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Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Q&A weekly thread - October 20, 2025 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
China’s $143 billion push to dominate the global EV industry ( Rest of World - ) |
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How TikTok cozied up to wealthy investors in Saudi Arabia and the UAE ( Rest of World - ) |
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Author Correction: Mechanisms of stretch-mediated skin expansion at single-cell resolution ( Nature ) |
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Francis Crick’s life and legacy ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
https://github.com/toon-format/toon ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
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Leslie Odom Jr., Back in the Room Where It Happens ( NYT > Arts ) |
Little Feat Announce Final Tour, Share New Song With Inara George: Listen ( Pitchfork ) |
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‘Stunned and Angry’: James Ryan Gives First Detailed Account of His Ouster at UVa ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
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We Tested 8 Mini Whisks And Came Away with Three Favorites ( Serious Eats ) |
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Software Development in the Time of Strange New Angels ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
At a Shared Symbol of Jihad, the Taliban Defy Their Old Ties With Pakistan ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
‘The Seat of Our Pants’ Review: Songs for the World’s End ( NYT > Arts ) |
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For ‘The Running Man,’ Colman Domingo Is Your Host ( NYT > Arts ) |
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Pitchfork Music Festival Paris 2025 Live Photos ( Pitchfork ) |
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Why is Hawaii the only state that has embraced their indigenous culture and language - revolving mostly around their positive results post-colonialism and made the Hawaiian people their primary identity? ( AskHistorians ) |
Immigration raids begin in Charlotte; Guard pulls back in two cities ( National ) |
Research Preview: "A Descriptive Study of Factors Affecting English (L2) Pronunciation” ( Linguistics ) |
Yvonne Brewster, Godmother of Black British Theater, Dies at 87 ( NYT > Arts ) |
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Should You Be Storing Coffee in a Coffee Canister? ( Serious Eats ) |
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Chinese toymaker FoloToy suspends sales of its GPT-4o-powered teddy bear, after researchers found the toy gave kids harmful responses, including sexual content (Brandon Vigliarolo/The Register) ( Techmeme ) |
Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Mansaf (Palestinian Spiced Lamb With Rice and Yogurt Sauce) ( Serious Eats ) |
RFK Jr. Walks a Tightrope on Trump Deal for Obesity Drugs ( NYT > Science ) |
Overlooked No More: Sabina Spielrein, Visionary Lost Between Freud and Jung ( NYT > Science ) |
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Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive ( NYT > Technology ) |
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A Pill for Women’s Libido Meets a Cultural Moment ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
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Data Centers in Space + A.I. Policy on the Right + A Gemini History Mystery ( NYT > Technology ) |
Is A.I. a Journalist or Just a Newsroom Tool? ( NYT > Technology ) |
SoftBank Sells $5.8 Billion Stake in Nvidia to Pay for OpenAI Deals ( NYT > Technology ) |
Most islands possible on the earth ( Geography ) |
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Spice World: A Look Inside the Serious Eats Team's Spice Cabinets ( Serious Eats ) |
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The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Shungu, “Faith In The Unknown” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
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ChatGPT is huge in India. These locally focused startups found a way to compete ( Rest of World - ) |
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Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews for November by Daryl Worthington ( The Quietus ) |
The President Who Cried Hoax ( The Atlantic ) |
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Byte - a visual archive ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Infant Formula Company Tied to Botulism Outbreak Had Known Problems ( NYT > Science ) |
Programmable DNA insertion in native gut bacteria ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
How foreign student enrollment is shifting in the U.S., in 6 charts ( National ) |
A BravoCon Recap, Plus 6 Things to Watch on TV This Week ( NYT > Arts ) |
2007-core nostalgia extravaganza ( McMansion Hell ) |
Ecosphere ( Cool Tools ) |
Photoinduced twist and untwist of moiré superlattices ( Nature ) |
The Breville Barista Express Impress Makes Home Espresso Approachable ( Serious Eats ) |
Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley ( The Public Domain Review ) |
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Material system enhances superconducting qubits ( Nature ) |
Hercules & Love Affair Announce EP, Share New Song: Listen ( Pitchfork ) |
'The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives' is essential viewing. Seriously. ( MetaFilter ) |
Nikolai Agnivtsev’s Little Screw (1925) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
18 Date-Night Recipes for a Cozy Meal at Home ( Serious Eats ) |
Ballet Dancers Are Starting to Prioritize Their Mental Health ( NYT > Arts ) |
Old Irish Slang & Jargon: a Grammatical Approach, lecture by David Stifter ( Linguistics ) |
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A balancing act of ions ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Chapel Hill Tire on Hillsborough St ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
There’s a New Forecast for Peak Oil Demand. It’s Increasingly Cloudy. ( NYT > Science ) |
FPGA Based IBM-PC-XT ( Hacker News ) |
Cytosolic acetyl-coenzyme A is a signalling metabolite to control mitophagy ( Nature ) |
Back of the House: Meet Our 2022 Contributors ( Serious Eats ) |
As Bright as a Feather: Ostriches, Home Dyeing, and the Global Plume Trade ( The Public Domain Review ) |
In situ structural mechanism of epothilone-B-induced CNS axon regeneration ( Nature ) |
How Dennis Potter’s TV Plays Were Guides to the Purgatory of the Modern Age ( The Quietus ) |
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Jabo's Annual Halloween Cartoon 2025 ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
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Confessional Boxes: Tiny Cryptic #7 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Newsom in the Spotlight at the Climate Conference That Trump Decided to Skip ( NYT > Science ) |
Tell Students the Truth About American History ( The Atlantic ) |
Author Correction: Learning the natural history of human disease with generative transformers ( Nature ) |
Z3Py Guide ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Five Stories That Aren’t What They Seem ( The Atlantic ) |
Nespresso vs. Keurig: Which Coffee Maker is Better? ( Serious Eats ) |
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We Tested 12 Flatware Sets to Find the Best Ones for Everyday Use ( Serious Eats ) |
Spatial fibroblast niches define Crohn’s fistulae ( Nature ) |
[OC] Hope this OK to post. This is the border between Alaska, USA and Yukon, Canada along the White Pass and Yukon Route railway. ( Geography ) |
Gilded Fish: Illustrations from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
In the USA, sugar was rationed from 1941 to 1947, and rations were severely cut in 1945, even as the Allied countries were winning the war. Was there any truth to the popular rumors of sugar being conveniently rationed "for the people's health" by the US government, and not due to true shortages? ( AskHistorians ) |
Roseblood Festival Brings a Femme Focus to the Bay Area Underground ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Paris Opera’s Youth Orchestra Program Starts With Young Talent ( NYT > Arts ) |
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“Relaxations for the Impotent”: Ben Hecht’s Fantazius Mallare and the Contradictions of American Smut ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Only What’s Necessary / The White Donkey ( Cool Tools ) |
We Tested 13 Wine Decanters and Came Away with 2 Favorites ( Serious Eats ) |
Latino Dodgers fans want the champions to stand up to Trump ( National ) |
Ada Rave /Marta Warelis — Peel / Mondo (Relative Pitch) ( dusted ) |
Aiming to Shock Japan, China Pushes a Wave of Reprisals ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Ken Burns’s ‘The American Revolution’ Speaks to Our Cultural Clashes ( NYT > Arts ) |
Production-Grade Container Deployment with Podman Quadlets ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
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Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
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Tepache (Mexican Fermented Pineapple Drink) ( Serious Eats ) |
Observation of undepleted phosphine in the atmosphere of a low-temperature brown dwarf ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Low Culture Podcast: Dr Martens Boots ( The Quietus ) |
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Homayoun Ershadi, 78, Dies; ‘Kite Runner’ and ‘Taste of Cherry’ Star ( NYT > Arts ) |
5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now ( NYT > Arts ) |
Linux mode setting, from the comfort of OCaml - Thomas Leonard's blog ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Money and power underlie mysterious Andean ‘band of holes’ ( Nature ) |
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2 Years of ML vs. 1 Month of Prompting ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
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Malloreddus Alla Campidanese (Sardinian Ridged Pasta With Saffron and Pork Ragù) ( Serious Eats ) |
Ivan Aivazovsky’s Miniature Seascapes (ca. 1887) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The First Photograph of a Human Being: A Photo Taken by Louis Daguerre in 1838 ( Open Culture ) |
How to Roast Butternut Squash ( Serious Eats ) |
How to Make Homemade Vanilla Extract ( Serious Eats ) |
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Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
In Science Journals ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Non-greasy non-grifty beard care ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
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The Pragmatic Programmer: 20th Anniversary Edition (2023) ( Hacker News ) |
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Every aristocratic period show seems to have at least one member who seeks to “get away from it all” / “live like anormal person.” Was this a real phenomenon or is it a modern invention? ( AskHistorians ) |
Watch Bad Bunny Perform “Weltita” at 2025 Latin Grammys ( Pitchfork ) |
Italian dialects and language contact. Theory, typology, data. An introduction. Wild, Negrinelli, Breimaier, Cristelli, Loporcaro & Paciaroni. (2025). ( Linguistics ) |
Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Bi-Weekly 'Anything Goes' Thread - aka Moving/Buy/Sell/Trade/Rent/Lease/Eat/Jobs ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
A guide to the Nature Index ( Nature ) |
Charlotte today, Durham tomorrow ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
simulacra for bootlickers ( McMansion Hell ) |
The Catholic Church was not particularly fond of theatre, to the point that actors (most famously Molière) were commonly excommunicated unless they renounced their careers. When and why did these attitudes change? ( AskHistorians ) |
Open-source Zig book ( Hacker News ) |
The FT's Tim Cook retirement story could be a "trial balloon" from people close to him, if Cook decides to leave on a high note after Apple's Q1 earnings report (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass) ( Techmeme ) |
The Groundbreaking Animation That Defined Pink Floyd’s Psychedelic Visual Style: Watch “French Windows” (1972) ( Open Culture ) |
JavaScript engines zoo ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
We Reviewed The Vitamix Immersion Blender (And It Was Almost Silly Powerful) ( Serious Eats ) |
Fake 'Nduja ( Serious Eats ) |
Convergent genome evolution shaped the emergence of terrestrial animals ( Nature ) |
Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2024 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Nigerian Beef Stew ( Serious Eats ) |
We Reviewed 11 Bento Boxes to Find One We’d Pack Lunch In ( Serious Eats ) |
Baking Steels vs. Stones: Which One Should You Buy? ( Serious Eats ) |
What was the diet of pre farming Neolithic Britain? ( AskHistorians ) |
Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | November 16, 2025 ( AskHistorians ) |
Want to Buy a Work of Art at Auction? Here’s What to Know. ( NYT > Arts ) |
Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The Atlantic Launches New Weekly Video Podcast, Galaxy Brain With Charlie Warzel ( The Atlantic ) |
‘The Things You Kill’ Review: A Tragedy Turns Surreal ( NYT > Arts ) |
The future of AI ( Nature ) |
The Ambitious Engineering Behind the Golden Gate Bridge ( Open Culture ) |
My Supernova ( Pitchfork ) |
SML – How You Been ( The Quietus ) |
SIGLEC12 mediates plasma membrane rupture during necroptotic cell death ( Nature ) |
Kristi Noem-Tied Firm Secretly Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Campaign — ProPublica ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
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Influential list of highly cited researchers now shuts out more scientists: here’s why ( Nature ) |
Metformin (Glucophage) may have made me smarter. ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Hendrick Motorsports Awarded $2.25 Million ICE Contract. ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Trans women attend Vatican event with Pope Leo, but not at head table ( World ) |
Peckish Alphabetics: The Tragical Death of a Apple-Pye (ca. 1793–1796) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
At Catholic Churches, Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Takes Center Stage ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
AVTT/PTTN – AVTT/PTTN ( The Quietus ) |
‘Keeper’ Review: You Can Get In, but You Can’t Get Out ( NYT > Arts ) |
A Wetted Beak: Engravings from Pauline Knip’s Les Pigeons (1811) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Rare genetic variants confer a high risk of ADHD and implicate neuronal biology ( Nature ) |
Erratum for the Report “FCHo Proteins Are Nucleators of Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis” by W. M. Henne et al. ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
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Archives | Israel Exposed ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
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Use Cases | Claude ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
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Back yard is in another country—how does this work in practice? ( Geography ) |
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Researchers question Anthropic claim that AI-assisted attack was 90% autonomous - Ars Technica ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Paws for Thought: Tiny Cryptic #2 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
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30 Years On: Autechre’s Tri Repetae Revisited ( The Quietus ) |
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The evolution of rationality: How chimps process conflicting evidence ( Hacker News ) |
Chaos at the Justice Department ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Bird Flu Ravaged the World’s Largest Elephant Seal Population, Study Finds ( NYT > Science ) |
television in joke. ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
‘Now I’m on the Stage’: 7 Artists on Their Museum Residencies in Harlem ( NYT > Arts ) |
Investigation: $28B+ in crypto tied to illicit activity flowed into crypto exchanges like Binance over the last two years, as President Trump embraces crypto (New York Times) ( Techmeme ) |
Honing Versus Sharpening a Knife: What's the Difference? ( Serious Eats ) |
New York’s Bodegas Are Here to Stay ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
The Radical New Voices of First Nations Australian Music ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
What is this thing called? ( Geography ) |
How Many People Die in India From Hot Weather? Nobody Really Knows. ( NYT > Science ) |
Pioneering U.S. Street Photography, With Vienna in the Background ( NYT > Arts ) |
Mortality impacts of rainfall and sea-level rise in a developing megacity ( Nature ) |
He fled Assad. Now he’s leading Syria’s tech transformation ( Rest of World - ) |
Ultrathin films of a 2D polymer provide airtight seal ( Nature ) |
Discovering 5 Treasures of Photography ( NYT > Arts ) |
What’s in my NOW? — Ken Batchelor ( Cool Tools ) |
Fonts / Matthew Hinders-Anderson ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Todd Snider, Satirical Folk Singer-Songwriter, Dies at 59 ( Pitchfork ) |
Royal Parking is a form of violence ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Dutch Bros ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Giving C a Superpower ( Hacker News ) |
Erratum for the Research Article “Systematic discovery and engineering of synthetic immune receptors in plants” by B. P. M. Ngou et al. ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
How did Asians reach Madagascar earlier than Africa when it's much far away? ( Geography ) |
Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Happy Together: The Laughing Prince: A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1921) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The missing piece: Solving the 50-year puzzle of BMP synthesis in neurodegeneration ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
The Spinn Coffee Maker Is One of the Only Automated Brewers We Like ( Serious Eats ) |
Four Simple Questions for Marjorie Taylor Greene ( The Atlantic ) |
What city or location within 2-3 hours can you spend a week for vacation? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
A Day at the Beach Hunting Mammoths ( NYT > Arts ) |
Those Little Chimes That Say ‘Please Take Your Seat’ ( NYT > Arts ) |
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Sundar Pichai have each discussed lunar and orbital AI data centers, which could offer steady solar power with fewer regulations (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal) ( Techmeme ) |
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Why Debt Funding Is Ratcheting Up the Risks of the A.I. Boom ( NYT > Technology ) |
Thousands March for Climate Action as COP30 Talks Enter Second Week ( NYT > Science ) |
Irish Exit — Tantrums in Tandem (Cropsey Records) ( dusted ) |
How Fraudsters Use Cryptocurrency A.T.M.s to Target Victims ( NYT > Technology ) |
Who Pays When A.I. Is Wrong? ( NYT > Technology ) |
The /llms.txt file - proposal to standardise on using an /llms.txt file to provide information to help LLMs use a website at inference time ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
U.S. Border Patrol Arrested 81 People in Charlotte, N.C. ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
The Emperor’s New Clothes: Fashion, Politics, and Identity in Mughal South Asia ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Shack Sauce ( Serious Eats ) |
A Guide To The World of Contemporary Creative Piano ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Head for a Record in 2025, Global Carbon Project Reports ( NYT > Science ) |
bitchat ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Autumn, by Patrick Clarke ( The Quietus ) |
Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s Peruvian Art in the School (1926) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Zed Is Our Office — Zed's Blog ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The Devoid ( MetaFilter ) |
Generate Mozilla Security Recommended Web Server Configuration Files ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
old chimney at west point on the eno ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
An Academic Prize's Connection to Nazi Science ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
A file format uncracked for 20 years ( Hacker News ) |
“I Am Making the World My Confessor”: Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Microsoft, Google say their data centers create thousands of jobs. Their permit filings say otherwise ( Rest of World - ) |
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Andy Baraghani’s Thanksgiving Menu Is Bright, Colorful and Delicious ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering | Tom Phillips ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Z3 API in Python: From Sudoku to N-Queens in Under 20 Lines (2015) ( Hacker News ) |
James Watson: A flawed titan of science ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
‘A Very Jonas Christmas Movie’ Review: O Come, All Ye Faithful ( NYT > Arts ) |
How to Not Get Kidnapped for Your Bitcoin ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Charli XCX & John Cale Unveil Noisy Wuthering Heights Collab ( The Quietus ) |
Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Features on Orelsan’s New Song “Yoroï”: Listen ( Pitchfork ) |
Strange Gods: Charles Fort’s Book of the Damned (1919) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
AC/DC Plays a Short Gig at CBGB in 1977: Hear Metal Being Played on Punk’s Hallowed Grounds ( Open Culture ) |
Missing at U.N.’s Climate Meeting: American Executives ( NYT > Technology ) |
Fantastic Planet: The Microscopy Album of Marinus Pieter Filbri (1887–88) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
What kind of Language is this? Kate Bush’s Aerial At 20 ( The Quietus ) |
“Convent Wisdom” Looks to Nuns from Yesterday to Help Make It Through Today ( NYT > Arts ) |
Through the Magnifying Glass: The Cheese Mites (1903) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Claire Rousay – A Little Death ( The Quietus ) |
Would India be as cold as Europe without Himalayas? ( Geography ) |
Behind the complaints: Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
We Tested 20 Bread Machines—Three Proved They Were The Best ( Serious Eats ) |
21 Recipes to Make With Your Newly Gifted Gear ( Serious Eats ) |
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‘The Running Man’ Review: Glen Powell Plays for His Life ( NYT > Arts ) |
ICE/CBP targeted “Compare Foods” a local grocery store, after they announced they would be helping people affected by ICE in Charlotte, NC. The day after they announced this campaign, the federal government sent masked armed men to abduct people. (11/16/2025) ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
The Return of Max B ( Pitchfork ) |
What if the world looked like this now? ( Geography ) |
Marble: View and create 3D worlds ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Multi-omics analysis of a pig-to-human decedent kidney xenotransplant ( Nature ) |
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Simple One-Time Passcode Inputs ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
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Dozens of M.C. Escher Prints Have Been Digitized & Put Online by the Boston Public Library ( Open Culture ) |
Sources: AI startup Project Prometheus raised $6.2B, including from Jeff Bezos, who will become co-CEO, his first operational role since leaving Amazon in 2021 (Cade Metz/New York Times) ( Techmeme ) |
Essential Releases, October 31 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Indigenous People Take the Stage at COP30 Climate Talks in Belém, Brazil ( NYT > Science ) |
We Tested the Anova Precision Chamber Vacuum Sealer ( Serious Eats ) |
What to know about China’s newly modernized nuclear arsenal ( World ) |
Florigen activation complex forms via multifaceted assembly in Arabidopsis ( Nature ) |
Elizabeth Franz, Versatile Tony-Winning Actress, Is Dead at 84 ( NYT > Arts ) |
Northern Lights Are Beautiful, but for Satellites They’re Risky ( NYT > Science ) |
How much protein do you really need? What the science says ( Nature ) |
The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, October 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
One man’s obsessive quest to uncover Brazil’s buried Nazi past ( World ) |
Pied Beauty: Wari Tie-Dye Textiles (ca. 425–1100) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
“That’s Why We Become Witches”: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (1926) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Akabea (Great Andamanese) as an anumeric language and the problem of Akabea ordinals. Comrie & Zamponi (2024). Italian Journal of Linguistics, 36/2: 3–28. ( Linguistics ) |
The Crypto Industry’s $28 Billion in ‘Dirty Money’ ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Almost Everything About NASA’s ESCAPADE Mission to Mars Is Unusual ( NYT > Science ) |
PDR's Halloween Reader ( The Public Domain Review ) |
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Q&A weekly thread - October 27, 2025 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
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Second-hand electric car (Ireland) ? ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
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Physiology and immunology of pig-to-human decedent kidney xenotransplant ( Nature ) |
‘Archduke’ Review: Impressionable Young Men ( NYT > Arts ) |
If the BAR was intended to be a squad support weapon, and lay down suppressing fire, etc, then why did it only have 20 round magazines? ( AskHistorians ) |
Prior to the invention of hormone replacement therapy, did transgender/gender nonconforming individuals do anything else to get their bodies to match their minds? ( AskHistorians ) |
PIEZO channels link mechanical forces to uterine contractions in parturition ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
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Watch Karol G and Marco Antonio Solís Perform “Coleccionando Heridas” at 2025 Latin Grammys ( Pitchfork ) |
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Eddie Murphy Addresses ‘S.N.L.’ Feud in “Being Eddie” Documentary ( NYT > Arts ) |
The emergence and diversification of dog morphology ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Why Overconfidence Is Our Most Dangerous Cognitive Bias ( Open Culture ) |
Anthony Braxton — Quartet (England)/1985 (Burning Ambulance Music) ( dusted ) |
Lina Allemano Four — The Diptychs (Lumo) ( dusted ) |
Dame’s in Cary ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Our Winning Milk Frother Is Finally Back in Stock—And It's On Sale ( Serious Eats ) |
Potent neutralization of Marburg virus by a vaccine-elicited antibody ( Nature ) |
Fantazius’ Folly: Tiny Cryptic #1 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Hydropower Is Getting Less Reliable as the World Needs More Energy ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Sounds from an Ancient City: Highlights of Mucho Flow ( The Quietus ) |
Dot Battle - a Javascript Physics Toy ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Aligning machine and human visual representations across abstraction levels ( Nature ) |
Freedom House's Freedom on the Net 2025 report: for the 15th straight year, global internet freedom is in decline; of the 72 countries surveyed, Kenya fell most (Tech Policy Press) ( Techmeme ) |
We Tested 7 Squeeze Bottles to Find the Best for Your Kitchen ( Serious Eats ) |
Layer-by-layer epitaxial growth of perovskite heterostructures with tunable band offsets ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
SAG Awards Changes Its Name to the Actor Awards ( NYT > Arts ) |
The Telephone Numbers — Scarecrow II (Slumberland) ( dusted ) |
Archive/Convert your Typepad Blog ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
These Six Artworks Could Predict the Auction Market ( NYT > Arts ) |
Pronouns question but not what you're thinking ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
For He’s a Jolly Bad Fellow: Now and Then #1 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
What do you think are good examples of "off-place" storms across the world? ( Geography ) |
GitHub - randoneering/pgFirstAid ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The US government shutdown is over: what’s next for scientists ( Nature ) |
Pikaday ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
‘Godfather of AI’ becomes first person to hit one million citations ( Nature ) |
In the Penal Colony: Now and Then #3 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
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90% of people cannot figure out how to exit my house ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
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The Lodger In Me: Bid from The Monochrome Set on the Aneurysm that Changed His Life ( The Quietus ) |
Neuroscientists track the neural activity underlying an “aha” ( Hacker News ) |
F.D.A. Names Agency Veteran to Run Drug Division ( NYT > Science ) |
We Tested 14 Popular Vegetable Peelers to Find the Best Ones ( Serious Eats ) |
Red River Dialect, “Basic Country Mustard” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Keep Going: Seb Rochford’s Favourite Records ( The Quietus ) |
Baidu unveils proprietary ERNIE 5 beating GPT-5 performance on charts, document understanding and more | VentureBeat ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
James Watson obituary: co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix who reshaped modern biology ( Nature ) |
McMansion Hell urges all New Yorkers to Rank Zohran Mamdani #1 for Mayor of NYC ( McMansion Hell ) |
The Drift of Things: David Goodman Croly’s Glimpses of the Future (1888) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Humpback whales form defensive patterns against fishing fleets ( MetaFilter ) |
Our Generation’s Punk: Roony ‘Risky Roadz’ Keefe on 20 Years of Grime ( The Quietus ) |
Could humans live to 150? Why some researchers think we’re on the cusp of a major longevity breakthrough ( Nature ) |
5 Apps That Will Make You Love Art Galleries ( NYT > Technology ) |
Nucleotides on the frontline: Nucleotide-centric defense systems reveal a core principle in bacterial antiviral immunity ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Who will fill the climate-data void left by the Trump administration? ( Nature ) |
Something Feels Different About the Economy ( The Atlantic ) |
Apple’s iPhone Pocket by Issey Miyake Is Confusing by Design ( NYT > Technology ) |
The mind-boggling linguistic diversity in Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara and East Timor ( Geography ) |
New York City election endorsements (ballot proposals and judges) ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
CRISPR vs cholesterol: can gene editing prevent heart disease? ( Nature ) |
GREGoR: accelerating genomics for rare diseases ( Nature ) |
Genealogical Classification and Dialect Macro-Areas in Slavic Languages ( Linguistics ) |
10 Smart Performance Hacks For Faster Python Code | The PyCharm Blog ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Frank Chuman, who fought for Japanese American rights, is dead at 105 ( National ) |
‘Rebuilding’ Review: When Life Bucks You Off ( NYT > Arts ) |
Some Kind of Fun: Hüsker Dü’s Generational Blues ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
A Topography of Intimacy: A Body Like A Home by Alejandra Cárdenas ( The Quietus ) |
Dog domestication, from the fierce to the feisty ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Indy Article on Stormwater Pipe Destroying Woman’s House ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Ms4a7 expression in cDC1s determines cross-presentation and antitumor immunity ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
A Vegetarian's Christmas Eve Pig Roast ( Serious Eats ) |
Some practical examples of view transitions to elevate your UI ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Integrative phylogenomics positions sponges at the root of the animal tree ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Why did the wagon-fort not take off in Western and Central Europe, but did in the Ottomans and Eastern Europe? ( AskHistorians ) |
The 12 Days of Christmas Cookies ( Serious Eats ) |
30 years on: Angus Batey dissects Liquid Swords By GZA ( The Quietus ) |
Tokyo-based Turing, which is developing an AI model for self-driving vehicles, raised a $99M Series A, sources say at a ~$388M valuation (Min-Jeong Lee/Bloomberg) ( Techmeme ) |
Were medieval jesters ”speaking truth to power”? ( AskHistorians ) |
Anyone see a bright/low shooting star tonight? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Search the Epstein Files ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Zellig Harris, Noam Chomsky and the verbal auxiliary ( Linguistics ) |
Kreutzer Quartet — Robert Saxton’s String Quartets 3&4; Sonata for Solo Violin (Métier) ( dusted ) |
Bitchat for Gaza - messaging without internet ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Trump recasts foreign terror list to focus on ‘antifa,’ cartels ( World ) |
Craft Chrome Devtools Protocol (CDP) commands with the new command editor ( Hacker News ) |
Júlia Colom, “Paradís” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Big city life EDITS ( Pitchfork ) |
Can UK science really spawn a $1-trillion company? ( Nature ) |
The Spells, “The Night Has Eyes” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
GitHub - disastrid/LittleCharacter: A free font that is a tribute to LITT.CHR ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
At 97, the Bard of Albany Still Spins Tales of Gangsters and Politicians ( NYT > Arts ) |
Chino Amobi, “Eroica II: Christian Nihilism” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
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The Global Climate Leadership Vacuum ( NYT > Science ) |
We Tested 7 Pasta Makers to Find the Best Ones for Rolling and Cutting Dough ( Serious Eats ) |
US filing: Peter Thiel's Thiel Macro sold 537,742 Nvidia shares, worth ~$100M as of September 30, during Q3, amid rising concerns about an AI investment bubble (Bloomberg) ( Techmeme ) |
TSOFA - The Simple, Offline Flashcard App ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
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The Plot Against Jim Ryan ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle ( The Public Domain Review ) |
5 Apps That Will Make You Love Art Galleries ( NYT > Arts ) |
16 Easy Noodle Recipes for a Quick Meal Any Time of Day ( Serious Eats ) |
Strangest Loop ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
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Just Spent 3 Weeks in Egypt. I’m Never Coming Back. Here’s Why. : travel ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
50 Years On: Patti Smith’s Horses Revisited ( The Quietus ) |
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Would the Soviets have eventually turned against the Nazis if Germany hadn’t attacked them? ( AskHistorians ) |
Daily briefing: Greenhouse-gas emissions should peak by 2030, say researchers ( Nature ) |
Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Meditations on memory ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
"Snarky"; "Snark" ( Hacker News ) |
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Electrolytes that reduce electro-osmotic drag improve fast charging of lithium-ion batteries ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Aleister Crowley Reads Occult Poetry in the Only Known Recordings of His Voice (1920) ( Open Culture ) |
Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
George Smoot obituary: Charismatic cosmologist who revealed ripples in the Big Bang’s afterglow ( Nature ) |
Pies for thanksgiving ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
SNL Has Its Black Mirror Moment ( The Atlantic ) |
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The Iliad and the So-Called Epic Cycle After the Canon ( MetaFilter ) |
An Officer Bungled a Teen Rape Case. The Victim Was Abused Again. ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
These are the U.S. ships and aircraft massing off Venezuela ( World ) |
Is Breville’s New Joule Air Fryer Toaster Oven Worth Buying? ( Serious Eats ) |
Joelton Mayfield — Crowd Pleaser (Bloodshot) ( dusted ) |
Flowers of Fealty: Wilhelm Dilich’s Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
What's the most (seemingly) minor change to Earth's Geography that would've had the largest effect on Human History? ( Geography ) |
We Tested 9 Olive Oil Dispensers—Here Are Our Favorites ( Serious Eats ) |
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Boxing Clever: Tiny Cryptic #5 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
iPEX enables micrometre-resolution deep spatial proteomics via tissue expansion ( Nature ) |
Balancing between evolutionary rescue and extinction: The adaptive potential of reef-building corals in a warming world ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: Origin of the Species ( NYT > Arts ) |
Child poverty soars in Britain as working families struggle to keep up ( World ) |
Pettable Croutons, for you and for me ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Northern Lights Bring Dazzling Views to Northeast U.S. and Across Canada, With More Possible Tonight ( NYT > Science ) |
Calunga, a lesser known language from Brazil: ( Linguistics ) |
‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’ Review: Magic, the Gathering ( NYT > Arts ) |
Metagenomic editing of commensal bacteria in vivo using CRISPR-associated transposases ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Chopper Choons: Mercy by Armand Hammer and The Alchemist ( The Quietus ) |
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic US ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Charmaine Lee – Tulpa ( The Quietus ) |
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Reality Iced: Robert J. Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Epstein Returns at the Worst Time for Trump ( The Atlantic ) |
In Death, Poet Andrea Gibson Gets a Film That Celebrates Life ( NYT > Arts ) |
The Great AI Bubble - by Carole Cadwalladr ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
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Global greenhouse-gas emissions are still rising: when will they peak? ( Nature ) |
The Case That A.I. Is Thinking ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Linux mode setting, from the comfort of OCaml ( Hacker News ) |
The USSR placed a bust of Lenin facing towards Moscow in the most isolated place in Antarctica (arguably the most isolated place on dry land) ( Geography ) |
Utensils ( Cool Tools ) |
pre-recession, post-taste ( McMansion Hell ) |
Sharp Pins, Been Stellar, Lip Critic, and More Playing Abortion Access Benefit Concerts ( Pitchfork ) |
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The Crypto Industry’s $28 Billion in ‘Dirty Money’ ( NYT > Technology ) |
Bloom Phase: How to Read the Bubbles In Your Coffee ( Serious Eats ) |
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Bonus McMansion Hell: Ye Olde Barrington ( McMansion Hell ) |
Wheelchair? Hearing Aids? Yes. ‘Disabled’? No Way. ( NYT > Science ) |
For Parents of Children With Autism, There Are No Easy Answers ( NYT > Science ) |
Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season - 2025 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Language portrait ( Linguistics ) |
Blocking LLM crawlers, without JavaScript ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The prehistory of generative grammar and Chomsky’s debt to Emil Post ( Linguistics ) |
Danny Brown – Stardust ( The Quietus ) |
The Kids Are Up All Night, With Jewels and Bones ( NYT > Arts ) |
1985: The Miracle Year ( Pitchfork ) |
Silicon solar cells with hybrid back contacts ( Nature ) |
Things to do in Durham this week (Nov. 10-16) ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
China expands desert nuclear test site as Trump revives nuclear tension ( World ) |
Did people convert to Christianity or Islam because they were actually convinced by the arguments? ( AskHistorians ) |
The Adventures and Experiences of the First Slovak Novel ( The Public Domain Review ) |
We Tested 12 Garlic Presses—Two Smashed the Competition ( Serious Eats ) |
Khorovats (Armenian Shish Kebabs) ( Serious Eats ) |
“How He Came to Life One Day”: Photographs of Snowmen (1854–1950) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Is the Instant Pot Duo Crisp Ultimate Lid a Good Air Fryer? ( Serious Eats ) |
Better Travel Pillow/Set Jetting/Top Expat Countries ( Cool Tools ) |
Not-so-smart smartphones? ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
Why does it seem that historical and cultural accounts of groups of people who were born female but identify differently are few and far between compared to groups of people who were born male and identify differently? ( AskHistorians ) |
Food + Cooking at Skool ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Can You Stop Beans From Making You Fart? We Put 17 Methods to the Test ( Serious Eats ) |
Why Hollywood’s Star-Studded Movies Are Failing at the Box Office ( NYT > Arts ) |
Efo Riro (Nigerian Stewed Greens) ( Serious Eats ) |
Gut bacteria help mice to stay lean ( Nature ) |
‘Chess,’ With Lea Michele: At Least They Have the Abba Songs ( NYT > Arts ) |
Trump ups the ante in Venezuela standoff ( World ) |
Empower: US BNPL use has grown to 91.5M users, with 25% financing groceries, as default rates accelerate and most loans aren't reported, creating "phantom debt" (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch) ( Techmeme ) |
Why coastal megacities should look inland for research collaborations ( Nature ) |
new jersey “19th century” “eclecticism” ( McMansion Hell ) |
How to Deep-Clean Your Dutch Oven (and Keep It Looking Like New) ( Serious Eats ) |
Oncogenes out of context: Cancer genes break free from the regulatory constraints of chromosomes ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Robots, Raiders and Riches in a Gripping Prisoner’s Dilemma ( NYT > Arts ) |
The Young Women Grappling With an ‘Old Man’s Disease’ ( NYT > Science ) |
All of the Gear You Need to Make Your Own Gingerbread House ( Serious Eats ) |
AI startup Cursor raises $2.3 billion round at $29.3 billion valuation ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Five International Movies to Stream Now ( NYT > Arts ) |
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, October 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Viral NblA proteins negatively affect oceanic cyanobacterial photosynthesis ( Nature ) |
Q&A weekly thread - November 17, 2025 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
Mathematicians put AI model AlphaProof to the test ( Nature ) |
Duke opens female-leadership program to all gender identities, closes an Office of Inclusive Excellence ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
The ‘Lost Sisters’ of the Pleiades Fill the Entire Night Sky ( NYT > Science ) |
Idea that gut microbes contribute to autism draws fire ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
True Crime: Allan Pinkerton’s Thirty Years a Detective (1884) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
An interview with Chris Gilliard on his new book Luxury Surveillance, how smart wearables could normalize pervasive surveillance, X's political shift, and more (Anika Collier Navaroli/Tech Policy Press) ( Techmeme ) |
A universal speed limit for spreading of coherence ( Nature ) |
Alfred G. Mayer’s On the Color and Color-Patterns of Moths and Butterflies (1897) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Why an Offset Spatula Is the Tool I Can’t Bake Without ( Serious Eats ) |
Trojan Pig: Tiny Cryptic #11 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The future of ageing: science aims to deliver another leap in lifespan ( Nature ) |
What other cities around the world are close to the coast, but not on the coast? ( Geography ) |
Hurrian Phonemic Investory and Syllable Structure (2022) ( Linguistics ) |
Britain’s Labour Government Plans New, Tougher System for Asylum Seekers ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, October 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Losh Kebabs (Armenian Grilled Meat Patties) ( Serious Eats ) |
Controlling pyramidal nitrogen chirality by asymmetric organocatalysis ( Nature ) |
Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Screening for Dan Bongino, Senior Staff — ProPublica ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
RFK Jr.’s Cheer Squad Is Getting Restless ( The Atlantic ) |
Tranquilizer ( Pitchfork ) |
Why Trump Gets Away With It ( The Atlantic ) |
Trump Administration Revokes Biden Ban on Drilling and Mining in Alaska Wilderness ( NYT > Science ) |
Judge to Approve Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy, Releasing Billions for Opioid Plaintiffs ( NYT > Science ) |
Tiny robots swim through blood, deliver drugs — and then dissolve ( Nature ) |
George Baxter’s Print of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (ca. 1854) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Kitchen Gear and Tools We Think You Should Have Two (Or More) Of ( Serious Eats ) |
‘Come See Me in the Good Light’: The Sweetness After a Terminal Diagnosis ( NYT > Arts ) |
Other minds / 102 lessons / No-hole poster hanging ( Cool Tools ) |
Warburg’s Werewolf: An Anamnesis ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind’s Katzensymphonie (1868) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
We Tested 8 Countertop Ice Makers—Three Stood Out ( Serious Eats ) |
International Students Were Already Shunning U.S. Colleges Before Trump, New Data Show ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
How Paris Became Paris: The Story Behind Its Iconic Squares, Bridges, Monuments & Boulevards ( Open Culture ) |
Massive Attack Promise New Music for 2026 ( Pitchfork ) |
How did Jews feel about Al-Aqsa before the 20th century? ( AskHistorians ) |
‘Viridiana’ Was Luis Buñuel’s Revenge ( NYT > Arts ) |
Visiting Leiden, Canals and Charm Without the Crowds of Amsterdam ( NYT > Science ) |
Align wildfire prevention with conservation ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Gaza’s tech community reflects on two years of war ( Rest of World - ) |
I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Needy Programs @ tonsky.me ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Our Favorite Images of 2022 ( Serious Eats ) |
The Nick Fuentes Spiral ( The Atlantic ) |
A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
14 Last-Minute, Food-Related Valentine’s Day Gifts ( Serious Eats ) |
States as Derived Aspect ( Linguistics ) |
The Best Punk on Bandcamp, October 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
The End of the World as We (Didn’t) Know It: Now and Then #5 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Avalon Emerson Shares Video for New & the Charm Song: Watch ( Pitchfork ) |
In Other Journals ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H. ( NYT > Arts ) |
h. pruz — Red sky at morning (Mt. Laurel) ( dusted ) |
Britain’s Railway Privatization Was an Abject Failure - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Bad Bunny Tops the Latin Grammys: 8 Key Moments From the Show ( NYT > Arts ) |
The pandemic next time ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Baker's Dozen Donuts Opening Monday Nov 17 ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit ( Hacker News ) |
giant owl/mothman spotted in my backyard ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
How to See the Northern Lights on Wednesday ( NYT > Science ) |
The Breville Pizzaiolo Oven Makes Great Neapolitan Pizza—And It’s 20% Off This Week ( Serious Eats ) |
At the Cybathlon, May the Best Brain-Computer Interface Win ( NYT > Science ) |
Man accused of smuggling protected parakeets in his underwear ( National ) |
Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000) ( Hacker News ) |
Itiner-e ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Tri-Con: The Trident Conference for Speculative Fiction ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Friends Say a Suspect in the Louvre Heist Had Tried to Leave a Rough Past Behind ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Charles Butler’s The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The End to the Government Shutdown ( The Atlantic ) |
Almost Everything About NASA’s ESCAPADE Mission to Mars Is Unusual ( NYT > Technology ) |
Flexible nanoelectronics reveal arrhythmogenesis in transplanted human cardiomyocytes ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Galaxy Brain: The Internet Is a Misery Machine ( The Atlantic ) |
LOST DOG ON DUKE ST….. ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
China wants electric cars to feed power back to the grid ( Rest of World - ) |
World's smallest penguins return to coastal hamlet after 30 years ( MetaFilter ) |
When Worlds Divide: Terry Riley and La Monte Young’s Parallel Universes ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Under Construction: Tiny Cryptic #10 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Steven Lambke and Jimmie Kilpatrick — Friendship Traces (You’ve Changed) ( dusted ) |
How to find music you will love without the algorithm | The Verge ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Palestinian Food 101: Recipes to Get You Started ( Serious Eats ) |
First new type of malaria treatment in decades shows promise against drug resistance ( Nature ) |
Why We Think Baratza Grinders Are worth the Money (Including Two That Are on Sale) ( Serious Eats ) |
Roj Osa meets Rob Mazurek – Beton Kino ( The Quietus ) |
An ancient recombination desert is a speciation supergene in placental mammals ( Nature ) |
on neuschwanstein castle (part 1) ( McMansion Hell ) |
The Color of Memory: Albert Kahn’s Archives of the Planet ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Daily briefing: How ancient humans bred and traded dogs ( Nature ) |
Homestyle Bibimbap ( Serious Eats ) |
A guide to the Nature Index ( Nature ) |
America Is Taking the Train ( The Atlantic ) |
Building serverless applications with Rust on AWS Lambda | AWS Compute Blog ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
NBA YoungBoy, Rap’s Defining 2025 Superstar, Is Hiding in Plain Sight ( NYT > Arts ) |
New MeFiCoFo board elected ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
We Reviewed 3 Cast Iron Bread Ovens and Recommend All of Them ( Serious Eats ) |
Voize, an ambient AI voice company targeting skilled nursing facilities, raised a $50M Series A led by Balderton Capital and plans a US launch in Q1 2026 (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios) ( Techmeme ) |
A recent genetic study lends credence to the British WW2 song "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball" - but... how? Is it just a coincidence? Or did rumors circulate somehow based on a physical reality? ( AskHistorians ) |
Which trio of nations are the most similar to one another? ( Geography ) |
Meat consumption in the 19./20. Century in central Europe? ( AskHistorians ) |
Essential Releases, November 7, 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Float ( Pitchfork ) |
Why Can’t I Just Watch Sports on Television? ( The Atlantic ) |
Maxime Pascal to Conduct Stockhausen’s ‘Montag aus Licht’ in Paris ( NYT > Arts ) |
6 Highlights From Pitchfork Music Festival London 2025 ( Pitchfork ) |
Australia’s toxic algal bloom has a surprise culprit ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Sister Irene O’Connor, “Fire of God’s Love” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
RippleJS ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
My KitchenAid Stand Mixer is Leaking Oil—What’s Going On? ( Serious Eats ) |
How to Watch the Leonids Meteor Shower Reach Its Peak ( NYT > Science ) |
Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century ( The Public Domain Review ) |
How a Sea Creature’s Fossils Show All the Colors of the Rainbow ( NYT > Science ) |
ongoing by Tim Bray · Kendzior Case-Study ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The ‘Easy Way’ to Crush the Mainstream Media ( The Atlantic ) |
F.D.A. Sharply Limits Use of Drug Linked to Two Teen Deaths ( NYT > Science ) |
Reissue of the Week: Hüsker Dü’s 1985: The Miracle Year ( The Quietus ) |
American in a crucial way ( MetaFilter ) |
Synthesis of enantioenriched atropisomers by biocatalytic deracemization ( Nature ) |
Ata Kak, “Batakari” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
After science ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Highlighting adoptable cats at APS ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
The Final Age – New Hallucinations ( The Quietus ) |
The ‘Donroe Doctrine’: Trump’s Bid to Control the Western Hemisphere ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Birth of the Pearl (1901) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
New International Student Enrollment Plummeted This Fall, Survey Finds ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Toasts | Primer design system ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Structured outputs on the Claude Developer Platform | Claude ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
300 billion reasons the penny won’t be dead for a while ( National ) |
Runit Linux: Complete Guide to Unix Init Scheme with Service Supervision ( Hacker News ) |
https://github.com/Hans-Halverson/brimstone ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Covalent inhibitors of the PI3Kα RAS binding domain impair tumor growth driven by RAS and HER2 ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
What’s the Deal With Instant Cold Brew Makers? ( Serious Eats ) |
Decoding Leibniz notation - Slava Akhmechet ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The Best Latin Music on Bandcamp, October 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Bangladesh Court Sentences Former Leader Sheikh Hasina to Death ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Harvard researcher Dr. Tiffany Hogan explains how speech and language shape literacy — fascinating interview ( Linguistics ) |
The I-77/I-277 interchange in Charlotte NC is being redesigned, in part due to new dedicated toll lanes. ( Geography ) |
Why Jill Lepore Nearly Quit Harvard ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
Think in Math. Write in Code. ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Q&A weekly thread - November 10, 2025 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
Again ( Pitchfork ) |
We Tested 7 Anti-Fatigue Mats—Here Are the Best Ones for Your Kitchen ( Serious Eats ) |
Paramaribo and the Plantation: Gerrit Schouten’s Dioramas of Suriname (1810–30) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
‘The Beast in Me’ Review: On the Edge, Again, With Claire Danes ( NYT > Arts ) |
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure ( Linguistics ) |
Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago (1928) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Blue Origin Scrubs Launch of NASA’s ESCAPADE Mission to Mars ( NYT > Technology ) |
He doesn't like to be referred to as "maestro," ( MetaFilter ) |
What Should I Do With My Playbill? ( NYT > Arts ) |
Sessa — Pequena Vertigem de Amor (Mexican Summer) ( dusted ) |
Are there any other places in the world that do this sort of thing? ( Geography ) |
Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Les premières grammaires des vernaculaires européens (edited by Anders Ahlquist) ( Linguistics ) |
Puntarelle Alla Romana (Puntarelle Salad With Anchovy and Garlic Dressing) ( Serious Eats ) |
Old Tricks: Tiny Cryptic #9 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Bands Left Behind By Streaming ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
We Tested 13 Nakiri Knives—Three Sliced Through the Competition ( Serious Eats ) |
Zhao Cong / Kevin Corcoran — -1 outside / 24 inside (Aloe) ( dusted ) |
Three research stars fighting to protect coastlines ( Nature ) |
We Tested 13 Carbon Steel Pans—Three Stood Out ( Serious Eats ) |
At the Cybathlon, May the Best Brain-Computer Interface Win ( NYT > Technology ) |
Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models ( Hacker News ) |
Why BYD can’t do for China what Ford did for America ( Rest of World - ) |
Navy Federal Credit Union branch at South Square? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Infiniti independent repair shop close to Brier Creek or surrounding areas? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Why I moved my research to China from Germany: a biologist’s experience ( Nature ) |
Some lessons from an indie TTRPG zine fundraiser ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Moin Moin (Nigerian Steamed Bean Cake) ( Serious Eats ) |
The level of population or population density does not seem to be directly proportional to the actual congestion and crowding. ( Geography ) |
Trump Is Said to Propose Opening California Coast to Oil Drilling ( NYT > Science ) |
The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, October 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
What’s a Digital Passport and How Does It Work? ( NYT > Technology ) |
Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar paycheck depends on the markets he’s losing ( Rest of World - ) |
Branched actin networks mediate macrophage-dependent host-microbiota homeostasis ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Con Heir: Tiny Cryptic #4 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Nolan Williams, Who Stimulated the Brain to Treat Depression, Dies at 43 ( NYT > Science ) |
How did Coca Cola become ingrained in the indigenous cultures of Chiapas? ( AskHistorians ) |
what if you don't need mcp at all? ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
North American Music: tQ in New York City, by Maxelle Talena ( The Quietus ) |
About Yesterday’s and Today’s Ezz-Thetics ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Targeting formyl peptide receptor 1 reduces brain inflammation and neurodegeneration ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Reissue of the Week: Tenor Saw’s ‘Ring The Alarm’ ( The Quietus ) |
Tony Molina — On This Day (Slumberland) ( dusted ) |
Vote here ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
“Twinkle, twinkle” was published in 1809, about 200 years after the invention of the telescope and Galileo’s discovery of Jupiter’s moons. When the narrator says “How I wonder what you are!”, what are they wondering? What did the average English person in 1809 think a star might be? ( AskHistorians ) |
For Patreon, I wrote about developer slop flooring, the history of walking on plastic, and what fake… ( McMansion Hell ) |
Mudpots and Fumaroles: Lithographs of Yellowstone’s Thermal Springs (1883) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Ka'ak al Quds (Jerusalem Sesame Bread) ( Serious Eats ) |
Danish startup Flatpay, which facilitates card payments for SMBs, raised €145M at a €1.5B valuation and says it "crossed €100M of ARR in October" (Anna Heim/TechCrunch) ( Techmeme ) |
ode to a faux grecian urn ( McMansion Hell ) |
Leonardo da Vinci’s Visionary Inventions Rendered in 3D Animation: Helicopters, Robotic Knights, The First Ever Diving Suit & More ( Open Culture ) |
‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’ Has Tricks Up Its Sleeve ( NYT > Arts ) |
Sheet Pans Aren't Cookie Sheets: A Baking Sheet Explainer ( Serious Eats ) |
Ecology and spread of the North American H5N1 epizootic ( Nature ) |
Russian Humanoid Robot Falls on Its Face in Hyped Debut ( NYT > Technology ) |
Clinically ready magnetic microrobots for targeted therapies ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Magdalena Bay to Release New Songs in Nice Day Box Set ( Pitchfork ) |
The Old, Old, Very Old Man: Thomas Parr and the Longevity Trade ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The Cat’s Meat Man: Feeding Felines in Victorian London ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Saving the Pint: How a CO2 Shortage is Changing Beer Brewing ( Serious Eats ) |
How a Food Dehydrator Can Help You Reduce Food Waste ( Serious Eats ) |
Muslim mayor, Jewish voters, Trump rage. London’s lessons for Mamdani. ( World ) |
'Tiny' AI model beats massive LLMs at logic test ( Nature ) |
At what point in history did Greece stop being a European superpower? ( Geography ) |
13 Make-Ahead Desserts for the Holidays ( Serious Eats ) |
Pig-organ transplants are often rejected — researchers find a way to stop it ( Nature ) |
Scientists Grow More Hopeful About Ending a Global Organ Shortage ( NYT > Science ) |
The Roman Empire’s Vast Road Network—186,000 Miles of It—Has Just Been Mapped in a New Digital Atlas ( Open Culture ) |
The Immortal Remains ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, “wonderful” rooms!“ ( McMansion Hell ) |
Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation | Max Woolf's Blog ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Q&A weekly thread - November 03, 2025 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
SML, “How You Been” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Secret Rules Now Govern What Can Be Taught in Florida ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
Exercise (and recovery) for the 50+ human: what's different ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
Gustatory Wisdom: Bruegel the Elder’s Twelve Proverbs (1558) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
GitHub - jonasstrehle/supercookie: ⚠️ Browser fingerprinting via favicon! ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Code Wiki: Gemini-generated documentation, always up-to-date. ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Rescued chickens wearing diapers join monthly Florida yoga class ( National ) |
Free Thread! ( MetaFilter ) |
We Tested the Ankarsrum Stand Mixer for Months to Find Out if It’s Worth Buying ( Serious Eats ) |
Chè Chuối (Vietnamese Banana, Tapioca, and Coconut Milk Dessert) ( Serious Eats ) |
Open Source Power ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Lupita Nyong’o in ‘Twelfth Night,’ and More Theater to Stream ( NYT > Arts ) |
Dye or die: bacterium forced to make pigment to stay alive ( Nature ) |
the motel room, or: on datedness ( McMansion Hell ) |
You want glorious sunshine year round with very little fog, or fires, or clouds or heat or cold or high humidity? Go to Arequipa, Peru ( Geography ) |
“I Deliver Parcels in Beijing”: Chinese literary sensation reaches U.S. ( Rest of World - ) |
Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science ( The Public Domain Review ) |
2025-11-10 InterpN: Fast Interpolation - James Logan's Personal Site ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The 1% Guild ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem | Hacker News ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Why space exploration needs science leadership now — before it’s too late ( Nature ) |
Which winters were exceptionally cold by the standards of certain regions around the world? For example: an average temperature well below normal. ( Geography ) |
Semantic Shift in Old English and Old Saxon Identity Terms ( Linguistics ) |
These create the impression that AI water use is a problem. It is not. ( MetaFilter ) |
Paris 1942, Short-Lived Experimental Rock Royalty ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Citric Dummies — Split with Turnstile (Feel It!) ( dusted ) |
Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Trump’s Surprise Pivot on the Epstein Files, and Why Crypto A.T.M.s Are a Hub for Scams ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Heteropsy — Embalming (Caligari) ( dusted ) |
A 400-Year-Old Ring that Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavens ( Open Culture ) |
The Tape Label Report, October 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
“You Think Me a Bold Cheat”: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Chinese chipmaker Cambricon's revenue surged 500%+ in the past year and its stock jumped 765%+ in two years, as China pushes local chips amid US sanctions (Bloomberg) ( Techmeme ) |
I am a humble worldbuilder, and I come to you in a time of great need. How close can two separate rivers get without any major interaction with each other? ( Geography ) |
Is It Worth Buying a Refurbished Vitamix or KitchenAid? ( Serious Eats ) |
Modern Nature — The Heat Warps (Bella Union) ( dusted ) |
JJJJJerome Ellis – Vesper Sparrow ( The Quietus ) |
RIP Kit Kat ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Olympiad-level formal mathematical reasoning with reinforcement learning ( Nature ) |
How Seattle’s The Stranger Became a Progressive Kingmaker ( NYT > Technology ) |
"ICE OUT" EMERGENCY PROTEST: Raleigh 11/16 @ 3PM Moore Sq ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Zelensky Ousted a Heavyweight Mayor. Was It a Power Grab? ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Genomic evidence for the Holocene codispersal of dogs and humans across Eastern Eurasia ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
The Best Kitchen Shoes, According to the Serious Eats Team ( Serious Eats ) |
How do I trust, if I trust at all? ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
Hilary Woods – Night CRIÚ ( The Quietus ) |
Susumu Yokota — Grinning Cat (Skintone Records/Lo Recordings) ( dusted ) |
Joshua Bridge Premieres New Short Film ‘What Do You Want?’ ( The Quietus ) |
Solvay of Belgium Creates Rare Earths Deals With U.S. ( NYT > Technology ) |
We Reviewed Anyday Cookware: Are the Microwavable Dishes Worthwhile? ( Serious Eats ) |
Emerging climate impact on carbon sinks in a consolidated carbon budget ( Nature ) |
We Reviewed the Challenger Fermentation Mat and Recommend It for Sourdough Bakers ( Serious Eats ) |
Animal Costumes from the 1862 Fairytale Ball of the Jung-München Artist’s Association ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Balmuda: Our Review of the Pretty, Steam-Powered Toaster ( Serious Eats ) |
You misunderstand what it means to be poor - Dom Corriveau ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
US Airport Mayhem/NewLife Estimator/Remote Locker Pickups ( Cool Tools ) |
Only three kinds of AI products actually work ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
When Indoor Plumbing Was Becoming Popular in the Industrialized West, Were There Plumbing Deniers Who Thought it Was Evil? ( AskHistorians ) |
The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser! ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Beautiful, Color Photographs of Paris Taken a Century Ago—at the Beginning of World War I & the End of La Belle Époque ( Open Culture ) |
What is Sumac? ( Serious Eats ) |
Today’s Top Directors Have Some Issues With Gen Z ( NYT > Arts ) |
Inside Harvey: How a first-year legal associate built one of Silicon Valley's hottest startups | TechCrunch ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Include a mixture allocation factor to improve EU chemical risk management ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Volcano mega-eruptions lead to parched times ( Nature ) |
How COVAX raced to protect the world from COVID-19 ( Nature ) |
Q&A with OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo on joining OpenAI, ChatGPT users' mental health, profitability, data center deals, her chronic illness, and more (Zoë Schiffer/Wired) ( Techmeme ) |
Extreme rainfall poses the biggest risk to Mumbai’s most vulnerable people ( Nature ) |
How Fraudsters Use Cryptocurrency A.T.M.s to Target Victims ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
The leading cities in the world for high-quality research in 2024 ( Nature ) |
Sympathy for a Handsome Devil ( The Atlantic ) |
12 Freezer-Friendly Soups for a Warm Meal Whenever You Want It ( Serious Eats ) |
Magnetic fibres give this robot a soft grip ( Nature ) |
Handy ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Niecy Nash-Betts Saves It for the ‘All’s Fair’ Group Chat ( NYT > Arts ) |
With lasagna and burritos, neighbors feed one another as food prices soar ( National ) |
Todd Snider, Folk Singer With a Wry Wit, Dies at 59 ( NYT > Arts ) |
Strings Attached: Helen Haiman Joseph’s A Book of Marionettes (1920) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Radio burst from a stellar coronal mass ejection ( Nature ) |
Hello everyone! The word is out – I am writing a book! ( McMansion Hell ) |
How ancient humans bred and traded the first domestic dogs ( Nature ) |
Can anyone find a more isolated town of 500+ people east of the Mississippi than Ocracoke, North Carolina? ( Geography ) |
Agent Cupcake: The Unicorn Spy ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Christopher Larkin Doesn’t Just Score Video Games, He Creates Worlds ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
The Best New Year's Kitchen Sales ( Serious Eats ) |
Vindicating the role of ideophones as a typological feature of Basque. Ibarretxe-Antuñano (2023) ( Linguistics ) |
Essential Releases, November 14, 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Uranium — Corrosion of Existence (Sentient Ruin Laboratories) ( dusted ) |
A Fats Waller Musical All but Disappeared (Until Now) ( NYT > Arts ) |
This Is How Our Economy Comes Crashing Down ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Blue Origin Lands Booster After Rocket Launch and Matches SpaceX’s Feat ( NYT > Science ) |
Why is it that polytheistic religions never seemed to convert monotheistic populations in the same way that Christianity or Islam replaced local polytheistic religions? ( AskHistorians ) |
Has This Director Made the Year’s Most Terrifying Movie? ( NYT > Arts ) |
Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
"Good engineering management" is a fad ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
My family’s sacrifice sustains me ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Sinking cities: how China is moving subsidence research forward ( Nature ) |
How to Make Kombucha ( Serious Eats ) |
namesake mcmansion ( McMansion Hell ) |
Mapping U.S. strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific ( World ) |
Paris Opera Debuts ‘Satyagraha’ by Philip Glass, Directed by Dancers ( NYT > Arts ) |
Spaceport mementos ( Nature ) |
Perpetual Movement: Francis Picabia’s 391 Review (1917–1924) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Lomi Composter Review: Here’s Whether It’s Worth It (or Not) ( Serious Eats ) |
Feather Tickler: Tiny Cryptic #8 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The Strange World Of… Lovers & Lollypops ( The Quietus ) |
Listen to Database Changes Through the Postgres WAL ( Hacker News ) |
20 U.S. Boat Strikes in Three Months ( The Atlantic ) |
‘Nouvelle Vague’: All the References Explained ( NYT > Arts ) |
Sources: UK companies and groups tell the UK that a planned ban on paying ransoms to ransomware gangs is unlikely to stop attacks and risks collapsing services (Kieran Smith/Financial Times) ( Techmeme ) |
texas gothic revival ( McMansion Hell ) |
The Mermaid “at Home!” (1809) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Could humans have settled in Antartica similarly to how they did in places like Nunavut and Greenland? ( Geography ) |
When the city tried to take a 10-year-old’s bees, hundreds rallied behind him ( National ) |
Why A Small Fine Mesh Strainer Is Incredibly Versatile ( Serious Eats ) |
Cheese Foam Tea ( Serious Eats ) |
Could China’s cautious new research strategy stifle its science-leadership ambitions? ( Nature ) |
Michael Wolff’s Unsatisfying Explanation for Cozying Up to Epstein ( The Atlantic ) |
Main ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Sartorial Codes: Tiny Cryptic #3 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
I was curious about how the continents originally got named. Is any of this A.I. information lacking? ( Geography ) |
Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today | Hacker News ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Zigbook – Learn the Zig Programming Language ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Broadway’s Radical ‘Oedipus,’ With Mark Strong and Lesley Manville ( NYT > Arts ) |
Minor collision during rush hour on California freeway. Who pays? ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
The contribution of rock strength to soil production ( Nature ) |
Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Does Your Beer Glass Really Matter? We Consulted a Beer Expert to Find Out ( Serious Eats ) |
Estimation and mapping of the missing heritability of human phenotypes ( Nature ) |
I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels ( Hacker News ) |
After EP / After EP 2 ( Pitchfork ) |
The fate of "small" open source ( Hacker News ) |
Sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations proposed ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Texas dementia researchers cheer $3 billion initiative ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss’ Retrofuturism ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The bombing of Gaza Sky Geeks ( Rest of World - ) |
CSS Gamepad API Visual Debugging With CSS Layers — Smashing Magazine ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
We’re Thinking About Young Adulthood All Wrong ( The Atlantic ) |
Pennies Are Trash Now ( The Atlantic ) |
The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The Most Popular Serious Eats Recipes of 2022 ( Serious Eats ) |
Huge eruption on a distant star confirmed at last ( Nature ) |
Wifredo Lam: Artist-Poet of Tropical Dreams and Sorrows ( NYT > Arts ) |
At the Broadway Flea, a Market for Props, Playbills and a Good Cause ( NYT > Arts ) |
A molecularly impermeable polymer from two-dimensional polyaramids ( Nature ) |
Sofia Coppola Honored at MoMA Benefit With Elle Fanning, Bill Murray and David Letterman ( NYT > Arts ) |
Water aid requires global groundwater safety ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, October 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
11 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week ( NYT > Arts ) |
A Princely Ploy: Inside the Ruse of a French-Armenian Scammer ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Halloween costume: the night sky ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
10 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: FKA twigs, Colter Wall, and More ( Pitchfork ) |
Oneohtrix Point Never – Tranquilizer ( The Quietus ) |
Ship Sket, “InitiatriX” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Greg Jamie — Across a Violet Pasture (Orindal) ( dusted ) |
Madeleines ( Serious Eats ) |
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, October 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Our Favorite Recipes of 2022 ( Serious Eats ) |
At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, Chinese Technology Is Shifting Climate Politics ( NYT > Science ) |
About my last few months. ( McMansion Hell ) |
Subscribe to read ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Sand mining threatens one of Asia’s largest lakes ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Northern Lights Are Beautiful, but for Satellites They’re Risky ( NYT > Technology ) |
All of the Tools You Need to Make Really Great Baguettes at Home ( Serious Eats ) |
Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Hochul Urged to Ban Horseshoe Crab Fishing ( NYT > Science ) |
The Mountain Goats — Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan (Merge) ( dusted ) |
I gave a lecture about my Egyptian furniture replicas ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Anxiety and Exhaustion Stalk Those Spared From Layoffs ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
Resynthesizing "Invention in D Minor" from Switched-On Bach ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Transposable elements are vectors of recurrent transgenerational epigenetic inheritance ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
10 Cake Flour Recipes to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth ( Serious Eats ) |
Sharon Camp, Mother of the ‘Plan B’ Contraceptive Pill, Dies at 81 ( NYT > Science ) |
U.S. Marines in Haiti exchange gunfire with suspected gang members ( World ) |
Thousands March for Climate Action as COP30 Talks Enter Second Week ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Miley Cyrus Shares New Song “Dream as One” for New Movie Avatar: Fire and Ash: Listen ( Pitchfork ) |
GitHub - kavishdevar/librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem. ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
‘Nouvelle Vague’ Review: Richard Linklater’s Ode to ‘Breathless’ ( NYT > Arts ) |
Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics - Lasers and Optoelectronics ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive ( The Public Domain Review ) |
New study finds no evidence for the classic 'phoneme effect' on the Mismatch Negativity (MMN) brain response, suggesting the brain's automatic sound discrimination may not be as language-specific as previously thought and challenging its use as a benchmark for language ( Linguistics ) |
Death of Steven R. Anderson (3 Aug 1943 - 13 Oct 2025) ( Linguistics ) |
COSPLAY ( Pitchfork ) |
we’ve found it folks: mcmansion heaven ( McMansion Hell ) |
Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia and the Ostrich in Ancient and Modern Times (1926) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Master of Claude de France’s Book of Flower Studies (ca. 1510–1515) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Avoiding the climate “ambition trap” ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Running Your Own ISP at Home Part.5 - How to Get a North Korea / Antarctica VPS (New Concept: Light Up the Globe) ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
‘Malicious use is already happening’: machine-learning pioneer on making AI safer ( Nature ) |
Pitchfork Music Festival London 2025 Live Photos ( Pitchfork ) |
Urban impact of rare earth elements ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |