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Predator-free fence project restoring Kangaroo Island's native wildlife
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Trump administration admits DOGE accessed personal Social Security data

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Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant
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Layoffs hit Vimeo for the second time since September 2025, when it laid off 10% of its workforce; Bending Spoons acquired Vimeo for around $1.38B in November (Business Insider)
Sources: Sam Altman has been meeting with top investors in the Middle East, looking to raise at least $50B for OpenAI at a valuation of about $750B to $830B (Bloomberg)
Memo: Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines Lab cofounder who rejoined OpenAI last week, will lead OpenAI's enterprise push, as part of a broader reorganization (The Information)
Unsealed docs: Spotify and labels sued Anna's Archive over plans to release scraped Spotify data; a US court grants a temporary order taking down some domains (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
Blue Origin unveils TeraWave, a satellite communications network for enterprise, data center, and government customers, and plans to begin deployment in Q4 2027 (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
Neynar, a startup focused on decentralized social media infrastructure, is acquiring Ethereum-based social media project Farcaster from R&D firm Merkle (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
Sources: AI chip startup SambaNova is seeking to raise $300M to $500M after talks to sell the company to Intel for about $1.6B, including debt, stalled (Bloomberg)
Sources: Apple is developing an AirTag-sized AI wearable pin with cameras, a speaker, microphones, and wireless charging that could be released as early as 2027 (The Information)
Sources: Apple plans to revamp Siri this fall in iOS 27 and macOS 27 by turning it into the company's first AI chatbot, replacing the current Siri interface (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
A Canadian federal court overturned a 2024 order that would have shuttered TikTok Canada's business operations over national security concerns (Mickey Djuric/Politico)
Sources: Anthropic's revenue run rate hit $9B+ at the end of 2025, up from $4B in July 2025; Iconiq, Lightspeed, and Menlo are set to join its new funding round (Bloomberg)
ElevenLabs launches an album of original tracks made by artists like Liza Minnelli and Art Garfunkel in "collaboration" with its Eleven Music AI model (Todd Spangler/Variety)
Ubisoft cancels six games and delays others amid a restructuring into five genre-specific "creative houses"; it expects net bookings of ~€1.5B for FY 2025-2026 (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
Anthropic overhauls Claude's "constitution" to enable the AI model to generalize and apply broad principles rather than mechanically follow specific rules (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
Meta plans to expand ads on Threads to all users globally starting next week; Threads began testing ads in the US and Japan a year ago (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds - WSJ
OpenAI could reportedly run out of cash by mid-2027 — analyst paints grim picture after examining the company's finances
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Zwelibanzi Williams, mayor's wife, accused of not securing worker's compensation insurance for employees
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Snowpocalypse with a baby: I'm stressing. Will we 100% lose power in Durham if there's any significant precipitation? Feeling like I might be totally screwed
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Thing-Like Robotic Hand Makes Life Resemble ‘The Addams Family’
Filoplumes Are Nature’s Super Feather
How to Cut an Infinitely Large Pancake into as Many Pieces as Possible
A Bite-Size Column About Delight and Wonder in Science
Cows Use Tools, Too, New Study Finds
Artemis II Moon Mission: NASA Completes Giant Rocket’s Slow Ride to Launchpad
If the Volcanic Eruption Doesn’t Scare You, the Mudflow Should
Joel Primack, Physicist Who Helped Explain the Cosmos, Dies at 80
For the World’s Food Supply, Federal Funding Cuts Have Long-Term Impacts
Rising Global Temperatures May Affect Choices for Winter Olympic Venues
What’s a Human Life Worth? The E.P.A. Says Zero Dollars.
Scientists Set Up Camp on Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica
Democrats Seek Investigation of $3.5 Million Deal by Interior Official’s Husband
Will ‘Psychiatry’s Bible’ Add a Postpartum Psychosis Diagnosis?
A Look Through a Century of Times Reporting From Antarctica
3 Policy Moves Likely to Change Health Care for Older People
World’s First Treaty to Protect the High Seas Becomes Law
No Link Between Acetaminophen in Pregnancy and Autism, a Study Finds
Supreme Court to Decide if the Pesticide Roundup Is Shielded From Lawsuits
Virginia Coastal Offshore Wind Project Can Continue, Judge Rules
For Men, How Much Alcohol Is Too Much?
Empire Wind Project Can Resume Construction, Judge Rules
U.S. Cuts Health Aid and Ties It to Funding Pledges by African Governments
Who is left on the International Space Station?
How NASA deals with astronauts’ medical needs on the I.S.S.
What happens during the astronauts’ return to Earth?
Is it risky to fly a sick astronaut home to Earth?
NASA Astronauts Return to Earth After Medical Evacuation From International Space Station

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Editorial Expression of Concern: The X-linked lymphoproliferative-disease gene product SAP regulates signals induced through the co-receptor SLAM
Publisher Correction: Multiple oestradiol functions inhibit ferroptosis and acute kidney injury
Publisher Correction: Polyamine-dependent metabolic shielding regulates alternative splicing
The biggest ‘Schrödinger’s cat’ yet — physicists put 7,000 atoms in superposition
ADHD is on the rise, but why?
Afar fossil shows broad distribution and versatility of Paranthropus
Construction of complex and diverse DNA sequences using DNA three-way junctions
Extreme barocaloric effect at dissolution
Temporal tissue dynamics from a spatial snapshot
Symmetry, microscopy and spectroscopy signatures of altermagnetism
Pyramidal neurons proportionately alter cortical interneuron subtypes
Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi
Core–envelope miscibility in sub-Neptunes and super-Earths
Four camera-type eyes in the earliest vertebrates from the Cambrian Period
Identification of an allosteric site on the E3 ligase adapter cereblon
Predatory aggression evolved through adaptations to noradrenergic circuits
The potential for bridgmanite megacrysts to drive magma ocean segregation
Ageing promotes microglial accumulation of slow-degrading synaptic proteins
Oxygen-free metabolism in the bird inner retina supported by the pecten
Critical role for a high-plasticity cell state in lung cancer
Large-scale dynamos driven by shear-flow-induced jets
Common variation in meiosis genes shapes human recombination and aneuploidy
Dissecting gene regulatory networks governing human cortical cell fate
Quantum spin resonance in engineered proteins for multimodal sensing
LetA defines a structurally distinct transporter family
Probing quantum mechanics with nanoparticle matter-wave interferometry
Relatively warm deep-water formation persisted in the Last Glacial Maximum
Baby-to-baby strain transmission shapes the developing gut microbiome
Fibre integrated circuits by a multilayered spiral architecture
Fibroblastic reticular cells direct the initiation of T cell responses via CD44
Biological insights into schizophrenia from ancestrally diverse populations
Accretion bursts crystallize silicates in a planet-forming disk
Convergent evolution of scavenger cell development at brain borders
Atmospheric microplastic emissions from land and ocean
The transition from monocyte to tissue-resident macrophage requires DHPS
Untangling the connection between dopamine and ADHD
Quantum effect observed for biggest objects yet
Six highlights from ADHD research
More than half of authors of leading research say funding is declining
Illuminating how the bird inner retina works without oxygen solves a 350-year-old structural mystery
Schrödinger’s cat just got bigger: quantum physicists create largest ever ‘superposition’
Is paracetamol in pregnancy a risk factor for ADHD?
A variety of early hominin species shared the Afar region of Ethiopia
ADHD treatments move beyond stimulants
The rich stopped buying yachts the year time went on sale
Sending babies to nursery completely reshapes their microbiomes
An eye-popping discovery: early vertebrates had four eyes rather than two
Why ADHD goes undiagnosed in girls
AI and nuclear energy feature strongly in agenda-setting technologies for 2026
Hand stencils in Indonesian cave are world’s oldest known artworks
‘Remote controlled’ proteins illuminate living cells
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To gain public trust, make art central to science communication
US funding cuts harm aspiring young scientists, too
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Publisher Correction: A fault-tolerant neutral-atom architecture for universal quantum computation
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Macrophage MR1 antigen presentation promotes MAIT cell immunity and lung microbiota modulation
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Here’s a Look at Everything (and Everyone) Trump Targeted at Davos
Did the U.S. Ever Own Greenland? Fact-Checking Trump’s Davos Speech.
Stocks Rebound After Trump Backs Off European Tariffs
Supreme Court Seems Poised to Reject Trump’s Attempt to Immediately Fire a Fed Governor
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Appeals Court Stays Restrictions on Federal Tactics in Minnesota
Trump Administration Starts Immigration Operation in Maine
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Military Police Troops Put on Alert for Possible Deployment to Minnesota
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House Panel Votes to Hold Clintons in Contempt in Epstein Inquiry
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Iran’s Protests Have Been Completely Squashed, Government Says
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Israeli Strikes in Gaza Kill 11, Including Three Journalists
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Rahm Emanuel Calls for Age Limit of 75 for President, Congress and Judges
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Michele Tafoya Announces Senate Run in Minnesota
Judge Rules for Democrats in Push to Redraw N.Y.C. House District
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Austin Thompson Pleads Guilty in North Carolina Shooting That Left 5 Dead

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The Government’s Posts Just Took a Sharp Far-Right Turn
America Needs Greenland. No—Iceland. Actually, Never Mind!
How to Tell If Your President Is a Dictator
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A Novel About the Costs of Family Secrets
Trump Wants to Be the New Polk
America’s Crimea
Trump Gives a Stump Speech at Davos
The Great Crime Decline Is Happening All Across the Country
Why Trump Sides With Putin
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The Secret to One of Hollywood’s Most Enduring Friendships
MAGA Jesus Is Not the Real Jesus
Davos Man May Burn the Whole Thing Down
A Surprising Change in Trump’s Behavior
The Real Reason for the Drop in Fentanyl Overdoses
America’s Would-Be Surgeon General Says to Trust Your ‘Heart Intelligence’
What Iranians Want From Trump
Trump’s Attack on Democracy Is Faltering
Why So Many Writers Are Athletes
Trump’s Golden Age of Culture Seems Pretty Sad So Far
The Levers Trump Isn’t Using
What Happened to Pam Bondi?
Trump Exhaustion Syndrome
The Military Is Being Forced to Plan for an Unthinkable Betrayal

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Trump brings his attacks on Somalis onto the world stage at Davos
Federal officials launch ICE operation in Maine and begin arrests
Church says limits on bell tower are religious discrimination, sues town
One day of the ICE operation in Minneapolis — and the activists fighting it
Flamingo fans fight to unseat the mockingbird as Florida’s state bird
Indiana judge and his wife injured in shooting at their home, police say
Anti-ICE protest at Minnesota church is latest flash point over Trump’s crackdown

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U.S. military to move up to 7,000 ISIS detainees from Syria to Iraq
Israel kills 3 journalists in Gaza, including CBS News contributor
Trump’s Greenland crusade pushes European allies to a breaking point
Elon Musk’s latest feud is a mudslinging match with a budget airline
Trump takes aim at Canada after Carney’s Davos speech
Immigration visas for people from these 75 countries are paused
Prince Harry takes the stand in privacy fight against Daily Mail publisher
Denmark fought alongside the U.S. Now, Trump is threatening it over Greenland.
How Egypt is reviving the Suez Canal after maritime attacks sank traffic
In prudish China, men are detained after posts about ‘gay pandas’
At Davos, a European backlash to Trump
Killer of Japanese leader Shinzo Abe sentenced to life in prison
Pentagon moves to cut U.S. participation in some NATO groups
Clash between U.S. allies in Syria threatens ISIS detention centers
Trump says U.K. ‘stupidity’ on Chagos Islands justifies Greenland demands
‘Morally acceptable’ for U.S. troops to disobey orders, archbishop says
Australia ramps up drone patrols after string of shark attacks
Trump plans to charge $1 billion for permanent seat on ‘Board of Peace’
Death toll from high-speed train collision in Spain rises to 41
‘House burping’ is a cold reality in Germany. Americans are warming to it.
After Yemen rift, Saudi Arabia aims to quash UAE’s power in wider region
Trump ties Greenland takeover bid to Nobel Prize in text to Norway leader

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Data workers are being forced to work on-site during earthquakes and typhoons
Big Tech is racing to own Africa’s internet
China steers the Gulf’s driverless future as U.S. rivals stay home
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Why the EU is ready to drop high tariffs on China-made EVs
64% of UAE residents now use generative AI
Uganda shuts down internet two days before election
Tesla is losing the EV race. Its stock keeps winning
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Why India’s plan to make AI companies pay for training data should go global
BYD burns profit chasing global dominance over Tesla

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

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Another State's Public Universities Are Tightening Post-Tenure Review and Dictating Teaching Loads
‘The Perception of Danger Everywhere’: Navigating Campus Life Amid ICE Enforcement
After 40 years at Harvard, James Hankins is disillusioned. He's starting over in Florida.
Lured by AI, Colleges Are Sleepwalking Into Irrelevance
The Age of Interdisciplinary Slop
A College Fired Its President. Now He's Been Reinstated.
How a Student's Sarcastic Charlie Kirk Email Sparked a Free-Speech Dust-Up
Can College Finances Handle Another Year of Trump?
College Presidents Can't Escape Trump
When Robert P. George Was Offered the U. of Florida Presidency

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Office Hours January 19, 2026: Questions and Discussion about Navigating Academia, School, and the Subreddit
Short Answers to Simple Questions | January 21, 2026
What Caused the Rise and Fall of Journalistic Integrity/neutrality in the U.S.?
Did "Jew hunters" like Hans Landa really exist in the SS as "individual acting operators"? What is Landa anyway?
I'm Dr. Beau Cleland, a professor at the University of Calgary, and I'm here to talk about my new book, "Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria: How Pirates, Smugglers, and Scoundrels Almost Saved the Confederacy," and anything else you want about Civil War-era skulduggery, AMA!
Are there any records of the moral thoughts of bandit cultures?
Request for verification: Do these patterns actually appear consistently in survivor testimony across genocides?
Would the Emancipation Proclamation have survived judicial scrutiny of Reconstruction if Lincoln hadn't gone for the 13th amendment?
Were there abolitionists in the classical world?
How were the mothers of children conceived during the sack of cities and the children themselves treated during any of the time periods from in the span of 1200-1700 in Europe?
Why does the USA have so many police services?
What was sex like in early medieval times?
Why are most recommended Chinese History books written by English-speaking authors? Are there any not too biased Chinese History books written by the Chinese (in Chinese)?
What’s the history behind the US army moving (pcsing) troops every 2-4 years?
Was the Hoover Dam politically controversial at the time?
In the book “blood red snow” the author mentions the Russians using kalashnikovs. How accurate is this considering the kalashnikov wasn’t in service until after the war?
Did Native Americans wear hats, pre-European Contact?
Did Stalin Order The Destruction of Permanent Fortifications Shortly Before Operation Barbarossa As A Token of "Good Faith" Toward Hitler?
Easy to read American history book for adults?
What was the Roman ideal of fatherhood? Do we know of anyone specifically regarded as a good father?
What would happen if someone in medieval Europe struck or assaulted a court jester that made fun of them?
I'm a pre-Columbian Mayan noble who's grown bored of drinking chocolate. However, a shaman has peered into the future and divined the recipe for something called a "Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar." With the resources available to me, how hard would it be to recreate it?
What was the experience of sumo wrestlers in Japan during World War II?
When did the job of a tanner or the location of a tannery stop being so smelly?
Does anyone have any recommendations for books on the history of art in Japan?

Linguistics

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Q&A weekly thread - January 19, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
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Introduction to the templatic verb morphology of Birhor (Birhoɽ), a Kherwarian Munda language
Signs of Deaf Ni-Vanuatu: A sociolinguistic study
Q&A weekly thread - January 12, 2026 - post all questions here!
An Archive of the Caijia Language
Beserman Multimedia Corpus (2025)
Mundari: The myth of a language without word classes (2005)
Q&A weekly thread - January 05, 2026 - post all questions here!
Austroasiatic Roots of Sora Mythology. Origin and Development of the Image of The God Kittung (Ethnolinguistic Analysis)
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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?
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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
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MetaFilter Projects

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Relationship Evaluation Form, redux
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Open Culture

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A Brief Introduction to Buckminster Fuller and His Techno-Optimistic Ideas
Watch the First Episode of Sesame Street and 140 Other Free Episodes
Watch the Evolution of Paris Unfold in a Timelapse Video, from 300 BCE to 2025
Miles Davis Opens for Neil Young and “That Sorry-Ass Cat” Steve Miller at The Fillmore East (1970)
How the “Netflix Movie” Turns Cinema into “Visual Muzak”
What Happens When Mortals Try to Drink Winston Churchill’s Daily Intake of Alcohol
MTV Rewind Lets You Revisit 40,000 Music Videos & Commercials from the Golden Age of MTV
Discover Michelangelo’s First Painting, Created When He Was Only 12 or 13 Years Old
Download 435 High Resolution Images from John J. Audubon’s The Birds of America
When Pianist Maria João Pires Prepared to Perform the Wrong Mozart Concerto, Then Recovered Miraculously
“Riders on the Storm” Performed by John Densmore, Robby Krieger and 20+ Musicians Around the World
Stream 4,000+ Public Domain Movies on WikiFlix: Silent Classics, Academy Award-Winners, Hitchcock Films & More
Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Sleep Plan: He Slept Two Hours a Day for Two Years & Felt “Vigorous” and “Alert”
A Brief History of Surrealist Art: From the Bible and Ancient Egypt to Salvador Dalí’s Dream Worlds
Elementary School Choir Sings the Grateful Dead’s “Ripple,” “Box of Rain,” “Brokedown Palace” & More: RIP Bob Weir

NYT > Technology

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An A.I. Start-Up Says It Wants to Empower Workers, Not Replace Them
Snap Settles Lawsuit on Social Media Addiction, Avoiding a Landmark Trial
F.T.C. Appeals Loss in Meta Antitrust Case
The Rise of Prediction Markets
At Check-In, Your Face Is Increasingly Your ID
Thing-Like Robotic Hand Makes Life Resemble ‘The Addams Family’
AI Attack Ad in Texas Senate Race Shows John Cornyn Dancing With Jasmine Crockett
OpenAI Starts Testing Ads in ChatGPT
Trump and States Aim to Stop A.I. From Inflating Energy Bills
Jonathan Haidt Strikes Again + What You Vibecoded + An Update on the Forkiverse
How Activists in Iran Are Using Starlink to Stay Online
State and Federal Lawmakers Want Data Centers to Pay More for Energy
Coinbase, the Biggest U.S. Crypto Company, Asserts Its Power in Washington
Elon Musk’s X Restricts Ability to Create Explicit Images With Grok
A.I. Has Arrived in Gmail. Here’s What to Know.
OpenAI Teams Up With Cerebras in Chip Maker Deal
California Investigates Elon Musk’s xAI Over Sexualized Images Generated by Grok
Can A.I. Generate New Ideas?
2026 May Be the Year of the Mega I.P.O.
Starlink Users in Iran Get Free Internet Access, Nonprofits Say

NYT > Arts

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Months After Daniel Naroditsky’s Death, the Chess World Remains Divided
Esa-Pekka Salonen Returns to L.A. Philharmonic With New Job
What ‘Marty Supreme’ Says About Being Jewish in America
How a Pro-Greenland Song Became a Protest Anthem
At the Kochi Art Biennale, South Asia Meets Brazil
Saving La Clef Cinema, With Help From Scorsese and Tarantino
How Ralph Fiennes Rocks Out to Iron Maiden in ‘The Bone Temple’
At New York Performance Festivals, Finding the Dance in Theater
2026 Oscar Nomination Predictions
Despite Drastic Financial Steps, Met Opera Turns to Layoffs and Cuts
Rewatching ‘Mad Men’ From the Outskirts
President Trump’s Chosen Artist? A Christian Speed Painter.
The Secretive V.I.P. Programs That Keep Gamers Spending
The Charming Raconteur Semyon Bychkov’s Next Job: Music Director at Paris Opera
Manolo Villaverde, Tender Father on Bilingual TV Show, Dies at 89
Prue Leith Says She Is Leaving ‘The Great British Baking Show’
What a Road Trip to Badlands National Park With My Son Taught Me
‘Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart’ Review: A Survivor Speaks Out
10 Long Books to Cozy Up With This Winter
Late Night Cringes Over Trump’s Texting Spree
Georges Borchardt, 97, Dies; Literary Agent Championed Wiesel’s ‘Night’
‘Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!’ Is a Funny, Bittersweet Tribute
10 Gloriously Nonsensical Songs of Pop Gibberish
The World’s Reigning Carmen Breaks Down Her Signature Aria
‘Heated Rivalry’ Makes Its Impact Felt Onscreen and Off
Now Boarding the Freedom Plane: Precious Founding-Era Documents
Book Review: ‘Tangerinn,’ by Emanuela Anechoum
Filoplumes Are Nature’s Super Feather
Jimmy Fallon Teases Trump Over Secondhand Prize
How the Cleveland Orchestra Stays at the Top of Classical Music
‘Roofman,’ ‘While We’re Young’ and More Streaming Gems
‘An Unbelievable Mess’: Artists Are Stymied by Trump Travel Bans
How a Shoe Invented by a Dancer Might Be a Game Changer
‘Masquerade’ Reimagined ‘Phantom,’ and the Fans Are Flocking
‘Finding Her Edge,’ Plus 8 Things to Watch on TV This Week
‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Season 1 Premiere Recap: A Tall Tale
Ralph Towner, Eclectic Guitarist With the Ensemble Oregon, Dies at 85
Springsteen Denounces ICE Deployments and Renee Good’s Killing
Tina Packer, Powerhouse of Shakespeare Performance, Dies at 87
On ‘S.N.L.,’ Trump Recaps His Recent ‘Legal-ish’ Activities
‘Sentimental Value’ Dominates the European Film Awards
Rhoda Levine, Pathbreaking Opera Director, Dies at 93
Prize Fight
Could Marcello Hernández Be the Next ‘SNL’ Cast Member to Become a Superstar?
‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Review: Go Westeros, Young Man
With ‘Sinners’ and ’28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,’ Jack O’Connell Is in His Villain Era
Rebecca Hall Is OK With Her Cats Waking Her at All Hours
Photographing the Golden Globes Winners
Mitski, Flea: 8 Songs We’re Talking About This Week
A ‘Weird, Wonderful’ Night at the ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’
How a Play Skewering Modern Russia Evaded a Crackdown to Become a Hit
As Kennedy Center Rebrands It’s Mired in Black Tape
Walter Steding, Otherworldly One-Man Band and Portraitist, Is Dead at 75
‘The Disappear’ Review: A Couple on the Rocks and Out of Sync
Met Museum Employees Vote to Unionize
Viva the Absurd: ‘What to Wear’ and a Wave of Opera Surrealism
Martha Graham Dance Company Won’t Celebrate Centennial at Kennedy Center
Julio Iglesias Denies Sexual Abuse Claims by Former Employees
Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now
‘Eat the Rich’: Cambridge Was a Culture Shock. She’s Getting the Last Laugh.
Washington National Opera Finds a Stage Outside Kennedy Center Amid Trump Tensions
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Geography

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How much of the Earth’s surface is covered in concrete?
There's a town in the deserts of Western Texas called Notrees. What's another town with an extremely uncreative name?
Aside from Australia and the USA, which other countries have a "land doesn't vote" phenomenon?
The Alaska border with Canada
What's this weird border between Nunavut & Ontario on Ontario's coastline?
Why does this area of the us have significantly less wildfires than anything else?
Greenland is not, in fact, "smack in the middle between Russia, China, and the United States"
Is it normal for Melbourne to have such differences in daytime temps? What causes this
What are some places with repetitive names?
British beaches are underrated
Why does this mountain in New Zealand have a circular border?
Residents of the UK and Ireland, would you prefer to stay where you currently live or to move to the "new" version in Oceania?
Best geopolitical map ever
The four zomias
Do spatial relationships matter more than names when learning geography?
Why is there a series of lakes at the intersection of two desert types near the city of Siwa, Egypt?
The population and religious makeup of Europe's largest cities in 1900
United States average humidity by month. All I'm going to say is that a summer week in Utah made me appreciate the southeast.
What is this Netherlands flag on this World Atlas book?
Pakistan will surpass China in total annual births by 2030
Mapping Early Snow-Related Road Stress in a Southern Metro Area (Charlotte, NC)
This map show the average temperatures in January from different cities with similar lattitudes across the north Atlantic ocean
Is Oceania considered a continent?
K2, the Second Highest Border Between Two Countries (Pakistan and China)
What places are like New Hope and Lambertville?

The Public Domain Review

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

The Quietus

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Mohammad Syfkhan, Eric Chenaux and more for Dig That Treasure! Festival
MPTL Microplastics Album Launch in Brixton
Dekmantel Reveals Full 2026 Lineup
The Strange World of… David Berman
PVA – No More Like This
Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews for January by Daryl Worthington
Jane Weaver Septiéme Sœur – The Fallen By Watch Bird (Expanded Edition)
A less Oblique Strategy: reading PVA’s Tarot
Pullman – III
Rhythmic Cinema: Sonic possibilities and open source soundtracking ensures Battleship Potemkin still connects 100 years on
Covers Album of the week: Xiu Xiu’s Xiu Mutha Fuckin’ Xiu: Vol. 1
Sunburst Finish by Be-Bop Deluxe, 50 years on
Craven Faults – Sidings
The Strange World Of… Free Jazz & Improvised Music
Organic Intelligence LII: Treasures of the Basque Country
Zu – Ferrum Sidereum
Baroque and Roll: Halt by Foetus
Ljubljana Festival MENT Reveals Full Lineup for 2026 Edition
Bandcamp Announces Ban on AI-Generated Music
Kim Gordon Reveals Third Solo LP, ‘PLAY ME’
Caterina Barbieri and Bendik Giske Collaborate on New EP, ‘At Source’
Time Of Your Life: Mike Dirnt’s Favourite Albums
Sleaford Mods – The Demise of Planet X
Sunn O))) Unveil Self-Titled New Album
Dry Cleaning – Secret Love
Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC for January
Founding Black Midi Guitarist Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin has Died
Robyn Details First Album in Eight Years, ‘Sexistential’
Peer Review: Jason Williamson Interviews Ben Wheatley… and Vice Versa
Mary Lattimore & Julianna Barwick – Tragic Magic
Low Culture Podcast: Mulholland Drive
Your November & December Playlists are Here

Bandcamp Updates

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José Pinhal, the Portuguese Artist Who Turned Kitsch Into Treasure
Cub, “Come Out Come Out (30th Anniversary Edition)”
Sunday Mourners, “A-Rhythm Absolute”
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David Boring Return to a World of Horrors
Essential Releases, January 16, 2026
Emily Scott Robinson, “Appalachia”
Footwork’s New Wave
Xiu Xiu, “Xiu Mutha F—in’ Xiu: Vol. 1”
A Bay Area Rap Cult Classic Gets a Second Life
Sotomayor, “WABI SABI”
Tall Dwarfs & Hairybreath Monsters: A Chris Knox Bestiary
Kill Ugly Pop: A Guide to Lip Cream
Jersey Club Keeps on Moving
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

dusted

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Winged Wheel — Desert So Green (12XU)
Roland Kayn—Easy Music (Reiger-Records-Reeks)
Dry Cleaning — Secret Love (4AD)
Support Jennifer Kelly’s battle against cancer
Spectral Lore — IV (Part 2-Demo) (Self released)
Treen — Kaikō (Sauajazz)
The Early — Cusp (Island House)
Morton Feldman — Trios (Another Timbre)
Bruno Duplant & Judith Wegmann — Univers Parallèles: Des Nuits Et Des Jours (Moving Furniture)
Westside Cowboy — So Much Country till We Get There (Nice Swan)
Davide Cedolin — Ligurian Pastoral Vol. II (Torto Editions/Island House)
Sleaford Mods — The Demise of Planet X (Rough Trade)
Éliane Radigue — Asymptote Versatile (1963-1964) (Amgen)
Jana Horn—S-T (No Quarter)
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

Pitchfork

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Avalon Emerson & the Charm Announce New Album Written Into Changes
Geordie Greep Honors Black Midi Co-Founder Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin
Káryyn Announces Debut Album and Shares New Song
Tenacious D Hash Things Out, Return From Creative Hiatus
Lightning Bolt and OOIOO Join Forces for Split LP
The New Pornographers Detail New Album, Share Video
Sugar Are Going on Their First Tour in 30 Years
Sabrina Carpenter, Addison Rae to Perform at 2026 Grammys
Taylor Swift and Alanis Morissette Inducted Into Songwriters Hall of Fame
Richard D. James Album
Yeah, mostly
CONFLICT DLC
Fire of God’s Love
Gelli Haha Announces North American Headlining Tour
Peso Pluma Sets 2026 Dinastía Tour
Courtney Barnett Announces New Album and Tour, Shares Song With Waxahatchee
Oneohtrix Point Never Unveils 2026 Tour Dates
12 Songs You Should Listen to Now
Snail Mail Announces New Album Ricochet
A$AP Rocky Reveals Don’t Be Dumb Global Tour
Tucker Zimmerman, Storied Singer-Songwriter, Dies at 84
Tori Amos Sets Release Date for In Times of Dragons
T&Cc
A New Era for Pitchfork: Introducing Reader Scores and Commenting
How to Rate Albums Using Pitchfork Scores
One in a Million
Don’t Be Dumb
Valentine
Stand on My Shoulders
Bruce Springsteen Denounces ICE, Dedicates Song to Renee Good

Cool Tools

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What’s in my NOW? — Joele Lucherini
Fight Club 2 / Tesla: The Life and Times of an Electric Messiah
Baby Care
Recomendo Deals / Zip Air / 35 simple health tips
Book Freak #193: How to Decide
Cheapest Flight Destinations/Packable Daypacks/Europe Ski Bargains
What’s in my NOW? — Jeremiah Krage
Woody Guthrie / Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf
Game Design
Retro Recomendo: Career

McMansion Hell

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for patreon i wrote about getting stranded in tomorrowland as an 8th grader, michael sorkin’s…
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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?
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