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A malicious Ledger Live app clone available via Apple's App Store appears to have drained about $9.5M from over 50 victims between April 7 and April 13 (Oliver Knight/CoinDesk)
Source: US Treasury CIO Sam Corcos aims to gain access to Mythos as soon as this week, and directed the Treasury's cybersecurity team to prepare for AI threats (Bloomberg)
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Anthropic opposes an Illinois bill backed by OpenAI that would shield AI labs from liability, even for "critical harms" like 100+ deaths or $1B+ in damage (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
Sources: cloud-computing startup Fluidstack is in talks to raise ~$1B at an $18B valuation, up from $7.5B when it raised money earlier in 2026 (Bloomberg)
Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets users connect their Google accounts for tailored Gemini answers, to India, initially for AI Pro and Ultra users (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Nvidia announces the Ising AI models, which it says are the first open models aimed at quantum computing calibration and error correction (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
Adobe patches a zero-day in Acrobat DC, Reader DC, and Acrobat 2024, which hackers have been actively exploiting for at least four months (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
Anthropic appoints Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan to its board, its second board addition in recent months as it eyes an IPO and pushes further into healthcare (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
Samsung quietly increases US prices of the Galaxy S25 Edge, S25 FE, Z Flip 7, Tab S11, Tab S11 Ultra, and more; the 1TB Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra jumps by $280 (Adrian Diaconescu/PhoneArena)
Polymarket is auditing its Builders Program, which gives up to $2.5M in grants, after concerns that some participating startups are facilitating insider trading (Michael Roddan/The Information)
Q&A with New York Assembly member and ex-Palantir employee Alex Bores on running for Congress, Palantir, super PAC Leading the Future opposing his run, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired)
Amazon agrees to pay $11.57B for Globalstar, or $90/share in cash or Amazon stock, assuming Globalstar meets certain HIBLEO-4 replacement satellite milestones (Reuters)
Amazon agrees to acquire satellite operator Globalstar, set to close in 2027, to expand Leo; Amazon and Apple say Leo will power some iPhone and Watch services (About Amazon)
EV maker Lucid says Uber agreed to buy 35K+ additional Lucid vehicles for its robotaxi fleet and invest $200M more, taking its total Lucid investment to $500M (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal)

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Global Wildlife Trade Fuels Spread of Disease from Animals to People
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Thomas S. Langner, Who Linked Social Ills to Mental Illness, Dies at 102
NASA Artemis II Splashdown: Time, Live Stream and How to Watch Landing
Is a Big Album Dropping? You Might Want to Watch the Road.
E.P.A. Says It Will End Biden’s Coal Ash Disposal Rules
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Climate Change Denial Sees a Resurgence in Trump’s Washington
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Polyclonal selection of immune checkpoint mutations in thyroid autoimmunity
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AI agents replicate human social dynamics in days
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AI needs solid botanical data more than ever
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Huge analysis of 320,000 careers suggests that productive researchers stay that way
Author Correction: Multi-omic profiling reveals age-related immune dynamics in healthy adults
How the butterfly got its name: Books in brief
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Ambiphilic cross-coupling with aryl-bismuth reagents
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Female mice grow testes after this single DNA tweak
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Author Correction: Foundation model of neural activity predicts response to new stimulus types
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High-precision calculation of the quark–gluon coupling from lattice QCD
Engineered immunosuppressive dendritic cells protect against cardiac remodelling
Biodiversity resilience in a tropical rainforest
Protected quantum gates using qubit doublons in dynamical optical lattices
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High-fidelity collisional quantum gates with fermionic atoms
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Real-life Pokémon professors wanted: why the media franchise is hiring academics
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Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years
Species-specific oxygen sensing governs the initiation of vertebrate limb regeneration
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Hyaluronic acid and tissue mechanics orchestrate mammalian digit tip regeneration
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How artificial intelligence is reengineering protein engineering
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Kevin Warsh, Trump’s Pick for Fed Chair, Discloses Vast Wealth Ahead of Confirmation Hearing
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The Price of Being Lena Dunham
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The 10 Things the Bezoses Are Almost Certainly Grateful for Each Morning
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The Eighth Deadly Sin
Don’t Just Replace Chavez—Rethink Monuments
The Challenge the Artemis II Crew Gave the Rest of Us
Trump Ditched Hearts and Minds in the Iran War
I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America
Hegseth’s Unholy War
The U.S. Is Back to Squeezing Iran’s Economy
The Parable of the President
There’s a Message for MAGA in Viktor Orbán’s Defeat
Photos: Hungarians Cheer Orbán’s Loss
Three Changes Wrought by the Iran War
The Most Important Thing Dave Chappelle Ever Did Was Walk Away
An Oligarchy of Old People
How to Tax Billionaires
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Illiberalism Is Not Inevitable
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The Profound Comedy of Outer Space
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Camp Mystic director breaks down under questioning over missing girl
Immigrants who care for seniors under threat in Trump court fight, nursing homes say
Fugitive Bolsonaro ally, convicted in 2022 coup attempt, is detained by ICE
Mamdani says New York will have a city-run grocery store in every borough
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Rubio hosts Israel-Lebanon talks in D.C. Here’s what to know.
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World’s oldest gorilla, known for her dignified manner, turns 69
Peace with Iran hinges on nuclear compromise, and the two sides are miles apart
Hungary’s opposition cheers Orban’s fall but faces challenging transition
Fugitive Bolsonaro ally, convicted in 2022 coup attempt, is detained by ICE
U.S. imposes naval blockade as Trump demands Iran end nuclear program
E.U. revels in defeat of Hungary’s Orban, Trump ally who defied Brussels
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RedNote chases U.S. expansion after its “TikTok refugee” moment fades
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A Mexican surveillance giant you’ve never heard of is now watching the U.S. border
Winners of the 2026 Photo Contest
India’s frugal AI models are a blueprint for resource-strapped nations
“Data embassies” and safeguarding digital assets during wartime
Amazon is betting on speed in a market that may not need it
Nations priced out of Big AI are building with frugal models
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“This is unprecedented”: America’s AI boom is leaving the rest of the world behind

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Struggling Hampshire College Announces It Will Close
Kansas Bars 'DEI-CRT' College Courses, Which Aren't Yet Defined
With DEI Training, Higher Ed Made a Lot of Mistakes. Now We're Repeating Them.
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Many of the Education Dept.’s Accreditation Ideas May Be Illegal, Experts Say
Why Did Virginia Tech’s Longtime Leader Suddenly Announce His Departure?
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The Art of Being the Presidential Spouse
Is the No-Confidence Vote Bad for Everyone?
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Office Hours April 13, 2026: Questions and Discussion about Navigating Academia, School, and the Subreddit
Short Answers to Simple Questions | April 08, 2026
Hello! We are Camilla Townsend and Josh Anthony, editors of “After the Broken Spears: The Aztecs in the Wake of Conquest.” Ask us anything about the Aztecs, colonial Mexico, and what life was like for Indigenous people in the wake of Spanish conquest.
The "9 million burned witches" number is fabricated. Who specifically moved it from an 18th century pamphlet into mainstream feminist scholarship?
In Islam, why is marriage between a christian woman and a Muslim man accepted but the vice-versa is not accepted?
What happened to Excalibur? (The historical one)
According to Ian Kershaw’s seminal biography of Adolf Hitler, there is no evidence he ever was on amphetamines. Where did the rumor that Hitler was on speed come from?
How did contemporary Americans respond to the introduction of the ZIP code?
Were the tropics always thought of as “paradise”?
The region of modern Uttar Pradesh was historically the center of Islamic power in the subcontinent, whatever, it never fully converted fully while more "peripherical" regions like modern Pakistan and Bengal did. What can explain this discrepancy?
I'm a landed knight in the 1400's Holy Roman Empire and I go to town to get myself a nice suit of plate and a fresh warhorse. How do I order such goods, how much does it cost, and how do I pay?
Latin veneficium means both "sorcery" and "poisoning." In actual trial records, how often were witchcraft accusations really poisoning cases with a supernatural label?
Were women physicians common in the 1st century Mediterranean?
What was the impact of the 1700 Cascadia Mega Quake on the local Native Americans like and were their societies able to recover by the time Lewis and Clark arrived?
Why did vietnamese change into Latin characters, but not Lao and Khmer?
Evidence for accused witches deliberately cultivating their reputation as a form of social protection?
Why did Zita of Bourbon-Parma want her jewels hidden for 100 years?
What explains the decline of river piracy in the US compared to regions where it is still considered a problem?
How was Joseph Smith's "Reformed Egyptian" Received by Contemporary Scholars?
How effective was Edward Bruce’s 1315-1318 campaign in Ireland at diverting English resources during the First War of Scottish Independence?
When did Alexander III definitely abandoned the idea of a reconciliation with Germany in 1893?
Do we know the first instance of the "car crashes off screen and wheel rolls by" trope?
In Hiroo Onoda's biography, he relates that those trained in secret warfare were expected to lead foreign troops behind enemy lines. Who would those troops typically have been?
Did Europeans, who didn’t emigrate to America in the 19th or early 20th century, express skepticism about “the good life” awaiting those who did?
Is the oven-mitt like glove in Ridley Scott's 1977 film "The Duellists" period accurate? Would duellists in the Napoleonic era wear something like that?

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Q&A weekly thread - April 13, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
Statistical structure and the evolution of languages
Bad Hittite, Good Hattian: Linguistic Interference in the Old Hittite Oracle KBo 18.151 (2025)
The application of "Word Embeddings as Metric Recovery in Semantic Spaces"(Hashimoto, Alvarez-Melis & Jaakkola (2016) ):Mapping Latin Prefixes into 4D Semantic Space: Analyzing super-, supra-, inferior-, infra- via RBF Interpolation
Q&A weekly thread - April 06, 2026 - post all questions here!
Endangered languages conference (Boston area)
Q&A weekly thread - March 30, 2026 - post all questions here!
Masato Kobayashi (2025) - Hill Korwa of Kado Pani: Outline Grammar, Text and Glossary of a North Munda language
Q&A weekly thread - March 23, 2026 - post all questions here!
Humans share acoustic preferences with other animals
Beyond the pronoun: On neopronouns, nounself pronouns, and the ever-changing politics of language acceptability
Fact checking Geoffery Pullum's claims about Daniel Everett in Brazil
Q&A weekly thread - March 16, 2026 - post all questions here!
Connectives in Asur: A North Munda Language
Loanwords: Core Concepts and the Case of Wasei Eigo
A neuroimaging study of language impairments across the biological continuum of Alzheimer's disease (from healthy older adults to dementia).
Language Contact and Deliberate Change - Sarah Thomason (2007)
“Inside the kaleidoscope: unravelling the ‘feeling different’ experience of bicultural bilinguals”
Q&A weekly thread - March 09, 2026 - post all questions here!
Thoughts on critique of CDA?
Q&A weekly thread - March 02, 2026 - post all questions here!
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

MetaFilter Projects

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Morellet Art Generator
In the Shadow of the Tower: A Skyline Murder Mystery
BanRay.eu – a sticker prohibiting AI wearables
Tiny single-page app for the 3/3/3 productivity system
Fiction About Trans People
Taeliana Creative
Parasite Personality Quiz
The Pelican
The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock
PartPerfect - practice app for a cappella singers
[AI] What If You Could Actually Know What Your Judge Did Last Summer?
Adventures in Higher Education Marketing
spider mapping
Glasses Cleaning Simulator
Claude 2028 -- Yes Claude is running for president
Track the Oscar nominees you've watched and pick your winners
'Well, it's twinkle, twinkle, little star, /
Analyzing 5 years'-worth of heart rate and fitness data
The Sound of Ocean Heat Energy
Training chatbots on specific topics

Open Culture

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Watch 35 Short Films by Charles and Ray Eames: “Powers of Ten,” the History of the Computer & More
Isaac Asimov Reviews George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Calls It “Not Science Fiction, But a Distorted Nostalgia for a Past that Never Was”
Sci-Fi Writer Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future in 1964: Artificial Intelligence, Instantaneous Global Communication, Remote Work, Singularity & More
What You Would See and Feel While Traveling Near the Speed of Light
Explore 1,000,000 Digitized Artworks from Across the UK: Paintings, Sculptures, Street Art & More
9 Things a Woman Couldn’t Do in 1971
The Self-Balancing Monorail: A 1910 Train That Could Balance Without Falling
How the CIA Secretly Funded Abstract Expressionism During the Cold War
John Cage’s Silent, Avant-Garde Piece 4′33″ Gets Covered by a Death Metal Band
Discover Gadsby: The 50,000-Word Novel Written Without Using the Letter E (1939)
Watch 434 Avant-Garde and Surreal Short Films Online: Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Luis Buñuel and Many More
How a Clean, Tidy Home Can Help You Survive the Atomic Bomb: A Cold War Film from 1954
Watch the Titanic and Lusitania Sink in Real Time: One Fast, One Slow
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

NYT > Technology

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Elon Musk, Who Owns X, Appears to Post on TikTok
The Escalating Global A.I. Arms Race
Molotov Cocktail Is Hurled at Home of Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO
I Feel So Sorry for My A.I. Sunglasses
Man Held in Attack on OpenAI Chief’s Home Had List of A.I. Leaders, Officials Say
Have You Used A.I. Chatbots for Nutrition Advice?
Volkswagen to End E.V. Production at Tennessee Plant
Half of Gen Z Uses AI, but Their Feelings Are Souring, Study Shows
Federal Court Denies Anthropic’s Motion to Lift ‘Supply Chain Risk’ Label
Meta Unveils New A.I. Model, Its First From the Superintelligence Lab
Anthropic Claims Its New A.I. Model, Mythos, Is a Cybersecurity ‘Reckoning’
How Accurate Are Google’s A.I. Overviews?
A.I. Is on Its Way to Upending Cybersecurity
The Big Bang: A.I. Has Created a Code Overload
Forget the A.I. Apocalypse. Memes Have Already Nuked Our Culture.
What Teens Are Doing With Those Role-Playing Chatbots
Uber and Lyft Offer Gas Price Relief, but Drivers Say It’s Not Enough
NASA’s Artemis II Astronauts Took iPhones Into Space
Big Banks Seeking a Piece of SpaceX’s I.P.O. Must Subscribe to Elon Musk’s Grok
The Future of Addictive Design + Going Deep at DeepMind + HatGPT

NYT > Arts

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Daring and Dazzling, a New LACMA Floats Above Los Angeles
What Does an American Orchestra Need in a Conductor?
Sofia Isella’s Dark Pop Is Poetic, Feminist and Right on Time
Oasis, Phil Collins and Sade to Join Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
‘Planet Money’ Is Now a Book. And a Game. And a Record Label.
‘Innocence’ at the Met Opera Transforms With Backstage Magic
Kanye West’s Comeback: Sellouts, a Canceled Festival and Big Questions
‘DTF St. Louis’ and the Complex Tragedy of the Straight-ish Man
A New Focus on Wellness for Students at the School of American Ballet
What’s That Musky Aroma at the New Museum?
‘Titaníque’ on Broadway: Wild ‘Titanic’ Parody, With Celine Dion as Kooky Guide
At the 2026 Olivier Awards, Musicals Are All the Rage
Threats to Library Funding End With Settlement by Trump Administration
‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles,’ Plus 5 Things to Watch on TV This Week
Can ‘Michael’ Help Restore Jackson’s Tarnished Image? His Estate Is Banking on It.
Route 66, a ‘Linear Museum Stretched Across Eight States,’ Turns 100
Why Does the “Rocky” Statue Draw Crowds? This Show Investigates.
San Francisco’s Modern Art Museum Reimagines the Fisher Collection
M.F.A. Boston Celebrates 50 Years of Flowers and Art
In Indianapolis, a New Contemporary Art Museum Comes With a D.J.
Late Night Takes Sides in the President vs. the Pope
Sid Krofft, 96, Dies; Created Zany TV Shows for Children of All Ages
Tucker Carlson Is Starting a Publishing Imprint
‘The Comeback’ Season 3, Episode 4: The Blow-Up
Shaping the New Look of ‘Euphoria’
Olivier Awards 2026: ‘Paddington’ Wins Big; Rachel Zegler and ‘Evita’ Also Triumph
Sabrina Carpenter Apologizes for Mocking Arabic Call at Coachella
‘S.N.L.,’ With Colman Domingo, Takes Aim at Artemis II, Melania Trump and the war in Iran
What the ‘Real Housewives’ Think About Congress’s Reality TV Drama
Want to Star Opposite Daniel Radcliffe? At ‘Every Brilliant Thing,’ You Have a Chance.
Pearl Fryar, a Picasso of Plants, Dies at 86
Lady Gaga and Doechii, the Strokes: 8 Songs We’re Talking About This Week
Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel Discuss Their Pairing in ‘The Christophers’
Movie Review: You, Me & Tuscany
Exercise Used to Bore Bob Odenkirk. Now He’s Doing Stunts.
Review: A George Lewis Premiere at the New York Philharmonic
Hilde Limondjian, Met Museum’s Longtime Concert Impresario, Dies at 89
The Enduring Body and Soul of Martha Graham at 100
Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now
9 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
Why Beauty and Ugliness Go Hand in Hand
‘Euphoria’ Is Back. Here’s What to Know.
Billy Magnussen Has Mixed Feelings on Playing ‘Punchable’ Guys So Well
The Sense of Touch at Billboard Scale
How Authors and Readers Feel About the ‘Shy Girl’ Cancellation
In This Film About Amy Goodman, Independent Journalism Is the Real Star
5 Children’s Movies to Stream Now
My 5 Favorite Places for Art in London
Is a Big Album Dropping? You Might Want to Watch the Road.
Protoje, One of Reggae’s Premier Ambassadors, Doubles Down on His Roots
Jimmy Kimmel Salutes Melania’s White House Surprise
‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 14 Recap: Physician, Heal Thyself
‘Death of a Salesman,’ With Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf, Is Perfect for Our Time
Afrika Bambaataa, Often Called the ‘Godfather of Hip-Hop,’ Is Dead
‘We Are Fierce Competitors’: Live Nation Case Reaches Closing Arguments
Pink Will Host the 2026 Tony Awards
Getty Center in Los Angeles Is Closing for Year of Renovations
Review: At Gibney Dance, Reaping the Maelstrom
‘Malcolm in the Middle’ Review: Nostalgia’s the Boss of TV Now
‘Exit 8’ Review: Round and Round and Round He Goes …
‘You, Me & Tuscany’ Review: Love in the Italian Countryside

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
The rain isn’t stopping in Iraq and it’s mid April! Lake Himrin has reached its largest extent this decade
Shower thought today: Jakarta metro has more people in it than all of California
Why is South Georgia Island so icy despite being located at just 54 degrees south
Taiga forest in the southern hemisphere
What does it actually mean to be a resource rich country?
Blackout curtain sellers would be rich in Chongqing
Seasonal rivers of Peninsular India, are significantly fertile. A case study.
2026 Hungarian parliamentary election
Why did Washington vote so much more for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 primary compared to Oregon?
Are there any major railroad lines in Africa?
Where in Kuwait is there vegetation like this? This is the only picture i've seen where there's vegetation like this in Kuwait and there's no location given.
I didn't realize how much of the USA had no forest at all! This map shows forested area in green. The central part seems so barren.
A U.S. Geological Survey scientist posed with a telephone pole in the San Joaquin Valley, California indicating surface elevation in 1925, 1955 and 1977. The ground is sinking due to groundwater extraction.
What are the differences between east, west and south coasts of South Korea?
El Niño is coming…
What is this long, evil-looking black spot in New Mexico? There's no label on Google Earth, but it's huge and incredibly strange-looking.
What geographical feature do most people love, but you personally dislike, and why?
Here's a logic question that's ruined my day.
Why is there such a sharp angle where these too ranges meet?
Why isnt Mt. Mansfield's weather as extreme as Mt. Washington's?
New Madrid earthquake strength?
Geography free monthly online meetup to learn together?
Indian subcontinent contains both geologically young and ancient features. (And extremities of it).
Got to be the biggest r/mapswithoutnewzealand in history

The Public Domain Review

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

The Quietus

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Warp Records Hints at Boards Of Canada Return with Mysterious Posters
Greg Anderson & Stephen O’Malley of SunnO))) on Hiking
Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Spring, by Patrick Clarke
My New Band Believe – My New Band Believe
Sound in All Forms: Rewire 2026 Reviewed
Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal for April Reviewed by Kez Whelan
Squarepusher – Kammerkonzert
Reissue of the Week: Scritti Politti’s Songs To Remember
Melvins & Napalm Death – Savage Imperial Death March
Afrika Bambaataa has Died, Aged 68
Skaņu Mežs Adds Smerz and More to 2026 Lineup
Abul Mogard and Rafael Anton Irisarri Reveal Collaborative LP, ‘Where Light Pauses In The Silence Of The Sun’
Radiohead Unveil ‘Kid A Mnesia’ Touring Audiovisual Installation
A Particular Beauty: Irmin Schmidt Interviewed
Low Culture Podcast: Children Of The Stones
Kinetic Energy: Seismo by Upsammy & Valentina Magaletti
Memorials – All Clouds Bring Not Rain
Nine Inch Nails Reveal New Collaborative LP with Boys Noize
Fan-Made SOPHIE Archive Launches Online
Björk is Throwing a Rave in Iceland to Mark the Total Solar Eclipse
Loraine James, Laurel Halo and More Contribute to New Compilation Honouring Women Who Have Shaped Electronic Music
Kelela Returns with New Single, ‘idea 1’
Crisis Energy: An Interview with Guttersnipe
Wendy Eisenberg – Wendy Eisenberg
Parasocial Security: Why Harry Styles’ Meltdown is Fireproof
Iceage Detail New Album, ‘For Love Of Grace & The Hereafter’
Boards Of Canada Trigger Comeback Speculation Amid Cryptic VHS Mailouts
Kanye West Blocked From Entering the UK, Wireless Festival Appearances Cancelled
Norman Records Announce Birthday Special Edition LPs
Different League: Mark Gatiss’ Favourite Albums
Rum Music for April Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan
Mclusky – I Sure Am Getting Sick Of This Bowling Alley

Bandcamp Updates

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Roger Doyle, Ireland’s Electronic Trailblazer
Rosa Pistola, “Incorregible”
Side Door No. 3: How Skerik Became the Noisy Punk Deviant of the Jam Band World
Prism Shores, “Softest Attack”
Through Label Drama and Divorce, Eleventh Dream Day Endures
Nate Garrett on the Trials and Tribulations Behind Spirit Adrift’s Final LP
Juni Habel, “Evergreen In Your Mind”
Essential Releases, April 10, 2026
The Art of Rock
Après la Révolution: The Sound of the ’70s French Underground
Lero Lero, “Lero Lero”
The Tape Label Report, March 2026
Makthaverskan, “Glass and Bones”
The Sidepeices Are Hip-Hop’s Hottest New Duo. Also, They Just Met.
The Best Latin Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
Scissor Fits, “It Wasn’t Nothing”
Better Call Paul
The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
Musica Transonic + Mainliner, “Solid Static”
Time Enough At Last: A Guide to Cluster
The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, March 2026
Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE & SURF GANG, “POMPEII // UTILITY”
The Hotlist, Spring 2026
The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
Larrison, “Connecters Volume 1: Original Recordings, 1992–1999”
The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, March 2026
The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, March 2026
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

dusted

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Marcelo dos Reis Flora — Our Time (JACC)
Tanya Donnelly & Chris Brokaw  —The Undone Is Done Again (Fire)
Poison Ruïn — Hymns from the Hills (Relapse)
Young Fresh Fellows — Loft (Yep Roc)
Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection — s-t 3 (Full Time Hobby)
Various Artists — Indian Talking Machine Part Two: Instrumental Gems From the 78rpm Era (Sublime Frequencies)
Prism Shores — Softest Attack (Meritorio/Having Fun)
Robert Humber — Into Air (Redshift)
Yankee Bastard — Seongun (Sex Fiend Abomination)
Last Dream Of The Morning — Sharp Illusion (Fundacja Sluchaj)
Petr Válek, Ondřej Merta, Jara Tarnovski — Punctum (Flaming Pines)
Happy Easter weekend from us at Dusted! We hope you enjoyed our spring preview earlier today, and…
Incoming: Dusted writers flag the records they’re excited about for spring
Brown Horse — Total Dive (Loose)
Kim Gordon — Play Me (Matador)
dEUS — Worst Case Scenario + In a Bar, Under the Sea (30th Anniversary Reissues) (PIAS)
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)

Pitchfork

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Waxahatchee Covers This Is Lorelei’s “Where’s Your Love Now”
Infinite Illumination
Our Hyper
City of Careless Angels
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Joy Division, Oasis, and Wu-Tang Clan Inducted Into Rock Hall’s Class of 2026
Truck Violence Sign to the Flenser for New Album
Primal Scream to Play Xtrmntr in Full on UK Tour
The Best and Worst of Coachella 2026
Hudson Williams and Alysa Liu are Bathing Beauties in Laufey’s “Madwoman” Video
Watch Travis Barker Drum for Clipse at Coachella 2026
Asha Bhosle, Beloved Indian Singer, Dies at 92
Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja Arrested at Palestine Action Protest
Kelela, Kurt Vile, Olof Dreijer, and More: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects Playlist
The Strokes Plot Tour of North America, Europe, and Japan
Watch Oklou Bring Out Underscores at Coachella 2026
Watch Karol G Headline the Last Night of Coachella 2026
Seismo
The Moth
Architectonics
HALO
Britney Spears Enters Rehab Voluntarily After D.U.I. Arrest
Watch Sabrina Carpenter Headline the First Night of Coachella 2026
Watch Justin Bieber Headline Coachella 2026
The Changer and the Changed
Watch Geese Cover Justin Bieber’s “Baby” at Coachella 2026
Watch Slayyyter Tear Up Her First Coachella Performance
Watch Dijon Bring Out Mk.gee at Coachella 2026
Watch Brendan Yates’ Dad Introduce Turnstile at Coachella 2026
“Flim”

Cool Tools

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Beautiful Birds / The Botanical Treasury
Music Production
What’s in my NOW? — Semi Chellas
The Science Book / Encyclopedia of Sensors
Folding Bikes
Retro Recomendo: Followable
Book Freak #204: Living for Pleasure
Happiest Countries/Monthly Flight Pass/Favorite US Airports
What’s in my NOW? — Elisa Michelet
Tacopedia / Rude Cakes

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
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