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Saunas Lower Your Heart Rate More Than Exercise - Terra Research ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Daring Fireball: Another Day Has Come ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Blue Origin’s Failure May Hamstring NASA’s Moon Plans ( NYT > Science ) | In "Master and Commander", the crew of the Surprise is careful to "let fly" (run up the proper flag) before they actually start firing on the Acheron. Was this a formal requirement or just generally understood? What would have been the consequences if they didn't? ( AskHistorians ) | Boards Of Canada Detail New Album, ‘Inferno’ ( The Quietus ) | E.P.A., Maryland Sue D.C. Utility Over Potomac River Sewage ( NYT > Science ) | How Nic Dalton’s Half A Cow Became an Australian Indie Mainstay ( Bandcamp Updates ) | Young Fresh Fellows — Loft (Yep Roc) ( dusted ) | Police cars camped out on 15-501 this morning ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | Laws of Software Engineering ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | The Adventures and Experiences of the First Slovak Novel ( The Public Domain Review ) | Pica, a MacOS font management app ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Damaged Bug — ZUZAX (DEATHGOD CORP) ( dusted ) | Peter Hujar’s Photos Are All the Rage. He’d Be Shocked. ( The Atlantic ) | Imagining an Idle Countess: George Wightwick’s The Palace of Architecture ( The Public Domain Review ) | Tiny single-page app for the 3/3/3 productivity system ( MetaFilter Projects ) | Ferroelectricity in atomic-scale titanium dioxide dielectric films ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | Drake Confirms Iceman Release Date ( Pitchfork ) | Super-nano domains enable strength-conductivity synergy in copper foils ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | Stem cell control in the lung by an autocrine injury-activated Igf complex ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | Linguistic Anthropology: One special issue & one "cluster" on LLMs ( Linguistics ) | Organic Intelligence LV: Dies Irae in Popular Culture ( The Quietus ) | Michael Kosta Introduces Former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer ( NYT > Arts ) | For Patreon, I wrote about developer slop flooring, the history of walking on plastic, and what fake… ( McMansion Hell ) | 18 Date-Night Recipes for a Cozy Meal at Home ( Serious Eats ) | Wednesday Knudsen — Atrium (Spinster/Feeding Tube) ( dusted ) | GitHub - ArcaneNibble/awawausb: WebUSB for fopses · GitHub ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Essential Releases, April 10, 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) | Is Breville’s New Joule Air Fryer Toaster Oven Worth Buying? ( Serious Eats ) | State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change? ( Geography ) | Carve ( Pitchfork ) | Guest Playlist: Mark Jenkin ( The Quietus ) | Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2025 ( The Public Domain Review ) | Daily briefing: Immune cells have a surprising role in exercise endurance ( Nature ) | Statistical structure and the evolution of languages ( Linguistics ) | Christopher Columbus had a biological son named Diego, and later adopted a Taino boy whom he also named Diego. Did the two Diegos have a personal relationship? What did they think of each other? ( AskHistorians ) | Boards Of Canada Share New Track, ‘Tape 05’ ( The Quietus ) | The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Combustible Material: Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Tinderbox at 40 ( The Quietus ) | Voice actors fight to save their livelihoods and local cultures from Hollywood’s AI push ( Rest of World - ) | Cholanad Owner wanted for murder ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | Baauer’s Announces First Album in Six Years, Shares New Single ( Pitchfork ) | ‘Half Man,’ and 5 More Things to Watch on TV This Week ( NYT > Arts ) | Female Kill Machine 3 ( MetaFilter Projects ) | In Other Journals ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | Efo Riro (Nigerian Stewed Greens) ( Serious Eats ) | AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | We Reviewed Anyday Cookware: Are the Microwavable Dishes Worthwhile? ( Serious Eats ) | What explains English ethnic ancestry being more majorly concentrated towards the south and northeast of the USA, with German ethnic ancestry being more concentrated towards the north and central regions of the US? ( Geography ) | Kraftwerk Lose Long-Running Copyright Dispute ( The Quietus ) | Wool E Bull children books? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss’ Retrofuturism ( The Public Domain Review ) | Guidance of cellular nematic elastomers into shape-programmable living surfaces ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | ADULT. – Kissing Luck Goodbye ( The Quietus ) | Could ‘A River Runs Through It’ Have Been a Hit Today? ( NYT > Arts ) | The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Combine - deliciousblizzardshark ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Community Letter from Tim - Apple ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Juni Habel, “Evergreen In Your Mind” ( Bandcamp Updates ) | Ad Companies Settle With F.T.C. Over Claims of Harm to Conservative Sites ( NYT > Technology ) | How Colleges Stopped Rewarding Curiosity ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) | 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 ) | ggsql: A grammar of graphics for SQL :: Posit Open Source ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | On door knocking ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | PDR's Halloween Reader ( The Public Domain Review ) | Channels of transformation ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | Palantir posts mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and ‘regressive’ cultures | TechCrunch ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Leo Tolstoy Calls Shakespeare an ‘Insignificant, Inartistic Writer.’ Then George Orwell Fires Back ( Open Culture ) | I Don’t Know Right From Wrong: Lost La Peste 1976-1979, Vol. 1 ( Pitchfork ) | Are there any examples in history where a neighbouring country in a profoundly unequal relationship with a hegemonic power has been able to retain its economic and political independence? What were the key factors of success or failure? ( AskHistorians ) | We Reviewed 3 Cast Iron Bread Ovens and Recommend All of Them ( Serious Eats ) | Because Palantir get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | The Next Frontier in Design? The Humble Birdhouse. ( NYT > Arts ) | Spice World: A Look Inside the Serious Eats Team's Spice Cabinets ( Serious Eats ) | A neuroimaging study of language impairments across the biological continuum of Alzheimer's disease (from healthy older adults to dementia). ( Linguistics ) | Jimmy Scott, “Falling In Love Is Wonderful (2026 Remaster)” ( Bandcamp Updates ) | Sex effects on gene expression across the human cerebral cortex at cell type resolution ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Democrats Win Big in Election Map Fight, and Influencers Push Nicotine as a Health Hack ( NYT > Top Stories ) | Revealed: how male and female brain cells differ in gene activity ( Nature ) | Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-bit Symmetric Keys ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | How Coachella Became a Pop Spectacle With Surprise Guests Like Madonna and Olivia Rodrigo ( NYT > Arts ) | Beautiful Birds / The Botanical Treasury ( Cool Tools ) | New Treatment Lets 3 Transplant Patients Halt Anti-Rejection Drugs ( NYT > Science ) | Beth Orton Announces New Album and Tour ( Pitchfork ) | Author Correction: HER2 expression identifies dynamic functional states within circulating breast cancer cells ( Nature ) | ‘Free Births’ Are a New Pregnancy Trend. Critics Warn About Serious Risks. ( NYT > Top Stories ) | 4 Takeaways From ‘Lorne,’ the Movie About Lorne Michaels and ‘S.N.L.’ ( NYT > Arts ) | Andrew Hacker, Provocative Political Scientist, Dies at 96 ( NYT > Arts ) | This Bob’s For You: A Guide to Guided By Voices ( Bandcamp Updates ) | GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry ( Hacker News ) | The Art of Rock ( Bandcamp Updates ) | mvanhorn/last30days-skill: Claude Code skill that researches any topic across Reddit + X from the last 30 days, then writes copy-paste-ready prompts ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, March 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) | Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Template-driven scaffolding of SCF^FBXO42 regulates PP2A degradation ( Nature ) | Elizabeth I’s Manuscript Copy of Pierre Boaistuau’s Histoires Prodigieuses (1559) ( The Public Domain Review ) | The Old, Old, Very Old Man: Thomas Parr and the Longevity Trade ( The Public Domain Review ) | 14 Last-Minute, Food-Related Valentine’s Day Gifts ( Serious Eats ) | How George Orwell Predicted the Rise of “AI Slop” in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) ( Open Culture ) | Meeting the moment: how scientific philanthropies are expanding their reach ( Nature ) | Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving | Hacker News ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Why wasn’t the Buddha (Prince Siddhartha) persecuted by Indian nobility, despite actively undermining Hinduism and the caste system? ( AskHistorians ) | Dark Skies and Dark Energy Converge in West Texas ( NYT > Science ) | A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Portraits of the Artist: Künstlerromane in an Age of Uncertainty ( The Quietus ) | Nate Smith Is Bringing a Big-Tent Approach to the Newport Jazz Festival ( NYT > Arts ) | we’ve found it folks: mcmansion heaven ( McMansion Hell ) | “Inside the kaleidoscope: unravelling the ‘feeling different’ experience of bicultural bilinguals” ( Linguistics ) | Big Sky Crack-Up ( The Atlantic ) | Few people approve of killing baby chicks in meat grinders ( MetaFilter ) | Molecular profiling of gene-edited cells reveals shared drug-resistance mechanisms ( Nature ) | Our Winning Milk Frother Is Finally Back in Stock—And It's On Sale ( Serious Eats ) | Sheet Pans Aren't Cookie Sheets: A Baking Sheet Explainer ( Serious Eats ) | Analysis: Even Trump’s most basic claims about the Iran war can’t be trusted | CNN Politics ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Is Albania the only country where both the exonym and endonym have native origins? But one of them fell out of local use. ( Geography ) | Paint pens / Budget espresso / AI bird feeder ( Cool Tools ) | Court Rejects Trump Administration Climate Lawsuit Against Hawaii ( NYT > Science ) | What do we know about the origin of pants in the ancient world? Was it a phenomenon that spread from a single origin point or was it innovated independently? And how did they come to replace skirts, dresses, togas and tunics as the most common form of dress for men? ( AskHistorians ) | ode to a faux grecian urn ( McMansion Hell ) | AI speeds up design of devices that turn waste heat into electricity ( Nature ) | Dean Blunt Releases New Babyfather EP, ‘icl’ ( The Quietus ) | 3.4M Solar Panels ( Hacker News ) | Repurposing of a DNA segregation machinery into a cytoskeletal system controlling cell shape ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832) ( The Public Domain Review ) | An opposing molecular gradient axis underlies primate cortical organization ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | Dutch Panel Designs Plan to Deal With ‘Orphaned’ Nazi-Looted Art ( NYT > Arts ) | Too Computerised? Too Cold?: 1999 A.D. (1967) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Adventures in Higher Education Marketing ( MetaFilter Projects ) | Is It Worth Buying a Refurbished Vitamix or KitchenAid? ( Serious Eats ) | Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Late Miocene Colorado River arrival in the Bidahochi basin supports spillover origin of Grand Canyon ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | Tricky’s First Album in Six Years Is on the Way ( Pitchfork ) | How to impress the Nature Awards judges ( Nature ) | Gilded Fish: Illustrations from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Triple-decker solar cells reach efficiency milestone ( Nature ) | Saving the Pint: How a CO2 Shortage is Changing Beer Brewing ( Serious Eats ) | We Tested 7 Pasta Makers to Find the Best Ones for Rolling and Cutting Dough ( Serious Eats ) | Ancient lake’s flood may have etched the Grand Canyon ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | Career Dreamer | Grow with Google ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Calicornication: Postcards of Giant Produce (1909) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Bullcity mod introduction ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | Lorde, Geese, Turnstile, and More to Play Form Arcosanti 2026 ( Pitchfork ) | Sources detail how Elon Musk has de-emphasized SpaceX's original aim of reaching Mars as it prepares to go public, focusing instead on AI and other moonshots (Ryan Mac/New York Times) ( Techmeme ) | Differences in ribosomes may help explain human diversity ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | Police looking for dogs behind deadly attack at Durham apartment complex ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman John Ternus to become Apple CEO - Apple ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Balmuda: Our Review of the Pretty, Steam-Powered Toaster ( Serious Eats ) | Molecular basis for methylation-sensitive editing by Cas9 ( Nature ) | What Is ‘Jagged Intelligence’ and How Can It Reframe the AI Debate? ( NYT > Technology ) | We Tested 7 Squeeze Bottles to Find the Best for Your Kitchen ( Serious Eats ) | Graham Dunning – Quern ( The Quietus ) | Making RAM at Home [video] ( Hacker News ) | Linear RAG scanning mediates editing of Igκ variable region repertoires ( Nature ) | Sources: Tencent and Alibaba are in talks to invest in DeepSeek at a $20B+ valuation, partly benchmarked against Moonshot's pending round at an $18B valuation (The Information) ( Techmeme ) | Opinion | You Can’t Game Your Way to a Real Education ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | The real concern is that they make no difference at all ( MetaFilter ) | FYI, this post is now available for all to read! ( McMansion Hell ) | The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, March 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) | Who is Apple’s new CEO John Ternus? | The Verge ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Sources: Micron is pushing the US Congress to pass the "MATCH Act", which would put new export restrictions on equipment its Chinese rivals use to make chips (Karen Freifeld/Reuters) ( Techmeme ) | Bloom Phase: How to Read the Bubbles In Your Coffee ( Serious Eats ) | Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Another Day Has Come ( Hacker News ) | This is insane right??? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | Breaking the Celestial Ceiling: Now and Then #4 ( The Public Domain Review ) | The Time Traveler’s Guide to England mentions that they believed in a people called “Wife-givers”, men who encourage travelers to sleep with their wives and daughters for gifts. Was this a real myth? ( AskHistorians ) | Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021) ( Hacker News ) | We Reviewed The Vitamix Immersion Blender (And It Was Almost Silly Powerful) ( Serious Eats ) | Desmond Morris, 98, Dies; Zoologist Saw Links Between Humans and Apes ( NYT > Science ) | Why We Think Baratza Grinders Are worth the Money (Including Two That Are on Sale) ( Serious Eats ) | AI is about to make the global e-waste crisis much worse ( Rest of World - ) | Shader Lab | basement.studio ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Peter Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Birth of the Pearl (1901) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Moin Moin (Nigerian Steamed Bean Cake) ( Serious Eats ) | Pentagon Seeks Help From Ford and G.M. ( NYT > Technology ) | Deadly deepfakes: A survival guide for the age of algorithmic war ( Rest of World - ) | Relatives of mass shooting victims in Louisiana pray for end to domestic violence ( National ) | California Is Rife With Hospice Fraud. But Whose Fault Is It? ( NYT > Top Stories ) | Is there a sadder case of a natural resource being slowly strangled by civil engineering than the Aral Sea? ( Geography ) | ChatGPT Images 2.0 ( Hacker News ) | Track the Oscar nominees you've watched and pick your winners ( MetaFilter Projects ) | Don’t let your students use AI as a ghostwriter ( Nature ) | The Most Popular Serious Eats Recipes of 2022 ( Serious Eats ) | Bandicoots bounce back in Brown Hill Creek ( MetaFilter ) | Brown Horse — Total Dive (Loose) ( dusted ) | Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection — s-t 3 (Full Time Hobby) ( dusted ) | AI Resistance is Growing ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Coach K’s grandson charged with DWI, killed a 15-year-old boy ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | Cytoplasmic lattices are megadalton storage complexes in mammalian oocytes ( Nature ) | spider mapping ( MetaFilter Projects ) | Agroseismology and the impact of farming practices on soil hydrodynamics ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | Michael Kosta Introduces Former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer ( NYT > Top Stories ) | Thundercat, Angine de Poitrine to Play Newport Jazz Festival 2026 ( Pitchfork ) | Manifesto di Palantir definito «ramblings of a supervillain», scoppiano le polemiche sui contratti UK ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | San Francisco Solved Metro Vandalism With One Neat Trick ( The Atlantic ) | the motel room, or: on datedness ( McMansion Hell ) | Once accused of election fraud, former small-town mayor leaves court to applause ( National ) | “Wretches, Speak Evil of Me”: Goethe and Schiller’s Xenions (1896 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) | We Tested 8 Mandolines to Find Ones That Could Slice with Ease ( Serious Eats ) | Tanya Donelly and Chris Brokaw – The Undone Is Done Again ( The Quietus ) | Isaac Asimov: The Last Question ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | My KitchenAid Stand Mixer is Leaking Oil—What’s Going On? ( Serious Eats ) | Try the Oldest Known Recipe For Toothpaste: From Ancient Egypt, Circa the 4th Century BC ( Open Culture ) | A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22) ( The Public Domain Review ) | How we lost the living Now ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | I Was an Enthusiastic Early Adopter of AI Scribes. Here’s Why I Stopped ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Olafur Eliasson Uses Art and Sound to Raise Climate Awareness in Utah ( NYT > Arts ) | 13 Make-Ahead Desserts for the Holidays ( Serious Eats ) | The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser! ( The Public Domain Review ) | Catch ( The Atlantic ) | Google’s Aletheia Advances the State of the Art of Fully Autonomous Agentic Math Research - InfoQ ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Mylingar — Út (Amor Fati) ( dusted ) | The Help That Many Older Americans Need Most ( NYT > Science ) | 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 ) | Poison Ruïn — Hymns from the Hills (Relapse) ( dusted ) | Boards of Canada Reveal New Album Inferno ( Pitchfork ) | How Big Tech Co-opted DIY – and how to Fight Back ( The Quietus ) | Madonna Unveils ‘Confessions On A Dance Floor’ LP Sequel ( The Quietus ) | Unbridled Passions: The Eight Horses of King Mu, Son of Heaven (ca. 1300) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Our Favorite Recipes of 2022 ( Serious Eats ) | Bi-Weekly 'Anything Goes' Thread - aka Moving/Buy/Sell/Trade/Rent/Lease/Eat/Jobs ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | on neuschwanstein castle (part 1) ( McMansion Hell ) | Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era ( Hacker News ) | Two teens killed after planned fight near North Carolina school ends in shooting ( National ) | Musk’s SpaceX Goals Shift Ahead of Its I.P.O. ( NYT > Science ) | The Vanishing Twin: Tricky’s Nearly God turns 30 ( The Quietus ) | Trojan Pig: Tiny Cryptic #11 ( The Public Domain Review ) | The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920) ( The Public Domain Review ) | A map of Africa's rivers (I don't know how accurate this is), but it's still cool:) ( Geography ) | Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century ( The Public Domain Review ) | Is this bridge possible? ( Geography ) | Trump seeks to jump-start stalled icebreaker ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | 10,000 Chicago Concert Recordings Are Being Uploaded to the Internet Archive: Nirvana, Phish, Sonic Youth, They Might Be Giants & More ( Open Culture ) | Happy Public Domain Day 2026! ( The Public Domain Review ) | Various Artists — Indian Talking Machine Part Two: Instrumental Gems From the 78rpm Era (Sublime Frequencies) ( dusted ) | Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux ( Hacker News ) | The Breathless Energy of Mexican Rave ( Bandcamp Updates ) | What is Sumac? ( Serious Eats ) | Amit Forlit, Accused of Hacking Climate Activists, Appears in Court ( NYT > Science ) | Lero Lero, “Lero Lero” ( Bandcamp Updates ) | XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub? ( Hacker News ) | Gregory Spears: Composer Who Loops Musical Time and History ( NYT > Arts ) | “The Great Enigma of Our Times”: Henry George’s Poverty and Progress (1881 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Warburg’s Werewolf: An Anamnesis ( The Public Domain Review ) | Brian Eno, Massive Attack, Sigur Rós Call for Eurovision 2026 Boycott ( Pitchfork ) | War in the Gulf could tilt the cloud race toward China ( Rest of World - ) | Souled American — Sanctions (Jealous Butcher) ( dusted ) | Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs Anthropic ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | How to Roast Butternut Squash ( Serious Eats ) | Dave Mason, Songwriter Who Co-Founded Traffic, Dies at 79 ( NYT > Arts ) | Got bugs? Here’s how to catch the errors in your scientific software ( Nature ) | Judge Halts Trump Actions That Have Slowed Renewable Energy ( NYT > Science ) | Under Construction: Tiny Cryptic #10 ( The Public Domain Review ) | A Vegetarian's Christmas Eve Pig Roast ( Serious Eats ) | We Tested 8 Mini Whisks And Came Away with Three Favorites ( Serious Eats ) | Netherlands-based ASM, whose deposition tools are used to make advanced chips, projects Q2 revenue of ~€980M, above €886.8M est., driven by AI demand (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg) ( Techmeme ) | Primal Scream to Play ‘XTRMNTR’ in Full on UK Tour ( The Quietus ) | Horse culture among the natives of SOUTH America? ( AskHistorians ) | “A Beautiful Purplish Hue”: Frank Dudley Beane’s Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Composable neural emulators accelerate thermoelectric generator design ( Nature ) | Vaccines mean malaria deaths should be falling — not rising ( Nature ) | Photos: Out Among the Cherry Blossoms ( The Atlantic ) | On Losing a Daughter ( The Atlantic ) | The Best New Year's Kitchen Sales ( Serious Eats ) | Red Hot Photo Committee ( Pitchfork ) | Through Label Drama and Divorce, Eleventh Dream Day Endures ( Bandcamp Updates ) | What Durham Knows That Most Cities Don't ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | Review: Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara Seduce in ‘Fallen Angels’ ( NYT > Arts ) | Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago (1928) ( The Public Domain Review ) | The Cheese Map — Charting the Combinatorial Space of Cheesemaking ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | White House and Anthropic Hold ‘Productive’ Meeting, Aiming for a Compromise ( NYT > Technology ) | what’s this settlement in the Darien gap? ( Geography ) | Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia ( Nature ) | RedNote chases U.S. expansion after its “TikTok refugee” moment fades ( Rest of World - ) | The Arctic’s growing mosquito problem ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | Did this crow poop on me deliberately? ( Ask MetaFilter ) | We Tested 8 Countertop Ice Makers—Three Stood Out ( Serious Eats ) | Q&A weekly thread - March 23, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) | I was set to lead an undergraduate research trip abroad. Then my visa was denied ( Nature ) | RAW.works - RLMs are the new reasoning models ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Back of the House: Meet Our 2022 Contributors ( Serious Eats ) | The Growing Shadow of Autocracy | Freedom House ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | With $116 Million Gift, National Gallery Will Send Its Art Around Nation ( NYT > Arts ) | A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons - Sentinel Colorado ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | All of the Gear You Need to Make Your Own Gingerbread House ( Serious Eats ) | Watch 35 Short Films by Charles and Ray Eames: “Powers of Ten,” the History of the Computer & More ( Open Culture ) | An Extra-Embarrassing White House Correspondents’ Dinner ( The Atlantic ) | The UK's High Court rules that London's Metropolitan Police can keep using live facial recognition; police say the tech has led to 2,100+ arrests since 2024 (Connor Jones/The Register) ( Techmeme ) | Happy Easter weekend from us at Dusted! We hope you enjoyed our spring preview earlier today, and… ( dusted ) | Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want | The Verge ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Hoarding Is Driving Energy Prices Higher Everywhere ( NYT > Top Stories ) | Supreme Court to review Catholic preschools’ bid for LGBTQ exemption ( National ) | Scissor Fits, “It Wasn’t Nothing” ( Bandcamp Updates ) | Patti Smith, Morrissey Booked for CBGB Festival 2026 ( Pitchfork ) | Flowers of Fealty: Wilhelm Dilich’s Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Zig-a-zig-ah: Tiny Cryptic #6 ( The Public Domain Review ) | The life and legacy of George Schaller ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Kim Gordon — Play Me (Matador) ( dusted ) | The Glossary of Empire- 100 terms deployed by the West in relation to Africa — and what they actually mean when translated from diplomatic language into historical fact. ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Improving cancer survival rates will require hard policy choices ( Nature ) | ‘Science needs defending’: record number of researchers run for office in US mid-terms ( Nature ) | Trump extends ceasefire indefinitely as Iran says it won’t join talks now ( World ) | The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock ( MetaFilter Projects ) | What is the beef between Russians and Chechens, exactly? ( AskHistorians ) | JetBlue Bag Gouging/2026 Summer Bargains/Canadian Immigration ( Cool Tools ) | Sci-Fi Writer Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future in 1964: Artificial Intelligence, Instantaneous Global Communication, Remote Work, Singularity & More ( Open Culture ) | Q&A weekly thread - April 13, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) | ‘Funny Pages,’ ‘BlackBerry’ and More Streaming Gems ( NYT > Arts ) | The Field Reveals First Release in Eight Years ( The Quietus ) | Does Gulf of Mexico moist air mass make it all the way to the northwest USA and the western Canadian Prairies? And how come the prevailing westerlies dont prevent the moist gulf air from going west? ( Geography ) | How big is Big G? Mystery deepens after ten-year effort to measure gravity’s strength ( Nature ) | Daily briefing: Should we worry about AI doomsday? ( Nature ) | Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica ( Hacker News ) | What’s in a Name? For These Snails, Legal Protection ( NYT > Science ) | Looking for a good microwave or microwave/air fryer combo ( Ask MetaFilter ) | Trump Corrupts, and Absolute Trump Corrupts Absolutely ( NYT > Top Stories ) | Elon Musk Ignores French Prosecutors, Widening Tech Rift With Europe ( NYT > Technology ) | Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Filing: Tron founder Justin Sun sues the Trump family's World Liberty Financial, alleging it unfairly locked up his WLFI holdings and threatened and defamed him (CoinDesk) ( Techmeme ) | Two Drugs Stir Hope for Treatment of Deadly Pancreatic Cancer ( NYT > Top Stories ) | Eve Maret, “Diamond Cutter” ( Bandcamp Updates ) | We Tested the Anova Precision Chamber Vacuum Sealer ( Serious Eats ) | So, you've decided to write a terrible EV piece. ( MetaFilter ) | Props to Durham Parks and Rec ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | Artemis II Crew Discusses NASA Moon Mission and Next Steps ( NYT > Science ) | US speeds research into mind-altering drugs — including mysterious ‘ibogaine’ ( Nature ) | Stolen Letters That John Keats Sent to His Beloved Are Found ( NYT > Arts ) | How Pakistan learned to speak Trump’s language, becoming an unlikely peacemaker ( World ) | Why there is so many lakes in Alpes and so few in Caucausus? ( Geography ) | An 'Inappropriate Relationship' Sank Ohio State's Leader. A New Report Spills the Details. ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) | Snail Homes, Bog Bodies, and Mechanical Flies: Robert Testard’s Illustrations for Les secretz de l’histoire naturelle (ca. 1485) ( The Public Domain Review ) | The Pelican ( MetaFilter Projects ) | With Trump Novices, Can the U.S. Win the ‘Art Olympics’? 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DESIGN.md gives agents a persistent, structured understanding of a design system. ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Our Favorite Images of 2022 ( Serious Eats ) | Indigo Garden ( Pitchfork ) | iheartlists game - from easy to death ( MetaFilter Projects ) | Masato Kobayashi (2025) - Hill Korwa of Kado Pani: Outline Grammar, Text and Glossary of a North Munda language ( Linguistics ) | Threat of Evictions Darkens Russia’s Rosy Picture of Occupied Ukraine ( NYT > Top Stories ) | Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Flights of Fancy: The Nine Birds of Jacques de Fornazeris (1594) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Google announces the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, a revamped developer tool built on Vertex AI that manages the full lifecycle of AI agent fleets (Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET) ( Techmeme ) | BanRay.eu – a sticker prohibiting AI wearables ( MetaFilter Projects ) | These Salmon Got High on Cocaine. 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( Linguistics ) | New, additional criteria for identifying ADHD in adults ( MetaFilter ) | Musica Transonic + Mainliner, “Solid Static” ( Bandcamp Updates ) | Sources: OpenAI has been briefing US federal agencies, state governments, and Five Eyes allies on the capabilities of its GPT-5.4-Cyber model over the past week (Sam Sabin/Axios) ( Techmeme ) | Why A Small Fine Mesh Strainer Is Incredibly Versatile ( Serious Eats ) | A step-by-step guide to nailing your tenure promotion package ( Nature ) | Charles Butler’s The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) | simulacra for bootlickers ( McMansion Hell ) | Kernel code removals driven by LLM-created security reports ( Hacker News ) | Editorial Expression of Concern: Creation of human tumour cells with defined genetic elements ( Nature ) | The Historia Augusta has plenty of praise for the young Emperor Caracalla, but two anecdotes stick out, that he wept to see criminals eaten by beasts and that he sympathised with a friend who was scourged for converting to Judaism. Would a contemporary audience have seen these as positive traits? ( AskHistorians ) | Marcelo dos Reis Flora — Our Time (JACC) ( dusted ) | ‘Proof’ Review: Ayo Edebiri as a Math Girl, Interrupted ( NYT > Science ) | An Artist Asks: Without Darkness, Who Are We? ( NYT > Arts ) | A mechanism for adaptive genome regulation in cancer ( Nature ) | Ruth Garbus Readies New Album Profound ( Pitchfork ) | What’s in my NOW? — Augie Nielsen ( Cool Tools ) | Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Graham Platner Went to Hell and Back. He Has a Simple Message for Democrats. ( NYT > Top Stories ) | qmd ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | How to donate medicine? ( Ask MetaFilter ) | The nine-to-five PhD: mere myth or an achievable goal? 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