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Nasdaq jumps 12% after Trump announced a 90-day tariff pause, with Nvidia up 19%, Apple up 15%, Meta up 15%, Amazon up 12%, Microsoft up 10%, Alphabet up 10% (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
The UK's BoE plans to track AI use by banks and hedge funds, saying their risk managers may not fully understand the AI being run, which may threaten markets (Bloomberg)
Sen. Ron Wyden plans to block the nomination of Sean Plankey to head CISA until the agency releases a 2022 report about security flaws at US telecom companies (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
Sources: Italy is seeking €1.2B from fintech group ION following a probe by prosecutors in Bologna into alleged tax evasion over the 2013-2023 period (Reuters)
Google announces Agent2Agent, an open interoperability protocol to enable seamless collaboration between AI agents across diverse frameworks and vendors (Alexey Shabanov/TestingCatalog)
YouTube expands its pilot to some top creators of tech that detects the AI-generated likenesses of famous people and declares support for the US' NO FAKES ACT (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Trump announces a 90-day tariff pause for some countries and a "lowered Reciprocal Tariff during this period, of 10%", but raises tariffs on China to 125% (Dan Mangan/CNBC)
Anthropic debuts Claude's Max plan, with 5x the usage limits of Pro for $100/month or 20x the usage for $200/month, plus early access to new models and features (Hayden Field/CNBC)
Adobe outlines agentic AI features coming to Photoshop, Acrobat, Premiere Pro, and more, including one-click context-aware edits and agents to analyze documents (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
Sources: after Jensen Huang went to Mar-a-Lago last week, the White House reversed course on Nvidia H20 export restrictions to China, in the works for months (NPR)
Global shipments of personal computers rose 9.4% YoY in Q1, driven by OEMs ramping up US deliveries in anticipation of the first round of Trump's tariffs (Canalys)
Source: Nintendo has decided to postpone the Switch 2's release in China, an apparent response to the country's tight controls targeting the gaming industry (Nikkei Asia)
Autonomous delivery startup Nuro raised a $106M Series E at a $6B valuation, down from $8.6B in 2021 after its $600M Series D, taking its total funding to $2.2B (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
WordPress.com launches an AI tool to help users build simple websites using a chat interface, available to users for free, to compete with Squarespace and Wix (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sources and a document: Amazon canceled orders for multiple products made in China and other Asian countries after Trump's April 2 global tariffs announcement (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)

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Scientists Map Miles of Wiring in a Speck of Mouse Brain
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All Federal Experts on H.I.V. Prevention in Children Overseas Were Dismissed
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As RFK Jr. Champions Chronic Disease Prevention, Key Research Is Cut
Kennedy Attends Funeral of Texas Girl Who Died of Measles
Chemical Industry Asks Trump for Exemption From Pollution Limits
An Endangered Galápagos Tortoise Is a First-Time Mother at 100
Why Measles Outbreaks May Be the New Normal
Trump Rejects Proposal for Medicare to Cover Wegovy and Other Obesity Drugs
SpaceX Astronauts Splash Down Off California Coast for the First Time
Ancient Hunting Kit Is Found in West Texas
Trump’s Next Tariffs Target Could be Foreign-Made Pharmaceuticals
Leonardo Patterson, 82, High-Flying Antiquities Dealer Brought Low, Dies
FDA Layoffs Could Raise Drug Costs and Erode Food Safety
In the Calls of Bonobos, Scientists Hear Hints of Language
How Trump’s Tariffs Could Hobble a U.S. Battery Boom
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Overlooked No More: Katharine McCormick, Force Behind the Birth Control Pill
Trump Administration Demands Additional Cuts at C.D.C.
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When trainees seek other paths
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Vaccine-enhanced competition permits rational bacterial strain replacement in the gut
Meningeal regulatory T cells inhibit nociception in female mice
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Nonlinear sound-sheet microscopy: Imaging opaque organs at the capillary and cellular scale
Exogenous RNA surveillance by proton-sensing TRIM25
Homogeneous-heterogeneous bifunctionality in Pd-catalyzed vinyl acetate synthesis
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Osteoarthritis treatment via the GLP-1–mediated gut-joint axis targets intestinal FXR signaling
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Tissue-like multicellular development triggered by mechanical compression in archaea
Extensive compositionality in the vocal system of bonobos
A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation
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The House Republicans Holding Out Against Trump’s Budget and Tax Cut Plan
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Proxy Voting Defeat Reflects a House Out of Step With Modern Culture
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He Served 36 Years for His Wife’s Murder and Then Forgave the Man Who Confessed
Israeli Airstrike in Gaza City Leaves Many Dead, Health Officials There Say
Netanyahu Sticks by Trump’s Brazen Proposal for Gazans to Leave
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Why Palestinian Christians Feel Betrayed by American Christians
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Marco Rubio said he’d protect lifesaving aid overseas. DOGE disagreed.
Police shoot knife-wielding autistic teen behind fence, sparking outrage
Nearly 200 cows disappeared. The case remains cold.
Border agents ask lawyer with pro-Palestinian client to give up phone
Judged by the content of their tattoos and the color of their skin.
Trump signs executive orders to help dying U.S. coal industry
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National Park Service restores Underground Railroad webpage after outcry
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Singer and ex-MLB players among 124 dead in Santo Domingo nightclub collapse
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U.N. says Israel’s aid blockade has opened ‘floodgates of horror’ in Gaza
China increases levies on U.S. as Trump’s 104% tariffs take effect; stocks sink
U.S. ‘alarmed’ after American lecturer charged with insulting Thai monarchy
Kim Shin-jo, North Korean commando in daring Cold War raid, dies at 82
How the Caribbean could turn a plague of seaweed into fuel and fertilizer
Tariffs put Taiwan on shaky ground with U.S., may open door for China
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Europe has yet to retaliate against Trump’s latest tariffs. Why not?
U.S. admiral at NATO fired, latest ouster in Trump military purge
Marine Le Pen mines populist playbook to rally support after political ban
Palestinian American teen fatally shot by Israeli troops in West Bank village
China says it will not be intimidated by Trump’s tariff ‘blackmail’
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Trump’s NASA pick says ties to Musk won’t influence space agency
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Is it true that around the 1700s people ate once in the morning and once in the evening?
Was the Russian conquest of Siberia as bloody and oppressive as the ‘Western’ conquests of Americas?
I’m trying to find the name of a badass women in history and what she did, but I just can’t find out who she was?
AskHistorians is known to have the 20 Year Rule, where events from within the last 20 years are not considered history. Is there any similar point at which events are considered so old, that they are no longer history?
Before the age of work from home how did one live as a shut in or recluse if you weren't rich?
One of the most common, modern stress-dreams features a school exam. Do we have record of common stress-dream themes throughout history?
Why did Truman not just nuke the Kyushu region where Japanese forces were gathered, instead of Hiroshima/Nagasaki in 1945?
We’re southern slave owners likely to send their children to college?
Is there reason to doubt the veracity of the "Autobiography of Malcolm X"?
I’m reading a historical book that mentions “purple-itis” as a cause for child death. Neither me nor google knows what condition this may be. Any ideas?
Norse sagas describe Ragnar Loðbrok being executed via a venomous snake pit, what kinds of snakes would have been available to a 9th century Anglo-Saxon king?
Why didn't Eastern/Central European cuisine become as popular/marketable as other ethnic cuisines in North America?
Clifford Roberts, cofounder of the Augusta National Golf Course (host of the Masters), once said "As long as I'm alive, all the golfers will be white and all the caddies will be black." This trend was held until his death in 1977. Why did he insist all the caddies should be black?
I am a wealthy American in 1845. I have a moral stance against slavery and want to boycott anything associated with it. What items and people do I need to avoid? Do I have alternatives?
Could naval Captains really end up in debt due to taking a prize they shouldn’t have?
Why is/was the overwhelming majority of socialist countries Marxist-Leninist, as opposed to other communist ideologies?
Were there really counterrevolutionary forces during Romanian Revolution of 1989?
George HW Bush was shot down along with his crew and bailed out over the Pacific, do know what ended up happening to his crew?
What is the origin of Japanese curry? Was it brought to Japan by Portuguese traders? Or by the British? Or was it an entirely indigenous formulation that arose independent of other cultures?
When did cats become associated with women?
From 1979-1985, China reportedly had between one and five films annually selling 200,000,000+ tickets. Then suddenly those stopped, despite the population becoming larger, far wealthier, and far more urbanised. What was the catalyst for the ticket sales boom, and what made it stop?
Why was there no significant Confederate resistance after Appomattox? What resources, in men and material, did the Confederacy have left?
Were the people responsible for the decision to drop the 2 nuclear bombs on Japan fully aware of their destructive capabilities?
Did WWI open new opportunities to women in academia?
Why has the tomb of emperor Qin Shi Huang never been opened?

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Q&A weekly thread - April 07, 2025 - post all questions here!
[META] Updated subreddit rules
Prof. Robert A. Leonard on Forensic Linguistics (NYU Guest Lecture)
Why is West-Saxon English different from Old Saxon?
Extensive compositionality in the vocal system of bonobos
The Future Perfect in Oscan and Umbrian, and the Ō-Perfect in South Picene - Zair, Nicholas. 2014.
A Lexical Distance Study of Arabic Dialects
Q&A weekly thread - March 31, 2025 - post all questions here!
APPLIED ETHNOLINGUISTICS is cultural linguistics, but is it CULTURAL LINGUISTICS? - Peeters 2016
Q&A weekly thread - March 24, 2025 - post all questions here!
Social Media’s Influence on Gendered Interpersonal Communication: Insights from Jordan
Gendering the Jordanian Dinar: A Study of Lexical Variation Among Jordanian University Students According to Gender Performativity Theory
Uzbek | Journal of the International Phonetic Association
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Baxter and Sagart: Response to Ho Dah-an’s review of Old Chinese: A New Reconstruction
The Entangled Nature of First Language Learning, Education, and Literacy
Capturing language change through EEG: Weaker P600 for a fading gender value in a southern Italo-Romance dialect. Bambini et al. (2021).
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Reconstruction beyond proto-languages in the middle Andes
Towards a typological profile of the North Siberian substrate
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Death of Ian Maddieson (1 Sept 1942 - 2 Feb 2025)
Exploring Variation and Change in the Distant Past
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Bayesian phylolinguistics infers the internal structure and the time-depth of the Turkic language family
Speech Learning: perception, production & training
Projected speaker numbers and dormancy risks of Canada’s Indigenous languages

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Things to do in Durham this week!
I'm running for the Senate to send Thom Tillis packing
FYI: unmarked police cars pulling people over on 15/501
Today NC Legislators are planning a vote to remove diversity, equality, and inclusion from all state agencies
I'm ISO a foster for a sweet Durham stray and her four kittens. Landowner wants to call animal control. Rescue will support foster if one steps up.
Do a lot of folks around here have llamas living at their homes?
Slid out from behind my mantle today.
Wristwatch (Music Video)
APRIL 19TH OFFICIAL 50501NC update!
Coffe Places open late?
Pedestrian Hit and Run
Durham Council Rejects Major Annexation Proposal
Join us on April 19 for Every Day is Earth Day!
Grieving Siblings in the NC Triangle area
Durham from Occoneechee Mountain
Updated Durham Unemployment Figures | released April 09, 2025
Looking to donate to a local non-profit. Any recommendations?
Community Garden Workday 4/12 - we'll be planting!
chopped salad?
I like that DSS is promoting foster parenting but their choice of giveaway is a bit...um...
Source for large planters?
xtreme park adventures
Any local jewelers that use Cerakote for custom jewelry?
New Legislation in NC
Gym Comparison
Chinese near downtown or around Duke campus

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The Medieval Manuscript That Features “Yoda”, Killer Snails, Savage Rabbits & More: Discover The Smithfield Decretals
The Map of Mathematics: Animation Shows How All the Different Fields in Math Fit Together
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Watch Composer Wendy Carlos Demo an Original Moog Synthesizer (1989)
Dante’s Inferno: A Visitor’s Guide to Hell
Who Really Built the Egyptian Pyramids—And How Did They Do It?
How Italy Became the Most Divided Country in Europe: Understanding the Great Divide Between North & South
The Steps a President Would Take to Destroy His Nation, According to Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot, Grok
Why the Romans Stopped Reading Books
Watch Jazz ‘Hot’, the Rare 1938 Short Film With Jazz Legend Django Reinhardt
The 1927 Film Metropolis Created a Dystopian Vision of What the World Would Look Like in 2026–and It Hits Close to Home
Watch Bob Dylan Make His Debut at the Newport Folk Festival in Colorized 1963 Footage
The Only Illustrated Manuscript of Homer’s Iliad from Antiquity
The Great Gatsby: A Free Audio Book
Did the Tower of Babel Actually Exist?: A Look at the Archaeological Evidence

NYT > Technology

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How Musk and Trump Are Working to Consolidate Government Data About You
Pilot Files Defamation Lawsuit Against Matt Wallace, X Influencer
Tech C.E.O.s Spent Millions Courting Trump. It Has Yet to Pay Off.
How Trump’s TikTok Negotiations Were Upended by China and Tariffs
Amazon to Launch First Project Kuiper Internet Satellites: What to Know
No Phone, No Internet: A First-Time Visit to Casablanca
Robert W. McChesney, Who Warned of Corporate Media Control, Dies at 72
Justice Dept. Disbands Cryptocurrency Enforcement Unit
Trump’s Tariffs Are Already Reducing Car Imports and Idling Factories
Google Says Employees Can Discuss Antitrust Case
How X Is Benefiting as Musk Advises Trump
Can Using the Light Phone III Help Cure ‘Brain Rot’?
Used Tesla Market Heats Up as Owners Sell to Protest Elon Musk
‘0 to 1939 in 3 seconds’: Why Anti-Elon Musk Satire Is Flourishing in Britain
The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It
Man Employs A.I. Avatar in Legal Appeal, and Judge Isn’t Amused
How Tariffs Are Hitting Digital Commerce Companies
Trump Extends TikTok Deal Deadline, Delaying a Potential Ban
Why Trump’s Tariffs Are Rattling Even Meta
Something Else for Europe and the U.S. to Disagree About: ‘Free Speech’
Tech Stock Shock + Solving the Mystery of OpenAI’s ‘Blip’ + Tinder’s Flirt-Off
Invasion of the Home Humanoid Robots
E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against Elon Musk’s X
This A.I. Forecast Predicts Storms Ahead
Ford Offers Discounts on Cars and Trucks as Auto Tariffs Kick In
Auto Tariffs Take Effect, Putting Pressure on New Car Prices
Mark Zuckerberg Lobbies Trump to Settle Antitrust Suit Against Meta

NYT > Arts

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It’s Springtime in Paris for David Hockney
Angel Studios Turns to Viewers of Faith to Greenlight Movies
‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’: What to Know About the Broadway Show
Trumpeters. Friends. Rivals. 60 Years Ago, the Pair Made Jazz History.
At Dance Theater of Harlem, Robert Garland Has a Plan
5 Songs by Rubby Pérez, the Merengue Singer Lost in the Roof Collapse
The Best Classical Music Performances of March 2025
Pop Songs, ‘Hamilton’ and Windows 95 Chime Join National Registry
Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Old Friends’ Review: A Broadway Party With 41 Songs
‘Pink Narcissus’: A Home Movie Both Abject and Erotic
Is Yoko Ono Finally Getting Her Moment?
Pierre Boulez at 100: What Is His Legacy Today?
The Loose Screws, Hot Flames and Infinite Joy of William Finn
At 90, Wole Soyinka Revisits His Younger, More Optimistic Self
Conductor John Nelson Dead at 83
‘Manhunt’ Is a Case Study in Fragile Masculinity
Thomas Pynchon to Publish a New Novel This Fall
‘Modern Love’ Podcast: Let Yourself Rage With Ada Limón
Faced With Death, He Did the Only Thing He Could: Take Notes
Late Night Frantically Tries to Keep Up With Trump’s Tariffs
William Finn, Tony-Winning Composer for ‘Falsettos,’ Dies at 73
American Library Association Sues to Stop Trump Cuts
T Magazine Celebrates Salone del Mobile in an Iconic Milan Garden
Getting Loud With Sleigh Bells and Beyond
Film at Lincoln Center Chooses Daniel Battsek as Next President
International Booker Prize Shortlist: 6 Books to Talk About
Madonna and Elton John End Their Decades-Old Feud
Soaking in the Swamps and Myths of South of Midnight
On Her New Podcast, Meghan Markle Talks Media Scrutiny, Kindness and Family
Jon Stewart Can’t Stomach Trump’s Stock Market ‘Medicine’
Art Sales Fell by 12% Last Year, Art Basel and UBS Report Says
‘Boop! The Musical’ Review: Betty Gets a Broadway Brand Extension
At James Earl Jones Memorial, Denzel Washington and Whoopi Goldberg Share Stories
Clem Burke, Versatile, Hard-Driving Drummer for Blondie, Dies at 70
Patricia Kopatchinskaja Knocks the Cobwebs Off the Violin Repertory
Walton Goggins Knows ‘The White Lotus’ Had to End This Way
The Snubs and Surprises of the 2025 Olivier Awards
She’s Martha Graham. Who Are You?
Doechii! NewJeans! Ye! Answering Your Pop Music Questions
‘The White Lotus’: Jason Isaacs on His Character’s Fate in the Finale
At 30, ‘A Goofy Movie’ Has Made a Serious Impact
6 Songs From ‘Just in Time’ That Capture Bobby Darin’s Legacy
10 Books Like ‘The White Lotus’ If You Can’t Wait for Next Season
Fighting Monsters of American Folklore to Battle Trauma
Debi Young, a Makeup Artist the Stars Swear By
‘Your Friends and Neighbors,’ Plus 9 Things to Watch on TV this Week
‘The White Lotus’ Season 3 Finale Recap: Bloodshed and Sacrifice
‘The Last Five Years’ Review: Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren Star in a Muddy Revival
‘I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan’ Review: What Are You Waiting For?
Jay North, Child Star Who Played ‘Dennis the Menace,’ Dies at 73
Denis Arndt, Who Was a First-Time Tony Nominee at 77, Dies at 86
Olivier Awards Winners 2025: ‘Giant,’ ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ and More
Edward Countryman, Student of the American Revolution, Dies at 80
Marcia Marcus, Painter Rediscovered in Her Last Decade, Dies at 97
John Peck, Underground Cartoonist Known as The Mad Peck, Dies at 82
Review: Reclaiming the Past in a Dance of Simmering Power
Upper West Side Theater Is Sold After Governor Allocates $3.5 Million
‘S.N.L.’: Trumpeting Tariffs and Predicting a ‘Great’ Depression
‘A Minecraft Movie’ Arrives as a Surprise Box Office Smash
Milan Design Week: Eclectic Collections Take Center Stage
At Milan Design Week, New Twists on Unexpected Materials
‘The White Lotus’: 7 Questions for the Season 3 Finale

Geography

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Which is the name of this body of water in Nunavut, Canada?
I hear that New York City’s Central Park is very well designed, but are there any other big city parks that are well designed to speak of?
What's a city or region that has a cool or sexy name, but sounds silly when translated into English?
Why does Kuwait have such a massive highway heading west with interchanges that connect to nothing?
Desert meets the ocean - Namib Desert, Namibia
How Many Cities Over 1 Million People Does Each Country Have?
Population density of Nepal in 2020. Guess the spikes.
did the adirondacks get substantially flattened by glaciers?
Pink Lake, Western Australia
What nearby places have the most different looking populations?
Which artificially created geographical feature (canal, dam, artificial island, etc.) has had the biggest impact on human civilization?
What do you guys personally believe is the boundary between Asia and Oceania?
Lake Kivu situated between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo contains massive amounts of dissolved methane and CO₂. Should it experience a limnic eruption like Lake Nyos did in 1986, it could kill millions of people living around its densely populated shores through silent asphyxiation.
Is there any geographical area or landmark that makes you feel uneasy?
Can anyone share some interesting facts about Mali? I don’t hear anything about it other than wars
Nice place to live boring to visit- North American version
Every spring, polar bears migrate south to Newfoundland / Southern Labrador / Eastern Quebec. Here's where they have been spotted in 2025 (so far)!
What other cities are known for having a strong connection with a specific animal? What cities are known for having certain animals commonly seen around or associated with them?
Which cities in US or elsewhere have one mile grid or close to it, arguably the best grid for urban areas.
Should Liechtenstein be included in this map of Western Europe?
Where is the worst place to get stranded (all landscapes)?
What territory of other country would you like to see to gain independence?
Why are Balkans significantly colder than Italy, despite being on similar latitudes?
What’s the first city that comes to mind that you would want to move back to?
Rare reminder of that north korea is one of the coldest countries in the world.

The Public Domain Review

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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)
Boxing Clever: Tiny Cryptic #5
Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century
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)
Con Heir: Tiny Cryptic #4
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)
Master of Claude de France’s Book of Flower Studies (ca. 1510–1515)
For He’s a Jolly Bad Fellow: Now and Then #1
José Guadalupe Posada’s Engravings of Unusual Births (ca. 1880–1910)
Sartorial Codes: Tiny Cryptic #3
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)
Gustatory Wisdom: Bruegel the Elder’s Twelve Proverbs (1558)
What Is It Like to Be a Bass? Fish-Eye View Photography (1919–22)
Paws for Thought: Tiny Cryptic #2
The Cat’s Meat Man: Feeding Felines in Victorian London
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)
Fantazius’ Folly: Tiny Cryptic #1
“Relaxations for the Impotent”: Ben Hecht’s Fantazius Mallare and the Contradictions of American Smut
Peckish Alphabetics: The Tragical Death of a Apple-Pye (ca. 1793–1796)
A Wetted Beak: Engravings from Pauline Knip’s Les Pigeons (1811)
Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes
Designing the Sublime: Boullée and Ledoux’s Architectural Revolution
Happy Together: The Laughing Prince: A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1921)
Alfred G. Mayer’s On the Color and Color-Patterns of Moths and Butterflies (1897)
Perpetual Movement: Francis Picabia’s 391 Review (1917–1924)
Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive
Happy Public Domain Day 2025!
Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2024
The Color of Memory: Albert Kahn’s Archives of the Planet
“How He Came to Life One Day”: Photographs of Snowmen (1854–1950)
True Crime: Allan Pinkerton’s Thirty Years a Detective (1884)
The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser!
Fantastic Planet: The Microscopy Album of Marinus Pieter Filbri (1887–88)
Strange Gods: Charles Fort’s Book of the Damned (1919)
Diagramming Dante: Michelangelo Caetani’s Maps of the Divina Commedia (1855/1872)
Karel Čapek’s Letters from England (1925)
Christoph Jamnitzer’s Neuw Grotteßken Buch (1610)
Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season - 2024
“Here I Gather All the Friends”: Machiavelli and the Emergence of the Private Study
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs (1869)
“Light from the Darkness”: Paul Nash’s Genesis (1924)
Anton Seder’s The Animal in Decorative Art (1896)
“To Eat This Big Universe as Her Oyster”: Margaret Fuller and the First Major Work of American Feminism
Sabine Baring-Gould’s Book of Were-Wolves (1865)
Etching of a Sámi Drum from the Dutch Edition of Johannes Schefferus’ Lapponia (1682)
Vanity of Vanities: Fool’s Cap Map of the World (ca. 1585)
The Man and The Crowd (1928): Photography, Film, and Fate
Paul Éluard and Max Ernst’s Les Malheurs des immortels (1922)
Yellow Silence: Miniature from the Silos Apocalypse (ca. 1100)
“Freedom! Equality!! Justice!!!”: Victoria Woodhull’s Impending Revolution (1872)
Talking Lightly About Serious Things: Henri Rochefort and the Origins of French Populism
A Very Tall Tale: Photograph of the Cardiff Giant (ca. 1869)
Theodor de Bry’s Engravings for Thomas Harriot’s Briefe and True Report (1590)
Edwin D. Babbitt’s Principles of Light and Color (1878)
Gottfried Mind, The Raphael of Cats
Among the Moss Piglets: The First Image of a Tardigrade (1773)
Luigi Cornaro’s Sure and Certain Methods of Attaining a Long and Healthful Life (1722 edition)
Antiquities of Mexico (1831–48)
Scenes of Reading on the Early Portrait Postcard
The American Colony of Jerusalem’s “Wild Flowers of Palestine” (ca. 1900–20)
The Plague of Lust: Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity (1901 edition)
Lonely Together: Paul Fejos’ Lonesome (1928)
Our Mortal Waltz: The Dance of Death Across Centuries
Johannes Hartlieb’s Book of Herbs (1462)
A Bug’s Life: David and Marian Fairchild’s Book of Monsters (1914)
“A Truer and Deeper Knowledge”: Anna Maria van Schurman’s The Learned Maid (1659)
Sensitive Material: Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Blackmail, and the First Motion Pictures
Thomas Eakins’ Photograph of a Dissected Horse’s Leg (ca. 1885)
American Grammar: Diagraming Sentences in the 19th Century
Raffaele Mainella’s Illustrations for Nos Invisibles (1907)
From Fire Hazards to Family Trees: The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
Looking Backward: Images of Rückenfiguren (ca. 1497–1925)
Programming Prayer: The Woven Book of Hours (1886–87)
The Launch of Our Mid-Year Fundraiser!
The Lens of Desire: Eye Miniatures (ca. 1790–1810)
“Chinese Arabesques” by Jean-Baptiste Pillement and Anne Allen (ca. 1790–99)
“You Are My Friend”: Early Androids and Artificial Speech
“On This Desolate Island”: Sodomy Punish’d (1726)
Chromatic Aberrations: The Toll of the Sea (1922)
Same as It Ever Was?: Eternal Recurrence in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
Love Spells and Deadly Shrieks: Illustrations of Mandrakes (ca. 650–1927)
The Gilded Gallows of Georg Honauer (1597)
The Little Journal of Rejects (1896)
Professor Megalow’s Dinosaur Bones: Richard Owen and Victorian Literature
Mayday, Mayday: Capital and Labor (1907)
Photographs of Life in Palestine (ca. 1896–1919)
Maria Catharina Prestel’s Printed Cabinet of Drawings (ca. 1780s)
Pseudo-Boccaccio, Yiddish Pulp Fiction, and the Man Who Ripped Off Joyce
Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater’s Occult Chemistry (1908)
Signs and Wonders: Celestial Phenomena in 16th-Century Germany

The Quietus

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Brave in Particular Contexts: Mclusky Interviewed
Croation Amor & Lust For Youth – All Worlds
Penelope Trappes – A Requiem
Death Grips Deny Breakup Rumours in Rare Social Media Post
Turnstile Reveal New Album, ‘Never Enough’
Posthumous Mark Stewart Album Set for Release via Mute
Stereolab Detail First Studio LP in 15 Years, ‘Instant Holograms On Metal Film’
The Ex – If Your Mirror Breaks
Beauty and Sadness: Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast’s Favourite Albums
Romance In The Air: Rewire 2025 Reviewed
Benefits – Constant Noise
Nine Inch Nails-Scored ‘Tron’ Film Gets First Trailer
Tilda Swinton Collaborates With Orbital on New Track
40 Years On: Terminal Cheesecake’s Angels in Pigtails Revisited
Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC for April
Los Thuthanaka – Los Thuthanaka
An Extract from Exterminate/Regenerate: The Story Of Doctor Who by John Higgs
Flower Noise: Here & The Story of Czech Shoegaze
Destroyer – Dan’s Boogie
Reissue of the Week: Henry Badowski’s Life Is A Grand
Bruce Springsteen’s Lost Albums Compiled in New Box Set
WU LYF Share New Track, ‘A New Life Is Coming’
Bambara – Birthmarks
Northern Gothic: Rainy Miller Interviewed
INTERVIEW: Fulu Miziki Talk Forthcoming Tremor Show
Quests in Time and Space: Jem Finer on The Pogues and his 1000-year Longplayer
Cracks in the Normal: A City Drowned in God’s Black Tears by Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals
Death In Vegas Unveils First Album in Nine Years, ‘Death Mask’
The Strange World Of… Brainiac
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Death Hilarious
How to Talk to your Son about Dangerous Extremist Influencers
Anika Shares New Single, ‘Oxygen’

Bandcamp Updates

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Barker, “Stochastic Drift”
Σtella Picks Her Bandcamp Favorites
The Unstoppable Mike Watt
Penelope Trappes, “A Requiem”
The Raw, Rebellious Sound of Chile’s New Rock Underground
Exploring Odion Livingstone, Nigeria’s Best (and Only) Vinyl Reissues Label
To Live and Shave in LA, “The Wigmaker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg”
Apparitions, “Volcanic Reality”
The Hotlist, Spring 2025
The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, March 2025
For The Best New Death Metal, Head To North Dakota. Trust Us.
The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, March 2025
Panchiko, “Ginkgo”
The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, March 2025
The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, March 2025
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, March 2025
Clikatat Ikatowi, “The Trials And Tribulations Of…”
Tek lintowe’s Effortless Chaos
The Best Hip-Hop on Bandcamp, March 2025
Eiko Ishibashi, “Antigone”
The Best Latin Music on Bandcamp, March 2025
The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, March 2025
The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, March 2025
Dean Wareham, “That’s the Price of Loving Me”
Butcher Brown, “Letters From The Atlantic”
The Best Albums of Winter 2025
A Delicate Fusion: A New Era of Chamber Folk
The Best Punk on Bandcamp, March 2025
Salin, “Rammana”
The Tape Label Report, March 2025
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, March 2025
Backxwash, “Only Dust Remains”
Fado Bicha Subvert Tradition, Seek Liberation
Motorbike, “Kick It Over”
Imperial Triumphant, “Goldstar”
Dark Dreams and Bright Nightmares: The Mortal’s Guide to Coil
Essential Releases, March 21, 2025

dusted

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Iancu Dumitrescu — Ansamblul Hyperion Conducerea Muzicală: Iancu Dumitrescu (Corbett Vs. Dempsey)
King Blood — Eye I Aye Ivy (Petty Bunco)
Kassian — Channels (IK7)
Form Decay — Behold Horns (Transylvanian)
Dumbells — Up Late with (Mind Meld)
Sharp Pins — Radio DDR (K/Perennial)
Sébastien Roux — Les disparitions (Insub)
The Chills — Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs (Fire)
Fust — Big Ugly (Dear Life)
J.WLSN — The Rush (Room 40)
Sun Home Audio — Bless Yr Heart (Self-Release)
James Elkington — Pastel De Nada (No Quarter)
Anika — Abyss (Sacred Bones)
Cross Record — Crush Me (Ba Da Bing)
Buffet Lunch — Perfect Hit! (Upset the Rhythm)
Michael Grigoni *  Pan•American—New World, Lonely Ride (Kranky)
Final Dose — Under the Eternal Shadow (Wolves of Hades)
Salif Keita — So Kono (Nø Førmat! / KYOTOPHONIE)
Stefano Pilia — Lacinia (Die Schachtel/SZ Sugar)
Broken English Club — Songs of Love and Decay (Dekmantel)

Cool Tools

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What’s in my NOW? — Justin Taylor
If You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, Don’t! / Everything Is Teeth
Vapors
Allo Mechanisms/tv.garden/Best condiment
Book Freak 176: Understanding Potentially Sentient Non-Human Beings
Happiest Countries/Free Checked Bag/Cheap Electronic Basics
What’s in my NOW? — Dave Crumbine
Make: Props / Cabinet of Natural Curiosities
Sleep
The Alpinist/OpenTimes map/Ultimate Book List

McMansion Hell

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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
Bonus McMansion Hell: Ye Olde Barrington
mojo dojo casa house
BONUS MCMANSION HELL: liminal edition
dome sweet dome
Hi everyone: I’ve written a long deep-dive on the present state of the McMansion, from farmhouse…
In my latest column for The Nation, I defend single stair buildings against their detractors - I…
In my latest for The Nation I make the uncontroversial claim that bike lanes are good, actually.

Serious Eats

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If You Like Baklava, You’ll Love This Fragrant Persian Cake
From Hot Dogs to Oysters: How to Eat Like a Local in Santiago
Gozney Just Launched a Portable Pizza Oven—I Made Dozens of Pizzas to See If It's Any Good
The Best Cookie Sheets for Nicely Browned, Well-Baked Desserts
This Asparagus Quiche Celebrates the Best of Spring
My Abuelita's Secret for the Flakiest Chilean Beef Empanadas
My Chinese Mom’s One-Pot Beef Stew Is a Weeknight Lifesaver
12 Spring Salads to Brighten up Your Table
Spice Up Your Dinner Routine With This Quick Indian Mango Pickle
9 Kitchen Knives Serious Eats Editors Swear By, Including One That’s Lasted Since Culinary School
A Classic Taiwanese Pork Braise, Reimagined for the Instant Pot
For Vibrant Green Shakshuka, Use This Easy Trick
I Tested 11 Brooms to Find the Best Ones for Cleaning Up Kitchen Messes
20 Easter Appetizers for a Delicious Spring Celebration
Global Eats Part Two: Our Expert Guide to Seven of the World's Most Delicious Dining Destinations
If You're Serious About Coffee or Tea, You Need This Buy-It-for-Life Electric Kettle
Upgrade Your Morning Brew With Our Favorite Coffee Gear, Including the Milk Frother That Aced Our Tests
We Taste-Tested 24 Marinara Sauces—Here Are Our Favorites
These Bright, Herby Deviled Eggs Are Designed for Spring
12 Delightful Passover Desserts to Impress Everyone at Your Seder
Save Up to 50% on Breville, Staub, and Le Creuset at Williams Sonoma’s Spring Sale
9 Easter Lamb Recipes That Will Steal the Show at Your Holiday Table
These Crispy Pork Fritters Are So Famous, My Family's Restaurant Makes 200k of Them a Year
Carbon Steel vs. Cast Iron: Which One Should You Buy?
11 Recipes Our Editors Are Excited to Cook in April
These Bakery-Worthy Biscuits Are Ready in Under an Hour
This 3-Ingredient Taquero-Style Guacamole Is a Game-Changer for Tacos
The Eyebrow-Raising Ingredient That Makes This Classic NJ Pizza a Local Legend
The Middle Child of Southeast Asia Claims Its Spotlight: How to Eat Like a Local in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Cantonese Delights, Soy Sauce Western, and Desserts Galore: How to Eat Like a Local in Hong Kong
When in Rome: How to Eat Like a Local in Italy's Capital
Souk to Nuts: How to Eat Like a Local in Marrakesh
Plan Your Plantains Wisely: How to Eat Like a Local in San Juan
Forget Sit-Down Restaurants and Start Liming: How to Eat in Kingston, Jamaica, Like a Local
I Don’t Have a Le Creuset, but I Do Have This Lodge Dutch Oven That Costs a Fraction of the Price
This Riff on a Classic Thai Curry Is the Perfect Comfort Food
13 Quick and Easy Chicken and Vegetable Recipes for Winning Weeknight Dinners
The 3-Ingredient Acadian Flatbreads I Serve for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
This Cuisinart Mini Food Processor Is My Go-To for Quick and Easy Food Prep
This Non-Toxic, Nonstick Skillet Makes the Best Over-Easy Eggs and Omelets—Grab the Trio on Sale
The 19 Best Amazon Spring Sale Deals You Can Still Get—Including 50% Off Lodge
The Lodge Cast Iron Skillet That’s Aced Our Tests for Years Is on Sale for Only $14
20 Minutes of Active Time Is All You Need for This Luscious Mocha Tres Leches Cake
The 35 Best Kitchen Deals During Amazon’s Spring Sale, Including Our Favorite Weber Grill
This Stanley Thermos Has Lasted 30-Plus Years in the Alaskan Wilderness
Snag These 10 Serious Eats-Favorite Knives for Less During Amazon’s Big Spring Sale
The Misen Chef Knife Promises a Stellar Slicing Experience for Under $100—But Can It Deliver?
Le Creuset, All-Clad, Lodge, and More Brands We Stand By Are Up to 50% Off at Amazon’s Spring Sale
This Pan-Roasted Pork with Rhubarb Sauce Is the 30-Minute Meal I’m Making All Spring
This Milk Frother Makes Whipping Up Lattes and London Fogs Incredibly Easy
Achieve Perfectly Fluffy Scrambled Eggs and Omelets With This 10-Second Hack
These Make-Ahead Muffin Tin Egg Bites Are Extra Silky, Thanks to This 1 Simple Ingredient
Lodge Cast Iron Is on Major Sale, Including The Skillet and Grill Pan That Aced Our Tests
Spatchcocking a Chicken? You Need These Poultry Shears
Breakfast Sausage Meets Meatloaf in This Cincinnati Breakfast Icon
The Unspoken Rule of Dining Etiquette: Are You Breaking It?
We Taste-Tested 6 Dill Pickles—Here Are Our Favorites
The Real Difference Between Polenta, Grits, and Cornmeal, According to Experts
I’ve Tried Dozens of Coffee Grinders, But the Breville Is My Favorite
Amazon’s Spring Sale Is Tomorrow, but Yeti, Breville, Vitamix, and More Are Already on Sale
This Starch Madness, Grab Our 9 Tested-and-Approved Frying Essentials
Almond Croissants Meet Cinnamon Rolls In This Delightful Breakfast Pastry
Our Favorite Affordable Steak Knives Are Finally Back in Stock, and They're on Sale for Even Cheaper
These All-Clad Stainless Steel Pans Are So Lightweight, I Packed 2 in My Carry-On
This Indian Rice Dish Is Perfect for Oatmeal Lovers
The Easy Carrot Tart I’m Making This Easter and Beyond
15 Weekend Baking Projects for When You Need a Mental Escape
The Ninja Thirsti Soda Machine Makes it Easy to Customize Fizzy Drinks at Home
Revolutionize Your Vegetable Cooking With This Simple Tweak
18 Epic Breakfast Recipes That'll Make You a Morning Person
We Tested 9 Kitchen Trash Cans to Find Ones That Actually Contain Smells
This Moroccan Beef Stew Is Bursting With Vegetables
My Grandma's Applause-Worthy Tomato-Coconut Soup Is Ready in Just 15 Minutes
Amazon’s Spring Sale Is Coming—Here Are All the Details, Plus Kitchen Gear Deals You Can Grab Now
This Midwestern Chicken and Noodles Is Way More Satisfying Than Soup
The One-Pot North African Soup I Cook on Repeat
Arepa de Huevo (Colombian Egg-Stuffed Arepas)
Pani Puri
Serious Eats Editors Handpicked the Best Le Creuset and Staub Deals at Williams Sonoma's Spring Sale
I Swear by This Coffee Maker—Even With Its Quirks
This Dessert Combines the Best of Baklava and the Dubai Chocolate Bar
What's Better Than Fried Pickles? These Fried Pickles Dipped in Bacon-Ranch
This Sweet, Crunchy Carrot Salad Is Perfect for Spring
Reconnecting With Eid Traditions in a New Home
The Easiest and Quickest Way to Shred Chicken
This Small Change to a Classic Salad Ingredient Has Become a Favorite of Chefs
The Easy, Flavor-Packed Lamb Meatballs I'm Cooking From Now Through Easter
These 5-Ingredient, One-Bowl Moroccan Biscuits Are Buttery Soft and Sweet Like Cornbread
I Tested 10 Ramekins to Find the Best Ones for Soufflés, Custards, and More
11 Irish Recipes to Make for St. Patrick's Day
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That's it. Trump won.
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The internet will always remain undefeated
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Another loss for the US in tax revenue..
Good Sport..
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