Quavo Announces Pharrell Williams-Produced Album ( Pitchfork ) |
A Hacking Tool Built With A.I. Can Breach Phones Without a Click ( NYT > Technology ) |
Why is Apple’s New Foldable iPhone Duo $1,999? ( NYT > Technology ) |
13 Make-Ahead Desserts for the Holidays ( Serious Eats ) |
“Wretches, Speak Evil of Me”: Goethe and Schiller’s Xenions (1896 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Blind Yeo, “The Lemoine Point” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
What Was Clean Feed? ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Blawan Reveals New Two-Track EP for XL Recordings ( The Quietus ) |
“skin” ( Pitchfork ) |
The Coffee House World: Joni Mitchell at the BBC ( The Quietus ) |
Amazon Prime Video Uses A.I. for Lip-Synced Translations ( NYT > Arts ) |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
We Tested 14 Popular Vegetable Peelers to Find the Best Ones ( Serious Eats ) |
Cyst, “ᲘᲘ” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Briefing Chat: The Bunsen burner myth that turns out to be just hot air ( Nature ) |
Brent Hinds Estate Sues Mastodon ( Pitchfork ) |
Compiler Can Undo Your Security Checks ( Hacker News ) |
Q&A weekly thread - August 03, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
We've followed their lives for six decades; now the stars of 7 Up are bowing out ( Hacker News ) |
Save the bogs, for peat’s sake ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
The Spectacle of 1980s Hollywood ( The Atlantic ) |
Sources: Jeff Dean is raising funds again for Discovery Loop, seeking a valuation of ~$50B; Discovery Loop was raising $1B at a ~$10B valuation a few weeks ago (Ben Bergman/Business Insider) ( Techmeme ) |
Blown Minds: Matt Cargill’s Favourite Albums ( The Quietus ) |
Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Apple Expected to Unveil a Folding iPhone at Annual Launch Event ( NYT > Technology ) |
The Ezra Klein Show: The A.I. Revolt Is Here ( NYT > Technology ) |
IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video] ( Hacker News ) |
Diagrams from Willem ten Rhijne’s De Acupunctura (1683) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
People trust scientists seen to be 'on their side', UK study find ( Nature ) |
More Eaze Interview & Subscriber LP Giveaway ( The Quietus ) |
Western Michigan U.’s President on How a Devastating Loss in Football Became ‘a Remarkable Opportunity’ ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
Fake 'Nduja ( Serious Eats ) |
A Researcher Adds What's Been Missing From the UC Testing Debate: Nuance ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
Pickup basketball indoor gym at night. 10$ ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
No Pizza On Luna ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Vanishing Twin, “Archives” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
‘Practical Magic 2’ Review: Live a Little, Live a Lot ( NYT > Arts ) |
Breaking timescales with generative sampling of conformational transitions ( Nature ) |
The Suburbs Dream of Violence: J.G. Ballard’s Kingdom Come & England’s Slide towards Fascism ( The Quietus ) |
The Best Kitchen Shoes, According to the Serious Eats Team ( Serious Eats ) |
Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2025 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Julia Holter — Materia (Domino) ( dusted ) |
What’s in my NOW? — Dana Lee ( Cool Tools ) |
‘Alcina’ Is Coming to the Royal Opera House ( NYT > Arts ) |
Kitchen Gear and Tools We Think You Should Have Two (Or More) Of ( Serious Eats ) |
Did I miss the PawPaws? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
America Has Forfeited Its Greatest Strength ( The Atlantic ) |
Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its History ( The Public Domain Review ) |
What's the funniest thing I can say right before being sedated? ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
The World Bank is right to prioritize reproducibility ( Nature ) |
The 1930 poetry book that Anthropic tried to censor ( Cool Tools ) |
on neuschwanstein castle (part 1) ( McMansion Hell ) |
The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, August 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Five Horror Movies to Stream Now ( NYT > Arts ) |
Scottish Magazine The Skinny Ceases Publication After 21 Years ( The Quietus ) |
How a Marriage of Equals Turned Into a ‘Hostile Takeover’ ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
Alison Cotton — The Gods Laugh (Glitterbeat) ( dusted ) |
Hadopelagyal — Zalmathic Necroichorion (Amor Fati) ( dusted ) |
Friendly reminder for folks running/walking through NCCU's campus 🌿 ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Sources: Anthropic is in talks to bring on Nvidia as an anchor investor in its IPO, seeking up to $100B at a ~$2T valuation; Nvidia may invest up to $10B (Reuters) ( Techmeme ) |
Postscript to American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center ( The Atlantic ) |
China’s ultimate orchestration—integrating the science ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
The Most Popular Serious Eats Recipes of 2022 ( Serious Eats ) |
Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art ( The Public Domain Review ) |
New Products ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Q&A weekly thread - September 07, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
“A Beautiful Purplish Hue”: Frank Dudley Beane’s Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Virtual Taekwondo Takes the Contact Out of a Combat Sport ( NYT > Technology ) |
Reconstructing Concurrency Invariants Through Medieval East Asian Logic ( Hacker News ) |
The neurons that can put a brake on a nervous-system cancer ( Nature ) |
Flowers of Fealty: Wilhelm Dilich’s Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Calicornication: Postcards of Giant Produce (1909) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Q&A with AI researchers John Schulman, Beren Millidge, and Charlie O'Neill on steelmanning the case against RSI, Chinese labs' progress, long-horizon RL, more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast) ( Techmeme ) |
Choking Global Trade ( NYT > Science ) |
The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
“Sometimes you just need a bit of time to think” – The Yummy Fur Interviewed ( The Quietus ) |
‘Don’t Play With Fire’ Review: An Incendiary 1980s Hong Kong ( NYT > Arts ) |
Film and TV Portrayals of A.I. Go Beyond Science Fiction ( NYT > Arts ) |
Anthropic C.E.O. Dario Amodei Calls for A.I. Slowdown ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
The Perfect Books for Classic Rom-Com Fans ( NYT > Arts ) |
‘Drawn Together’ Review: Forbidden Love ( NYT > Arts ) |
Do you recognise this (sci-fi) prison break short story/anecdote? ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
Scientists Who Study Sleep and Narcolepsy Win Prestigious Lasker Award ( NYT > Science ) |
Animal, Vegetable, Lamb: The Zoophyte from Tartary ( The Public Domain Review ) |
“Evil Mickey Mouse” Invades Japan in a 1934 Japanese Anime Propaganda Film ( Open Culture ) |
Platinum chemotherapy ages the liver ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Palestinian Food 101: Recipes to Get You Started ( Serious Eats ) |
The AI talent war is coming for Big Tech’s Asia executives ( Rest of World - ) |
Da giving another break? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Decondensing cancer immunotherapy ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Integrated signatures define mutational processes in prostate cancer ( Nature ) |
Oddball fossils suggest that the first insects were a mixed bunch ( Nature ) |
Taiwan’s six-year hunt for China’s undercover chip labs ( Rest of World - ) |
Photos of the Week: Night Harvest, Heavy Surf, Pumpkin Kong ( The Atlantic ) |
Nvidia is the central bank of AI ( Hacker News ) |
2007-core nostalgia extravaganza ( McMansion Hell ) |
The Einstein test: what happens when AI tries to rediscover relativity? ( Nature ) |
Mansaf (Palestinian Spiced Lamb With Rice and Yogurt Sauce) ( Serious Eats ) |
A Panorama of Design ( NYT > Arts ) |
09tmag-ackermann-slide-YGG2 ( NYT > Arts ) |
Republicans, Facing Midterm Peril, Try to Brand Democrats as Communists ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
for patreon i wrote about getting stranded in tomorrowland as an 8th grader, michael sorkin’s… ( McMansion Hell ) |
How the Japanese Practice of “Forest Bathing”—Or Just Hanging Out in the Woods—Can Lower Stress Levels and Fight Disease ( Open Culture ) |
Author Correction: The molecular basis of force selectivity by PIEZO2 ( Nature ) |
The Breville Pizzaiolo Oven Makes Great Neapolitan Pizza—And It’s 20% Off This Week ( Serious Eats ) |
Route 66 Turns 100 This Year: Take a Tour of America’s Most Famous Highway ( Open Culture ) |
Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting ( The Public Domain Review ) |
A Response to “Sometimes It’s O.K. to Let a Language Die” ( Linguistics ) |
‘Call My Agent! The Movie’ Review: A Billet-Doux to Cinema ( NYT > Arts ) |
Letting go of certainty ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
A Collection of Old English Customs, and Curious Bequests and Charities (1842) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Luthier ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Various Artists, “Can’t Stop It! II: Australian Post Punk 1979–84” (2026 Deluxe Edition) ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
What we tell AI / Paint sticks / The perfect catch-up ( Cool Tools ) |
What’s the Difference Between Glass and Metal Baking Pans? ( Serious Eats ) |
Kai Cenat Conquered Streaming. Then He Learned to Sew. ( NYT > Arts ) |
The Strange World of… Music Made By and For Plants ( The Quietus ) |
‘High Value Target’: Hunting for Saddam Hussein, and the Truth ( NYT > Arts ) |
Denisovans from southwestern China and their subsistence strategies ( Nature ) |
The Iran War Is Pushing Global Coal Use to Record Highs ( NYT > Science ) |
Why an Offset Spatula Is the Tool I Can’t Bake Without ( Serious Eats ) |
Trump Says Irish Unification Would Be ‘Fantastic,’ Breaking With Precedent ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
10 Songs We’re Talking About ( NYT > Arts ) |
The Los Angeles Rams Are Trying to Defeat Time ( The Atlantic ) |
The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer (1877) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Amodei says Anthropic is "unilaterally committing" to giving third-party evaluators permanent, employee-like access to verify its adherence to safety measures (Dario Amodei/@darioamodei) ( Techmeme ) |
Mend: a one-minute game about the body healing itself ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Photos: 9/11 Memorials ( The Atlantic ) |
Bayeux Tapestry Exhibition Opens at British Museum ( NYT > Arts ) |
The AI Pandemic Isn’t On Its Way ( The Atlantic ) |
Lore Con 2026 - Anime, Gaming & Creator Convention in Durham, NC ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season - 2025 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
We Tested 20 Bread Machines—Three Proved They Were The Best ( Serious Eats ) |
Now it’s China’s experts who are gig workers training AI ( Rest of World - ) |
Jason Arday and the Corruption of Science ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
How a Blacklisted Chinese Tech Giant Kept Buying America’s Best A.I. Chips ( NYT > Technology ) |
Homestyle Bibimbap ( Serious Eats ) |
We Tested 13 Nakiri Knives—Three Sliced Through the Competition ( Serious Eats ) |
Songs from the Commons: A Q&A with Simon Close about the Public Song Project ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Magic by Return of Post: How Mail Order Delivered the Occult ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Wes Anderson Picks Nine of His Favorite Criterion Films ( Open Culture ) |
Pipe-based furniture tips ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
Elizabeth I’s Manuscript Copy of Pierre Boaistuau’s Histoires Prodigieuses (1559) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Google messages stickers on Android ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
the motel room, or: on datedness ( McMansion Hell ) |
‘The Odyssey’ Was Shot on Real Film. This Is the Only Place Left Making It. ( NYT > Arts ) |
AI Writing Has Entered Its Post-Shame Era ( The Atlantic ) |
At the New York Studio School, a Renovation Provides a History Lesson ( NYT > Arts ) |
10 Cake Flour Recipes to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth ( Serious Eats ) |
Ruins of ancient Asian city show engineering prowess and organization ( Nature ) |
A Moody Wolverine Lets His Claws Do the Talking ( NYT > Arts ) |
The Good List: 6 Things to Bring Joy to Your Day ( NYT > Arts ) |
Neocortical long-range inhibition promotes cortical synchrony and sleep ( Nature ) |
I'm being hustled by clankers ( MetaFilter ) |
Who were the Denisovans? Rich trove of fossils and tools paints new picture ( Nature ) |
D4vd Is Sued by Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s Family After Murder Charge ( NYT > Arts ) |
A Thousand and One Nights in Italy: The Moorish Fantasias of Cesare Mattei and Ferdinando Panciatichi ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Religious Release Policy, Attendance Woes, and Pay Debates ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Meet Lloyd Kahn, the Counterculture Publisher Who Is Skateboarding at 91 ( Open Culture ) |
Electric charge makes drops of water more destructive ( Nature ) |
Mechanism of membrane perforation in rotavirus cell entry ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
‘Black Zombie’ Review: Reclaiming Horror’s Haitian Roots ( NYT > Arts ) |
George Clooney Joins ‘Call My Agent!’ Movie Coming to Netflix ( NYT > Arts ) |
A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
I've operated petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters for 5 years ( Hacker News ) |
Bradford Cox Books First Show in Seven Years ( Pitchfork ) |
Scientists Discover the Earliest Evidence of Drug Use in Really Old Teeth ( NYT > Science ) |
In Science Journals ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Forgotten Woodlands ( Hacker News ) |
Why the super-fun Ig Nobel prizes bring serious value to science ( Nature ) |
Dario Amodei proposes steps for pacing the frontier: embedded evaluators, coordination among democracies, and global coordination with authoritarian governments (Dario Amodei) ( Techmeme ) |
Is there a reason why these two large lakes in Africa have such similar shapes? ( Geography ) |
Distant sensors announced a fearsome tsunami’s birth ( Nature ) |
Vedic evidence for the verbal-governing dā́ti-vāra- ‘type’ ( Linguistics ) |
Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Nespresso vs. Keurig: Which Coffee Maker is Better? ( Serious Eats ) |
Mahjong apps for learning to play ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
Drug delivery gets subcellular ( Nature ) |
Roger Blench (2023) - Rongic: A vanished branch of Austroasiatic ( Linguistics ) |
The Ivy League's Surrender to AI Is Insane ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
Russia grows 1,000,000 tonnes of rice a year. Which other countries grow crops unexpectedly? ( Geography ) |
Animal Costumes from the 1862 Fairytale Ball of the Jung-München Artist’s Association ( The Public Domain Review ) |
A Quarter Century of Pain ( The Atlantic ) |
How Do Air Fryers Work? ( Serious Eats ) |
r/geography Census Results (Section 1) ( Geography ) |
Catching a glimpse of complex relaxation ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
UK Music Industry Organisations Call on Government to Tackle EU Export Fees ( The Quietus ) |
Can You Stop Beans From Making You Fart? We Put 17 Methods to the Test ( Serious Eats ) |
Satanic Community in Durham? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Q&A weekly thread - August 10, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
Mario-a-Lago Kart, Anyone? ( The Atlantic ) |
Great Lakes sturgeon may be 400 years old:Scientists rethinking how to save them ( Hacker News ) |
Victoria Monét Announces the Frequency of Love Tour ( Pitchfork ) |
Unbend my door ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
AI researchers reckon with the $1.5 million ‘academia tax’ ( Nature ) |
Saving the Pint: How a CO2 Shortage is Changing Beer Brewing ( Serious Eats ) |
Racing to Contain Invasive Green Crabs in Puget Sound ( NYT > Science ) |
Madeleines ( Serious Eats ) |
Bush Understood Something Trump Doesn’t ( The Atlantic ) |
KILOBAUUD and the Pulsing New Orleans House Scene ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
The parent bodies of Ryugu and Ivuna formed before those of other carbonaceous chondrites ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Project Zomboid - PC ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Scientists Discover the Earliest Evidence of Drug Use in 25,000-Year-Old Teeth ( Open Culture ) |
The Best New Year's Kitchen Sales ( Serious Eats ) |
Our Favorite Features of 2022 ( Serious Eats ) |
Harry Styles Reveals 2027 Tour Dates ( Pitchfork ) |
Everyone Has Something to Say About Jeff Koons ( NYT > Arts ) |
Our Winning Milk Frother Is Finally Back in Stock—And It's On Sale ( Serious Eats ) |
Under Construction: Tiny Cryptic #10 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Does anyone have any recommendations for a trusted service that can do quick puppy checks every 4 hours or so during the day? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Why A Small Fine Mesh Strainer Is Incredibly Versatile ( Serious Eats ) |
August Ties for Hottest Month on Record ( NYT > Science ) |
Artefacts from across the globe returned to southern Western Australia ( MetaFilter ) |
Efo Riro (Nigerian Stewed Greens) ( Serious Eats ) |
Uniform film formation helps tandem solar cells work better for longer ( Nature ) |
The Best New Electronic Music on Bandcamp, August 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
AI model predicts which breast-cancer drugs work best ( Nature ) |
A Student Journalist Sent a Critical Email to an Administrator. She Reported Him to the Police. ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
An Artist Inspired by Men Behaving Badly ( NYT > Arts ) |
We Tested 10 Tofu Presses—Three Squeezed Out the Competition ( Serious Eats ) |
Daily briefing: Text-message tutoring keeps kids learning when schools close ( Nature ) |
Travel Water Purifiers/More Direct Flights/Danube Warships ( Cool Tools ) |
Goodgorithm: a social feed algorithm built to counter negativity bias, not maximize your attention ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Brazil’s New Metal Vanguard ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
PLA2G2D in tumour-draining lymph nodes regulates anti-tumour immunity ( Nature ) |
Could A.I. Really Kill All Humans? ( NYT > Technology ) |
How to Make Kombucha ( Serious Eats ) |
Why We Think Baratza Grinders Are worth the Money (Including Two That Are on Sale) ( Serious Eats ) |
Trump’s Weird Loyalty Pledge ( The Atlantic ) |
Hello Equal Earth: what the UN’s new world map will change ( Nature ) |
Lean adipocyte oxylipin signaling restrains breast cancer through ferroptosis ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
We Tested 12 Garlic Presses—Two Smashed the Competition ( Serious Eats ) |
States File 2 Lawsuits Over Trump’s Cuts to Endangered Species Act ( NYT > Science ) |
Bertrand Russell Explains Why Karl Marx’s Philosophy Produced the Disaster of Communism ( Open Culture ) |
Why It’s Difficult for Tech Companies to Rein In A.I. ( NYT > Technology ) |
A treasure hunt hidden in my blog ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Shygirl Reveals New Album Swallow!, Shares Song ( Pitchfork ) |
Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
doseone, Wino Willy & Zetroc, “sighting” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Metamorphosis: Transformations in the Early Modern Flap Book (early 19th century) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Phone-call tutorials improve learning cost-effectively during education emergencies ( Nature ) |
Nine ( Pitchfork ) |
TM184C is a GPCR-like regulator of intercellular exchange and autophagy ( Nature ) |
A New Drug Lifts the Fog of Sleepiness for Those With Narcolepsy ( NYT > Science ) |
Bonus Post: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a treatise ( McMansion Hell ) |
A Newer Kind of Gene Editing Promises to Edit ‘Nurture’ Over ‘Nature’ ( NYT > Science ) |
Interactive Mars Globe ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Should You Be Storing Coffee in a Coffee Canister? ( Serious Eats ) |
Psychic Hotline Missed Connection ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
12 Spicy Snacks That Bring the Heat ( Serious Eats ) |
Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Could Your Chatbot Be Stealing Ideas From You? It’s a Thorny Question. ( NYT > Science ) |
The Year Great-White Sharks Took Over Maine ( The Atlantic ) |
Assess burial grounds as conservation areas ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
For Patreon, I wrote about developer slop flooring, the history of walking on plastic, and what fake… ( McMansion Hell ) |
Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
MTV VMAs 2026 Nominees Announced: See the Full List Here ( Pitchfork ) |
The Spinn Coffee Maker Is One of the Only Automated Brewers We Like ( Serious Eats ) |
Jacob Tremblay Plays Young Ted Kaczynski in Netflix’s ‘Unabomber’ ( NYT > Arts ) |
North America latitude compared to Europe/africa ( Geography ) |
Sheet Pans Aren't Cookie Sheets: A Baking Sheet Explainer ( Serious Eats ) |
Luke Howard’s Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
How Trump Is Wielding Power to Stifle Speech ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
“The Persian Mâr-Nâmeh or, The Book for Taking Omens from Snakes” (1892) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
We Tested 13 Carbon Steel Pans—Three Stood Out ( Serious Eats ) |
DeepMind’s new genome ‘atlas’ charts effects of all nine billion human gene mutations ( Nature ) |
Jenny Lewis’ Nice as Fuck Reunite for U.S. Tour ( Pitchfork ) |
Daily briefing: OpenAI claims a huge maths breakthrough ( Nature ) |
Nepal disaster is a wake-up call to take compound climate risks seriously ( Nature ) |
The Incredible Art of Being Jeff Koons ( NYT > Arts ) |
Diagrams for Travel from the Qanoon-e-Islam (1832) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Mike D – Thank You ( The Quietus ) |
India’s data center boom is leaving the people it displaces with nothing ( Rest of World - ) |
Hopscotch: is the lineup underwhelming or am I just old ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Q&A weekly thread - June 29, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
Puntarelle Alla Romana (Puntarelle Salad With Anchovy and Garlic Dressing) ( Serious Eats ) |
Author Correction: Contrasting roles of histone 3 lysine 27 demethylases in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia ( Nature ) |
Is there a more global version of How the Earth Was Made? ( Geography ) |
Limit bets on clinical-trial outcomes being placed on prediction markets ( Nature ) |
17 Quick Dinner Recipes in 20 Minutes or Less ( Serious Eats ) |
You cannot visit most of Nova Scotia (🇨🇦) without crossing either the Waughs or Salmon rivers... And they're apparently connected so... Does this mean NS is an island? ( Geography ) |
How to Roast Butternut Squash ( Serious Eats ) |
Reissue of the Week: Another Country $$$$’s Cursed Frame (Deluxe Edition) ( The Quietus ) |
Is Breville’s New Joule Air Fryer Toaster Oven Worth Buying? ( Serious Eats ) |
The Best Hip-Hop on Bandcamp, August 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Dancing at Rockaway Beach: Now That’s Entertainment ( NYT > Arts ) |
An operational perturbation proteomics-based virtual cell model ( Nature ) |
Slime Language 3 ( Pitchfork ) |
Does anyone know a bakery that makes chocolate chess pie? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Psychedelic Medicine in the Laboratories of Democracy ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
‘The Uprising’ Review: Sackcloth and Clashes ( NYT > Arts ) |
Nate Mercereau, “Fantastic Thoughts” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Losh Kebabs (Armenian Grilled Meat Patties) ( Serious Eats ) |
My KitchenAid Stand Mixer is Leaking Oil—What’s Going On? ( Serious Eats ) |
Mercury Is Shrinking, and Faster Than We Thought ( NYT > Science ) |
‘Ted Lasso’ Season 4, Episode 6 Recap: Boat Party ( NYT > Arts ) |
The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Fencing threatens China’s protected areas ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Peter Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Sylvan Esso Pick Their Bandcamp Favorites ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Malloreddus Alla Campidanese (Sardinian Ridged Pasta With Saffron and Pork Ragù) ( Serious Eats ) |
Manipulation of protein translation and stem cell self-renewal by CRISPR activation of rRNA transcription ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Music Was Here: A Map of Music Memories ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
How the New iPhone Duo’s Glass Screen Bends Without Breaking ( NYT > Technology ) |
Osteoporosis affects millions: could modified cells rebuild their bones? ( Nature ) |
Why It’s Difficult for Tech Companies to Rein In A.I. ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
How AI is changing PhD programmes: join our free webinar ( Nature ) |
Put patients at the centre of medical AI governance ( Nature ) |
Our Favorite Images of 2022 ( Serious Eats ) |
Why does every in-flight map look like this? Every airplane ever lol ( Geography ) |
How Minnesota Became the Front Line in the Fight Over Prediction Markets ( NYT > Technology ) |
Top Mathematician Announces New Institute for A.I. Safety ( NYT > Science ) |
Native speaking Gaelic communities could be lost ‘in this generation’ ( Linguistics ) |
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Secret Career as a Japanese Art Dealer & How It Shaped His Architecture ( Open Culture ) |
Pigeons Transmogrified: Hannah Glasse’s Art of Cookery (1751 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
18 Date-Night Recipes for a Cozy Meal at Home ( Serious Eats ) |
China maps the deep scars of its geological past ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
What exactly are these gigantic circular geologic structures in Uzbekistan? ( Geography ) |
Meta Introduces Muse, an A.I. Agent That Can Send Your Emails and Book Your Travel ( NYT > Technology ) |
PDR's Halloween Reader ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Paramaribo and the Plantation: Gerrit Schouten’s Dioramas of Suriname (1810–30) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits (2021) ( Hacker News ) |
The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Texas Zombie Well Risk Map ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Is this map accurate, is this the crossroads of regions? ( Geography ) |
It’s Not Easy Being Greenland ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
AI safety is designed in the West, and failing users everywhere ( Rest of World - ) |
Within-family effect of ancestry on complex traits in a Mexican population ( Nature ) |
Reliable tiny Linux distro sought ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
Moldova Has to Choose Between Russia and Europe ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Por que a Cordilheira dos Andes é contínua por milhares de quilômetros, enquanto outras grandes cadeias montanhosas do mundo são muito mais fragmentadas? ( Geography ) |
How is it that Riau Islands in Indonesia have Tagalog-named islands. ( Geography ) |
Hopes mini guts will help researchers treat inflammatory bowel disease ( MetaFilter ) |
In Praise of Occasional Staples: James Brown on the Age of the Zine ( The Quietus ) |
A Recap of a Surreal Midterm Convention ( The Atlantic ) |
As the AI wave creates tech fortunes at breakneck speed, a look at the growing ecosystem helping founders navigate the challenges of becoming extremely wealthy (Tiffany Ap/Bloomberg) ( Techmeme ) |
Antietam—The Counting Game (Dromedary) ( dusted ) |
Strings Attached: Helen Haiman Joseph’s A Book of Marionettes (1920) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
How the hunt for human retroviruses led to the discovery of interleukin-2 and a path to immunotherapy ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice ( NYT > Science ) |
How Colin Powell Spent 9/11 ( The Atlantic ) |
We Tested 8 Countertop Ice Makers—Three Stood Out ( Serious Eats ) |
Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Discovery of an intrinsic non-Hermitian phase transition in a bulk condensed-matter system ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Miraggi ( Pitchfork ) |
Formal Sppeedwear— Punch Card (Melodic) ( dusted ) |
Trump Will Never Mail the $5,000 Checks ( The Atlantic ) |
Nigerian Beef Stew ( Serious Eats ) |
Comedy After 9/11: What Joking About Everything Costs Us ( NYT > Arts ) |
These New Puritans, Matmos and More Join Shadowlands Lineup ( The Quietus ) |
Ka'ak al Quds (Jerusalem Sesame Bread) ( Serious Eats ) |
Court Strikes Down Trump Order to Keep an Aging Coal-Burning Plant Running ( NYT > Science ) |
Male Fruit Fly Brain Trained to Play Doom ( MetaFilter ) |
Unstitching the 1,000-Year-Old Story of the Bayeux Tapestry ( NYT > Arts ) |
How Ancient Farmers Used Floral Designs to Track Goods ( NYT > Science ) |
Anthropic C.E.O. Dario Amodei Calls for A.I. Slowdown ( NYT > Technology ) |
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, August 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Amodei warns that an OpenAI/Hugging Face-like agent swarm, which "acted as a fanatically devoted collective", could take over the internet in 6-12 months (Auzinea Bacon/CNN) ( Techmeme ) |
Proximity-guided graph learning reveals tumour-associated proximity antigens ( Nature ) |
Distance in Static ( Pitchfork ) |
The Singer in My Band ( Pitchfork ) |
‘The Fix’ Review: A Head-Spinning Mission to Iran ( NYT > Arts ) |
What is Sumac? ( Serious Eats ) |
Deer processing? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
“Worthless Idiot, Donkey Head”: Parodies of Pedantry on the Renaissance Stage ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Let Us Sit in Goddamn Silence for One Hour ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Elon Musk Has Pledged to Rid His Platform, X, of Child Sexual Abuse, but It Persists ( NYT > Technology ) |
Khorovats (Armenian Shish Kebabs) ( Serious Eats ) |
Fossil River Systems of the Arabian Peninsula during the Middle Pleistocene ( Geography ) |
A Vegetarian's Christmas Eve Pig Roast ( Serious Eats ) |
The Royal Opera House Principal Guest Conductor Speranza Scappucci Stays Busy ( NYT > Arts ) |
Championship Gurning ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
We Tested 7 Squeeze Bottles to Find the Best for Your Kitchen ( Serious Eats ) |
The Blinkered Flâneur: Walking with Franz Hessel in 1920s Berlin ( The Public Domain Review ) |
SystemIO conflicts are not firmware bugs ( Hacker News ) |
We Tested the Ankarsrum Stand Mixer for Months to Find Out if It’s Worth Buying ( Serious Eats ) |
Q&A weekly thread - July 27, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
N.O.R.E. Sued for Sexual Assault ( Pitchfork ) |
Bill Orcutt & Mabe Fratti — Almost Waking (Unheard of Hope/Tin Angel) ( dusted ) |
That Sink - a short choice-based game ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
OpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math’s ‘Millennium Problems’ ( NYT > Science ) |
Moby-Dick and the Indefinite Sublime: On facing the white page ( Hacker News ) |
Tom Templar on Digging Graveyards ( The Quietus ) |
8 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week ( NYT > Arts ) |
How to Deep-Clean Your Dutch Oven (and Keep It Looking Like New) ( Serious Eats ) |
Apple Unveils the iPhone Duo, a Foldable Phone That Costs $1,999 ( NYT > Technology ) |
Sideline vested interests to reform China’s research ( Nature ) |
Inside the Discussions at AI Companies Over a Superintelligence Doomsday ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Something Rotten in the State of Sweden: Swedish Musicians on the Fight Against the Far-Right ( The Quietus ) |
Why Major Studios Are Sitting Out This Fall’s Film Festivals ( NYT > Arts ) |
Choice Notes on History from Notes and Queries (1858) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
“That’s Why We Become Witches”: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (1926) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
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 ) |
The wrong platform for science ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
People who live in a Tropical country many dream about, what is the harsh reality of it ( Geography ) |
The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, August 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
‘Hope’ Review: Who Are the Baddies? ( NYT > Arts ) |
21 Recipes to Make With Your Newly Gifted Gear ( Serious Eats ) |
Wayang Kulit: Raden Soelardi’s Illustrations of Javanese Puppets (1919) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Kristin Hersh Comes Home ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser! ( The Public Domain Review ) |
14 Last-Minute, Food-Related Valentine’s Day Gifts ( Serious Eats ) |
Mobile education builds resilience during shocks in five countries ( Nature ) |
New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, “wonderful” rooms!“ ( McMansion Hell ) |
We Tested 8 Mini Whisks And Came Away with Three Favorites ( Serious Eats ) |
Jem Finer and John Matthias on the Strange Magic of “Almost Starlight” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
New Open Access journal, Semantics of Natural Languages, by the editors of Natural Language Semantics, which will shut down this year. ( Linguistics ) |
NSF moves to overhaul funding approach in line with White House priorities ( Nature ) |
"My Writing Matters" AI-free writers' services ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Our Favorite Recipes of 2022 ( Serious Eats ) |
California’s Governor Signs Landmark Online Child Safety Bills ( NYT > Technology ) |
Fuck it, make it anyway ( Hacker News ) |
Snail Homes, Bog Bodies, and Mechanical Flies: Robert Testard’s Illustrations for Les secretz de l’histoire naturelle (ca. 1485) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
My Heart is Dust Before Him: 21st Century Gasba from Algeria – Various Artists ( The Quietus ) |
Is It Worth Buying a Refurbished Vitamix or KitchenAid? ( Serious Eats ) |
Successful early-career scientists rely on network of mentors ( Nature ) |
TRI-611, a selective, brain-penetrant molecular glue degrader of ALK ( Nature ) |
I Found My Special Purpose ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems ( Hacker News ) |
Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s Peruvian Art in the School (1926) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
We Tested 13 Wine Decanters and Came Away with 2 Favorites ( Serious Eats ) |
We Tested 7 Pasta Makers to Find the Best Ones for Rolling and Cutting Dough ( Serious Eats ) |
Can the 9/11 Museum Tell Its Story for Another 25 Years? ( NYT > Arts ) |
“Scam Manifesto” ( Pitchfork ) |
The Adventures and Experiences of the First Slovak Novel ( The Public Domain Review ) |
What is the "other Islam" practiced in Suriname? ( Geography ) |
glam metal modern but also your contractor is going to jail dawg ( McMansion Hell ) |
Evolutionary dynamics of Indo-European alignment patterns ( Linguistics ) |
A good drug is useless if it misses its target ( Nature ) |
Best Friends and a $15 Concert: An N.Y.C. Rite of Passage ( NYT > Arts ) |
Phone-based tutoring improves learning during school closures ( Nature ) |
HUG — S-T (Luaka Bop) ( dusted ) |
Nate Mercereau – Fantastic Thoughts ( The Quietus ) |
There-Existentials in African Englishes ( Linguistics ) |
China’s fast-track clinical trials are in the spotlight after child deaths ( Nature ) |
“Silent Hill” Composer Akira Yamaoka Picks His Bandcamp Favorites ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
The Phonological System of Kri Phoong in Vietnam and an Extensive Glossary (2026) ( Linguistics ) |
Loraine James Releases Album, ‘It’s Nothing Personal.’, on Bandcamp ( The Quietus ) |
Perennial—Modernism (Ernest Jenning) ( dusted ) |
How the New iPhone Duo’s Glass Screen Bends Without Breaking ( NYT > Science ) |
Meta accepts U.S. safety rules while pitching softer tools abroad ( Rest of World - ) |
Cormac McCarthy’s Midlife Crisis ( The Atlantic ) |
In the basement of miniaturized relics ( Nature ) |
Watch the Completely Unsafe, Vertigo-Inducing Footage of Workers Building New York’s Iconic Skyscrapers ( Open Culture ) |
Lomi Composter Review: Here’s Whether It’s Worth It (or Not) ( Serious Eats ) |
Q&A weekly thread - July 13, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
10 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: This Is Lorelei, Alex G, and More ( Pitchfork ) |
Croquembouche ( Serious Eats ) |
Genetic associations with the Big Five personality traits probed in one million people ( Nature ) |
We Tested 12 Flatware Sets to Find the Best Ones for Everyday Use ( Serious Eats ) |
The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene ( Linguistics ) |
Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Does Your Beer Glass Really Matter? We Consulted a Beer Expert to Find Out ( Serious Eats ) |
Bull City Beer Challenge is Back! ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Hypermobility/HSD or eds specialists ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
How Do Keurig Coffee Makers Work, Anyways? ( Serious Eats ) |
“Plaything of the Gods”: Photographs of Pushball (early 1900s) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Black Duck with Elena Setién — S-T (Thrill Jockey) ( dusted ) |
Autobiography of a “Jeep” (1943) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
NSF looks for technology fixes to ease water crisis along Colorado River ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
How to Kill a Franchise Before It Even Starts ( The Atlantic ) |
B’DAY (20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION) ( Pitchfork ) |
The Great Majority: Body Snatching and Burial Reform in 19th-Century Britain ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Mixed Berry Trifle ( Serious Eats ) |
Control Resonant’s Director Watches ‘Twin Peaks’ Every Year ( NYT > Arts ) |
Essential Releases, September 4, 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Bacteria recruited to treat cancer ( Nature ) |
About my last few months. ( McMansion Hell ) |
Usenet rewind archive search engine ( Hacker News ) |
Multi-charger Plugs/Crash With Couchers/Changing Travel Demands ( Cool Tools ) |
An agenda for implementation science in education ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Phone tutoring boosts math scores when schools are forced to close ( Nature ) |
Ned Collette — Mixed Light (It Records) ( dusted ) |
Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons ( NYT > Technology ) |
Hello everyone! The word is out – I am writing a book! ( McMansion Hell ) |
Why the toilet in the shelter always gets destroyed ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
I went to China to see a different AI future. It looked familiar ( Rest of World - ) |
‘A terrible failure’: How DukeEngage Ghana underpaid, underfed students and staff for years ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Semibreve Finalises Lineup with Films, Talks, Installations and More ( The Quietus ) |
Special delivery: bacterial couriers are smuggling drugs into cancers ( Nature ) |
Wars exacerbate the biodiversity crisis ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
“You Think Me a Bold Cheat”: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess ( The Public Domain Review ) |
High culture ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Unphosphorylated tyrosines mediate PD-1 inhibition of T cell signaling condensate formation ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Broken Ground: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Predicting genome-wide functional constraints with GPN-Star ( Nature ) |
is southern Brazil.. a rich region? ( Geography ) |
Modest Mouse and My Morning Jacket Share Neil Young Covers ( Pitchfork ) |
The Ancient Greek Water Clock That Kept the Most Accurate Time for 1,800 Years ( Open Culture ) |
Trojan Pig: Tiny Cryptic #11 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Areal Effects in Prehistoric Contacts between Uralic and Indo-European (Holopainen & Metsäranta eds. 2025) ( Linguistics ) |
Why Inventing Color TV Was So Difficult ( Open Culture ) |
Smoothie Shop Recommendations ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, August 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Angela Autumn, “Believer” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Peruvianizing Peru: Covers from Amauta Magazine (1926–30) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Cicada Hum: No-Neck Blues Band Returns ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
The Royal Ballet Stays True to Its Founder’s Vision ( NYT > Arts ) |
Nirvana to Receive Video Vanguard Award at 2026 VMAs ( Pitchfork ) |
Early Data Indicates an A.I.-Generated Drug Could Slow Aging ( NYT > Science ) |
Early Data Indicates an A.I.-Generated Drug Could Slow Aging ( NYT > Technology ) |
CineBrats: Measure your film literacy. Chart a path to go deeper. ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Where to See the World’s Bayeux Tapestry Replicas ( NYT > Arts ) |
Solex Does It Again ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Researchers: OpenAI agents attacked Ruby package manager RubyGems in May; OpenAI says its agents used RubyGems to access the internet to do "benign tasks" (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal) ( Techmeme ) |
texas gothic revival ( McMansion Hell ) |
We Reviewed Anyday Cookware: Are the Microwavable Dishes Worthwhile? ( Serious Eats ) |
Everything Trump Wants to Do Causes Inflation ( The Atlantic ) |
Growth rate overrides the benefit of extended growing season from boreal to semiarid conifers ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
What Is Navier-Stokes, the ‘Millennium’ Math Problem OpenAI Claims to Have Solved? ( NYT > Science ) |
We Tested 8 Enameled Cast Iron Skillets and Found Three Great Options ( Serious Eats ) |
What is this place and why does it have a red outline on my world map? ( Geography ) |
We Tested 7 Anti-Fatigue Mats—Here Are the Best Ones for Your Kitchen ( Serious Eats ) |
ode to a faux grecian urn ( McMansion Hell ) |
‘We Left in the Clothes We Were Wearing’: Yemenis Flee New Fighting ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Inverse Kinematics and Foot Locking ( Hacker News ) |
Pyramid of the Capitalist System (1911) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Nasal vaccines could stop pandemics before they begin ( Nature ) |
Performance of WebAssembly Runtimes in 2026 ( Hacker News ) |
The MAGA Movement Is Splintering Without Charlie Kirk ( The Atlantic ) |
Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The Yale Classicist Who Wrote a Bestseller and Lost His Job ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
Rivers deliver unexpectedly high loads of microplastics to the sea ( Nature ) |
Use AI as a sparring partner, not an oracle ( Nature ) |
Trump Catastrophically Miscalculated in Georgia ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Photographs of Atlantic City Sand Sculpture (ca. 1880–1920) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
‘The Oldest Person in the World’ and the Lessons of Mortality ( NYT > Arts ) |
Family-based analyses show how children’s genetics shape key traits ( Nature ) |
Drink up: the 20th End of the Road Reviewed ( The Quietus ) |
The INDY: Under Development Pressure, Durham Lost 38% of Its Farmland in 15 Years ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
New T-Shirts (Now in 100% Organic Cotton) and New Mugs in Our Shop! ( The Public Domain Review ) |
FYI, this post is now available for all to read! ( McMansion Hell ) |
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure ( Linguistics ) |
Looking for cool plus size clothes locally ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
U2 Named MusiCares 2027 Persons of the Year ( Pitchfork ) |
5 Children’s Movies to Stream Now ( NYT > Arts ) |
The Ties that Bind: Central Asian Ikat (ca. 19th century) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Baking Steels vs. Stones: Which One Should You Buy? ( Serious Eats ) |
I refused to train the AI that could replace me ( Rest of World - ) |
NYC-based Luminary, which develops AI-powered workflow tools for estate planning and wealth transfer management, raised a $22M Series A led by Ten Coves Capital (Davis Janowski/Wealth Management) ( Techmeme ) |
mcmodernslopcore ( McMansion Hell ) |
Imagining an Idle Countess: George Wightwick’s The Palace of Architecture ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Q&A weekly thread - August 17, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
What’s in my NOW? — Paul A. Bennett ( Cool Tools ) |
Why we need an International Panel on Inequality ( Nature ) |
Jonathan Cooper, Who Made Violins the Old-Fashioned Way, Dies at 76 ( NYT > Arts ) |
Dog on the Rock / Seven Off the Two / Seaplane Dog / The View from Tian Tan ( Pitchfork ) |
Ancient proteins identify various Denisovan remains from Southwest China ( Nature ) |
‘S.N.L.’ Season 52: Jalen Brunson Will Host First Episode ( NYT > Arts ) |
Endurance beyond 10 billion cycles in wurtzite ferroelectrics by confining nitrogen vacancies ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Happy Labo(u)r Day from the crew at Dusted. Whether you’re working or resting today, have a good one… ( dusted ) |
Pulex irritans: The Attack of the Monster (1885) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The Breville Barista Express Impress Makes Home Espresso Approachable ( Serious Eats ) |
Lil Durk Is Found Not Guilty in Murder-for-Hire Case ( NYT > Arts ) |
Trump is taking a hands-off approach to AI regulation to preserve the US lead over China, ahead of a summit with Xi Jinping, where AI safety is a top issue (Bloomberg) ( Techmeme ) |
Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science ( The Public Domain Review ) |
For Shabaam Sahdeeq, Everything Is Art ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
How to Make Homemade Vanilla Extract ( Serious Eats ) |
‘Blade Runner,’ ‘A Different World,’ and More Shows to Watch This Fall ( NYT > Arts ) |
The Mathematician Crushed Between OpenAI and Anthropic Over a Math Problem ( NYT > Science ) |
Republican Groups Rush to Paxton’s Aid in Texas After Staying on Sidelines ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
The Only Factory Making Real Film for Hollywood ( NYT > Arts ) |
Twilark — Never Learned the Tide (Géographie) ( dusted ) |
These six advances could change how drugs are delivered ( Nature ) |
Geese Finally Respond to “Psyop” Allegations ( Pitchfork ) |
Bon Iver Made a Jingle for a Local Bar’s Meatloaf Dippers ( Pitchfork ) |
Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer & Dafnis Prieto, “Fifteen” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
new jersey “19th century” “eclecticism” ( McMansion Hell ) |
Japanese Grandpa Going Viral for His Cats..... ( MetaFilter ) |
The Worst Spam Emails: Inside iLands' AI Agent Hustle ( Hacker News ) |
Visa Issue Threatens U.S.-Brazil Cooperation on Crime ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
NCI director counters gloomy forecast for cancer institute ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
The complete telomere-to-telomere sequence of a mouse Y chromosome ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
What Makes Tennis One of the Greatest Games ( The Atlantic ) |
Foaming photopolymers as a high-resolution biomimetic printing platform ( Nature ) |
Why are so many towns in the Western Sahara missing a romanizied name? ( Geography ) |
Columbia Closed Its Campus 3 Years Ago. It's Making No Promises About Reopening. ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
Inside the Discussions at AI Companies Over a Superintelligence Doomsday ( NYT > Technology ) |
Medicines do no good if people don’t take them ( Nature ) |
How a Food Dehydrator Can Help You Reduce Food Waste ( Serious Eats ) |
Giant tunneling electroresistance in sliding ferroelectrics ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Longitude by Way of Wounded Hounds: Kenelm Digby’s Sympathetick Powder (1669 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Rumor Effects in the Age of Artificial Intelligence ( Linguistics ) |
Manhattan Bus Lane Plan for 34th Street May Be Stuck in Gridlock ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Q&A weekly thread - June 22, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
Is the Instant Pot Duo Crisp Ultimate Lid a Good Air Fryer? ( Serious Eats ) |
Dolly Parton Is Getting Her Own Airport ( Pitchfork ) |
Music With You: 12 Kylie Deep Cuts ( The Quietus ) |
U.S. to Lend $1.9 Billion to Restart a Shuttered Nuclear Plant in Iowa ( NYT > Science ) |
Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC for September ( The Quietus ) |
‘The Ford/Hill Project’ Review: Two Unnerving Testimonies ( NYT > Arts ) |
Wetnurse — Demo (Self-released) ( dusted ) |
South Korea's espionage laws, broadened for the first time in over seven decades, take effect on Sept. 13 as foreign spies increasingly target its chip sector (Daniel Tudor/Financial Times) ( Techmeme ) |
Think your EV holds its value? China has some bad news for you ( Rest of World - ) |
A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Question about freshwater lakes caused by rifts ( Geography ) |
The Tubs — Hard Life (Merge) ( dusted ) |
Why the global push to break free from Big Tech keeps falling short ( Rest of World - ) |
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, August 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Dose once, treat forever: drugs are being engineered to last much longer ( Nature ) |
El Niño goes viral — and scientists learn what makes people care about the climate ( Nature ) |
Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races before the Age of Linotype ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Kendrick Lamar Joins Jhené Aiko on New Song “So Good” ( Pitchfork ) |
Beck Goes Back to Basics on “Ride Lonesome” ( NYT > Arts ) |
We Reviewed the Challenger Fermentation Mat and Recommend It for Sourdough Bakers ( Serious Eats ) |
mctuscan heaven ( McMansion Hell ) |
Stay classy! ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Buggies ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
The Joy of Being Asked to Help ( The Atlantic ) |
Marci, “Mask Lady and Late Night Girl” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update ( Hacker News ) |
Honing Versus Sharpening a Knife: What's the Difference? ( Serious Eats ) |
In Other Journals ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
We Reviewed 3 Cast Iron Bread Ovens and Recommend All of Them ( Serious Eats ) |
Late Night Doubts Trump Would Follow Through on $5,000 Payments ( NYT > Arts ) |
Dan Schneider’s Defamation Suit Against ‘Quiet on Set’ Creators Is Thrown Out ( NYT > Arts ) |
Chè Chuối (Vietnamese Banana, Tapioca, and Coconut Milk Dessert) ( Serious Eats ) |
Drug-delivering particles aim to breach the blood–brain barrier ( Nature ) |
Floating island of the Uru people, Peru. ( Geography ) |
The Best Methods for Making Whipped Cream, Explained ( Serious Eats ) |
Cheese Foam Tea ( Serious Eats ) |
We Tested 11 Different Bundt Pans—Three Won Top Marks ( Serious Eats ) |
Street Craft / Fantastic, Amazing, Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir ( Cool Tools ) |
12 Freezer-Friendly Soups for a Warm Meal Whenever You Want It ( Serious Eats ) |
Sara Weiss’ Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Essential Releases, September 11, 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Imaging cellular activity across all organs reveals body-wide circuits ( Nature ) |
Back of the House: Meet Our 2022 Contributors ( Serious Eats ) |
Amodei says pacing does not mean halting training or progress, but giving companies time to align and safeguard models and third-party evaluators time to verify (Bloomberg) ( Techmeme ) |
Open framework–based Brønsted acid–Lewis base interfaces boost proton transfer in the fuel cells ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
An English Western: The BBC’s Gangsters turns 50 ( The Quietus ) |
Dudamel Lands in New York, With Big Ambitions and a Packed Schedule ( NYT > Arts ) |
Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Rigsbee Collection apartments ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Amazon adds a Shop tab to Prime Video's X-Ray feature for related products while watching shows, and Shop the Scene powered by Amazon Lens in the Shopping app (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) ( Techmeme ) |
Trump’s ‘Midterm Convention’ Tried to Reach Die-Hard Republican Voters, but Lacked Oomph ( NYT > Arts ) |
Grand Theft Auto VI and 11 More Games to Play This Fall ( NYT > Arts ) |
The Original Sin of AI ( The Atlantic ) |
The Thermals — Under Crushing Rain (Static Catsup Aspic) ( dusted ) |
Advancing conflict research and response through satellite-derived data ( Nature ) |
Twisted Teens Announce Their Third Album of the Year ( Pitchfork ) |
Moin Moin (Nigerian Steamed Bean Cake) ( Serious Eats ) |
‘Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger’ Review: Together Again ( NYT > Arts ) |
We Tested 8 Mandolines to Find Ones That Could Slice with Ease ( Serious Eats ) |
Brian Eno Relaunches Label Opal Records with Reissues of Two Albums ( The Quietus ) |
BotCitizens: an online society populated by 100 persistent AI personalities ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Pick up the phone! Phone calls with tutors keep kids learning when schools shut down ( Nature ) |
Epsilon Health, which contracts with radiologists who use its AI to generate image reports faster, emerges from stealth with a $20M Series A led by AlleyCorp (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios) ( Techmeme ) |
We Reviewed 11 Bento Boxes to Find One We’d Pack Lunch In ( Serious Eats ) |
Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural Engine ( Hacker News ) |
Archie G. Norcross’ Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Nekra — Is It Really Living? (La Vida Es un Mus) ( dusted ) |
chud atlantis ( McMansion Hell ) |
Ominous, almost certainly not a metaphor ( MetaFilter ) |
The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
McMansion Hell urges all New Yorkers to Rank Zohran Mamdani #1 for Mayor of NYC ( McMansion Hell ) |
Collaboration or Cheating? The Debate Over AI Use Is Dividing Scholars. ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Iran Finds Escalation Is a Fruitful Path to Leverage in War With U.S. ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
16 Easy Noodle Recipes for a Quick Meal Any Time of Day ( Serious Eats ) |
Hydroclimatic-driven pulse enrichment amplifies riverine microplastic export in developing countries ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
The Occult Great Gatsby ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
simulacra for bootlickers ( McMansion Hell ) |
‘Why Did I Get Married Again?’ Review: An Italian Escape ( NYT > Arts ) |
Key App Developers Have Yet to Embrace Apple’s New Siri A.I. ( NYT > Technology ) |
Q&A weekly thread - July 06, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
How Amazon’s Zoox Is Taking On Waymo in San Francisco ( NYT > Technology ) |
A maple unicorn of a dayplanner ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
Arab Strap — Half-Told Tales (Rock Action) ( dusted ) |
Pet Shop Boys Detail New Album, ‘A Man From The Future’ ( The Quietus ) |
The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Harold A. Taylor’s Autochromes of California Flowers (early 20th century) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
LG responds to TV spying allegations ( Hacker News ) |
Europe's "Less" Is Doing More Than Anyone Gives It Credit For ( Hacker News ) |
Why California Is Reconsidering Its Decision to Shun Nuclear Power ( NYT > Technology ) |
Mind-altering drugs played key role in rise of Andean civilization ( Hacker News ) |
Jürg Frey — Clarinet Quintet (Another Timbre) ( dusted ) |
A.I. Could Possibly End Humanity. How Are Humans Supposed to Process That? ( NYT > Science ) |
On the origins of theories of compounding and the question of Indian influence on modern linguistics (John J. Lowe 2026) ( Linguistics ) |
Two children died from gene therapies in China: where the field goes next ( Nature ) |
Slayyyter Drops “Crank 2” ( Pitchfork ) |
Don’t Resolve the Dissonance: Meakusma Festival 2026 ( The Quietus ) |
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Too Computerised? Too Cold?: 1999 A.D. (1967) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
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Extensive and differential platinum chemotherapy mutagenesis in livers of children ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
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Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
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Ivan Aivazovsky’s Miniature Seascapes (ca. 1887) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The island of Taiwan has the highest density of 3000m+ mountains in the world, a perspective: In this photo, there are 305 mountains over 3000 meters. 21 are within the green area, 284 are within the red area. None in the rest. ( Geography ) |
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Q&A weekly thread - August 24, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
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Covers from Cerîde-i Adliye, a Turkish Law Journal (1924–26) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
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Bi-Weekly 'Anything Goes' Thread - aka Moving/Buy/Sell/Trade/Rent/Lease/Eat/Jobs ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
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Flights of Fancy: The Nine Birds of Jacques de Fornazeris (1594) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
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Birth of the Pearl (1901) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
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Genevieve Stebbins’ Delsarte System of Dramatic Expression (1886) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
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