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A US judge grants Anthropic's request for a preliminary injunction in its suit against the Trump administration over the DOD's decision to blacklist the company (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
In an interview, David Sacks says he has relinquished his role as AI and crypto czar after using up his time as a special government employee (Bloomberg)
Sources: Anthropic executives have discussed an IPO as soon as Q4, and bankers vying to take the company public expect it to raise more than $60B (The Information)
OpenAI has surpassed $100M in annualized revenue from ChatGPT ads, has expanded to 600+ advertisers, and plans to launch self-serve advertiser access in April (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
Google releases new tools for its Gemini AI assistant that let users upload chat history and context from other AI apps, making it easier to switch from them (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
Apple discontinues the Mac Pro and says it has no plans to offer future Mac Pro hardware (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
Sources: Apple granted out-of-cycle bonuses worth several hundred thousand dollars to iPhone hardware designers, as OpenAI and others poach its engineers (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
X limits X Pro access to subscribers of the $40/month Premium+ plan without notifying users in advance; it was previously available in the $8/month Premium plan (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
Xona, which aims to build a commercial alternative to GPS by launching a low-Earth orbit satellite constellation, raised a $170M Series C (Sandra Erwin/SpaceNews)
Meta plans to increase its investment in a data center in El Paso, Texas, to more than $10B, a significant rise from the initial $1.5B commitment (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
Netflix raises US prices following a January 2025 hike; standard with ads rises $1 to $8.99/month; standard with no ads and premium rise $2 to $19.99 and $26.99 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
Sources: X let go of 20+ staffers in nontechnical roles ahead of a SpaceX IPO; X staff have been told to focus on growing revenue since xAI brought on a CRO (Wall Street Journal)
Italy-based Subbyx, which builds infrastructure that lets businesses offer access-based subscriptions, raised a €30M Series A (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
Fannie Mae will accept crypto-backed mortgages for the first time; Coinbase launches a mortgage product allowing buyers to pledge bitcoin or USDC as collateral (Wall Street Journal)
Sources: Apple plans to open up Siri to run any AI service via App Store apps in iOS 27, dropping ChatGPT as exclusive partner in Apple Intelligence and Siri (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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How to Turn a Chicken Egg Into a Drug Factory
Glass Threads Spun From a Volcano’s Bubbly Magma
Humans Had Dogs Before They Had Farming, Ancient DNA Confirms
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Wicked Stepmother No Longer, a Female Pharoah Gets a Reputational Makeover
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Scientists Filmed a Whale Birth. The Surprise: Mom Had Many Helpers.
Wealthy Investors Target Foes of Clean Energy, Seeking Revenge
Schumer Pledges Democrats Will Restore Clean Energy Tax Credits
Trump to Delay Nominating New C.D.C. Director
Heisuke Hironaka, Groundbreaking Mathematician, Is Dead at 94
E.P.A. Waives Smog Rules on Summer Gasoline in Bid to Ease Prices
Maryland Supreme Court Strikes Down Local Climate Suit Against Big Oil
How Do You Measure Snow From Space? First, Climb a Mountain.
Tango Therapy: How the Dance of Passion Is Helping Parkinson’s Patients
MDMA Therapy in Australia Shows Results for PTSD Patients, but the Cost Is Limiting Access
Carbon Capture Technology Is Helping This Pub Make Beer
Takeaways From The Times’s Inside Look at the C.D.C.
Diabetes, Overlooked and Unchecked, Poses New Risks in Africa
J. Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize Winner for Cancer Research, Dies at 90
A Meteor Exploded Over Ohio. Then the Hunt for Meteorites Began.
David Botstein, Gene-Mapping Pioneer, Dies at 83
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History of ‘forever’ chemicals is written in Antarctic snow
Chats with sycophantic AI make you less kind to others
Trump’s new science advisers include 12 technology chiefs — and one academic
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Retraction Note: Multisensory learning binds neurons into a cross-modal memory engram
Why insects aren't huge: a new challenge to a decades-old idea
Can China keep up its extraordinary research growth?
Genomic history of early dogs in Europe
Dominant clones leverage developmental epigenomic states to drive ependymoma
Ectopic NMDAR expression in cancer unmasks germline-encoded autoimmunity
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Functional hierarchy of the human neocortex across the lifespan
Towards intelligent and miniaturized drug delivery devices
Aversive learning hijacks a brain sugar sensor to consolidate memory
Inactivating SnRK1β1A promotes broad-spectrum disease resistance in rice
Topological soliton frequency comb in nanophotonic lithium niobate
Structural energetics of cold sensitivity
A fast starburst wind consumes most of the energy from supernovae
Androgen activity in the male embryonic hindbrain drives lethal PFA ependymoma
The DNA virome varies with human genes and environments
Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex
Structural basis of supercoiling-induced CRISPR–Cas9 off-target activity
Dogs were widely distributed across western Eurasia during the Palaeolithic
CO2 subsurface mineral storage by its co-injection with recirculating water
Electrochemical corrosion accompanies dendrite growth in solid electrolytes
Parasites trigger epithelial cell crosstalk to drive gut–brain signalling
Epigenetic memory of colitis promotes tumour growth
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Precipitation observing network gaps limit climate change impact assessment
Quantifying climate loss and damage consistent with a social cost of carbon
Oxygen supply through the tracheolar–muscle system does not constrain insect gigantism
Decadal-scale droughts disrupted the African Humid Period in the Sahara
Moderate global warming does not rule out extreme global climate outcomes
Superluminal correlations in ensembles of optical phase singularities
Redirecting current solves a shadowy problem faced by perovskite solar cells
China is an innovation powerhouse — but it should do more fundamental research
Major conference catches illicit AI use — and rejects hundreds of papers
Remembrance of inflammations past
‘Continuity over novelty’: why environmental science needs to rethink its focus
Anticancer antibodies can evolve to cause autoimmune brain disease
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Who let the wolves in? Genetic record for domestic dogs pushed back by 5,000 years
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A cancer-promoting fusion protein acts during embryonic brain development
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Dogs have deep genetic roots in ice-age Europe
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Scientists should join collaborative online editing communities for biodiversity
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High-dimensional topological photonic entanglement
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Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence
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The Tacit Politics of Pixar’s Latest Hit
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Protecting a Hero Too Long
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RFK Jr. Is Losing His Grip on the CDC
Trump Is Asking to Be Bailed Out Again
Today’s Atlantic Trivia: A Little Dickens
When Claude Met Claude
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The War With Iran Is Exposing Big Problems for the Military
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Trump says U.S. to hold off for 10 days on hitting Iran energy sites
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Iraq accuses U.S. of killing 7 soldiers in clinic strike
China bars executives at Meta-owned AI company from leaving country
U.S. plan to end war seeks removal of Iran’s enriched uranium, officials say
Russia hits Ukrainian cities, intensifying bombing as U.S. focuses on Iran
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'We Didn't Murder Sociology. Sociology Committed Suicide.'
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Elise Stefanik Goes Woke
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AI Broke College Assessment. One University Believes It's Got a Fix.

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Thursday Reading & Recommendations | March 26, 2026
Short Answers to Simple Questions | March 25, 2026
How many of Helen Keller’s accomplishments were legitimately her own?
[META] Thank you to the mods and FAQ finders!
How accurate is the stock exchange scene from the movie "Trading places" from the logistics/bureaucratic (not economic) point of view? Or in more general, how exactly did the stock/commodity exchange operate on the actual day-to-day basis in the pre/early digital era?
Donald Rumsfeld in September 2001: Where would $2.3 trillion in unsupported Pentagon transactions have plausibly gone?
Were there any Roman records of the trial of Jesus?
Were Jack the Rippers victims actually Prostitutes?
Ron Chernow in his Washington biography refers to the British army as “the best trained and equipped army in the world” in 1775. Is this remotely accurate?
How much of a Shakespeare play would the average person at the time have understood?
Did the Pauline letters survive because Paul was famous, or is he famous because they survived? (And did he die dejected thinking he had lost the struggle and his life's work was undone?)
why didn’t alliance systems deter ww1 from escalating?
Why would a nation deny the Armenian genocide ?
Which cultures knew of the Great Pyramids of Giza throughout history? What theories did they have?
Did imperial Rome have a tourism industry?
Why did we used to condemn children born out of wedlock?
What did my Soviet grandmother do for a living?
It might sound wired, but how does head of state talk to each other in the meeting?
What is the (current) history of humans on the American continents?
In the pre-World War II era to what extent were colonial powers able to carry out mass violence, what would now be defined as genocide, against subject populations without meaningful intervention or condemnation from other major powers?
I'm an average Soviet citizen in 1976. After a years-long wait, I have finally received my new car. However, it has arrived with several mechanical defects. What recourse, if any, do I have?
Under Apartheid, how legally feasible was it for Whites to have friendships with Black South Africans?
Do we know if myths of werewolves (or lycothropy in general) can be traced back to something mundane, but beyond the understanding of ancient peoples?
To what extent did the social standards for female hair removal exist before the 20th-century safety razor?
The Dionysica depicts Dionysus waging war with India, and in their first "skirmish" the Indian army gets severely drunk. How would people of early Vetic Tradition have responded to bacchan revelries, and would this have effected their moral?

Linguistics

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Q&A weekly thread - March 23, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
Masato Kobayashi (2025) - Hill Korwa of Kado Pani: Outline Grammar, Text and Glossary of a North Munda language
Humans share acoustic preferences with other animals
Beyond the pronoun: On neopronouns, nounself pronouns, and the ever-changing politics of language acceptability
Fact checking Geoffery Pullum's claims about Daniel Everett in Brazil
Q&A weekly thread - March 16, 2026 - post all questions here!
Connectives in Asur: A North Munda Language
Loanwords: Core Concepts and the Case of Wasei Eigo
A neuroimaging study of language impairments across the biological continuum of Alzheimer's disease (from healthy older adults to dementia).
Language Contact and Deliberate Change - Sarah Thomason (2007)
“Inside the kaleidoscope: unravelling the ‘feeling different’ experience of bicultural bilinguals”
Q&A weekly thread - March 09, 2026 - post all questions here!
Thoughts on critique of CDA?
Q&A weekly thread - March 02, 2026 - post all questions here!
Negativas: A Prototype for Searching and Classifying Sentential Negation in Speech Data
SPATIAL CODE AND CULTURAL GESTALT IN THE MEDIA FRAMING OF BUSINESS DISCOURSE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
An outline of Proto-Indo-European
Lusitanian language and onomastics of Lusitania: 25 years later (2021) [Spanish]
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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
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Polysynthesis in Sora (Munda) with Special Reference to Noun Incorporation (2017)

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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)

Open Culture

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An Introduction to Brutalism: The Iconic Postwar Architectural Style That Combined Utopianism and Concrete
Meet the “Telharmonium,” the First Synthesizer (and Predecessor to Muzak), Invented in 1897
See the Climactic Ending of Steven Spielberg’s Breakout Duel Recreated Entirely with 3D-Printed Models
How the Hoover Dam Works: A 3D Animated Introduction
Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom
Watch Jazzy Spies: 1969 Psychedelic Sesame Street Animation, Featuring Grace Slick, Teaches Kids to Count
Every Known Work by Georgia O’Keeffe Has Been Digitized and Made Available Online
Why Smart People Feel Like Frauds: The Psychology of Impostor Syndrome and Its Hidden Benefits
How Quentin Tarantino’s One-Night “Detest Fest” Changed His Life & Set Him on the Path to Pulp Fiction
An Introduction to the Strait of Hormuz and Its Role in the Longstanding US-Iran Conflict
Alan Lomax’s Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 20,000 Historic Blues & Folk Recordings
Jim Jarmusch Picks His Favorite Films from the The Criterion Collection
In Her Final Reflections, Jane Goodall Issues a Warning: “Without Hope, We Fall Into Apathy”
Learn Ancient Greek in 118 Free Lessons: A Free Online Course from Brandeis & Harvard
Hear Paul McCartney’s Forgotten 1967 Movie Soundtrack, Arranged by George Martin

NYT > Technology

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Juries Take the Lead in the Push for Child Online Safety
Snapchat Investigated in Europe Over Child Safety Policies
Meta Lays Off 700 Employees, While Rewarding Top Executives
Leonid Radvinsky, 43, Dies; Built the Adult-Entertainment Giant OnlyFans
Safety Experts Considered LaGuardia Challenging but Not an Outlier
The Clues Binance Missed That Led to Billions in Crypto Flowing to Iran
U.S. Accuses NewYork-Presbyterian of Reaching Deals That Kept Costs High
Shield AI, a Start-Up Making Military Drones, Raises $2 Billion
In ‘The AI Doc,’ Sam Altman and Dario Amodei Go on the Record
Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Trial
OpenAI Is Shutting Down Sora, Its A.I. Video Generator
Meta Ordered to Pay $375 Million Over Child Safety Violations
Epic Games Lays Off Over 1,000 Employees, Citing Fortnite Slump
Arm Holdings, in Break From Past, Will Sell Its Own Computer Chips
Judge Hears State Challenge to Trump’s Tech Deal Settlement
‘Real Housewives’ Has Been a Meme Gold Mine for 20 Years
Paul Brainerd Dies at 78; Pioneered Desktop Publishing With PageMaker
What to Know About Electric Cars When Gas Prices Are Surging
Elon Musk Is Responsible for Some Twitter Investor Losses, Jury Finds
More! More! More! Tech Workers Max Out Their A.I. Use.
Polymarket Says It Deals in Truth, but Its Social Feeds Are Filled With Falsehoods
‘A.I.-Washing’ Layoffs? + Why L.L.M.s Can’t Write Well + Tokenmaxxing
U.S. Says 3 Tied to Silicon Valley Server Maker Broke Export Laws

NYT > Arts

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Paul Klee’s “Angelus Novus” New York Debut On Hold Due to Mideast War
Raphael and the Renaissance of Divine Beauty
D. Boon’s Death Shook Punk Rock. 40 Years Later, Minutemen Look Back.
The Kennedy Center Is Giving Bill Maher the Mark Twain Prize
Rare Books Stolen From a Jesuit Archive in Rome Are Returned to Italy
FKA twigs Says in Suit That Shia LaBeouf Had Her Sign ‘Illegal’ NDA
When a Not-So-Dark Knight and His Sidekick Saved a Wacky Gotham
A Storied Rockefeller Art Trove Goes on View at Asia Society
Marriage Might Not Happen. But ‘Something Very Bad’ Did.
‘Yes’ Review: From Israel, an Uncomfortable Existential Howl
‘Public Charge’ Review: The World Is Messy. Being a Force for Good Is, Too.
What’s Your Star Sign? The Ancients Could Offer You Some Insight.
Heirs of Dave the Potter, the Enslaved Artist, Are Battling to Recover His Legacy
Mearns and Melnick, Dance Stars Who Choose Each Other
Sam Kieth, Creator of Surreal Comic Book Series The Maxx, Dies at 63
‘Tristan und Isolde’ at the Met Opera Has a Troubling Problem
Robert Fox, Acclaimed Producer in Britain and on Broadway, Dies at 73
Dash Crofts, of the Soft-Rock Duo That Sang ‘Summer Breeze,’ Dies at 87
‘Teeth ’n’ Smiles’: A Pop Diva and a Flamed-Out Rock Music Revolution
‘They Will Kill You’ Review: The Co-Op From Hell
‘She Dances’ Review: Steve Zahn Is a Reluctant Chaperone
‘Our Hero, Balthazar’ Review: Lost Souls and Found Follies
‘A Magnificent Life’ Review: An Era of Artistic Revolutions
‘Forbidden Fruits’ Review: Queen Bees of the Food Court
‘BTS: The Return’ Review: Back in the Recording Booth
‘Fantasy Life’ Review: Digging Out of the Doldrums
‘Alpha’ Review: Body Trouble
The Thailand Biennale Brings More to Phuket Than Mass Tourism
In ‘The AI Doc,’ Sam Altman and Dario Amodei Go on the Record
8 Thriller Books About Housewives Getting Revenge
For Baccarat, This Artist Created a Different Kind of Chandelier
Josh Johnson Ridicules the Army’s Opening to Older Recruits
Chip Taylor, Writer of ‘Wild Thing’ and Other Classic Rock Hits, Dies at 86
Jury Awards Chance the Rapper $35 in Legal Fight With Former Manager
The Good List: 8 Things to Add Delight to Your Day
Pat Steir, Painter of Luminous ‘Waterfalls,’ Dies at 87
Stephen Colbert Is Writing a New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movie
A Free Home for San Francisco Artists, From Dave Eggers and Friends
Tracy Kidder, Author of ‘The Soul of a New Machine,’ Dies at 80
‘Dog Day Afternoon’ Playwright Briefly Kept Out of Broadway Rehearsals
Mozart Wouldn’t Be Mozart Without These Three Objects
‘Bait’ Review: Bond. Shahjehan Bond.
A Master of Animation Is Back, With a ‘Magnificent’ Story
The ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Showrunner Feels Your Pain, Really
Larry Reed, Master of Shadow Puppetry, Dies at 81
In Marathon, A.I. Is Everywhere and Humanity Is an Anomaly
‘A Little Prayer,’ ‘Splitsville’ and More Streaming Gems
How ‘One Piece’ Fixed a Common Problem for Anime Adaptations
Write It Up! How Fast Do Our Journalists Type?
Late Night Questions the ‘Very Big Present’ Trump Got From Iran
Through Bamboo, the Artist Lap-See Lam Explores Her Family’s History
11 Robyn Bangers for the Pop Star’s Long-Awaited Return
Mike Vernon, Who Helped Spark the British Blues Boom, Dies at 81
Robert White, Tenor Renowned for Irish Ballads, Dies at 89
David A. Ross Sought Epstein’s Help to Build Art Museums. Now He’s Facing the Fallout.
The Final, Flying Colors of Matisse’s ‘Second Life’
Brooklyn Museum’s African Art Galleries to Unite Continent
Is It Possible to Solve the Ending of Puccini’s ‘Turandot’?
Comedy’s Most Manipulative Shot … and Its Greatest Weapon
Tango Therapy: How the Dance of Passion Is Helping Parkinson’s Patients
Wicked Stepmother No Longer, a Female Pharoah Gets a Reputational Makeover

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
What are some examples of countries whose existence is unknown by some of their neighbors?
Why is the Albanian minority in Greece predominantly Orthodox Christians while neighbouring Serbia, Montenegro and North Macedonia host mainly Albanian Muslim minorities?
How did Malaysia end up with this land connected to Indonesia?
unusual structure in the Russian taiga, anyone know what these are?
Hiroshima and Lyon's confluence look almost the same
Oxbow lake?
Tonle Sap river: probably the only river that periodically and regularly changes direction. (Asia)
St. John's has a proper Portuguese exonym and it's the only place in Canada to do so
One of the most flat places on earth - the Red River Valley (ND/MN)
Interesting pattern i've noticed. "convention center theory" as I call it.
Why are all these Eurasian place-names all in Central-Eastern Ohio?
Viable US City-States
Is Singapore considered a primate city?
Is there a database of peaks in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru?
Why is the Denmark-Germany border on Google Maps incomplete?
What's up with that? Censored? Distortion?
Comparing locations and countries
Magdalena River Cienagas in Colombia
why syvash lake had green body of water?, or its just an mapping glitch or else?
Anyone know what this pattern is called?
Why the parts if china near the side of india have so main isolated water bodies
National Geographic Concise Atlas of the World, 5th Edition
can someone explain what is this called, how did it form and why is the inside of it much more lush than the surrounding
I love it when you can see borders between countries from birds-eye view

The Public Domain Review

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

The Quietus

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Actress and Suzanne Ciani Unveil Collaborative Album, ‘Concrète Waves’
Symphonies from Destruction: Kinshasa in Action by KinAct
Taupe – Waxing | Waning
Judas Priest, Sad Wings Of Destiny & The Birth Of Modern Metal
Why we made a film about Mark Fisher called We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher
Natalie Marlin on The Chemical Brothers’ Hanna OST
Lee “Scratch” Perry’s ‘Final’ Album, a Collaboration with Mouse On Mars, Set for Release
Vince Clarke Launches Covers Project with Benge and Blancmange’s Neil Arthur
EFG London Jazz Festival Announces First Acts for 2026 Edition
james K Unveils ‘Friend’ Remix Album
Outside the Box: Sarah Nixey’s Favourite Albums
Ladytron – Paradises
FKA twigs Sues The Twigs Over Trademark Dispute
Rockfort! French Music for March, Reviewed by David McKenna
A lot of Opportunities: Pet Shop Boys’ Please Revisited
The Leaf Library – After the Rain, Strange Seeds
Sweet Belief: Cameron Picton on My New Band Believe
Underscores – U
Neurosis – An Undying Love For A Burning World
Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Ben Cardew on The Pivotal Role of Stereolab’s ‘Super-Electric’
Neurosis Release First New Album in a Decade
Reissue of the Week: Roland Brival’s Créole Gypsy
Leila Bordreuil + Kali Malone – Music for Intersecting Planes
Native Instruments to Go into Full Insolvency
The Afghan Whigs Share New Song, ‘House Of I’
UK Government Scraps Support for AI Models Being Trained on Copyrighted Creative Material
The Strange World Of… Ed Kuepper
Teerath Majumder – Dust To Dust
Twilight of the Idols: Yourprettyplaceisgoingtohell by The Heads
Organic Intelligence LIV: Psychedelic Porto
Kraftwerk Unveil 50th Anniversary Reissue of ‘Radio-Activity’
Ana Roxanne Shares New Song, ‘Untitled II’

Bandcamp Updates

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The Rise, Fall, and Revival of sugar plant, Japan’s Indie Darlings
Parlor Greens, “Emeralds”
Side Door No. 2: How Taper’s Choice Became One of the Jam World’s Most Exciting Bands
Stuck, “Optimizer”
The Unclassifiable Excepter
A Puzzle Game Soundtrack That Plays With Your Head
dälek, “Brilliance of a Falling Moon”
On Their Own Terms: How the AACM Built a New American Music
Preserving the French Underground: A Guide to Souffle Continu
Building a Home for Brazilian Funk in Japan
Essential Releases, March 20, 2026
Dagmar Zuniga, “in filth your mystery is kingdom / far smile peasant in yellow music”
The Long, Joyous Tradition of Cajun and Creole Accordion Music
God Knows and MuRli: Ireland’s Hip-Hop Gamechangers
Crouch, “Breaking the Catatonic State”
Chicha Forever: The Evolution of Peruvian Cumbia
Xylitol, “Blumenfantasie”
The Ictus Ensemble Chart Classical Music’s Next Frontier
Duncecap & Samurai Banana, “Comfortably Suffering”
Cut Worms, “Transmitter”
Clover Records Is An Indie Pop Good-Luck Charm
Excavating the Pacific Northwest’s Art Rap Underground
Rapping with Kim Gordon
Essential Releases, March 13, 2026
Ora Cogan, “Hard Hearted Woman”
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

dusted

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a hug of songs for Jenny
bobbie — Lessons (Orindal)
Sunn O))) — S/T (Sub Pop)
Healing and Peace — A Treatise (Self-Release)
The Notwist — News From Planet Zombie (Morr Music)
Barbaric Oath — Sword, Sorcery, Vengeance (Caligari)
Isabel Pine — Fables (Kranky)
Pan•American — Fly the Ocean in a Silver Plane (Kranky)
Mors.Void.Discipline — Txketh)ëké (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
Tinariwen — Hoggar (WEDGE)
Gunner — Reality Soldier (Iron Lung)
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.

Pitchfork

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Dua Lipa to Appear Alongside Connor Storrie in New A24 Film
Weezer Announce “Major” Gathering (It’s Another Tour)
Lily Allen Announces North American Arena Tour
Dash Crofts, Singer-Guitarist in Soft-Rock Duo Seals and Crofts, Dies at 85
Paul McCartney Announces New Album and Shares Song
I Went to a Hip-Hop Streamer Convention and All I Got Was This Piece of Content
An Undying Love for a Burning World
Is This All There Is? EP
Beetle
97 EP
Kanye West Says His New Album Bully Uses “No AI”
FKA twigs Files New Lawsuit Against Shia LaBeouf Over “Illegal” NDA
Watch Geese Cover the Stone Roses in Manchester
Sublime Announce First Album in 30 Years
Watch Gelli Haha Drive a Cloud in Rainbow-Hued Video for New Song
Vince Clarke Launches New Analog Synth Covers Project
Watch Snail Mail Debut New Song “Tractor Beam” on Fallon
Lee “Scratch” Perry’s Final Album is a Collaboration With Mouse on Mars
James K Launches Friend Remix Album With New Tracks From Objekt and Jasss
Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen, Ramones Cover Tom Waits on New Compilation
Two Shell’s New Song Wants You to “Smile”
Duffy Will Tell Her Abduction and Assault Story in New Documentary
Aja Monet Preps New Album, Shares “Elsewhere” Video
i sure am getting sick of this bowling alley
Needle Guy EP
Dying Is the Internet
I know you’re hurting, everyone is hurting, everyone is trying, you have got to try
Waxahatchee and Brennan Wedl Cover Kathleen Edwards’ “Six O’Clock News”
Watch Jim Legxacy Bop Around London in Video for New Song “IDK IDK”
Pixies Detail 40th Anniversary U.S. Shows

Cool Tools

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Airplane Speakerphone Ban/Slomad Paradox/Colors of Asia
What’s in my NOW? — Mark Rae Peet
Quidditch Through the Ages / Hurts Like a Mother
Power Gear
Flighty / 23 learnings on community / Keep the Meter Running
Book Freak #201: Indistractable
Earbud Straps/Companion Flights Perk/Extra Airport Time
What’s in my NOW? — Quentin Sinig
Creeping Death from Neptune / The Book of Gossage
Beekeeping

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
We Tested 13 Carbon Steel Pans—Three Stood Out
Moin Moin (Nigerian Steamed Bean Cake)
18 Date-Night Recipes for a Cozy Meal at Home
Homestyle Bibimbap
How to Deep-Clean Your Dutch Oven (and Keep It Looking Like New)
Malloreddus Alla Campidanese (Sardinian Ridged Pasta With Saffron and Pork Ragù)
Khorovats (Armenian Shish Kebabs)
Efo Riro (Nigerian Stewed Greens)
How to Roast Butternut Squash
Madeleines
We Tested 13 Nakiri Knives—Three Sliced Through the Competition
Puntarelle Alla Romana (Puntarelle Salad With Anchovy and Garlic Dressing)
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