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SoftBank says it has secured a $40B bridge loan maturing in 2027 from JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and other banks, to fund further investment in OpenAI (Akash Sriram/Reuters)
Sources: Alibaba and ByteDance plan to order Huawei's new 950PR AI chip after tests show better CUDA compatibility; Huawei targets ~750K 950PR shipments in 2026 (Reuters)
Sources: Moonshot AI may scrap its Cayman structure for a China or Hong Kong entity to prepare for a Hong Kong IPO and plans to raise funding at ~$18B valuation (Wall Street Journal)
Meta's Oversight Board says Community Notes aren't a proper substitute for fact checking, and warns expanding them beyond the US could pose human rights risks (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
Tazapay, which builds cross-border payment infrastructure for fintech and web3 firms, says it closed a Series B extension, bringing its total Series B to $36M (Zoltan Vardai/Cointelegraph)
Steno, which offers an AI-powered case transcript analysis tool for legal professionals, raised a $49M Series C led by Savano Capital Partners (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
Miami-based telehealth company eMed raised a $200M Series A at a $2B+ valuation to advance its agentic AI platform and more; Tom Brady participated in the round (Sneha S K/Reuters)
Senior Trump officials say SMIC has been sending chipmaking tools to Iran for about a year; the US has sanctioned the company over alleged Chinese military ties (Reuters)
NY-based Blossom Health, which makes an "AI copilot" to augment psychiatrists' clinical decisions and automate office tasks, raised $20M in seed and Series A (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
Sources: SpaceX's IPO plans include investor visits to its sites, unusual lockup periods, and preferential treatment for investors in Musk's other companies (Wall Street Journal)
Source: Elon Musk is discussing allocating as much as 30% of SpaceX's IPO to individual investors, at least three times the usual retail slice (Reuters)
Q&A with New Mexico AG Raúl Torrez about the New Mexico and LA social media trials, Big Tech's "Big Tobacco" moment, what it means for Congress, and more (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)
Source: Thrive Holdings has landed $1B in commitments for a new fundraising deal and is considering raising at least another $1B after strong investor interest (Bloomberg)
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)

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Glass Threads Spun From a Volcano’s Bubbly Magma
How to Turn a Chicken Egg Into a Drug Factory
Humans Had Dogs Before They Had Farming, Ancient DNA Confirms
Ancient Grapes Reveal Long History of Modern Wines
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An Invisible Bottleneck: A Helium Shortage Threatens the Chip Industry
Winter Sea Ice in the Arctic Ties a Record Low
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.
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MDMA Therapy in Australia Shows Results for PTSD Patients, but the Cost Is Limiting Access
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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.
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Huge lung-cancer screening campaign boosts early diagnosis
Sunken Soviet nuclear submarine’s radioactive release
History of ‘forever’ chemicals is written in Antarctic snow
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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
Exposed phosphatidylserine is an inhibitory molecule in T cell exhaustion
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
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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
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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
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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
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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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UK scraps airborne lab that tracks climate, pollution and weather systems
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Cryo–electron microscopy structure of the budding yeast telomerase holoenzyme
Distinctive DNA sequence features define epigenetic longevity of inflammatory memory
Structure and organization of AMPA receptor-TARP complexes in the mammalian cerebellum
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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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Systems-level organization of extracellular proteostasis
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Standoff With Iran Raises Fresh Doubts About Trump’s Freestyle Diplomacy
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The Tension That Defines Modern Life
Homophobia Is Back. It’s Different Now.
Who Needs Tanks in the Age of Drones?
A Radical Message for a Kids’ Movie
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A Turning Point in the Iran War
The Countdown to a Ground War
Today’s Atlantic Trivia: AI Code, Airport Code
The Evidence That God Exists
Is The End of NATO Near?
A Life of Paying Attention
A Novel About Women Who Trade One Kind of Captivity for Another
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The Worst Airport in America
What Was Clavicular?
The Immigration Restriction Trump Won’t Try
Protecting a Hero Too Long
Meet the New ICE
OpenAI Is Doing Everything … Poorly
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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Pig who ‘talks’ using buttons gets Guinness World Record for his viral fame
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Iran images appear to show land mines scattered by U.S. forces, a first in years
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U.S. uses hundreds of Tomahawk missiles on Iran, alarming some at Pentagon
Cuba looks to Vatican for help as U.S. pressure plunges island into crisis
Trump says U.S. to hold off for 10 days on hitting Iran energy sites
Pentagon considers diverting Ukraine military aid to the Middle East
Far fewer immigrants are moving to big cities in U.S., data shows
Gulf countries want Trump to end Iran war — but not yet, officials say
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
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The Education Dept. Told Higher Ed to ‘Buckle Up.’ The Nation's Largest Accreditor Fired Back.
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Thursday Reading & Recommendations | March 26, 2026
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Herman Goehring once said “If British bombers ever reached Germany, then [his] name wasn’t Herman Goehring but ‘Herman Meyer’.” After the Britain started bombing Berlin, angry Germans referred to him as “Herman Meyer”. Who was Herman Meyer?
How did eunuchs historically handle not producing sex hormones?
Was Maryland’s High Catholic Population a source of tension during the American revolutionary war?
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?
Did Japan inspire villains in East Asia the same way the Nazis inspired villains in the west?
Donald Rumsfeld in September 2001: Where would $2.3 trillion in unsupported Pentagon transactions have plausibly gone?
How did Americans in the 20th century prove citizenship to vote in elections?
Are collectibles a modern phenomenon?
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Were Jack the Rippers victims actually Prostitutes?
What was Hitler's plan for Western Europe, had everything gone to plan?
How exactly did riverine naval battles occur in the American civil war? How did the riverine warships in the civil war even maneuver properly in battle?
How much communication was there between Jewish communities in medieval times?
What did my Soviet grandmother do for a living?
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?
Are there any states globally that were able to secure independence using nonviolence as their main tool?
Did the original 13 British Colonies in North America have different beer cultures?
I have an ancestor who fought and died in a battle near Narva, Estonia, but I have no clue on which battle it actually was, does anyone have any clues or ideas?
Were there any Roman records of the trial of Jesus?
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?)
How much of a Shakespeare play would the average person at the time have understood?
What book is the most in depth when it comes to economic aspects of East Indian companies, EITC and VOC?
Why were Indian kingdoms able to defend themselves agaisnt the Arabs but not the Turks?

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]
Q&A weekly thread - February 23, 2026 - post all questions here!
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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'Well, it's twinkle, twinkle, little star, /
Analyzing 5 years'-worth of heart rate and fitness data
The Sound of Ocean Heat Energy
Training chatbots on specific topics
[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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When Soviet Youth Bootlegged Western Rock Music on Discarded X‑Rays: Hear Original Audio Samples
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

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
The Ezra Klein Show: How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy?
An Invisible Bottleneck: A Helium Shortage Threatens the Chip Industry
Why the Verdict Against Meta and YouTube Could Change Social Media
Judge Stays Pentagon’s Labeling of Anthropic as ‘Supply Chain Risk’
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

NYT > Arts

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‘Tristan und Isolde’ at the Met Opera Has a Troubling Problem
‘For All Mankind’ Is the Anti-‘Black Mirror’
Don’t Let the Name Harry Hole Fool You. The Important One Is Jo Nesbo.
In ‘The AI Doc,’ Sam Altman and Dario Amodei Go on the Record
33 Fun Things to Do With Your Kids in NYC This Spring
Theater Tickets Are Cheaper in London Than New York. What Gives?
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.
Salzburg Festival Fires Its Artistic Director
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
9 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
Can We Settle Your Music Debate? Of Course We Can.
Late Night Disses Trump’s New ‘America First’ Award
Tracking Trump’s Efforts to Reshape Cultural Institutions
‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 12 Recap: Breaking Points
Han Kang Among National Book Critics Circle Award Winners
Sam Kieth, Creator of Surreal Comic Book Series The Maxx, Dies at 63
Robert Fox, Acclaimed Producer in Britain and on Broadway, Dies at 73
‘Yes’ Review: From Israel, an Uncomfortable Existential Howl
Dash Crofts, of the Soft-Rock Duo That Sang ‘Summer Breeze,’ Dies at 87
‘Public Charge’ Review: The World Is Messy. Being a Force for Good Is, Too.
‘Teeth ’n’ Smiles’: A Pop Diva and a Flamed-Out Rock Music Revolution
What’s Your Star Sign? The Ancients Could Offer You Some Insight.
A Storied Rockefeller Art Trove Goes on View at Asia Society
‘They Will Kill You’ Review: The Co-Op From Hell
‘She Dances’ Review: Steve Zahn Is a Reluctant Chaperone
Mearns and Melnick, Dance Stars Who Choose Each Other
‘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
Marriage Might Not Happen. But ‘Something Very Bad’ Did.
The Thailand Biennale Brings More to Phuket Than Mass Tourism
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 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
Heirs of Dave the Potter, the Enslaved Artist, Are Battling to Recover His Legacy
Write It Up! How Fast Do Our Journalists Type?
Late Night Questions the ‘Very Big Present’ Trump Got From Iran

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
Why France's population density seems uniformely low in the middle?
What are some examples of countries whose existence is unknown by some of their neighbors?
Why doesn't Indonesia change its name to Nusantara?
What is this checkerboard pattern in South West Oregon?
What’s going on in this grayish discolored area?
Why is the Albanian minority in Greece predominantly Orthodox Christians while neighbouring Serbia, Montenegro and North Macedonia host mainly Albanian Muslim minorities?
Hiroshima and Lyon's confluence look almost the same
unusual structure in the Russian taiga, anyone know what these are?
How did Malaysia end up with this land connected to Indonesia?
Oxbow lake?
St. John's has a proper Portuguese exonym and it's the only place in Canada to do so
Tonle Sap river: probably the only river that periodically and regularly changes direction. (Asia)
One of the most flat places on earth - the Red River Valley (ND/MN)
Is Singapore considered a primate city?
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
Why is the Denmark-Germany border on Google Maps incomplete?
Is there a database of peaks in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru?
What's up with that? Censored? Distortion?
Comparing locations and countries
Magdalena River Cienagas in Colombia
Anyone know what this pattern is called?
why syvash lake had green body of water?, or its just an mapping glitch or else?

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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Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of March 2026
The Strange World Of… Ladytron
Reissue of the Week: Fall Heads Roll by The Fall
Iztok Koren & Raphael Rogiński – Nocturnal Consolations
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

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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Kanye West Premieres Bully
Miley Cyrus Shares New Hannah Montana Song
Actress and Suzanne Ciani Release Collaborative Live Album
Che Drops New EP
Sexistential
Creature of Habit
A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness
Silent Way
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

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)
21 Recipes to Make With Your Newly Gifted Gear
Fake 'Nduja
We Reviewed Anyday Cookware: Are the Microwavable Dishes Worthwhile?
We Reviewed 3 Cast Iron Bread Ovens and Recommend All of Them
The Best New Year's Kitchen Sales
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