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Publisher Correction: Reproducibility and robustness of economics and political science research ( Nature ) |
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Switchable 2D–3D display through a metasurface lenticular lens ( Nature ) |
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I recently found a statistic online that said up to 42% or 750k Portuguese emigrated out of Portugal from 1500 to 1800, 42% of the population is a insane number, so why did so many Portuguese leave Portugal when other colonial powers did not have the same type of exodus? ( AskHistorians ) |
Birth of a Language in the Backlands of Brazil (Anderson Almeida-Silva & al. 2025) ( Linguistics ) |
Linocut/engraving/medieval tattoo ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
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Molecular solar thermal energy storage in Dewar pyrimidone beyond 1.6 megajoules per kilogram ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind’s Katzensymphonie (1868) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
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École des Sables, Africa’s Premier Dance School, Faces a Precarious Future ( NYT > Arts ) |
How cynical was the public of Nazi Germany towards the state? Did the average "Aryan" German know that the government was kleptocratic, that officials took bribes, & that the SS & others were pocketing "confiscated" goods for themselves? Or was this stuff not realized until the end of the War? ( AskHistorians ) |
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People of Note Is ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ for Gamers ( NYT > Arts ) |
Ceramic-like strength and metallic toughness in a bulk metallic glass ( Nature ) |
The End of the World as We (Didn’t) Know It: Now and Then #5 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Structural basis of fungal β-1,3-glucan synthase inhibition by caspofungin ( Nature ) |
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NFL draft and its many fans bring a city hope — and prompt schools to go virtual ( National ) |
Wikipedia-based AI model reveals the 100 technologies to watch ( Nature ) |
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Too Computerised? Too Cold?: 1999 A.D. (1967) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
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The Best Latin Music on Bandcamp, March 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
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Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Mechanical load inhibits cancer growth in mouse and human hearts ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
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Netrin1 blockade alleviates resistance to chemotherapy in pancreatic cancer ( Nature ) |
Loanwords: Core Concepts and the Case of Wasei Eigo ( Linguistics ) |
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This ‘Sustainable’ Island Is Venice’s Newest Art Oasis ( NYT > Arts ) |
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Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
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Trump Says He’s Renovating ‘Filthy’ Reflecting Pool on the National Mall ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Once accused of election fraud, former small-town mayor leaves court to applause ( National ) |
Grouper Lines Up Mini North American Tour ( Pitchfork ) |
A Different Beast: Abigail Snail Interviewed ( The Quietus ) |
How Elon Musk Used SpaceX to Benefit Himself and His Businesses ( NYT > Technology ) |
Magic by Return of Post: How Mail Order Delivered the Occult ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Mapping transcription factor functions in astrocytes using in vivo gain-of-function Perturb-seq ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Imagining the Manosphere as a Kinder, Gentler Place ( NYT > Arts ) |
Author Correction: Rewiring an E3 ligase enhances cold resilience and phosphate use in maize ( Nature ) |
Boards of Canada Reveal New Album Inferno ( Pitchfork ) |
The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser! ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The application of "Word Embeddings as Metric Recovery in Semantic Spaces"(Hashimoto, Alvarez-Melis & Jaakkola (2016) ):Mapping Latin Prefixes into 4D Semantic Space: Analyzing super-, supra-, inferior-, infra- via RBF Interpolation ( Linguistics ) |
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Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its History ( The Public Domain Review ) |
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Language Contact and Deliberate Change - Sarah Thomason (2007) ( Linguistics ) |
Trump administration halts shipments of U.S. cash to Iraq ( World ) |
‘Desert Warrior’ Review: An Extra-Lavish Epic From Saudi Arabia ( NYT > Arts ) |
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In the Penal Colony: Now and Then #3 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
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Evaluating large language models for accuracy incentivizes hallucinations ( Nature ) |
Non-equilibrium condensation of the first Solar System solids ( Nature ) |
All of the Tools You Need to Make Really Great Baguettes at Home ( Serious Eats ) |
Sightings of Meteors Surge, and Scientists Aren’t Sure Why ( NYT > Science ) |
Our Favorite Features of 2022 ( Serious Eats ) |
Author Correction: Robust cytoplasmic partitioning by solving a cytoskeletal instability ( Nature ) |
Bon Iver Unveil “Bon Dylan” Covers Band ( Pitchfork ) |
ENTERPILOT/GoModel: High-performance AI gateway written in Go - unified OpenAI-compatible API for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Groq, xAI & Ollama. LiteLLM alternative with observability, guardrails & streaming. ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
We Tested 7 Anti-Fatigue Mats—Here Are the Best Ones for Your Kitchen ( Serious Eats ) |
Windows 9x subsystem for Linux ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
‘Free Births’ Are a New Pregnancy Trend. Critics Warn About Serious Risks. ( NYT > Science ) |
Bloom Phase: How to Read the Bubbles In Your Coffee ( Serious Eats ) |
Q&A weekly thread - March 30, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
Review: In ‘The Balusters,’ Neighborly Dysfunction Is on the Agenda ( NYT > Arts ) |
Amit Forlit, Accused of Hacking Climate Activists, Appears in Court ( NYT > Science ) |
Boards Of Canada Share New Track, ‘Tape 05’ ( The Quietus ) |
‘Fuze’ Review: Dishonor Among Thieves ( NYT > Arts ) |
The Stanford Freshmen Who Want to Rule the World ( The Atlantic ) |
Breaking the Celestial Ceiling: Now and Then #4 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Eve Maret, “Diamond Cutter” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Bad Hittite, Good Hattian: Linguistic Interference in the Old Hittite Oracle KBo 18.151 (2025) ( Linguistics ) |
Something Worth Waiting For ( Pitchfork ) |
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Intel’s Revenues Soar, Aided by A.I. Boom ( NYT > Technology ) |
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E.P.A., Maryland Sue D.C. Utility Over Potomac River Sewage ( NYT > Science ) |
Through the Magnifying Glass: The Cheese Mites (1903) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
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Robot can beat elite players at table tennis ( Nature ) |
10,000 Chicago Concert Recordings Are Being Uploaded to the Internet Archive: Nirvana, Phish, Sonic Youth, They Might Be Giants & More ( Open Culture ) |
Daily briefing: This AI-powered robot is a table-tennis master ( Nature ) |
I Was an Enthusiastic Early Adopter of AI Scribes. Here’s Why I Stopped ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
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Juni Habel, “Evergreen In Your Mind” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Chromosomal fusions trigger rediploidization of autopolyploid genomes ( Nature ) |
Palestinian Food 101: Recipes to Get You Started ( Serious Eats ) |
The evolutionary history and unique genetic diversity of Indigenous Americans ( Nature ) |
Durham police seize firearms, drugs in raid of homeless encampment ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Incoming: Dusted writers flag the records they’re excited about for spring ( dusted ) |
Fidelity ( Pitchfork ) |
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Elon Musk Ignores French Prosecutors, Widening Tech Rift With Europe ( NYT > Technology ) |
The New Plastic-Surgery Playbook ( The Atlantic ) |
In Central Java, an Eco-Resort Aims to Build Sustainability Through Creativity ( NYT > Arts ) |
Tacoma Park—Baltimore (Centripetal Force) ( dusted ) |
An update on recent Claude Code quality reports Anthropic ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Should a Straight Person Represent Stonewall’s City Council District? ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
A bat coronavirus can enter human cells through a previously unknown gateway ( Nature ) |
Our newsroom AI policy - Ars Technica ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Poison Ruïn — Hymns from the Hills (Relapse) ( dusted ) |
How the Iran War Is Morphing Into a Volatile Standoff in the Strait of Hormuz ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Can the Aral Sea be reborn? ( Geography ) |
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The Shits — Diet of Worms (Rocket Recordings) ( dusted ) |
Robert Humber — Into Air (Redshift) ( dusted ) |
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Confessional Boxes: Tiny Cryptic #7 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
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Ivan Aivazovsky’s Miniature Seascapes (ca. 1887) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
DeepSeek v4 ( Hacker News ) |
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Reimagining human-centric drug development with new approach methodologies ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Azealia Banks’ New Album Is an… Hour-Long Guided Meditation Suite? ( Pitchfork ) |
We Tested 7 Squeeze Bottles to Find the Best for Your Kitchen ( Serious Eats ) |
Elaine Ingham, Who Taught That Soil Is Alive, Dies at 73 ( NYT > Science ) |
What’s your favorite Street View spot to visit when you want to relax, both in your country and worldwide? ( Geography ) |
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Makthaverskan, “Glass and Bones” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
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Q&A weekly thread - March 23, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
Traffic’s Dave Mason Dies at 79 ( Pitchfork ) |
Trump Keeps Talking About Iran’s ‘Nuclear Dust.’ What Is It? ( NYT > Science ) |
The Tape Label Report, March 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Live Album of the Week: Cabaret Voltaire’s But What Time Is It Really? ( The Quietus ) |
Oneohtrix Point Never Shares New Track, ‘Dim Stars’ ( The Quietus ) |
‘Two Seasons, Two Strangers’ Review: Possibilities of a Blank Page ( NYT > Arts ) |
Leaked Code for Anthropic’s Claude Code Tests Copyright Challenges in A.I. Era ( NYT > Technology ) |
Spice World: A Look Inside the Serious Eats Team's Spice Cabinets ( Serious Eats ) |
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Songs from the Commons: A Q&A with Simon Close about the Public Song Project ( The Public Domain Review ) |
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Lero Lero, “Lero Lero” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
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A Collection of Old English Customs, and Curious Bequests and Charities (1842) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
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Genomic roots of Indigenous Americans uncovered ( Nature ) |
We used to say in English say The Ukraine, now we dont. There is also The Lebanon, and The Sudan, but not The Russia or The France. When and why did this convention emerge and change?: ( AskHistorians ) |
Iran says it seized 2 ships in Strait of Hormuz, hours after Trump’s ceasefire extension ( World ) |
injaneity/pi-computer-use ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
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Best weather app / Airport delay tracker / Mars photos ( Cool Tools ) |
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Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 ( NYT > Science ) |
Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Don’t let your students use AI as a ghostwriter ( Nature ) |
Astronomers find the edge of the Milky Way ( Hacker News ) |
Hannah Lew, “Hannah Lew” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Fake 'Nduja ( Serious Eats ) |
A Popeless Situation: Now and Then #2 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Show HN: Agent Vault – Open-source credential proxy and vault for agents ( Hacker News ) |
Mansaf (Palestinian Spiced Lamb With Rice and Yogurt Sauce) ( Serious Eats ) |
How Ashley Padilla, Breakout ‘S.N.L.’ Star, Nails Comic Timing ( NYT > Arts ) |
Multicentre gene therapy for OTOF-related deafness followed up to 2.5 years ( Nature ) |
Retro Lemon Dessert ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, “wonderful” rooms!“ ( McMansion Hell ) |
12 Freezer-Friendly Soups for a Warm Meal Whenever You Want It ( Serious Eats ) |
@codemix/graph - codemix ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Glycerol-driven TNAP activation in thermogenesis and mineralization ( Nature ) |
The Adventures and Experiences of the First Slovak Novel ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The Greatest Documentary You’ve Never Heard Of: An Introduction to Wang Bing’s Nine-Hour Tie Xi Qu ( Open Culture ) |
Damaged Bug — ZUZAX (DEATHGOD CORP) ( dusted ) |
Aspartame is not that bad? ( Hacker News ) |
9 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week ( NYT > Arts ) |
acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen | hacker news ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Mylingar — Út (Amor Fati) ( dusted ) |
An Ancient Philosophical Song Reconstructed and Played for the First Time in 1,000 Years ( Open Culture ) |
Brain tissue near tumours is loaded with plastic ( Nature ) |
A Thousand and One Nights in Italy: The Moorish Fantasias of Cesare Mattei and Ferdinando Panciatichi ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Q&A weekly thread - April 20, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
Fragments: April 2 ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Show HN: How LLMs Work – Interactive visual guide based on Karpathy's lecture ( Hacker News ) |
“You Think Me a Bold Cheat”: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess ( The Public Domain Review ) |
How widly known was Jimmy Savile's paedophilia in the entertainment industry during his life? ( AskHistorians ) |
This Bob’s For You: A Guide to Guided By Voices ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Florida is about to lose its most famous symbol forever. What happened? ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Analyzing 5 years'-worth of heart rate and fitness data ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
“Wretches, Speak Evil of Me”: Goethe and Schiller’s Xenions (1896 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Decade-long warming accelerates antibiotic resistance in grassland soils ( Nature ) |
Glasses-free display switches between 2D and 3D ( Nature ) |
The memory dealer of Old Jeddah ( Nature ) |
GitHub - raysan5/raylib: A simple and easy-to-use library to learn videogames programming ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Tyla Announces Sophomore Album A*Pop ( Pitchfork ) |
South Korea’s wind energy threatens flyway ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Nine Inch Noize – Nine Inch Noize ( The Quietus ) |
The Mystery in the Medicine Cabinet—Asterisk ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Self Study Pre-Education ( Geography ) |
How to Make Homemade Vanilla Extract ( Serious Eats ) |
Sara Weiss’ Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Portraits of the Artist: Künstlerromane in an Age of Uncertainty ( The Quietus ) |
Fragments: April 14 ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Sewing pattern for A-line silk dress w boatneck and bell sleeves? ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
Meet the Young Wikipedians Writing the Front Page of Music History ( Pitchfork ) |
Author Correction: Commensal yeast promotes Salmonella Typhimurium virulence ( Nature ) |
Huawei plans to spend up to $11.7B over five years to boost compute for training and testing autonomous cars, with ~$2.64B for autonomous driving R&D in 2026 (Daniel Ren/South China Morning Post) ( Techmeme ) |
S. Korea police arrest man over AI image of runaway wolf that misled authorities ( Hacker News ) |
The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Quadruple pegRNA enables programmable and efficient large genomic insertion ( Nature ) |
This Scientist Looked for Ways to Stop Mass Violence ( NYT > Science ) |
Mechanically driven Li dendrite penetration in garnet solid electrolyte ( Nature ) |
Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Yung Lean Debuts New Music in Short Film Storm Pt. I & II ( Pitchfork ) |
Connectives in Asur: A North Munda Language ( Linguistics ) |
Track the Oscar nominees you've watched and pick your winners ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
google-labs-code/design.md: A format specification for describing a visual identity to coding agents. DESIGN.md gives agents a persistent, structured understanding of a design system. ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Last Dream Of The Morning — Sharp Illusion (Fundacja Sluchaj) ( dusted ) |
21 Recipes to Make With Your Newly Gifted Gear ( Serious Eats ) |
Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Huge police presence on Rigsbee Ave between Surf Club and Motorco. ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Who’s Who in ‘Michael’: A Guide to the Characters ( NYT > Arts ) |
Introducing PDR Press Minis ( The Public Domain Review ) |
glam metal modern but also your contractor is going to jail dawg ( McMansion Hell ) |
CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Are there any pre-modern moral guides written by successful parents? ( AskHistorians ) |
Ubiquitination of glycogen and metabolites in cells and tissues ( Nature ) |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Who’s Getting a Tariff Refund? ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
‘Jumping genes’ help a bacterium that causes hospital infections to adapt quickly ( Nature ) |
Chè Chuối (Vietnamese Banana, Tapioca, and Coconut Milk Dessert) ( Serious Eats ) |
Urban tails vets - ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Microsoft offers voluntary retirement to long-serving employees | The Verge ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Paramaribo and the Plantation: Gerrit Schouten’s Dioramas of Suriname (1810–30) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The Posting Will Continue Until Morale Improves ( The Atlantic ) |
An update on recent Claude Code quality reports ( Hacker News ) |
Is the Instant Pot Duo Crisp Ultimate Lid a Good Air Fryer? ( Serious Eats ) |
Thickened Moments: Life Day by Kristen Gallerneaux ( The Quietus ) |
on neuschwanstein castle (part 1) ( McMansion Hell ) |
In Britain, 7 Unelected Lords Are Helping to Block an Assisted Dying Bill ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
ode to a faux grecian urn ( McMansion Hell ) |
Music Production ( Cool Tools ) |
5 Resistance Museums Recall the Bravery of ‘Ordinary People’ ( NYT > Arts ) |
Did Victorian-era doctors genuinely believe that masturbation was terribly unhealthy, or was that just something people said as a deterrent due to it being "improper"? And if it's the former, how did the doctors ever reach that conclusion? ( AskHistorians ) |
Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Judge Dismisses Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s $100 Million Defamation Suit Against NBC ( NYT > Arts ) |
Iran War Has Drained U.S. Supplies of Critical, Costly Weapons ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
The Fake Radicals Stealing Lemons ( The Atlantic ) |
What did Renaissance painters use for their paintbrushes? ( AskHistorians ) |
Glasses Cleaning Simulator ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Elizabeth I’s Manuscript Copy of Pierre Boaistuau’s Histoires Prodigieuses (1559) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Why you should refuse to let your doctor record you • Buttondown ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Myosin forces remodel F-actin for mechanosensitive protein recognition ( Nature ) |
Our Favorite Recipes of 2022 ( Serious Eats ) |
Photos of the Week: Giant Octopus, Scooter Waterfall, Sunrise Panorama ( The Atlantic ) |
2007-core nostalgia extravaganza ( McMansion Hell ) |
RFK Jr. Says His Department Advises All Children to Get Measles Vaccine ( NYT > Science ) |
UK Biobank health data keeps ending up on GitHub ( Hacker News ) |
Gnod – Chronicles Of Gnowt Vol.1 ( The Quietus ) |
Pretty Fish — A Better Mermaid Diagram Editor ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
“I Was Never Interested in Being Owned”: An Interview with Persian, the Anonymous Iranian Pioneer of UK Rave ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
How Do Keurig Coffee Makers Work, Anyways? ( Serious Eats ) |
refactoringhq/tolaria ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Why Animals Look So Strange in Medieval Manuscripts ( Open Culture ) |
'Well, it's twinkle, twinkle, little star, / ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Saudis Withdraw Offer of Millions to Metropolitan Opera ( NYT > Arts ) |
Blue Origin’s Failure May Hamstring NASA’s Moon Plans ( NYT > Science ) |
Maramfa Musick Pro: Serokolo 7 Resurrects the Frenetic Pulse of Mapanta ( The Quietus ) |
A neuroimaging study of language impairments across the biological continuum of Alzheimer's disease (from healthy older adults to dementia). ( Linguistics ) |
Authentic Brands Group: The $20B Empire That Makes Nothing ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Focal white matter lesions drive grey matter inflammation and synapse loss ( Nature ) |
Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s Peruvian Art in the School (1926) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Early fibrotic niches establish tumour-permissive microenvironments ( Nature ) |
5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens (Maurycy's blog) ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Passion Pithy ( MetaFilter ) |
Overview - Agent Skills ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Which European City have very demanding Winter Climates? ( Geography ) |
Meeting the moment: how scientific philanthropies are expanding their reach ( Nature ) |
Gaza Set to Hold First Local Election in Two Decades ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
We Tested the Ankarsrum Stand Mixer for Months to Find Out if It’s Worth Buying ( Serious Eats ) |
How Do You Measure an A.I. Boom? ( NYT > Technology ) |
Did the North really want to end slavery or was it more complicated? ( AskHistorians ) |
Riz Ahmed Stars as James Bond and Hamlet ( NYT > Arts ) |
DeepSeek V4 Pro costs $1.74/1M input tokens and $3.48/1M output tokens, while V4 Flash costs $0.14/1M and $0.28/1M; both models are the cheapest in their class (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog) ( Techmeme ) |
Long after the Boston Marathon ended, 179 runners kept going — and finished ( National ) |
Israel Could Have What It Most Wants in Lebanon ( The Atlantic ) |
Dave Mason, Songwriter and a Co-Founder of Traffic, Dies at 79 ( NYT > Arts ) |
A catastrophic climate event is upon us. Here is why you’ve heard so little about it | George Monbiot | The Guardian ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The legacy of the Golden Horde. Official status of Kipchak languages by sovereign states and autonomous regions. Each color indicates the area where any Kipchak language is recognized throughout the region. (outlined area in black = roughly the boundaries of the Golden Horde) ( Geography ) |
How Bruce the Parrot Landed Atop the Pecking Order, Without a Beak ( NYT > Science ) |
PartPerfect - practice app for a cappella singers ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
The Conspiracy Theory Behind Tucker Carlson’s Apology ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
How Elon Musk Used SpaceX to Benefit Himself and His Businesses ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
ADULT. – Kissing Luck Goodbye ( The Quietus ) |
The Pelican ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
16 Easy Noodle Recipes for a Quick Meal Any Time of Day ( Serious Eats ) |
Snail Homes, Bog Bodies, and Mechanical Flies: Robert Testard’s Illustrations for Les secretz de l’histoire naturelle (ca. 1485) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
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Q&A weekly thread - April 13, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
Sheet Pans Aren't Cookie Sheets: A Baking Sheet Explainer ( Serious Eats ) |
Photos: Reclaimed by Nature ( The Atlantic ) |
A New Bureau Will Oversee Both Offshore Drilling and Seabed Mining ( NYT > Science ) |
The Rich and Powerful Want to Live Forever ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
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Rosa Pistola, “Incorregible” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Darrell Sheets, Auction Bidder Who Starred on ‘Storage Wars,’ Dies at 67 ( NYT > Arts ) |
Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
In No Country for Old Men, set in 1980, some of the sheriffs in South Texas consider the area to be historically quiet, with cartel-related violence being a new problem. Was this true, and if so, around what time did being a sheriff near the border go from being a quiet job to a more dangerous one? ( AskHistorians ) |
Manifesto di Palantir definito «ramblings of a supervillain», scoppiano le polemiche sui contratti UK ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Try the Oldest Known Recipe For Toothpaste: From Ancient Egypt, Circa the 4th Century BC ( Open Culture ) |
DeepSeek’s Sequel Set to Extend China’s Reach in Open-Source A.I. ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
New demand goals for energy and climate resilience ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Q&A weekly thread - April 06, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Djrum, Laurel Halo and More Remix Lyra Pramuk on New Release ( The Quietus ) |
Humans share acoustic preferences with other animals ( Linguistics ) |
the motel room, or: on datedness ( McMansion Hell ) |
Statistical structure and the evolution of languages ( Linguistics ) |
4 Takeaways From ‘Lorne,’ the Movie About Lorne Michaels and ‘S.N.L.’ ( NYT > Arts ) |
Trump’s Enormous Gerrymandering Blunder ( The Atlantic ) |
Soldier Used Classified Information to Bet on Maduro’s Ouster, U.S. Says ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Tanya Donnelly & Chris Brokaw —The Undone Is Done Again (Fire) ( dusted ) |
LIVING TYPE DANGEROUS Vol. 1 ( Pitchfork ) |
Unbridled Passions: The Eight Horses of King Mu, Son of Heaven (ca. 1300) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
We Tested 12 Flatware Sets to Find the Best Ones for Everyday Use ( Serious Eats ) |
Rubies on Five Points: Do tickets to shows sell out? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Michael Kosta Introduces Former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer ( NYT > Arts ) |
Astrocytes connect specific brain regions through plastic networks ( Nature ) |
Your Ideal Carry-on Bag/Better Budget Airline/Cultural Atlas ( Cool Tools ) |
Communication Failures Preceded Deadly Crash at LaGuardia, N.T.S.B. Says ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
James Talarico’s Tough Sell ( The Atlantic ) |
Flights of Fancy: The Nine Birds of Jacques de Fornazeris (1594) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
An unrecognized mode of small particles in the lower stratosphere ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Jujustu megamerges ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want | The Verge ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
we’ve found it folks: mcmansion heaven ( McMansion Hell ) |
Voice actors fight to save their livelihoods and local cultures from Hollywood’s AI push ( Rest of World - ) |
BEWARE SOFTWARE BRAIN | The Verge ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Retracing Belgian New Beat’s Accidental Explosion ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
The Vienna Climate Biennale Contrasts Chaos with Hope ( NYT > Arts ) |
crawshaw - 2026-04-22 ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Tim Cook’s Impeccable Timing – Stratechery by Ben Thompson ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
‘Earthset’ Is Captured on Video for First Time ( NYT > Science ) |
Study finds thousands of ads promising effortless authorship ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Trump Voters Like Marco Rubio More and More ( The Atlantic ) |
chud atlantis ( McMansion Hell ) |
Inside LACMA’s Eye-Popping New Home, How Do You Find the Art? ( NYT > Arts ) |
Moin Moin (Nigerian Steamed Bean Cake) ( Serious Eats ) |
Theft Is Now Progressive Chic ( The Atlantic ) |
Female Kill Machine 3 ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Meet the Turner Prize 2026 Nominees ( NYT > Arts ) |
Human cooperation undergoes constant breakdown and repair ( Nature ) |
https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
qmd ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
It Depends - Data Stewardship tool ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
How Sunn O))) Taught Us to Listen Beneath the Surface ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Après la Révolution: The Sound of the ’70s French Underground ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Could an Earthly Fungus Contaminate Mars? NASA May Have Found One Hardy Enough. ( NYT > Science ) |
The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Recs for Tax Help ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler ( Hacker News ) |
In Australia, homeless camps are rising as affordability falls ( MetaFilter ) |
Golden Blob, a Mystery From the Deep Sea, Is Identified ( NYT > Science ) |
Tricky Unveils New Album, ‘Different When It’s Silent’ ( The Quietus ) |
Palantir on X: "Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the d ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Could an Earthly Fungus Contaminate Mars? NASA May Have Found One Hardy Enough. ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Low Culture Essay: James Bailey on The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark ( The Quietus ) |
What Happens When a Globalized World Collapses: Archaeologist Eric Cline Explains How Bronze Age Civilizations Adapted, Survived or Vanished ( Open Culture ) |
GPT-5.5 ( Hacker News ) |
The Kash Patel Fallout ( The Atlantic ) |
How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences ( Hacker News ) |
Youth Suicides Drop ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
spider mapping ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
What is going on the road ( Geography ) |
exe.dev ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid ( Hacker News ) |
Specific combinations of human and viral genetic variants explain a cancer predisposition in southern China ( Nature ) |
Staffing experts say India's IT sector is seeing a rise in replacement hiring as companies adapt to Gen Z staff leaving jobs faster than previous generations (Tanya Pandey/The Economic Times) ( Techmeme ) |
Tracxn: global edtech funding fell from $16.7B in 2021 to $2.6B in 2025, while the number of startups launched dropped from 10,491 in 2021 to just 645 in 2025 (Ananya Bhattacharya/Rest of World) ( Techmeme ) |
Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
D4vd Murder Case: Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s Cause of Death Is Revealed ( NYT > Arts ) |
A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Clowning Around With Fascists, in ‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’ ( NYT > Arts ) |
Mudpots and Fumaroles: Lithographs of Yellowstone’s Thermal Springs (1883) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The Brand Ledger — Worse on Purpose ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
“The Great Enigma of Our Times”: Henry George’s Poverty and Progress (1881 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Why wasn't the Isle of Man incorporated into the United Kingdom? ( AskHistorians ) |
Tepache (Mexican Fermented Pineapple Drink) ( Serious Eats ) |
PDR's Halloween Reader ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Kitchen Gear and Tools We Think You Should Have Two (Or More) Of ( Serious Eats ) |
They’re here 🦟 ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
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Indigo Garden ( Pitchfork ) |
Is 1990s Alternative Rock the New Country? ( NYT > Arts ) |
Cerebras, an A.I. Chip Maker, Files to Go Public as Tech Offerings Ramp Up ( NYT > Technology ) |
A.I. Start-Ups From Canada and Germany Merge to Take On Silicon Valley ( NYT > Technology ) |
‘Michael’ Review: A Jackson Biopic Leaves Too Much Unsaid ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
How George Orwell Predicted the Rise of “AI Slop” in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) ( Open Culture ) |
Happy Easter weekend from us at Dusted! We hope you enjoyed our spring preview earlier today, and… ( dusted ) |
How to Roast Butternut Squash ( Serious Eats ) |
Through Label Drama and Divorce, Eleventh Dream Day Endures ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
[AI] What If You Could Actually Know What Your Judge Did Last Summer? ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Friday Free-for-All | April 24, 2026 ( AskHistorians ) |
A Vegetarian's Christmas Eve Pig Roast ( Serious Eats ) |
MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code ( Hacker News ) |
Alan Osmond, Who Led His Brothers in Song, Dies at 76 ( NYT > Arts ) |
Listen to Lucy Dacus’ New Song “Planting Tomatoes” ( Pitchfork ) |
12 Spicy Snacks That Bring the Heat ( Serious Eats ) |
The global edtech boom is fading as investors look elsewhere ( Rest of World - ) |
Ukraine will get $105 billion loan after Hungary drops opposition, E.U. says ( World ) |
Doug Allan, Polar Cameraman for David Attenborough’s Films, Dies at 74 ( NYT > Science ) |
What Physical ‘Life Force’ Turns Biology’s Wheels? | Quanta Magazine ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
My phone replaced a brass plug ( Hacker News ) |
…Beginning of the End ( Pitchfork ) |
The Art of Rock ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
What elite sport prepared me for in the lab — and what it didn’t ( Nature ) |
The Blinkered Flâneur: Walking with Franz Hessel in 1920s Berlin ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Using the internet like it's 1999 ( Hacker News ) |
Delays have kept new NSF grants to a trickle — that could be about to change ( Nature ) |
Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Sex decreases the pleiotropic costs of local adaptation by purging hitchhiking load ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Canada's Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha agree to a merger deal valuing the combined group at ~$20B to work on sovereign AI; both governments support the deal (Financial Times) ( Techmeme ) |
China's top market regulator says it is launching a six-month crackdown on the country's online ad sector, targeting malpractices including the misuse of AI (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post) ( Techmeme ) |
TencentCloud/CubeSandbox: Instant, Concurrent, Secure & Lightweight Sandbox for AI Agents. ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Coding Models Are Doing Too Much | wh ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Efo Riro (Nigerian Stewed Greens) ( Serious Eats ) |
Modern Frontend Complexity: essential or accidental? ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Newfound brain network is a ‘secret system’ made of helper cells ( Nature ) |
The whole world has become somewhat of a casino [for me to bankrupt] ( MetaFilter ) |
Pulex irritans: The Attack of the Monster (1885) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Jimmy Scott, “Falling In Love Is Wonderful (2026 Remaster)” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Lebanon looks to Trump for ‘leverage over Israel’ with ceasefire set to expire ( World ) |
A.I. Start-Ups From Canada and Germany Merge to Take On Silicon Valley ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago (1928) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Marcelo dos Reis Flora — Our Time (JACC) ( dusted ) |
How to Deep-Clean Your Dutch Oven (and Keep It Looking Like New) ( Serious Eats ) |
Meet Ace, the table-tennis robot that can beat elite players ( Nature ) |
The Rich and Powerful Want to Live Forever. What If They Could? ( Hacker News ) |
Familiarity is the enemy: On why Enterprise systems have failed for 60 years ( Hacker News ) |
Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy! ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Earliest octopuses were giant top predators in Cretaceous oceans ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
A pro-carcinogenic bacterial toxin binds claudin-4 to cleave E-cadherin ( Nature ) |
Fusion Power Plant Simulator — Fusion Energy Base ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Dynamics of genetic and somatic trade-offs in ageing and mortality ( Nature ) |
Stephen Colbert Sends Jimmy Kimmel a Box of ‘Iran War Jokes’ ( NYT > Arts ) |
California Accuses Amazon of Price Fixing in Legal Filing ( NYT > Technology ) |
How Do Air Fryers Work? ( Serious Eats ) |
Michael Tilson Thomas, Celebrated American Conductor, Dies at 81 ( NYT > Arts ) |
The Virginia Gerrymander Disenfranchises Republicans ( The Atlantic ) |
Jimmy Kimmel Roasts Trump at a Mock White House Correspondents’ Dinner ( NYT > Arts ) |
Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2025 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
How Colleges Stopped Rewarding Curiosity ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
Samurai were instrumental in the Meiji Restoration, which eliminated the Samurai class. What were their motivations? ( AskHistorians ) |
Honing Versus Sharpening a Knife: What's the Difference? ( Serious Eats ) |
This Alberta Startup Sells No-Tech Tractors for Half Price | Wheel Front ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
After Cesar Chavez’s Fall, What to Do With the Art That Honored Him? ( NYT > Arts ) |
Nikolai Agnivtsev’s Little Screw (1925) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
[Os(η5-B5H10)2]: A carbon-free analog of ferrocene ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Foreign language at DPS ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Resolving the radiation risk debate ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Phonon Hall viscosity and the intrinsic thermal Hall effect of α-RuCl3 ( Nature ) |
Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The end of responsive images ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Sam Altman’s Next High-Wire Act: Getting OpenAI to Make More Money ( NYT > Technology ) |
“That’s Why We Become Witches”: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (1926) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Can You Stop Beans From Making You Fart? We Put 17 Methods to the Test ( Serious Eats ) |
Transposable elements are driving rapid adaptation of Enterococcus faecium ( Nature ) |
Under Construction: Tiny Cryptic #10 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Printable meta-assemblies enable synergetic colouration ( Nature ) |
Confession ( Pitchfork ) |
The Era of Citizens United Could Be Nearing Its End ( MetaFilter ) |
When ties unravel ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Q&A weekly thread - March 16, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
Anyone need an affordable mower/mulched in Durham? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
TorchTPU: Running PyTorch Natively on TPUs at Google Scale ( Hacker News ) |
Masato Kobayashi (2025) - Hill Korwa of Kado Pani: Outline Grammar, Text and Glossary of a North Munda language ( Linguistics ) |
First genome loaded on a quantum computer ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Reissue of the Week: The Beastie Boys’ To The 5 Boroughs ( The Quietus ) |
As Bright as a Feather: Ostriches, Home Dyeing, and the Global Plume Trade ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Efficiency-optimized relativistic plasma harmonics for extreme fields ( Nature ) |
The impact of epigenetics on health and disability ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
The Ultimate Statement: John Robb’s Favourite Singles ( The Quietus ) |
This robot can beat you at table tennis ( Nature ) |
The Breville Pizzaiolo Oven Makes Great Neapolitan Pizza—And It’s 20% Off This Week ( Serious Eats ) |
HD Awareness and a call back to the pub - ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Calicornication: Postcards of Giant Produce (1909) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Mixed Berry Trifle ( Serious Eats ) |
Stream These Movies and TV Shows Before They Leave Netflix in May ( NYT > Arts ) |
ByeDoom — Give a Link → Get a Feed ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Deep unease ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
What is Sumac? ( Serious Eats ) |
We need to talk about failure in science ( Nature ) |
Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly ( Hacker News ) |
If I Tried to Escape, I Would Be Killed ( The Atlantic ) |
We Reviewed 11 Bento Boxes to Find One We’d Pack Lunch In ( Serious Eats ) |
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure ( Linguistics ) |
Programming touch-me-not knot topologies for rapid and diverse leaping and flying motions ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Heart-nosed bat alphacoronaviruses use human CEACAM6 to enter cells ( Nature ) |
Sea ice artificially thickened, but concept may not scale ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Petr Válek, Ondřej Merta, Jara Tarnovski — Punctum (Flaming Pines) ( dusted ) |
The Field Reveals First Release in Eight Years ( The Quietus ) |
Does Your Beer Glass Really Matter? We Consulted a Beer Expert to Find Out ( Serious Eats ) |
Flipbook: Infinite visual browser generated entirely on demand in real time ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
We Tested 12 Garlic Presses—Two Smashed the Competition ( Serious Eats ) |
The Sidepeices Are Hip-Hop’s Hottest New Duo. Also, They Just Met. ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
‘Half Man’ Review: Richard Gadd’s Bloody ‘Baby Reindeer’ Follow-Up ( NYT > Arts ) |
Shakespeare plays ranked ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Homestyle Bibimbap ( Serious Eats ) |
Climate types out at sea ( Geography ) |
We Reviewed the Challenger Fermentation Mat and Recommend It for Sourdough Bakers ( Serious Eats ) |
Strings Attached: Helen Haiman Joseph’s A Book of Marionettes (1920) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
How The Heck Does GPS Work? (An Interactive Exploration) ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Essential Releases, April 17, 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Taeliana Creative ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Face lift for Queensland dinosaur after discovery of 1300 more bones ( MetaFilter ) |
Ian Sweet Announces New Album and Tour ( Pitchfork ) |
We Tested 10 Tofu Presses—Three Squeezed Out the Competition ( Serious Eats ) |
We Found a Stable Firefox Identifier Linking All Your Private Tor Identities ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
AI optimism surges in Asia, unlike in the U.S. ( Rest of World - ) |
Time Enough At Last: A Guide to Cluster ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Short Answers to Simple Questions | April 22, 2026 ( AskHistorians ) |
Trump intends to invite Putin to G-20 summit in Miami, officials say ( World ) |
On Africa trip, the ‘quiet pope’ adopts a confident global voice ( World ) |
ReciproCard — Find Free Library Cards for Libby | Reciprocal & Non-Resident Cards ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Old Tricks: Tiny Cryptic #9 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
What’s in my NOW? — Camille Newsom ( Cool Tools ) |
About my last few months. ( McMansion Hell ) |
Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The Questionable Triumph of the ‘Baling Wire Hippies’ ( The Atlantic ) |
Tiles, Airtags, Chipolo, or ? ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
Mozilla: Anthropic's Mythos found 271 security vulnerabilities in Firefox 150 - Ars Technica ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
What Critics Are Saying About Michael: “Like Being Frog-Marched Through a Wax Museum” ( Pitchfork ) |
Beautiful Birds / The Botanical Treasury ( Cool Tools ) |
Israel and Lebanon extend ceasefire for three weeks, Trump says ( World ) |
What is the purpose of these man made lake/wetlands by the iran-iraq border near the euphrates? ( Geography ) |
The Bibanez Big Muff really changed things. ( MetaFilter ) |
Todd Blanche Targets Trump’s Enemies Amid Jockeying to Lead DOJ ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Sources: China recently told tech companies, including ByteDance and Moonshot AI, to reject US capital without state approval, after Meta's Manus acquisition (Bloomberg) ( Techmeme ) |
Outplaying elite table tennis players with an autonomous robot ( Nature ) |
Adventures in Higher Education Marketing ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Blue Angel Sparkling Silver 2 ( Pitchfork ) |
We translated the Palantir manifesto for actual human beings | The Verge ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Closure of China’s influential journal ranking leaves academics reeling — what will take its place? ( Nature ) |
I recently heard that the US was almost directly involved in the economic downfall in the Soviet Union, in what way did the US contribute to it's downfall? ( AskHistorians ) |
Punctuated decline of human cooperation ( Nature ) |
France must protect pollinators over pesticides ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
The Great Majority: Body Snatching and Burial Reform in 19th-Century Britain ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Lyrids Meteor Shower: How to Watch, Peak Time and Weather Forecast ( NYT > Science ) |
finding meaning again after loss of a parent ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
Thousands of Harvard graduate students strike — bringing research to a halt ( Nature ) |
The amazing mail sent to a video game publisher ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
your hex editor should color-code bytes ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Flowers of Fealty: Wilhelm Dilich’s Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Cubans’ Despair ( The Atlantic ) |
Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th Edition ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Hit a glitch in your research? Some ‘night science’ thinking could move it forward ( Nature ) |
Young Fresh Fellows — Loft (Yep Roc) ( dusted ) |
Saving the Pint: How a CO2 Shortage is Changing Beer Brewing ( Serious Eats ) |
How your heartbeat could keep cancer at bay ( Nature ) |
The Mexican security company with a $1.27 billion surveillance empire ( Rest of World - ) |
Tiny single-page app for the 3/3/3 productivity system ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Sources: India is piloting 10 schemes to test whether its CBDC, the e-rupee, can deliver welfare payments more efficiently, as it looks to boost e-rupee usage (Reuters) ( Techmeme ) |
Did D.E.I. Go Too Far? ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Musica Transonic + Mainliner, “Solid Static” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Can anyone explain me the "No Man's Land" of Jerusalem and the West Jerusalem enclave inside the East Jerusalem. ( Geography ) |
AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Clearing Strait of Hormuz of mines could take 6 months, Pentagon tells Congress ( World ) |
On Earth Day, House Cancels Vote to Narrow Endangered Species Protections ( NYT > Science ) |
Intercalated carbon nanotube fibers with high specific electrical conductivity ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
We Tested the Anova Precision Chamber Vacuum Sealer ( Serious Eats ) |
The EU’s cryosphere biodiversity blind spot ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Drunk Post: Things I’ve Learned as a Senior Engineer ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
‘Omaha’ Review: Right Road, Wrong Destination ( NYT > Arts ) |
Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
10 Cake Flour Recipes to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth ( Serious Eats ) |
Latino Advocates Scramble to Block Trump's Attempt to Gut $354 Million Grant Program for MSIs ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
What did the Romans think about dreams? ( AskHistorians ) |
UK Biobank leak: Health details of 500 000 people are offered for sale ( Hacker News ) |
Bali Gamelan Sound – Topeng Semar Pegulingan ( The Quietus ) |
Third U.S. aircraft carrier arrives in waters near Iran ( World ) |
State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change? ( Geography ) |
Companies, Not Consumers, to Cash In Big From Tariff Refunds ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Various Artists, “Ephemeral & Fleeting: Modular Music of Japan” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
‘I Swear’ Review: Surviving and Thriving Against the Odds ( NYT > Arts ) |
Why is Henry VIII so Famous? ( AskHistorians ) |
Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection — s-t 3 (Full Time Hobby) ( dusted ) |
Wednesday Knudsen — Atrium (Spinster/Feeding Tube) ( dusted ) |
Birth of the Pearl (1901) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
A cell-death protein has an unexpected role in intestinal repair ( Nature ) |
New Weird Britain in Review for April, by Noel Gardner ( The Quietus ) |
Former Police Officer Arrested Over Planned Shooting At Louisiana Music Festival ( Pitchfork ) |
Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite ( Hacker News ) |
Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline ( NYT > Science ) |
McMansion Hell urges all New Yorkers to Rank Zohran Mamdani #1 for Mayor of NYC ( McMansion Hell ) |
A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The Four Paths to Enrollment Growth ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
Trump ally asked FIFA to have Italy replace Iran at World Cup ( World ) |
What 6,000 researchers think about the future of science ( Nature ) |
An Installation in Nature has Climate Lessons for Humans ( NYT > Arts ) |
Raycast ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Is Breville’s New Joule Air Fryer Toaster Oven Worth Buying? ( Serious Eats ) |
White House and Anthropic Hold ‘Productive’ Meeting, Aiming for a Compromise ( NYT > Technology ) |
Tolaria — A second brain for the AI era ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Malaria may cause long-term brain deficits, study shows ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Lomi Composter Review: Here’s Whether It’s Worth It (or Not) ( Serious Eats ) |
new jersey “19th century” “eclecticism” ( McMansion Hell ) |
‘Two Women’ Review: An Erotic Protest Against Monogamy ( NYT > Arts ) |
The 12 Days of Christmas Cookies ( Serious Eats ) |
They Were Michael Jackson’s ‘Second Family.’ Now They Say He Abused Them. ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Wayang Kulit: Raden Soelardi’s Illustrations of Javanese Puppets (1919) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price ( Hacker News ) |
The Old, Old, Very Old Man: Thomas Parr and the Longevity Trade ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Tim Cook Will Step Down as Apple C.E.O. ( NYT > Technology ) |
At what point in American history could a person openly say they're atheist without major social backlash? ( AskHistorians ) |
“Inside the kaleidoscope: unravelling the ‘feeling different’ experience of bicultural bilinguals” ( Linguistics ) |
New Phishing Scam: Fake Invitations ( NYT > Technology ) |
Saudis Withdraw Offer of Millions to Metropolitan Opera ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Europeans Ask: What Would It Mean to Defend One Another Without NATO? ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
We Reviewed 3 Cast Iron Bread Ovens and Recommend All of Them ( Serious Eats ) |
Back of the House: Meet Our 2022 Contributors ( Serious Eats ) |
These Salmon Got High on Cocaine. That Wasn’t the Craziest Part. ( NYT > Science ) |
OpenAI Unveils Its New, More Powerful GPT-5.5 Model ( NYT > Technology ) |
How to impress the Nature Awards judges ( Nature ) |
The Best Kitchen Shoes, According to the Serious Eats Team ( Serious Eats ) |
Prism Shores — Softest Attack (Meritorio/Having Fun) ( dusted ) |
Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Olafur Eliasson Uses Art and Sound to Raise Climate Awareness in Utah ( NYT > Arts ) |
Luke Howard’s Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Deadly deepfakes: A survival guide for the age of algorithmic war ( Rest of World - ) |
Tell me your favorite memory of old school Durham. ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
You’re about to feel the AI money squeeze | The Verge ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Academics demand apology for scientist investigated for China ties but never charged ( Nature ) |
The misunderstood sex chromosome: how X affects your health ( Nature ) |
Animal Costumes from the 1862 Fairytale Ball of the Jung-München Artist’s Association ( The Public Domain Review ) |
A map of Africa's rivers (I don't know how accurate this is), but it's still cool:) ( Geography ) |
How Shikeith Brings Pittsburgh’s Black History to the Surface ( NYT > Arts ) |
Caspase 5c amplifies Wnt via APC cleavage to promote intestinal homeostasis ( Nature ) |
Claude 2028 -- Yes Claude is running for president ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Hybrid calculation of hadronic vacuum polarization in muon g − 2 to 0.48% ( Nature ) |
Lenny Kaye of the Patti Smith Group Readies Debut Solo Album ( Pitchfork ) |
Gandhi Writes Letters to Hitler: “We Have Found in Non-Violence a Force Which Can Match the Most Violent Forces in the World” (1939/40) ( Open Culture ) |
All of the Gear You Need to Make Your Own Gingerbread House ( Serious Eats ) |
Watch La Linea, the Popular 1970s Italian Animations Drawn with a Single Line ( Open Culture ) |
Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Pace of N.I.H. Funding Slows Further in Trump’s Second Year ( NYT > Science ) |
The Help That Many Older Americans Need Most ( NYT > Science ) |
Dark Skies and Dark Energy Converge in West Texas ( NYT > Science ) |
What was the deal with Americans worrying about cannibals in the early to mid 20th century? ( AskHistorians ) |
Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Styling Tables the Modern CSS Way - Piccalilli ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Parasite Personality Quiz ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
The Spinn Coffee Maker Is One of the Only Automated Brewers We Like ( Serious Eats ) |
From bats at dusk to asteroid quests: Books in brief ( Nature ) |
Warburg’s Werewolf: An Anamnesis ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Young Adult Destinations/Bag Check Hikes/Hotel Labor Shortage ( Cool Tools ) |
Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs Anthropic ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Imagining an Idle Countess: George Wightwick’s The Palace of Architecture ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The Vanishing Twin: Tricky’s Nearly God turns 30 ( The Quietus ) |
These Literary Thrillers Explore Hollywood’s Dark Side ( NYT > Arts ) |
Autobiography of a “Jeep” (1943) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The Best Methods for Making Whipped Cream, Explained ( Serious Eats ) |
Trojan Pig: Tiny Cryptic #11 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Abigail Snail – Rad Berms ( The Quietus ) |
AI as a Fascist Artifact ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The Disappearance of the Public Bench ( MetaFilter ) |
What’s in a Name? For These Snails, Legal Protection ( NYT > Science ) |
An Unsettling Anti-Slavery Memorial ( The Atlantic ) |
Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss’ Retrofuturism ( The Public Domain Review ) |
10 Hacks Every Apple CarPlay User Should Know | Lifehacker ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Essential Releases, April 10, 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
For Researchers, Trump's Easing Restrictions on Marijuana Signals a Budding Shift ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
Brian Eno, Massive Attack and More Call for Eurovision Boycott ( The Quietus ) |
Beyond the pronoun: On neopronouns, nounself pronouns, and the ever-changing politics of language acceptability ( Linguistics ) |
How did the feudal customs and rights work in the medieval Europe when a minor title subordinate to one kingdom was inherited by a vassal of another kingdom? ( AskHistorians ) |
How The Heck Does Shazam Work? (An Interactive Exploration) ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The Most Popular Serious Eats Recipes of 2022 ( Serious Eats ) |
How a Museum Built Its Buzz: Popcorn, Puppets and Free Tickets ( NYT > Arts ) |
Dutch Panel Designs Plan to Deal With ‘Orphaned’ Nazi-Looted Art ( NYT > Arts ) |
Desmond Morris, 98, Dies; Zoologist Saw Links Between Humans and Apes ( NYT > Science ) |
The Haas Brothers’ Creative Creations Are on Tour ( NYT > Arts ) |
A Practical Guide To Design Principles — Smashing Magazine ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Rapid cooling shaped the formation of the first meteorites in the Solar System ( Nature ) |
What’s the Deal With Instant Cold Brew Makers? ( Serious Eats ) |
The Breathless Energy of Mexican Rave ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Pigeons Transmogrified: Hannah Glasse’s Art of Cookery (1751 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Aging in Place: How Technology Might Help You Grow Old at Home ( NYT > Technology ) |
Things to do this week in Durham (April 20-26) ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Is Your Site Agent-Ready? ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
17 Quick Dinner Recipes in 20 Minutes or Less ( Serious Eats ) |
Broken Ground: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Our Favorite Images of 2022 ( Serious Eats ) |
Screen time limits in public schools ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Bi-Weekly 'Anything Goes' Thread - aka Moving/Buy/Sell/Trade/Rent/Lease/Eat/Jobs ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Scissor Fits, “It Wasn’t Nothing” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Crypto Entrepreneur Justin Sun Sues Trump Family’s World Liberty Financial, Accusing It of Fraud ( NYT > Technology ) |
I have been in Durham since I was five….. ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
zindex - diagram infrastructure for agents ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
My KitchenAid Stand Mixer is Leaking Oil—What’s Going On? ( Serious Eats ) |
Why AI alone cannot fix social problems ( Rest of World - ) |
The next evolution of The Verge’s homepage is here | The Verge ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
For Patreon, I wrote about developer slop flooring, the history of walking on plastic, and what fake… ( McMansion Hell ) |
Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT ( NYT > Technology ) |
A Wish List for John Ternus, the Man Replacing Tim Cook as Apple’s CEO ( NYT > Technology ) |
19 Sides to Go With Wings ( Serious Eats ) |
Experts find holes in Donut battery boasts ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Meta and Amazon reach a multi-billion, multiyear deal for Meta to rent hundreds of thousands of Amazon's Graviton chips for its AI efforts (Matt Day/Bloomberg) ( Techmeme ) |
We Tested 13 Wine Decanters and Came Away with 2 Favorites ( Serious Eats ) |
New T-Shirts (Now in 100% Organic Cotton) and New Mugs in Our Shop! ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Did kraken-like octopuses rule Cretaceous seas? Massive jaw fossils offer clues ( Nature ) |
Alibaba says its Qwen AI models will be integrated into BYD, Volkswagen, and other cars, letting users buy food and tickets via voice commands on select models (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC) ( Techmeme ) |
The operating cost of adult and gambling startups ( Hacker News ) |
“I Am Making the World My Confessor”: Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte ( The Public Domain Review ) |
On the Brink of Global Recession ( The Atlantic ) |
BanRay.eu – a sticker prohibiting AI wearables ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
This random portion of land behind a fire station in Central Texas is one of the only preserved pieces of the post oak savanna ecoregion I’ve ever seen ( Geography ) |
MAHA Swing Voters Are an Illusion ( The Atlantic ) |
18 Date-Night Recipes for a Cozy Meal at Home ( Serious Eats ) |
Croquembouche ( Serious Eats ) |
Organic Intelligence LV: Dies Irae in Popular Culture ( The Quietus ) |
A Mural by the Painter of ‘American Gothic’ Gets New Life ( NYT > Arts ) |
The heart puts pressure on cancer growth ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Daring Fireball: Another Day Has Come ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s Epic Fight Heads to Court ( NYT > Technology ) |
How To Make a Fast Dynamic Language Interpreter ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
How to secure philanthropic funding in a competitive climate ( Nature ) |
New Gene Therapy Enables Children With a Rare Form of Deafness to Hear ( NYT > Science ) |
Was the fact that Theodore Roosevelt's mother grew up on a southern plantation surrounded by slaves, and that Roosevelt's two uncles fought for the confederacy, ever used against him by political opponents? Conversely, did it help him in the south? ( AskHistorians ) |
Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign ( Hacker News ) |
A New Worry for Republicans: Latino Catholics Offended by Trump ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Seriously, Tucker Carlson? Come On. ( The Atlantic ) |
Anthropic’s New Mythos A.I. Model Sets Off Global Alarms ( NYT > Technology ) |
Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century ( The Public Domain Review ) |
A silver rush in organic chemistry ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Keeping the ‘fairy tale’ of the Marine Biological Laboratory alive ( Nature ) |
The Nerve Center of This Art Fair Isn’t Painting. It’s Couture. ( NYT > Arts ) |
How Nic Dalton’s Half A Cow Became an Australian Indie Mainstay ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
‘Bernstein’s Wall’ Documentary Focuses on Leonard Bernstein ( NYT > Arts ) |
Yankee Bastard — Seongun (Sex Fiend Abomination) ( dusted ) |
Q&A weekly thread - March 09, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
Leo Tolstoy Calls Shakespeare an ‘Insignificant, Inartistic Writer.’ Then George Orwell Fires Back ( Open Culture ) |
Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer: [ESSAYS] MacBook Neo and How the iPad Should Be ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Netflix’s AI deal puts the global VFX workforce at risk ( Rest of World - ) |
The Restaurant World Can Be Heated. ‘Top Chef’ Is Lowering the Temperature. ( NYT > Arts ) |
Irreversible Entanglements — Future Present Past (Impulse!) ( dusted ) |
The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, March 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Paint pens / Budget espresso / AI bird feeder ( Cool Tools ) |
In its push to become Big Tech’s data center hub, India is overlooking local resistance ( Rest of World - ) |
Neo Geodesia, “Oknha Stamina” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Bangladesh’s gig workers are stuck in gas lines as Iran-U.S. war strains fuel supply ( Rest of World - ) |
“The Form of a Demon and the Heart of a Person”: Kitagawa Utamaro’s Prints of Yamauba and Kintarō (ca. 1800) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Zig-a-zig-ah: Tiny Cryptic #6 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
We Tested 13 Carbon Steel Pans—Three Stood Out ( Serious Eats ) |
Pica, a MacOS font management app ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Yellow glass shows insect wings at their best ( Nature ) |
Boards Of Canada Detail New Album, ‘Inferno’ ( The Quietus ) |
Various Artists — Indian Talking Machine Part Two: Instrumental Gems From the 78rpm Era (Sublime Frequencies) ( dusted ) |
Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition ( Hacker News ) |
‘Staggering’ number of people believe unproven claims about vaccines, raw milk and more ( Nature ) |
Field re-entrant superconductivity in Eu-doped infinite-layer nickelates ( Nature ) |
Hezbollah defiant in face of Israel-Lebanon ceasefire extension ( World ) |
Amazon Plans to Invest Up to $25 Billion in Anthropic ( NYT > Technology ) |
Crabtree vs Southpoint Mall ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Should You Be Storing Coffee in a Coffee Canister? ( Serious Eats ) |
As part of the Cohere-Aleph Alpha deal, Aleph Alpha backer Schwarz Group plans to invest $600M in Cohere's Series E, which a source says is set to close in 2026 (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC) ( Techmeme ) |
Why We Think Baratza Grinders Are worth the Money (Including Two That Are on Sale) ( Serious Eats ) |
3.4M Solar Panels ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Daily briefing: Big G is more mysterious than ever ( Nature ) |
*Pro-level* travel tips ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
‘Apex’ Review: Taron Egerton on the Hunt for Charlize Theron ( NYT > Arts ) |
The Flip-Phone Cleanse ( The Atlantic ) |
Amazon forest loss: An all-sky biophysical top-of-atmosphere cooling feedback ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Is Kentucky’s Governor Trying to Push Out a Flagship President? ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
Hear Classical Music Composed by Friedrich Nietzsche ( Open Culture ) |
View ( Geography ) |
Roger Doyle, Ireland’s Electronic Trailblazer ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Is It Worth Buying a Refurbished Vitamix or KitchenAid? ( Serious Eats ) |
what would climate,biome,plant coverage of these underwater islands could look like if they were above sea level ( Geography ) |
55 Smallest Counties in the US (by population) ( Geography ) |
Anne Hathaway, Queen of Effort, Is Finally Ready to Vibe ( NYT > Arts ) |
Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Molecular and cellular processes disrupted in the early postnatal Down syndrome prefrontal cortex ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Bitches Blues ( Pitchfork ) |
Malarial Dream ( Pitchfork ) |
Indian med student rakes in thousands with AI-generated MAGA hottie - Ars Technica ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
If America's So Rich, How'd It Get So Sad? ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Why Pedagogy 'Experts' Are Wrong ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
‘Beaches’ Review: A Classic Weepie Dries Its Tears ( NYT > Arts ) |
Tanya Donelly and Chris Brokaw – The Undone Is Done Again ( The Quietus ) |
Food Processor vs. Blender: What's the Difference? ( Serious Eats ) |
“Quaint Dessert Dishes” in American Homes and Gardens (1911) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Why A Small Fine Mesh Strainer Is Incredibly Versatile ( Serious Eats ) |
Linguistic Anthropology: One special issue & one "cluster" on LLMs ( Linguistics ) |
Tricky’s First Album in Six Years Is on the Way ( Pitchfork ) |
Meta announces a deal to use "tens of millions" of Amazon's Graviton chips to help deliver its next generation of AI models, amid a shortage of Nvidia chips (Ina Fried/Axios) ( Techmeme ) |
Composition Shouldn't be this Hard ( Hacker News ) |
Groundbreaking Food Gardens / World of Warcraft Chronicle ( Cool Tools ) |
“A Beautiful Purplish Hue”: Frank Dudley Beane’s Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases ( Hacker News ) |
Internal emails show how Amazon raises prices across the Internet, lawsuit says • Ars Technica ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Somewhere between Cinderella and Princess and the Pea ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
mctuscan heaven ( McMansion Hell ) |
Kraftwerk Lose Long-Running Copyright Dispute ( The Quietus ) |
madhadron - The seven programming ur-languages ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
‘Over Your Dead Body’ Review: Unholy Matrimony ( NYT > Arts ) |
How to Make Kombucha ( Serious Eats ) |
Meta to Lay Off 10 Percent of Work Force in A.I. Push ( NYT > Technology ) |
Life Isn’t Easy in the OnlyFans Economy ( The Atlantic ) |
Chinese entrepreneurs should go global before they go viral ( Rest of World - ) |
Waiting for them ( Nature ) |
We Tested 8 Mandolines to Find Ones That Could Slice with Ease ( Serious Eats ) |
Are there any good English-language books about the indigenous history of the Cerrado and Pantanal in Brazil? ( AskHistorians ) |
Two chips for the agentic era ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
When Professors Mistake Themselves for Revolutionaries ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
War and Sanctions Accelerate China’s Currency Push ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Laws of Software Engineering ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs ( Hacker News ) |
Endangered languages conference (Boston area) ( Linguistics ) |
Hello everyone! The word is out – I am writing a book! ( McMansion Hell ) |
No, This Michigan Regent Wasn't Defeated by Antisemitism ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
The Cape of Good Hope is not the most southern tip of Africa ( Geography ) |
They Were Michael Jackson’s ‘Second Family.’ Now They Say He Abused Them. ( NYT > Arts ) |
13 Make-Ahead Desserts for the Holidays ( Serious Eats ) |
We are Amazon workers fighting for a union in NC. Our co-worker just died. ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
In Other Journals ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Tint Shop in Durham ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
The Good List: 6 Things to Add Delight to Your Day ( NYT > Arts ) |
RedNote chases U.S. expansion after its “TikTok refugee” moment fades ( Rest of World - ) |
We Reviewed The Vitamix Immersion Blender (And It Was Almost Silly Powerful) ( Serious Eats ) |
The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
nytimes.com ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
"To have a history is to be real" ( MetaFilter ) |
A historical grammar of Phrygian (Sorgo 2026) ( Linguistics ) |
The Big Question the Fed-Chair Hearing Leaves Open ( The Atlantic ) |
agents-with-taste ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
"AI for the Good of All"? ( Linguistics ) |
Tell me of pic and photo-blog sites - more personal, less like flickr ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
Early dynamics of the genome in Down syndrome ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Rocketship, “A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness (30th Anniversary Edition)” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
EY survey of 18,000 people across 23 countries: ~49% of consumers have used AI over the past six months to support their savings and investment decisions (Emma Dunkley/Financial Times) ( Techmeme ) |
Judge Halts Trump Actions That Have Slowed Renewable Energy ( NYT > Science ) |
Symmetry classification of magnetic orders using oriented spin space groups ( Nature ) |
Nathalie Baye, Versatile and Admired French Actress, Dies at 77 ( NYT > Arts ) |
Joy Harmon, Car-Washing Temptress in ‘Cool Hand Luke,’ Dies at 87 ( NYT > Arts ) |
Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Naná Rizinni – Epiblast ( The Quietus ) |
Malloreddus Alla Campidanese (Sardinian Ridged Pasta With Saffron and Pork Ragù) ( Serious Eats ) |
A cell-nonautonomous heme acquisition pathway enables erythroid hemoglobinization under stress ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
H2O2 repurposes plant O2 sensing to regulate post-hypoxia responses ( Nature ) |
Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season - 2025 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Increased police presence downtown? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
The zero-days are numbered ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Smerz Reveal New Easy EP and Song “Spring Summer” ( Pitchfork ) |
Happy Public Domain Day 2026! ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Review: At the Met, a Polished and Polite ‘Onegin’ Returns ( NYT > Arts ) |
Little ants groom big ones in a desert spa ( Nature ) |
Charles Butler’s The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Does Clothing Recycling Really Work? ( NYT > Science ) |
Kimi K2.6 Tech Blog: Advancing Open-Source Coding ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic | flyingpenguin ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Clouds moderate Amazon deforestation’s climate effect ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Truck-size octopuses stalked Cretaceous seas ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Controversies and Production Issues Around ‘Michael,’ the Jackson Biopic, Explained ( NYT > Arts ) |
Apple C.E.O.s Through the Years: From Michael Scott (Not That One) to John Ternus ( NYT > Technology ) |
Ruth Slenczynska, 101, Dies; Piano Prodigy Overcame Father’s Abuse ( NYT > Arts ) |
Above ground pool recs? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Enshitification of Wasp Automotive? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Chiral S(VI) platform unifies selective C–H amination of complex molecules and alkane feedstocks ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
I am a German citizen who lives in Berlin in 1943. I realize the war is lost and want to flee the country with my family and wealth. Is that possible? What if I waited until '44 or '45? ( AskHistorians ) |
Musk’s SpaceX Goals Shift Ahead of Its I.P.O. ( NYT > Science ) |
Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Prism Shores, “Softest Attack” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Looking for a lawyer to help with a FOIA request ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Our Winning Milk Frother Is Finally Back in Stock—And It's On Sale ( Serious Eats ) |
Feather Tickler: Tiny Cryptic #8 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The Cheese Map — Charting the Combinatorial Space of Cheesemaking ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Sewage Spill Is Over, But Contamination Lingers In Potomac ( NYT > Science ) |
Nigerian Beef Stew ( Serious Eats ) |
Review: ‘The Rocky Horror Show’ Revival Gives Us What We Want ( NYT > Arts ) |
Norway plans to ban children from using social media until they turn 16; the government says it will introduce a bill in parliament by the end of 2026 (Terje Solsvik/Reuters) ( Techmeme ) |
Bonobos enjoy pretend tea parties and chimps think rationally: why apes are more like us than we ever thought | Endangered species | The Guardian ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Sources: Cursor hit $2.7B in annualized sales in March, up ~14x from a year ago, and reported a ~$900M loss in its last fiscal year on $770M in total revenue (The Information) ( Techmeme ) |
In the Shadow of the Tower: A Skyline Murder Mystery ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Arizona is the state which has both the metropolitan area with the most days over 100 °F (38 °C) (Phoenix), and the metropolitan area in the lower 48 states with the most days with a low temperature below freezing (Flagstaff). ( Geography ) |
What is your favorite ancient middle eastern civilization and why? ( Geography ) |
Vilma Jää’s Voice Is Unlike Anything in Opera ( NYT > Arts ) |
Bonus Post: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a treatise ( McMansion Hell ) |
Cheese Foam Tea ( Serious Eats ) |
how a roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down vercel's entire platform ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Massive Attack Collaborate with Tom Waits on New Song, ‘Boots On The Ground’ ( The Quietus ) |
Krysten Ritter Returns as Jessica Jones in “Daredevil: Born Again” ( NYT > Arts ) |
“The Most Intelligent Photo Ever Taken”: The 1927 Solvay Council Conference, Featuring Einstein, Bohr, Curie, Heisenberg, Schrödinger & More ( Open Culture ) |
Ranked: Education Spending Per Student by Country - Visual Capitalist ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Balmuda: Our Review of the Pretty, Steam-Powered Toaster ( Serious Eats ) |
Hegseth to the Troops: We Are Bringing Back the Flu! ( The Atlantic ) |
Dark discoveries ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Extrapolated Futures Archive ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Electronic origin of reorganization energy in interfacial electron transfer ( Nature ) |
Trump’s Approval Drops to New Low, and Condom Prices Rise Because of the War ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Stay away from 15-501 ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Life and Death in Kevin Morby's Midwest ( Pitchfork ) |
A Humanoid Robot Races to a Record Half-Marathon Finish ( NYT > Science ) |
Sam Altman’s Next High-Wire Act: Getting OpenAI to Make More Money ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
We Tested 11 Different Bundt Pans—Three Won Top Marks ( Serious Eats ) |
What’s in my NOW? — Augie Nielsen ( Cool Tools ) |
Puntarelle Alla Romana (Puntarelle Salad With Anchovy and Garlic Dressing) ( Serious Eats ) |
I’m a noble in pre-Revolutionary France, what is my economic and moral justification for why the nobility should pay extremely low taxes and the poor should pay for everything else? ( AskHistorians ) |
AI is about to make the global e-waste crisis much worse ( Rest of World - ) |
14 Last-Minute, Food-Related Valentine’s Day Gifts ( Serious Eats ) |
Musk’s SpaceX Goals Shift Ahead of Its I.P.O. ( NYT > Technology ) |
Gilded Fish: Illustrations from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Shack Sauce ( Serious Eats ) |
Peter Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.0 | OpenAI ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Guest Playlist: Mark Jenkin ( The Quietus ) |
Quiet Light – Blue Angel Sparkling Silver Angel 2 ( The Quietus ) |
Underground Medicine #3: Rewiring the History of ‘90s American Noise Rock ( Bandcamp Updates ) |