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Chinese AI executives say China is unlikely to eclipse the US in the AI race anytime soon, citing limited resources and US chip export curbs as key constraints (Bloomberg)
Naver, the largest South Korean buyer of Nvidia chips, is pitching its AI cloud services as an alternative for countries reluctant to use US or Chinese services (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)
Despite projections of memory shortages for PCs and phones, producers like Micron will proceed cautiously in adding new capacity, mindful of past downcycles (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal)
Qatar and UAE will join the Pax Silica coalition on January 12 and 15, respectively, expanding the US-led effort to secure AI and semiconductor supply chains (Jarrett Renshaw/Reuters)
A profile of SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell, who has worked at the company since 2002, and is known as a customer emissary and Musk translator (Micah Maidenberg/Wall Street Journal)
Anthropic announces Claude for Healthcare to offer HIPAA-ready tools for providers, insurers, and consumers, and expands its life sciences offerings (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)
ATG, which is developing the AI-powered wealth strategist app Autonomous, emerges from stealth and raises a $15M pre-seed led by Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider)
Tucuvi, which develops AI agents that check in with patients and escalate cases to human teams when needed, raised a $20M Series A, led by Cathay and Leadwind (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
Instagram says there was no breach and it fixed an issue that let an external party send password reset emails, after reports that 17.5M users' data was exposed (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
Tel Aviv-based Torq, which operates an autonomous AI-powered security operations platform, raised $140M led by Merlin Ventures at a $1.2B valuation (Andrew Martin/Bloomberg)
Malaysia becomes the second country to limit access to Grok, joining Indonesia, over the chatbot's generation of sexual content (Bloomberg)
Walmart to expand Wing, Alphabet's on-demand drone delivery service, to another 150 stores, bringing the total to 270+ stores, covering ~10% of US population (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
Walmart partners with Google to offer AI-enhanced shopping, allowing users to purchase Walmart and Sam's Club items directly on Gemini (Jaewon Kang/Bloomberg)
Google unveils the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), a new open standard that lets AI agents work across different parts of the customer's buying process (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Google is introducing new personalized ads in AI mode, powered by Gemini, which allow advertisers to offer exclusives for users preparing to buy a product (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)

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This Dinosaur Really Knew How to Get a Grip
Why This Fish Actually Needs a Hole in the Head
Trump’s Steep Science Budget Cuts to Be Turned Back by Congress
Google’s Ex-CEO Backs Start-Up Approach to Big Telescopes for Space and Astronomy
Scientists Discover Cloud-9, a Starless ‘Galaxy That Wasn’t’
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NASA Will Bring I.S.S. Astronauts Home Early After Medical Issue
Moroccan Cave Fossils Yield a Possible Missing Link in Human Evolution
Scientists Discover Oldest Poison, on 60,000-Year-Old Arrows
New Children’s Vaccine Schedule May Not Be the Last of RFK Jr.’s Big Changes
Supreme Court to Hear Case on Louisiana’s Eroding Coast
Bird Flu Viruses Raise Mounting Concerns Among Scientists
An Up-Close Look at the Thwaites Glacier
Joel Habener, Whose Research Led to Weight-Loss Drugs, Dies at 88
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The War Over the Weedkiller Roundup Might Be Headed to the Supreme Court
The Icebreaker Araon Stops Near the Thwaites Glacier
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Trump Pulls U.S. Out of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
The Icebreaker Araon Reaches the Thwaites Glacier
Democrats Seek Answers About Oil Companies’ Knowledge of Trump’s Venezuela Operation
New Dietary Guidelines Abandon Longstanding Advice on Alcohol
Venezuela’s ‘Dirty’ Oil and the Environment: Three Things to Know

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This shapeshifting polymer was inspired by octopus skin
Getting to the (square) root of stock-market swings
Disappearing ‘planet’ reveals a solar system’s turbulent times
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AI models were given four weeks of therapy: the results worried researchers
Can’t get motivated? This brain circuit might explain why — and it can be turned off
NASA won’t bring Mars samples back to Earth: this is the science that will be lost
We need to talk about salaries in science
Chinese nuclear fusion reactor pushes plasma past crucial limit: what happens next
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Systematic analyses of lipid mobilization by human lipid transfer proteins
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A hidden diversity of ceratopsian dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous Europe
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Early hominins from Morocco basal to the Homo sapiens lineage
Genetic switch between unicellularity and multicellularity in marine yeasts
Insights into DNA repeat expansions among 900,000 biobank participants
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Nutrient requirements of organ-specific metastasis in breast cancer
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Evidence accumulation from experience and observation in the cingulate cortex
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Oral 4′-fluorouridine rescues nonhuman primates from advanced Lassa fever
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Exotic quasiparticles glimpsed in graphene
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The poetic life and death of a glow-worm
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To improve resilience to climate change, track what endures
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Deep contrastive learning enables genome-wide virtual screening
IDH-mutant gliomas arise from glial progenitor cells harboring the initial driver mutation
Bark microbiota modulate climate-active gas fluxes in Australian forests
Leveraging triatropic rearrangements for stereoselective skeletal reshuffling
Ontogeny of the spinal cord dorsal horn
Multivalent ligands regulate dimensional engineering for inverted perovskite solar modules
Molecular press annealing enables robust perovskite solar cells
Access to four-membered cyclic sulfinamides by energy transfer catalysis
Chinese Immune Multi-Omics Atlas
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The molecular basis of the binding and specific activation of rhizobial NodD by flavonoids
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Federal Prosecutors Open Investigation Into Fed Chair Powell
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A Sobering Awards Season Pivot
The Purged
How Bad Bunny Did It
What If There Is No Domino Effect?
The YIMBY Hero Everyone Is Shouting At
I Was Kidnapped by Idiots
Trump’s Greenland Threats
Is the Iranian Regime About to Collapse?
Big Oil Knows That Trump’s Venezuela Plans Are Delusional
The Messiness of Friendship
The Flu Really Is That Bad
Americans Are Afraid of Authority
America Has Entered Late-Stage Protein
The Pitt Is a Brilliant Portrait of American Failure
What Stephen Miller Gets Wrong About Human Nature
Trump Is Not Playing Five-Dimensional Chess in Venezuela
This Will Happen Again
From ‘I’m Not Mad at You’ to Deadly Shots in Seconds
ICE Wasn’t Always Like This
AI’s Memorization Crisis
Stand-Up Comedy, All Joking Aside
How Trump Could Help the People of Iran
How ICE Lost Its Guardrails
What a Fantasy Can Reveal About Real Life
Can We Save the Internet?

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Suspect arrested after fire damages Mississippi’s largest synagogue
With young adults less likely to go to the dentist, doctors get creative
Two congressmen watched an ICE shooting video. Only one is sure of what he saw.
Thousands protest ICE presence in Minneapolis and cities nationwide
100 skeletons found in home of man who looted historic cemetery, police say
How Renée Good ended up in a fatal encounter with ICE in Minneapolis
11 tankers under U.S. sanctions defy blockade in Venezuela, satellite imagery indicates
Minnesota to review ICE shooting after FBI blocks state agents from case
California is adding a supplement to tortillas. RFK Jr. calls it ‘insanity.’
Unexploded missiles, witnesses undercut Trump account of Nigeria strike
Judge blocks Trump administration from freezing $10B in child care funds

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Hundreds of Iranian protesters feared killed; U.S. considers military strikes
In a Venezuelan home, a father grieves ‘hero’ son killed in U.S. raid
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Trump officials consider military options as Iranian protests spread
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Venezuela pledged to free political prisoners. Families are still waiting.
11 tankers under U.S. sanctions defy blockade in Venezuela, satellite imagery indicates
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He was diagnosed with cancer, then won a 24,000-mile sailing race
Unexploded missiles, witnesses undercut Trump account of Nigeria strike

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Will the Meta-Manus deal push more Chinese AI startups to Singapore — or shut the door?
A global crackdown on online gambling
The AI race is creating a new world order
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Health. Should we trust it?
In Chinese data factories, workers teach humanoid robots boring tasks
Why Venezuela’s political shock had MercadoLibre’s stock rallying
Chinese AI unicorns beat Silicon Valley giants in race to go public
Countries are outlawing online gambling ads. Meta is selling them anyway
The day the cloud went out
India gives Musk 72 hours as X floods with obscene images generated using Grok
The year in charts
Innovative ways the world used AI in 2025

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

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Want to Transform College Accreditation? Trump Has a Grant for You.
Another Former Republican Lawmaker Snags a Permanent Presidency in Florida
5 Ways Colleges Can Boost Graduation Rates
The Case for Compromising With Trump
I'm an AI Power User. It Has No Place in the Classroom.
The Influential Center Filling the Ranks of America’s Civic-Thought Schools
Colleges Have Forgotten How to Argue
Texas A&M Bans Plato Excerpt From a Philosophy Course
Why Cyberattacks in Higher Ed Keep Proliferating
Feeling Depleted? A Guide to Faculty Renewal

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Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | January 11, 2026
Short Answers to Simple Questions | January 07, 2026
What are the best resources to teach teens about fascism and how it begins?
If Greece is generally considered the "Cradle of Western Civilization", where is the "cradle" for Eastern Civilization?
When women were entering the workforce in unprecedented numbers during WWII, what were they doing for childcare?
The UK loves curries, and many Brits will try to prove they can eat the hottest stuff on the menu. Was there anything like that before Indian immigration? Were knights boasting about how hot they could take their mustards or horseraddish?
What is the earliest event that we can figure out what day of the week it occurred on?
Were “victims balls” really a thing in post-terror revolutionary France?
How usual/unusual was having a skull on your uniform hat at the time nazi officers were doing it?
Did people pray out loud until somewhat recently?
How *explicitly* anti-democratic was Nazi Party rhetoric prior to 1933?
What exactly does it mean when someone says that ancient societies didn’t have zero as a mathematical concept?
How did the saxophone specifically come to be so strongly associated with sexy jazz played in dangerously cool underground bars by stylish and classy black musicians? What was the saxophone's "brand" before jazz - like we think of the trumpet or clarinet today?
Did Truman, Oppenheimer, or any top policymakers watch the Hiroshima/Nagasaki nuclear bomb footage? Was ths footage shared for public consumption?
On Dec. 8, 1941, why did FDR only ask Congess for a declaration of war against Japan, instead of all three Axis powers (including Germany & Italy)?
When Xiang Yu finished off the Qin dynasty and at the peak of his powers, he divided the former Qin empire among the lords as fiefs. Do we know why he did not replicate the Qin as Liu Bang later did?
How did the French military aircraft industry survive after WW2?
How was Christian charity conceptualized as different from the Roman norm?
Why aren’t daughters named after their mothers anymore?
I read that Eisenhower personally interviewed four Black American Russian speakers to assess whether they might highlight U.S. civil rights hypocrisy during the 1959 American Exhibition. Do we know what questions he asked or what those interviews covered?
Did Canada have Slaves like the USA?
How did European high society / cultural press react to the 1976 "Judgement of Paris" blind wine tastings?
Are there any historical examples of medieval kings pretending to be commoners just to see what it is like?
How culturally similar were the medieval Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes to the pagans who had preceded them?
How were we able to estimate the human population during time periods such as 10,000BCE?

Linguistics

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Q&A weekly thread - January 05, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
Mundari: The myth of a language without word classes (2005)
Austroasiatic Roots of Sora Mythology. Origin and Development of the Image of The God Kittung (Ethnolinguistic Analysis)
Modern Kohistani languages are the closest living match to ancient Gāndhārī — Jakob Halfmann (2024)
New Palaeohispanica volume (2025)
A typological profile of Longjia, an archaic Sinitic language (2022)
Q&A weekly thread - December 29, 2025 - post all questions here!
Grammar of the Carapana language (1981) [Spanish]
Lihir Language Organised Phonology Data (2002)
Kaskean. A new recorded language in the archives of Ḫattuša?
Site about online dictionaries of languages of India (Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Sino-Tibetan etc.)
Q&A weekly thread - December 22, 2025 - post all questions here!
Death of Lars Johanson (8 Mar 1936 - 24 Nov 2025)
To the sign language experts here: researchers help create signs related to mental health terminology in Bangla Sign Language. Can I get a linguist's perspective?
The Attentional Optimization Hypothesis
Q&A weekly thread - December 15, 2025 - post all questions here!
I asked a cognitive linguist (Martin Hilpert) if Orwell's Newspeak is actually possible.
Q&A weekly thread - December 08, 2025 - post all questions here!
Semantic-argumentative study uses Freire’s “reading the world” to examine dwarfism in Disney’s live-action Snow White
Interview with Dr. Conchúr Ó Giollagáin: “Minority languages need to strengthen their strongholds, the areas where they are truly spoken”
PHYS.Org: "Natural language found more complex than it strictly needs to be—and for good reason"
Q&A weekly thread - December 01, 2025 - post all questions here!
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

MetaFilter Projects

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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
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)

Open Culture

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Trevor Noah Explains How Kintsugi, the Japanese Art of Repairing Pottery, Helped Him Overcome Life’s Tragedies
Can Genius Be Taught? The Polgár Sisters and the Experiment That Put the Question to the Test
Hear James Joyce Reads From Ulysses and Finnegans Wake In His Only Two Recordings (1924/1929)
The Ancient Tool Used in Japan to Strengthen Memory & Focus: The Abacus
Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online
The Greek Mythology Family Tree: A Visual Guide Shows How Zeus, Athena, and the Ancient Gods Are Related
300,000 Wondrous Nature Illustrations Put Online by The Biodiversity Heritage Library
Discover Ichi-go Ichi‑e, the Japanese Art of Savoring Every Moment
J.R.R. Tolkien, Using a Tape Recorder for the First Time, Reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952)
When Two Filmmakers Make the Same Movie — and One of Them Is Werner Herzog
The Birth of Espresso: The Story Behind the Coffee Shots That Fuel Modern Life
What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2026: Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, All Quiet on the Western Front, Betty Boop & More
Woody Guthrie Creates a Doodle-Filled List of 33 New Year’s Resolutions (1943): Beat Fascism, Write a Song a Day, and Keep the Hoping Machine Running
The Mystery of How a Samurai Ended up in 17th Century Venice
J. R. R. Tolkien Admitted to Disliking Dune “With Some Intensity” (1966)

NYT > Technology

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Google Co-Founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page Reduce Ties to California
Grok, Elon Musk’s A.I., Is Generating Sexualized Images of Real People, Fueling Outrage
Apple’s John Ternus Could Be Tim Cook’s Successor as CEO
Grok’s Undressing Scandal + Claude Code Capers + Casey Busts a Reddit Hoax
Stewart Cheifet, Host of TV’s ‘Computer Chronicles,’ Dies at 87
Volkswagen Suffers More Than Rivals From Auto Industry Woes
Google’s Ex-CEO Backs Start-Up Approach to Big Telescopes for Space and Astronomy
New Jersey Is Latest State to Ban Student Phones in Schools
G.M. Books a $7.1 Billion Loss as It Scales Back E.V. Ambitions
The Tech That Will Invade Our Lives in 2026
Can A.I. Match Molière’s Wit? These Researchers Think So.
Google and Character.AI to Settle Lawsuit Over Teenager’s Death
Anthropic Said to Be in Talks to Raise Funding at a $350 Billion Valuation
California Tech Executives Plot Against Rep. Ro Khanna Over Support of Wealth Tax
Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $20 Billion
Optimism About Nuclear Energy Is Rising Again. Will It Last?
A.I. Images of Maduro Spread Rapidly, Despite Safeguards
Nvidia Details New A.I. Chips and Autonomous Car Project With Mercedes
New Car Sales Are Rising Thanks to Purchases by the Well-Off
China’s BYD Surpasses Tesla as World Leader in Electric Car Sales

NYT > Arts

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Golden Globes Highlights: ‘One Battle After Another’ and ‘The Pitt’ Win Big, Chalamet and Seehorn Among First-Time Winners
Golden Globes 2026 Photos: Stars of ‘Hamnet,’ ‘One Battle After Another’ and More
Golden Globes Winners 2026: Full List Including ’One Battle After Another,’ ‘Sinners’ and ‘Adolescence’
Bob Weir Was the Dead’s Invisible Thread
Bob Weir: A Life in Pictures
Kit Harington Returns to HBO for ‘Industry’ Season 4, Leaving Jon Snow Behind
Bob Weir: 10 Essential Songs
Who Should the Oscar Nominees Be? Our Movie Critics Pick.
Smithsonian Removes Label Noting Trump Impeachments
Paul Haggis Reaches $2 Million Settlement After 2022 Rape Verdict
Fetty Wap, ‘Trap Queen’ Rapper, Is Released Early From Prison
In Sayre Gomez’s Art, L.A.’s Problems Move From Real to Hyper-Real
Judge Denies Salt-N-Pepa’s Attempt to Obtain Master Recordings
How Wagner Moura Stayed True to Himself and Earned a Golden Globe Nomination
Nikki Glaser Ended the Golden Globes by Honoring Rob Reiner
‘Hamnet’ Wins Golden Globe for Best Drama
‘One Battle After Another’ Wins Golden Globe for Best Comedy
Wagner Moura wins best actor, motion picture drama.
Jessie Buckley wins best actress, motion picture drama.
‘The Studio’ wins best TV comedy.
‘Adolescence’ wins best limited series.
‘The Pitt’ wins best TV drama.
Rhea Seehorn wins best actress in a TV drama for ‘Pluribus.’
Nikki Glaser Doesn’t Spare CBS News in 2026 Golden Globes Monologue
Timothée Chalamet Wins Best Actor at the 2026 Golden Globes, Musical or Comedy
Rose Byrne wins best actress, motion picture musical or comedy.
Owen Cooper of ‘Adolescence’ wins best supporting TV actor.
With the Golden Globes, podcasts are ready for their close-up.
Neon, an indie studio with an international bent, tops Globes nominations.
Where’s the best original score award? Not on the telecast.
The lifetime achievement winners have already been honored.
Jean Smart, Mark Ruffalo and Natasha Lyonne Wear Anti-ICE Pins at 2026 Golden Globes
Who will be the big winners tonight? Here’s what to expect.
Here’s how to watch the Globes tonight.
Golden Globes 2026 Takeaways: ‘One Battle After Another' and ‘Adolescence’ Win Big
Bob Weir, a Virtuoso of Hot Pants
How to Watch the Golden Globes 2026: Date, Time and Streaming
Timothy Busfield, Actor and Director, Is Accused of Child Sex Abuse
Golden Globes 2026: What to Expect From Sunday’s Awards Ceremony
Bruno Mars, Robyn, Jill Scott and More: 8 Songs We’re Talking About
Unpacking ‘People We Meet on Vacation’ with Emily Henry, Emily Bader and Tom Blyth
Bob the Drag Queen Is ‘Fully Obsessed’ With League of Legends
Rare Comic Introducing Superman Sells Privately for $15 Million
Washington National Opera Is Leaving the Kennedy Center
Bahram Beyzaie, Filmmaker Who Led Iran’s New Wave, Dies at 87
Mamdani Says Theater Should Not Be ‘a Luxury’ as He Hands Out Free Tickets
X Sues Music Publishers, Alleging ‘Collusion’ Over Licensing Deals
Jerome Lowenstein, 92, Dies; Teaching Doctor With a Literary Sideline
Producers Guild Nominations Strengthen Oscar Odds for Five Films
Five International Movies to Stream Now
For 2hollis, Music Is a Family Business. So We Interviewed Him and His Dad.
8 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
Will Arnett, Laura Dern and Bradley Cooper: 3 Friends Walk Into a Comedy Club
A Fairy Tale Opera Trades the Moral for the Mysterious
Think Punk Rockers Are Angry? Meet These Menopausal Women.
5 Children’s Movies to Stream Now
How Americans Learned to Love Thomas Paine
Read These 3 Books Before Watching the Movie
Gwyneth Paltrow’s Throwback Manicure Gets New Life in ‘Marty Supreme’
‘Primate’ Review: Going Ape
Hailee Steinfeld on ‘Sinners’ and What the Movie Taught Her
33 TV Shows to Watch This Winter: ‘Wonder Man,’ ‘Outlander’ and More
In the Path of a Raging Wildfire, a Luthier’s Precious Wood

Geography

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Slovenia has now a higher median disposable income than the UK
These two Indian states (Kerala & Tamil Nadu) seem to follow a natural mountain border, but at the far south one state extends to the other side of the mountains. How did this happen? (red - actual border; blue - mountain border)
Seigneurial land system - Quebec
Why is the actual city of Perth so small? (As opposed to the greater Perth area)
There are 6 countries that are closer to Greenland than the United States is: Canada, Norway, Iceland, United Kingdom, Russia, Ireland
Why is Arizona so conservative while neighboring New Mexico is very liberal?
Tectonic plates in order of population living on them?
Did these mountains in central sahara ever recieve snowfall?
Why does Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota emit so much night sky brightness? Even seemingly more than Minneapolis?
What's a beautiful place that gets overshadowed by more famous tourist attractions?
Chilling with Lava: Volcano House’s Insane View of Kilauea’s Endless Eruption
Is Brownsville USA, and Derbent Russia, separated by 11 700km, the two most distant cities of two neighbouring countries?
Can you guess a country using only geography stats?
Does europe usually get more snow than eastern and middle america or is it just this year?
Global 2025 Human Development Index map by subdivision
Why doesn't Guam have a 'downtown'
What "map facts" do you think of often?
Why do the Andes extend to Tierra del Fuego even though it's an island
Picnic table instead of border patrols - border tripoint of Slovakia, Hungary and Austria
Three more Corpus Christi questions: 1. The industrial peninsula just north of the city, any hope for redevelopment of that, or no? Is there a history of it beyond industrial usage? 2. Are the barrier islands just east underdeveloped for what they are? 3. What are the grey areas? Agricultural?
Until 2011, the African towns of Dungunab and Sakania were located in neighboring countries, despite being separated by almost half a continent.
What is this geological feature in called and why it is formed that way? (in venezuela)
What qualifies as a peninsula?
Greenland's mineral resources
(Politics Saturday) If Venezuela wasn't in the situation that it is in, Do you think It would be a major tourist destination?

The Public Domain Review

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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 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

The Quietus

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Mary Lattimore & Julianna Barwick – Tragic Magic
Low Culture Podcast: Mulholland Drive
Your November & December Playlists are Here
Hey Colossus Announce 15th Album via Short Film
Organic Intelligence LI: Laura Cannell’s Guide to Early-ish Christmas Music
Conversational Improvisational: Stewart Lee & EarthBall get Free
Music of the Month(s): The Best Albums and Tracks of November and December 2025
Mark S. Williamson  – folklore, facts and fables 6: three days to find out
Shackleton to Release New Album, ‘Euphoria Bound’, Via AD 93
Why Reports of the Death of UK Nightlife are Greatly Exaggerated
Blarke Bayer – The King In Yellow
Fat White Family – Konk If You’re Lonely: Fat White Family Live At Konk Studios
The Quietus Tracks of the Year 2025
Ambagious Tactics pays Tribute to Eno & Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies
Sacrifice Zone, Sophie Sleigh Johnson and Charlie Osborne for Cafe Oto this week
Moundabout – Esker Hippy Bastard Blues
Schattenfroh: A Fable About Totalitarianism Written in Brain-Fluid
AICHER – Defensive Acoustics
Rum Music: The Best of 2025 Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan
DJ Narciso – DENTRO DE MIM
Reissue of the Week: Gary Numan’s Telekon
Ghold – Bludgeoning Simulations
Low Culture Essay: Tariq Goddard on Jeremy Brett, the Perfect Sherlock Holmes
Straight Hedge! The Best Punk and HC of 2025
Spool’s Out: The Best Cassettes of 2025
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Live God
Wrens – Half What You See
Rockfort! The Best French Music of 2025
Depeche Mode – Memento Mori: Mexico City
Burnt Harbors – Blood High Star
Hyperspecific: The Best Electronic Music of 2025
F.Ampism – The Vertical Luminous

Bandcamp Updates

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The Best Jazz Albums of 2025
The Best Latin Music of 2025
The Best Country Music of 2025
The Best Video Game Soundtracks of 2025
The Best Field Recordings of 2025
The Best Metal Albums of 2025
The Best Contemporary Classical Music of 2025
The Best Ambient Albums of 2025
The Best Experimental Music of 2025
The Best Electronic Music of 2025
The Best Hip-Hop of 2025
The Best Punk Music of 2025
Blut Aus Nord, “Ethereal Horizons”
The Best Albums of 2025: Essential Releases
The Best Albums of 2025: Day 2, M–Z
Ikonika, “SAD”
Various Artists, “Late Shift Silk”
The Best Albums of 2025: Day 1, A–L
Zamrock Before Zamrock: A Guide to the Early Sounds of Zambia’s Copperbelt
Von Pea & The Other Guys, “Putcha Weight On It”
The Tape Label Report, November 2025
Various Artists, “Ghana Special: Highlife”
Bandcamp Fridays Return in 2026
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”

dusted

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Slept Ons and Listening Pest 2025: Things that we missed and albums that disappointed
2025: Patrick Masterson
Ian Mathers’ 2025: I’m tired, I am dead/If you live it, then you love it
The Year We Need to be Free of Freestyle: Ray Garraty
“That’s Okay, Things Are Going To Be Okay”: Bryon Hayes
Another Year of Pissed-off Music, to Take to the Streets, or Down in the Dirt: Jonathan Shaw
Top 10 of 2025: Tim Clarke
Favorites in 2025: Christian Carey
The Body Breaks: Jennifer Kelly’s 2025 year in review
Happy Holidays from Dusted
Listed: Andrew Weathers
Wreckless Eric — England Screaming (Tapete)
Tavare — Too Small to Be So High (God Unknown)
Black Mold — Antinomy (Hellprod)
Equipment Pointed Ankh — Eggs a Little Late (Petty Bunco)
Robbie Lynn Hunsinger and Tatsu Aoki— Robbie Lynn Hunsinger and Tatsu Aoki Vol 1 (Asian Improv)
Split Apex — Thoughts in 3D (ever/never)
Sha La Das — Your Picture (Diamond West)
Listed: Citric Dummies
Tacoma Park — Glosson Circle Sessions (self released)/ex-corp — assemblage (cached.media)

Pitchfork

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t҉w҉o҉ ҉s҉h҉e҉l҉l҉
Other Girl
Ludwig Göransson Wins Best Original Score at 2026 Golden Globes for Sinners
Kpop Demon Hunters’ “Golden” Wins Best Original Song at 2026 Golden Globes
Bob Dylan, Trey Anastasio, Bruce Hornsby, and More Remember Bob Weir
Discipline
Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir Dies at 78
The Long Sleep
Listen to Sault’s New Album Chapter 1
Bad Bunny Sued for $16 Million Over Unauthorized Voice Recording
“I Just Might”
Salt-N-Pepa’s Lawsuit Against Universal Music Group Dismissed
6 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Dry Cleaning, Zach Bryan, and More
The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis Reconvene for New Album and Tour
Morrissey Returns With New Album Make-Up Is a Lie
Ralphie Choo Drops New Songs “Tentacíon” and “Rocco”
Watch Bruno Mars’ Video for New Song “I Just Might”
Secret Love
Rebuilding
1 IN A MILLION
ICE Recruitment Ads No Longer on Spotify
The 45 Most Anticipated Tours of 2026
David Byrne Covers Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License”
Lala Lala Signs to Sub Pop for New Album Heaven 2, Plots Tour
Maria BC Preps New Album Marathon, Shares Title Track
Cate Le Bon and St. Vincent Reunite for “Always the Same”
Bruno Mars Plots Sprawling Stadium Tour
Light-Years
Neverland
sankofa

Cool Tools

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Retro Recomendo: Career
Book Freak #192: Arrow
Busiest Air Routes/Best Headphones/TSA + Staples
What’s in my NOW? — Magnus Ojala
The Wolves of Currumpaw / Sinatra 100
Paper Cutting
KK / Flat phone grip / Is it a cult?
Best Retiree Spots/Welcoming Nomad Destinations/Loyalty Doesn’t Pay
Mann’s Pictorial Dictionary / Death is Stupid
Canning

McMansion Hell

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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
pre-recession, post-taste

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
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