociophilological Account of the Formation and Evolution of the Term Língua Geral, with Emphasis on Amazonia
Q&A weekly thread - February 16, 2026 - post all questions here!
Polysynthesis in Sora (Munda) with Special Reference to Noun Incorporation (2017)
Q&A weekly thread - February 09, 2026 - post all questions here!
Language Ownership and Language Ideologies - Margaret Speas in Negotiating Culture: Heritage, Ownership, and Intellectual Property (2013)
There's a grain of truth in every "myth", or, Why the discussion of lexical classes in Mundari isn't quite over yet. (2005)
The Reconstruction of Indo-European Stop Systems: From the Traditional Model to Glottalic Theories (Kloekhorst & Pronk eds. 2026)
Q&A weekly thread - February 02, 2026 - post all questions here!
Minegishi, Makoto - Santali English Japanese Wordlist
Meta-Analysis of Verbal Negation Studies in the Northeast and Southeast Regions
Q&A weekly thread - January 26, 2026 - post all questions here!
Pāṇini - Paul Kiparsky, 2022
Philosophy of Grammar in Ancient India: Reinterpreting the Gārgya Controversy in Nirukta 1.12–1.14

MetaFilter Projects

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Glasses Cleaning Simulator
Claude 2028 -- Yes Claude is running for president
Track the Oscar nominees you've watched and pick your winners
'Well, it's twinkle, twinkle, little star, /
Analyzing 5 years'-worth of heart rate and fitness data
The Sound of Ocean Heat Energy
Training chatbots on specific topics
[AI] The Machines Built a Church While You Were Sleeping
An experiment in reading resumes under time pressure
gradient.horse
New York City Housing Visualization
Relationship Evaluation Form, redux
I made Apple Syrup!
Hamster Mortis Audioboook
"See all the other memes I made"
Long Dog (and other elongated animals)
mynderMail v2 - send a note to yourself others as fast as you can type it
Eating Litter (a poem)
Ideal Conditions Calculator
Motif: create patterns, see them repeat

Open Culture

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

NYT > Technology

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Meta Delays Rollout of New A.I. Model After Performance Concerns
Social Media Addiction Trial Nears End. Society Long Ago Rendered Its Verdict.
A.I. Chatbots Want Your Health Records. Tread Carefully.
Silicon Valley’s Image Takes a Dark Turn in Pop Culture
A.I. Goes to War + Is ‘A.I. Brain Fry’ Real? + How Grammarly Stole Casey’s Identity
A.I. Writes Buggy Code. A Silicon Valley Start-Up Wants to Fix It.
Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It
They Don’t Want Their Company’s Surveillance Tool Used by ICE
Meta Acquires Moltbook, the Social Network Just for A.I. Bots
A.I. Incites a New Wave of Grieving Parents Fighting for Online Safety
Boeing Says Wiring Issue Will Delay Some 737 Max Deliveries
How Do You Use A.I. for Daily Life?
YouTube Adds Tool to Help Public Figures Report Fake Videos
Former Meta A.I. Chief’s Start-Up Is Valued at $3.5 Billion
U.S. Solar Installations Fell in 2025 as Trump Attacked Clean Energy
Anthropic Sues Department of Defense Over ‘Supply Chain Risk’ Label
For OpenAI and Anthropic, the Competition Is Deeply Personal
Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s Dance With the Pentagon: What to Know
‘Designed to Wreak Havoc’: The Cheap Drones Shaping the War With Iran
Are A.I.-Generated Videos Changing How We See Animals?
From 2017: Frances Gabe, Creator of the Only Self-Cleaning Home, Dies at 101

NYT > Arts

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Behind the Scenes of the 2026 Oscar Best Picture Nominees: ‘Sinners,’ ‘Hamnet’ and More
Jack Harlow Was a Chart-Topping Rapper. He Doesn’t Want to Brag Anymore.
From ‘It Ends With Us’ to ‘Reminders of Him,’ How Colleen Hoover Captured Hollywood
Kneecap Can’t Escape Controversy. It Wants to Be Known for More.
Grasping Esoteric Dance? It’s Child’s Play
1,865 Coats in 15 Minutes: A Fine-Tuned Opera House Team
How ‘Virgin River’ Became One of Netflix’s Biggest Hits
Andrea Constand Testifies in Support of Another Bill Cosby Accuser
‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 10 Recap: Invisible String
‘Antigone (This Play I Read in High School)’ Review: Tragically Uneven
Daniel Radcliffe Shines in ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ on Broadway
Oscars 2026 Predictions: Who Will Win Best Picture, Actor and Actress?
The Secret History of Rock’s Wildest Stage Prop: P-Funk’s Mothership
Bill Cosby, Out of Prison and the Public Eye, Faces Civil Trial
5 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
Why Dogs Are a Writer’s Best Friend
Late Night Unwraps ‘War’ vs. ‘Excursion’ vs. ‘Both’
Roscoe Robinson, Gospel Star Who Minted 1960s R&B Hits, Dies at 97
Pussycat Dolls Announce New Single and Reunion Tour
Remembering Marilyn Monroe, Draped In Diamonds and Coveting More
‘Bushido’ Review: A Samurai’s Dangerous Moves
Live Nation Slacks Reveal Employees Joking About ‘Stupid’ Fans
The Titan of Land Art Moves Indoors and Gets Intimate
Bughouse’ Review: Inside Henry Darger’s Unwieldy Mind
Maya Rudolph to Make Broadway Debut in “Oh, Mary!”
Chilean Architect Smiljan Radic Wins Pritzker Prize
5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
Histories of Native American Treaties and Anti-Chinese Violence Win Bancroft Prize
A New Oscar for Best Casting
A Giant Pigeon Is Leaving the High Line
On the Hunt for 24 Hours of Drag in N.Y.C.
‘Space Cowboy’ Review: A Sky-diving Cinematographer’s Highs and Lows
‘Slanted’ Review: Narratively Botched
‘Reminders of Him’ Review: A Second Chance at Love
‘Group: The Schopenhauer Effect’ Review: The Art of Being Patient
‘Undertone’ Review: And Now a Word From Our Demon!
In Shaker Design, a Zeal for No Zeal
Dark and Stormy Thrillers by Stephen King, Ruth Ware and More
Jimmy Kimmel Addresses FBI Warnings for Potential Iranian Drone Strike Ahead of Oscars
Top-End Auction Sales Help Pull Global Art Market Out of Slump, Study Says
Haitian President’s Widow Recalls Killers Spoke Spanish and Used Nicknames
Stephen Koch, 84, Dies; Champion of a Belatedly Hailed Photographer
Peter Schneider Dies at 85; His Novels Explored a Divided Germany
Angelika Saleh, the Angelika of Angelika Film Center, Dies at 90
Quentin Tarantino Plans ‘Swashbuckling’ Play for London’s West End
In Japan, Making Wooden Kokeshi Dolls
Minecraft’s Uncensored Library Adds a United States Wing
Dan Simmons, Genre-Leaping Author of ‘The Terror,’ Dies at 77
Through Violent Memes on Social Media, Trump Promotes the War on Iran
To Pay the Bills, a Cult Band Becomes a Doors Tribute Act
Jessie Buckley Became a Mother for ‘Hamnet.’ Then She Became a Real One. (Encore)
At This Festival, the Dead of Winter Is the Life of the Party
How ‘The Sopranos’ Came to Life
An Artist Renounced His Family. They Sued to Acquire His Life’s Work.
Late Night Makes Fun of Pete Hegseth’s Fruit Baskets
Suspect in Rihanna Shooting Is Charged With Attempted Murder
How ‘Sync Music’ Became the Soundtrack to Our Lives
Bill Kurtis to Leave NPR’s ‘Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!’
Harry Styles and 8 More Boy Band Stars Who Went Solo
Dozens of States Weigh Continuing Live Nation Antitrust Case
Review: A New ‘Tristan und Isolde’ at the Metropolitan Opera
‘Scarpetta’ Review: Nicole Kidman Stars in Long-Awaited Forensics Drama

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
Why does nebraska have this
What's with that random green splotch of Oceanic in the middle of East Texas?
Among all of these countries, whose citizens receive the most benefits and have the easiest lives? (Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, KSA, Oman etc)
Parts of the Atacama desert haven't had rain in 1000+ years; what events led to the rain stopping?
What city strikes the best balance between quality of life and cost of living in your opinion?
Least-Countries and Most-Countries Hemispheres
The Soviet Union mapped central China at 1:200,000 scale during the Cold War, here are 381 sheets georeferenced over sattelite imagery.
Beirut sits on this wedge-shaped peninsula. Does it have a name?
Brooks Range (United States and Canada). One of the major Northernmost Mountain Range. Largely unexplored frontiers in North America.
Are there any countries today where the living standards are worse than the UK 150 years ago?
Does anyone know where this is?
Strange venezuela panhanble on a peninsula
What usually happens on the land around center-pivot fields in Kansas?
what is a isthmus, but instead of surrounded by 2 bodies of water, its has 3?
What is the biggest urban area in the world by size?
Which cities in your country should have less and more people?
What are some cities whose relevance has waned or faded completely?
Map of Glacial Lake Missoula at its max size.
Emerging global industrial clusters revealed by infrastructure and logistics investments
What is this valley-like region called located in the NW border of Mongolia with Russia?
The Strait of Hormuz: A comparison of a Google Maps image and an allegedly real satellite image published by Reuters
If you could build a new Suez/Panama-style canal anywhere in the world, where would you put it and why?
Here a map of an interesting study I found in Southern identity in the Upper South, Oklahoma, and the former Border South States of Missouri, Maryland, and Delaware -Info below
Is this a reasonable ethnic-cultural map of Europe?

The Public Domain Review

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Calicornication: Postcards of Giant Produce (1909)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915)
Wayang Kulit: Raden Soelardi’s Illustrations of Javanese Puppets (1919)
The Blinkered Flâneur: Walking with Franz Hessel in 1920s Berlin
Unbridled Passions: The Eight Horses of King Mu, Son of Heaven (ca. 1300)
Pigeons Transmogrified: Hannah Glasse’s Art of Cookery (1751 edition)
Snail Homes, Bog Bodies, and Mechanical Flies: Robert Testard’s Illustrations for Les secretz de l’histoire naturelle (ca. 1485)
Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)
Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces
Sara Weiss’ Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903)
Autobiography of a “Jeep” (1943)
Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch
Flights of Fancy: The Nine Birds of Jacques de Fornazeris (1594)
A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22)
Peter Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)
Happy Public Domain Day 2026!
Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2025
A Thousand and One Nights in Italy: The Moorish Fantasias of Cesare Mattei and Ferdinando Panciatichi
Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s)
Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237)
Luke Howard’s Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865)
The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser!
“Quaint Dessert Dishes” in American Homes and Gardens (1911)
Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902)
Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting
Too Computerised? Too Cold?: 1999 A.D. (1967)
New T-Shirts (Now in 100% Organic Cotton) and New Mugs in Our Shop!
Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival
Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season - 2025
Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley
Animal Costumes from the 1862 Fairytale Ball of the Jung-München Artist’s Association
PDR's Halloween Reader
“That’s Why We Become Witches”: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (1926)
Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science
A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790)
Paramaribo and the Plantation: Gerrit Schouten’s Dioramas of Suriname (1810–30)
The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)
The Adventures and Experiences of the First Slovak Novel
Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition)
Birth of the Pearl (1901)
The End of the World as We (Didn’t) Know It: Now and Then #5
The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850)
“You Think Me a Bold Cheat”: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess
A Collection of Old English Customs, and Curious Bequests and Charities (1842)
Ivan Aivazovsky’s Miniature Seascapes (ca. 1887)
The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)
Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura
Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago (1928)
Flowers of Fealty: Wilhelm Dilich’s Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598)
Breaking the Celestial Ceiling: Now and Then #4
Through the Magnifying Glass: The Cheese Mites (1903)
Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle
Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929)
The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903)
Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography
Trojan Pig: Tiny Cryptic #11
The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920)
Strings Attached: Helen Haiman Joseph’s A Book of Marionettes (1920)
Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)
Imagining an Idle Countess: George Wightwick’s The Palace of Architecture
Under Construction: Tiny Cryptic #10
Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s Peruvian Art in the School (1926)
Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772)
Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition)
The Old, Old, Very Old Man: Thomas Parr and the Longevity Trade
Old Tricks: Tiny Cryptic #9
“The Great Enigma of Our Times”: Henry George’s Poverty and Progress (1881 edition)
In the Penal Colony: Now and Then #3
Gilded Fish: Illustrations from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780)
Charles Butler’s The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 edition)
As Bright as a Feather: Ostriches, Home Dyeing, and the Global Plume Trade
Warburg’s Werewolf: An Anamnesis
Mudpots and Fumaroles: Lithographs of Yellowstone’s Thermal Springs (1883)
Feather Tickler: Tiny Cryptic #8
A Popeless Situation: Now and Then #2
Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521)
Nikolai Agnivtsev’s Little Screw (1925)
Confessional Boxes: Tiny Cryptic #7
“I Am Making the World My Confessor”: Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte
Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll
Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917)
Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883)
Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss’ Retrofuturism
Zig-a-zig-ah: Tiny Cryptic #6
Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind’s Katzensymphonie (1868)
“The Form of a Demon and the Heart of a Person”: Kitagawa Utamaro’s Prints of Yamauba and Kintarō (ca. 1800)
Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896 edition)
Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century
Boxing Clever: Tiny Cryptic #5
Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912)
Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s)
The Mermaid “at Home!” (1809)
A Princely Ploy: Inside the Ruse of a French-Armenian Scammer
Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia and the Ostrich in Ancient and Modern Times (1926)
Con Heir: Tiny Cryptic #4
Master of Claude de France’s Book of Flower Studies (ca. 1510–1515)
José Guadalupe Posada’s Engravings of Unusual Births (ca. 1880–1910)
For He’s a Jolly Bad Fellow: Now and Then #1
The Emperor’s New Clothes: Fashion, Politics, and Identity in Mughal South Asia

The Quietus

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

Bandcamp Updates

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

dusted

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

Pitchfork

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Listen to Broken Social Scene’s New Song “Hey Amanda”
PLAY ME
Lateral
early life crisis
Exuvie
Pras Michel Drops Lawsuit Against Ms. Lauryn Hill Over Fugees Reunion Tour
Live Nation Executives Brag About “Robbing” Ticket Buyers in Slack DMs
Beabadoobee and the Marías Team Up for New Song “All I Did Was Dream of You”
Morrissey Cancels Show Because He Is Sleepy
Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen Cover Pogues Songs for Shane MacGowan Tribute Album
Miles Caton’s No-Brainer Playlist
Lord Sear, Hip-Hop Radio Mainstay, Dies at 52
Tucker Zimmerman’s Final Album Set for Posthumous Release
The Pussycat Dolls Share First New Song in Six Years
Trying Times
Of the Earth
Strictly 4 the Scythe
star scum city
CFCF Announces New Album L.U.V.
“Dry Spell”
Animal Collective’s Avey Tare and Geologist Form New Duo Croz Boyce
Listen to Robyn Cover Her Own 2002 Single “Blow My Mind”
The Knife’s Olof Dreijer Readies Debut Solo Album
Kacey Musgraves Reveals New Album Middle of Nowhere and Single
Iceage Return With First Single in Five Years
“Star”
Bad Bunny Wins Dismissal of Sample-Clearance Lawsuit
Mutiny After Midnight
A Rush to Nowhere
a short history of decay

Cool Tools

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

McMansion Hell

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mctuscan heaven
for patreon i wrote about getting stranded in tomorrowland as an 8th grader, michael sorkin’s…
chud atlantis
For Patreon, I wrote about developer slop flooring, the history of walking on plastic, and what fake…
glam metal modern but also your contractor is going to jail dawg
FYI, this post is now available for all to read!
McMansion Hell urges all New Yorkers to Rank Zohran Mamdani #1 for Mayor of NYC
Bonus Post: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a treatise
simulacra for bootlickers
About my last few months.
on neuschwanstein castle (part 1)
New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, “wonderful” rooms!“
new jersey “19th century” “eclecticism”
2007-core nostalgia extravaganza
namesake mcmansion
the motel room, or: on datedness
texas gothic revival
ode to a faux grecian urn
Hello everyone! The word is out – I am writing a book!
we’ve found it folks: mcmansion heaven

Serious Eats

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We Tested 9 Olive Oil Dispensers—Here Are Our Favorites
Food Processor vs. Blender: What's the Difference?
We Tested 12 Flatware Sets to Find the Best Ones for Everyday Use
What’s the Deal With Instant Cold Brew Makers?
Why We Think Baratza Grinders Are worth the Money (Including Two That Are on Sale)
Should You Be Storing Coffee in a Coffee Canister?
We Tested 7 Pasta Makers to Find the Best Ones for Rolling and Cutting Dough
We Reviewed The Vitamix Immersion Blender (And It Was Almost Silly Powerful)
Honing Versus Sharpening a Knife: What's the Difference?
My KitchenAid Stand Mixer is Leaking Oil—What’s Going On?
How Do Keurig Coffee Makers Work, Anyways?
Does Your Beer Glass Really Matter? We Consulted a Beer Expert to Find Out
We Tested 7 Anti-Fatigue Mats—Here Are the Best Ones for Your Kitchen
We Tested 8 Countertop Ice Makers—Three Stood Out
We Reviewed 11 Bento Boxes to Find One We’d Pack Lunch In
How Do Air Fryers Work?
Balmuda: Our Review of the Pretty, Steam-Powered Toaster
The Spinn Coffee Maker Is One of the Only Automated Brewers We Like
We Tested 12 Garlic Presses—Two Smashed the Competition
The Breville Barista Express Impress Makes Home Espresso Approachable
We Tested 8 Enameled Cast Iron Skillets and Found Three Great Options
We Tested 11 Different Bundt Pans—Three Won Top Marks
We Tested 14 Popular Vegetable Peelers to Find the Best Ones
All of the Tools You Need to Make Really Great Baguettes at Home
Baking Steels vs. Stones: Which One Should You Buy?
Nespresso vs. Keurig: Which Coffee Maker is Better?
We Tested 10 Tofu Presses—Three Squeezed Out the Competition
We Tested 8 Mandolines to Find Ones That Could Slice with Ease
How a Food Dehydrator Can Help You Reduce Food Waste
We Tested the Anova Precision Chamber Vacuum Sealer
We Reviewed the Challenger Fermentation Mat and Recommend It for Sourdough Bakers
The Best Methods for Making Whipped Cream, Explained
17 Quick Dinner Recipes in 20 Minutes or Less
12 Freezer-Friendly Soups for a Warm Meal Whenever You Want It
What’s the Difference Between Glass and Metal Baking Pans?
We Tested 7 Squeeze Bottles to Find the Best for Your Kitchen
Chè Chuối (Vietnamese Banana, Tapioca, and Coconut Milk Dessert)
We Tested 20 Bread Machines—Three Proved They Were The Best
We Tested the Ankarsrum Stand Mixer for Months to Find Out if It’s Worth Buying
10 Cake Flour Recipes to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth
Palestinian Food 101: Recipes to Get You Started
Shack Sauce
Mansaf (Palestinian Spiced Lamb With Rice and Yogurt Sauce)
Ka'ak al Quds (Jerusalem Sesame Bread)
Kitchen Gear and Tools We Think You Should Have Two (Or More) Of
14 Last-Minute, Food-Related Valentine’s Day Gifts
The Breville Pizzaiolo Oven Makes Great Neapolitan Pizza—And It’s 20% Off This Week
Our Winning Milk Frother Is Finally Back in Stock—And It's On Sale
What is Sumac?
Why an Offset Spatula Is the Tool I Can’t Bake Without
Lomi Composter Review: Here’s Whether It’s Worth It (or Not)
Spice World: A Look Inside the Serious Eats Team's Spice Cabinets
Losh Kebabs (Armenian Grilled Meat Patties)
19 Sides to Go With Wings
The Best Kitchen Shoes, According to the Serious Eats Team
Is the Instant Pot Duo Crisp Ultimate Lid a Good Air Fryer?
12 Spicy Snacks That Bring the Heat
We Tested 13 Wine Decanters and Came Away with 2 Favorites
We Tested 8 Mini Whisks And Came Away with Three Favorites
16 Easy Noodle Recipes for a Quick Meal Any Time of Day
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