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Epic v. Google: Epic and Google have a secret deal involving Unreal Engine, Fortnite, and Android, with Epic spending $800M over six years on Google services (The Verge)
Capital One agrees to acquire Brex, which specializes in tech to administer corporate credit cards, expenses, and rewards, for $5.15B in cash and stock (Wall Street Journal)
Intel reports Q4 revenue down 4% YoY to $13.7B, vs. $13.4B est., a $600M net loss, up from $100M in Q4 2024, Q1 guidance below est.; INTC drops 11%+ after hours (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
Analysis: the top US tech companies spent $109M on DC lobbying in 2025, topping $100M for the first time; Meta spent $26.29M, Amazon $17.78M, and Google $13.1M (Bloomberg)
Binance files for a European MiCA license in Greece, where it has also set up a holding company (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
LiveKit, which offers tools for building voice, video, and physical AI models, including for ChatGPT's voice mode, raised a $100M Series C at a $1B valuation (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
Google launches free SAT practice exams in the Gemini app, providing students with performance analysis and detailed explanations for incorrect answers (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
The curl project plans to end its HackerOne bug bounty program at the end of January, citing a surge in low-quality AI-generated vulnerability reports (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
Elon Musk says Tesla launched robotaxi rides in Austin with no human safety driver; Tesla's AI lead says Tesla is "starting with a few unsupervised vehicles" (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
Sources: Apple expanded the job of hardware chief John Ternus to manage design teams at the end of 2025, solidifying his status as a leading CEO candidate (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Yelp acquires Hatch, which charges a monthly fee for AI-powered agents that can respond to customer inquiries and make appointments, for $300M (Laura Mandaro/The Information)
Substack launches its Substack TV app for Apple TV and Google TV in beta for free and paid subscribers, with access matched to their current subscription levels (On Substack)
The US BOP releases Caroline Ellison, the former FTX executive and ex-girlfriend of Sam Bankman-Fried, after about 14 months; she had a two-year sentence (Business Insider)

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How to Cut an Infinitely Large Pancake into as Many Pieces as Possible
Thing-Like Robotic Hand Makes Life Resemble ‘The Addams Family’
Filoplumes Are Nature’s Super Feather
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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
Big Insurers Try to Shift Blame for High Health Costs to Hospitals and Drug Makers
RFK Jr. Plan to Test a Vaccine in West African Babies Is Blocked
Energy Dept. Says It Is Canceling $30 Billion in Clean Energy Loans
Trump Administration Cuts Off Funding for Fetal Tissue Research. Again.
A 67,800-Year-Old Handprint May Be the World’s Oldest Rock Art
Some Immune Systems Defeat Cancer. Could That Become a Drug?
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
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Cause of vision loss discovered in overlooked genes
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Extreme barocaloric effect at dissolution
Temporal tissue dynamics from a spatial snapshot
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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
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Large-scale dynamos driven by shear-flow-induced jets
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Dissecting gene regulatory networks governing human cortical cell fate
Quantum spin resonance in engineered proteins for multimodal sensing
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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
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Quantum effect observed for biggest objects yet
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Giant enhancement of exciton diffusion near an electronic Mott insulator
Multiparameter estimation with an array of entangled atomic sensors
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Endogenous retroviruses synthesize heterologous chimeric RNAs to reinforce human early embryo development
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143–million-year seawater osmium isotopic record: Trends, rhythms, and dynamics of volcanism and tectonics
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Observation of one-dimensional, charged domain walls in ferroelectric ZrO2
Couple-close: Unified approach to semisaturated cyclic scaffolds
Pan-family pollen signals control an interspecific stigma barrier across Brassicaceae species
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A second planetesimal collision in the Fomalhaut system
The price of prestige
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Today’s Atlantic Trivia: Democracy’s Odds
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Your Phone Is a Slot Machine
Trump Casually Denigrates NATO’s War Dead
The Oscars Are Rewarding Hollywood’s Big Bets
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The Sciencewashing of Everyday Life
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Science Is Drowning in AI Slop
Gavin Newsom’s Record Is a Problem
The Real Fight for the Smithsonian
The Federal Government That Was
Doomsday-Prepping for Trump’s Third Term
The Trump Administration Is Publishing a Stream of Nazi Propaganda
America Needs Greenland. No—Iceland. Actually, Never Mind!
How to Tell If Your President Is a Dictator
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
Trump Can Prosecute Anyone Now
The Secret to One of Hollywood’s Most Enduring Friendships

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Partial results of private autopsy on Renée Good disclosed
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Christians divided over how and whether to protest ICE operations
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Autopsy report classifies ICE detainee’s death as a homicide
Trump brings his attacks on Somalis onto the world stage at Davos
Federal officials launch ICE operation in Maine and begin arrests
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European populists broke with Trump on Greenland as national goals diverged
Trump launches ‘Board of Peace’ at Davos, testing global order
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Trump takes swipe at Canada after Carney’s Davos speech
U.S. military to move up to 7,000 ISIS detainees from Syria to Iraq
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Denmark fought alongside the U.S. Now, Trump is threatening it over Greenland.
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The Admissions Funnel Is Clogged. Here's How to Fix It.
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Thursday Reading & Recommendations | January 22, 2026
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If I lived in medieval Europe, could I realistically earn a living by doing quests for towns and people in need?
How far did people travel to see one of Shakespeare’s plays?
In 2023 Ben-Gvir described Jewish people spitting on Christians as "an ancient Jewish custom" is this true? Where did he get this idea from?
When did cities stopped having walls?
How did mongols verify a message was genuine?
Keat's poem Modern Love ends with: "That ye may love in spite of beaver hats." What was the connotation and status of beaver hats in 1810s London?
I'm a relatively well-to-do Muslim in 15th century Malacca. Can I make the hajj to Mecca, and if so, what would my journey look like?
Is it true Bush didn't want to use article 5 nato?
Is it true that Poland threatened to develop nuclear weapons if they weren't allowed to join NATO?
Did Stalin want a communist Finland and was stopped, or was his goal from the outset to rectify the borders, which he ultimately achieved?
Did Germany's 500-year-long history of regulating beer through the purity law (Reinheitsgebot) suppress or encourage innovation in brewing practices and beer styles?
How aware were medieval Greeks of the former purpose of the Parthenon?
How soon after the development of the printing press did it take for book stores to appear?
Why do canteens seem to become more primitive after Rome?
Did the Nation of Islam kill anyone while Malcolm X was a part of it?
In the Minneapolis shooting, it seems that the feds took over investigation so local authorities had none. So what court ruling or piece of Constitution makes feds supercede local jurisdiction in cases like this? Is there any precedent of local authorities gaining control?
What mistakes did James II. of England make that led to his deposition?
Was the Odyssey and the Iliad and similar stories "high art" or "low art" or something else to ancient Greeks and Romans?
I've heard that Macbeth was written specifically to appeal to James I/VI. Why would Shakespeare feel that a story that features the murder of two Scottish kings was the best material for that?
What Caused the Rise and Fall of Journalistic Integrity/neutrality in the U.S.?
What’s the difference between a tyrant and a dictator?
I am an ancient Greek and I have a pet dog. How do I care for it?
What was the role of German Jewish merchants in the pioneer settlement of the Western United States?

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
William Labov - The Linguistic Consequences of Being a Lame (1973)
Hierarchical structure in language and action.
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)
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)
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Open Culture

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Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí’s Un Chien Andalou: The Short Surrealist Film That Revolutionized Cinema (1929)
Brazilian Musician Seu Jorge Performs 15 Iconic Bowie Songs in Portuguese to Mark the 10th Anniversary of Bowie’s Passing
A Brief Introduction to Buckminster Fuller and His Techno-Optimistic Ideas
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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
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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”

NYT > Technology

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The Drama at Thinking Machines, a New A.I. Start-Up, Is Riveting Silicon Valley
Elon Musk’s Grok A.I. Chatbot Made Millions of Sexualized Images, New Estimates Show
An A.I. Start-Up Says It Wants to Empower Workers, Not Replace Them
How to Deal With That Drawer Full of Old Gadgets
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At Check-In, Your Face Is Increasingly Your ID
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The Rise of Prediction Markets
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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
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OpenAI Teams Up With Cerebras in Chip Maker Deal

NYT > Arts

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Oscar Nominations: ‘Sinners’ Breaks Record With 16
2026 Oscar Nominations: See the Full List
Oscar Snubs and Surprises: ‘Sinners’ Makes History, ‘Wicked’ Withers
Five Fronts in Trump’s Culture War
When Jasper Johns Drew the Line
Jason Mantzoukas Makes It Weird
‘Sinners’ Broke the Oscars Record These 3 Films Once Held
Harry Styles Books 30 Dates for Madison Square Garden Residency
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These Objects Will Draw You Out of the Cold
‘H Is for Hawk’ Review: All Shall Be Well
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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
James Bernard, a Founding Editor of a Hip-Hop ‘Bible,’ Dies at 58
The Cliburn, Known for Piano Competitions, Will Hold One for Conductors
Fine Arts Panel, Remade by Trump, Indicates Support for His Ballroom Plan
Stream These 8 Titles Before They Leave Netflix in February
Where to Stream the 2026 Oscar Nominees: ‘Sinners,’ ‘One Battle After Another’ and More
‘Clika’ Review: Dreaming of the Stage
A 67,800-Year-Old Handprint May Be the World’s Oldest Rock Art
The Exacting, Ephemeral Art of Ice Carving
America Turns 250: A Guide to the Coming Festivities
‘Return to Silent Hill’ Review: A Macabre Spectacle
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Kimmel Says Comedy Is Political Lately Because Politics Are Comedic
Manolo Villaverde, Tender Father on Bilingual TV Show, Dies at 89
Prue Leith Says She Is Leaving ‘The Great British Baking Show’
Saving La Clef Cinema, With Help From Scorsese and Tarantino
How a Pro-Greenland Song Became a Protest Anthem
What ‘Marty Supreme’ Says About Being Jewish in America
How Ralph Fiennes Rocks Out to Iron Maiden in ‘The Bone Temple’
What a Road Trip to Badlands National Park With My Son Taught Me
At New York Performance Festivals, Finding the Dance in Theater
At the Kochi Art Biennale, South Asia Meets Brazil
‘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’
Despite Drastic Financial Steps, Met Opera Turns to Layoffs and Cuts
‘Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!’ Is a Funny, Bittersweet Tribute
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Geography

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What arguments could be made in favor of Argentine rule of The Falklands?
Every US County that Geography by Geoff has called "Empty"
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Board of peace in Europe includes the successful Belarus Albania Hungary. Do you feel threatened by this non loser alliance ?
Comparing the Sierra Madre Oriental to the Appalachian Mountains
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Nigeria will surpass China in total annual births in this year, 2026!
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Possible crater or shield volcano in Russia? Unsure.
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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)
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Peter Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)
Happy Public Domain Day 2026!
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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)
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Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival
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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
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Pied Beauty: Wari Tie-Dye Textiles (ca. 425–1100)
George Baxter’s Print of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (ca. 1854)
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The Quietus

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Pulp, Depeche Mode, Beth Gibbons and More Feature on New War Child Charity Record
Kim Gordon, KMRU and More Join Rewire 2026 Lineup
Low Culture Essay: Jennifer Lucy Allan on Susumu Yokota
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Exploding Plastic Inevitable: Sod in Heaven by MPTL Microplastics
Michael Moorcock and The Deep Fix – The New Worlds Fair
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
Baroque and Roll: Halt by Foetus
Zu – Ferrum Sidereum
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

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Sassy 009’s Alt-Pop Fever Dreams Come to Fruition At Last
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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
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The Best Video Game Soundtracks of 2025
The Best Field Recordings of 2025
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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

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Susumu Yokota — Will (Skintone Records/Lo Recordings)
Winged Wheel — Desert So Green (12XU)
Roland Kayn—Easy Music (Reiger-Records-Reeks)
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Treen — Kaikō (Sauajazz)
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Morton Feldman — Trios (Another Timbre)
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Davide Cedolin — Ligurian Pastoral Vol. II (Torto Editions/Island House)
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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
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Pitchfork

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Listen to Harry Styles' New Song "Aperture"
Summer Walker Announces Tour With Monaleo and Odeal
James Blake Announces First Album as Independent Artist
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Harry Styles Is Playing 30 Nights at Madison Square Garden
Netflix Cancels The Vince Staples Show
Denzel Curry, TiaCorine, A$AP Ferg, Bktherula, and Key Nyata Form Supergroup the Scythe
A$AP Rocky Drops New Song “Flackito Jodye” with Tokischa
Arctic Monkeys Share New Song “Opening Night”
Oscars Nominations 2026: See the Full List Here
Oscars 2026: Nick Cave, Huntr/x Nominated for Best Original Song
Jonny Greenwood, Max Richter Nominated for Best Original Score at 2026 Oscars
If You’re Feeling Sinister
The Testament of Ann Lee (Original Soundtrack)
Dreamer+
Alan Vega (Deluxe Remastered Edition) / Collision Drive (Remastered Edition)
Joshua Chuquimia Crampton Announces New Album Anata, Shares New Song
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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, Clipse, and Pharrell to Perform at 2026 Grammys
Taylor Swift and Alanis Morissette Inducted Into Songwriters Hall of Fame
Richard D. James Album
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Cool Tools

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McMansion Hell

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McMansion Hell urges all New Yorkers to Rank Zohran Mamdani #1 for Mayor of NYC
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New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, “wonderful” rooms!“
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2007-core nostalgia extravaganza
namesake mcmansion
the motel room, or: on datedness
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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
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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
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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
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The Best Kitchen Shoes, According to the Serious Eats Team
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12 Spicy Snacks That Bring the Heat
We Tested 13 Wine Decanters and Came Away with 2 Favorites
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16 Easy Noodle Recipes for a Quick Meal Any Time of Day
We Tested 13 Carbon Steel Pans—Three Stood Out
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