Targeting Cancer-Specific Mutations with RNA-Triggered Chromatin Shredding ( Nature ) |
Aethermead ( Pitchfork ) |
We Reviewed 3 Cast Iron Bread Ovens and Recommend All of Them ( Serious Eats ) |
U.S. launches new strikes on Iran, hours after Trump issued warning ( World ) |
Competition enables rapid adaptation to a warming range edge in a model plant community ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Losh Kebabs (Armenian Grilled Meat Patties) ( Serious Eats ) |
When drug discovery fails: scientists share their frustrations with the process ( Nature ) |
- YouTube ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Lyra Pramuk Changes Name to Alif Hilal After Converting to Islam ( The Quietus ) |
I was addicted to my phone – but one screen time hack actually made a difference | Smartphones | The Guardian ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Trump Shrugs Off High Prices Amid Iran War and Says ‘I Love the Inflation’ ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Is the peptide craze backed by science? The promise behind the hype ( Nature ) |
What is Columbia? ( Geography ) |
Pitchfork Festival Paris Adds More Names for 2026 ( Pitchfork ) |
My diverse academic background is affecting my PhD studies — what do I do? ( Nature ) |
Dario Amodei — Policy on the AI Exponential ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Pigeons Transmogrified: Hannah Glasse’s Art of Cookery (1751 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
NASA Crew-12 Commander Captures Snaky Southern Lights From Space Station ( NYT > Science ) |
Rocks falling from melting icebergs host deep-sea oases of biodiversity ( Nature ) |
The Life and Works of Raoul Bott ( Hacker News ) |
Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 Anthropic ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Croquembouche ( Serious Eats ) |
Harvard’s 1869 Entrance Exam: Could You Answer Tough Questions About Latin, Greek, Ancient History, Plane Geometry & More ( Open Culture ) |
How Nick Drake’s “River Man” Has Captivated Generation after Generation of Listeners ( Open Culture ) |
Fires reverse progress toward ozone air quality standards in the United States ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
ELEGY EP ( Pitchfork ) |
The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer (1877) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Starmer gives tech firms ultimatum to block explicit images on children’s phones | Internet safety | The Guardian ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
‘The Furious’ Review: Action Spectacle Built on Body-Breaking Blows ( NYT > Arts ) |
Why We Think Baratza Grinders Are worth the Money (Including Two That Are on Sale) ( Serious Eats ) |
U.S. Forest Service to Open Millions of Acres to Off-Road Vehicles ( NYT > Science ) |
AI Is Slowing Down ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
What Are A.I. Agents Actually Doing? ( NYT > Technology ) |
Why Apple’s A.I. Upgrade for Siri Won’t Be Available in Europe ( NYT > Technology ) |
Apple Reveals New A.I.-Powered Version of Its Siri Digital Assistant ( NYT > Technology ) |
Arson attacks at Ebola hospitals are a cry for regional development ( Nature ) |
Shack Sauce ( Serious Eats ) |
We Tested 14 Popular Vegetable Peelers to Find the Best Ones ( Serious Eats ) |
boringcollege/postgres-by-example: Yet another postgresql book! ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Flowers of Fealty: Wilhelm Dilich’s Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Welcome to the Heir's Game ( MetaFilter ) |
This World Cup could be the most high-tech yet — the innovations to watch for ( Nature ) |
Severe obesity in human HFpEF alters contractile protein function and organization ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
A Land Artist Asks: What Will Be Left When I’m Not Here? ( NYT > Arts ) |
We Tested 10 Tofu Presses—Three Squeezed Out the Competition ( Serious Eats ) |
“Wretches, Speak Evil of Me”: Goethe and Schiller’s Xenions (1896 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Danny and the Jupps—S-T (Self-Release) ( dusted ) |
Suede Reveal ‘Antidepressants’ Deluxe Edition ( The Quietus ) |
Historically, why have goats been associated with demons or the supernatural? ( AskHistorians ) |
Landscape efficiency frontiers for biodiversity, climate mitigation, and net economic value ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
How a High-Powered Gathering Turned Into a Knicks Watch Party ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
In a First, Scientists Precisely Edit Human Embryo Genes ( NYT > Science ) |
Inviting a Fight, U. of Florida Taps President with DEI Record ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
What is Sumac? ( Serious Eats ) |
Anthropic donates $150M to launch Claude Corps, a fellowship program that will teach 1,000 fellows how to use Claude and place them with nonprofits in the US (Glenn Gamboa/Associated Press) ( Techmeme ) |
She Was One of Obama’s Top Lawyers. How Did She Get Tangled Up With Epstein? ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
What is the Orion spacecraft? ( NYT > Science ) |
As far back as the C16th the herring has been a comic fish. ( MetaFilter ) |
They Tried To Catch a Child Predator on a Livestream. They Trapped Themselves Instead. ( NYT > Technology ) |
Jimmy Kimmel Calls a Technical Foul on Trump’s Apparent Game 3 Nap ( NYT > Arts ) |
13 Make-Ahead Desserts for the Holidays ( Serious Eats ) |
Lines of Code Got a Better Publicist ( Hacker News ) |
How to Make Homemade Vanilla Extract ( Serious Eats ) |
It's not just nuts for us; it's nuts for everyone ( MetaFilter ) |
What Happens When the Author Directs the Movie: How Robert Rodriguez Recruited Frank Miller to Co-Direct Sin City ( Open Culture ) |
Essential Releases, May 22, 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
The War in Ukraine Has Now Gone On Longer Than World War I ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Hear the First Book of Homer’s Iliad Read Aloud in the Original Greek ( Open Culture ) |
Seeking piano accompaniment teacher in NYC ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
LD debug ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Subject-Avatar in Computerized Enunciative Spaces ( Linguistics ) |
Chat Pile Prep New Album Who Loves the Sun ( Pitchfork ) |
Trump Shrugs Off Surging Inflation, and Why a Groundbreaking Social Media Ban Is Floundering ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Confined growth of armchair MoS2 nanotubes at the 1-nm limit ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Great shoppers, please help me find my perfect women's T-shirts ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
A Vegetarian's Christmas Eve Pig Roast ( Serious Eats ) |
Daily briefing: Trial to ‘de-age’ cells treats first person ( Nature ) |
“That’s Why We Become Witches”: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (1926) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
L'Affaire Siloxane ( Hacker News ) |
Happy Foot Sad Foot sign (a Wikipedia article) ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
We Tested 8 Enameled Cast Iron Skillets and Found Three Great Options ( Serious Eats ) |
How to Remove Apps You Never Use (or at Least Hide Them) ( NYT > Technology ) |
Theatre Adaptation of ‘Hamlet’ Based on Radiohead’s ‘Hail To The Thief’ to Get London Premiere ( The Quietus ) |
πFS ( Hacker News ) |
idle.news — On the Difference Between Rest and Idleness ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Meet the NASA Astronauts in the Artemis III 4-Person Crew ( NYT > Science ) |
Vince Staples – Cry Baby ( The Quietus ) |
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*): "I remain convinced that the reason most MS Office…" - Infosec Exchange ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
For Enrollment-Strapped Small Colleges, ‘Flat Is the New Growth’ ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
A vast whale necropolis has been found ( Nature ) |
The One Tony Award Our Readers Would Have Changed ( NYT > Arts ) |
Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't ( Hacker News ) |
What Apple Knows About AI That Silicon Valley Won't Admit ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Ocean ‘cold blob’ is evidence for a troubling climate trend ( Nature ) |
Tresor Academy Launches Masterclass Initiative for International Applicants ( The Quietus ) |
This lake in Mexico (Pueblo Viejo), has several islands in a straight line. The islands also tend to be in the groups of two ( Geography ) |
Homo cooperans: Understanding the nature of human cooperation ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
until something changes ( Pitchfork ) |
My KitchenAid Stand Mixer is Leaking Oil—What’s Going On? ( Serious Eats ) |
Open source UI kit for modern document apps - Extend UI ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
A Useful & Pleasant Poster for Following the World Cup ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Longitude by Way of Wounded Hounds: Kenelm Digby’s Sympathetick Powder (1669 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
We Tested 13 Wine Decanters and Came Away with 2 Favorites ( Serious Eats ) |
Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds | Hacker News ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Science must be seen as a viable profession for the many, not the few ( Nature ) |
We Tested the Anova Precision Chamber Vacuum Sealer ( Serious Eats ) |
Any bars showing the Knicks game tonight? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Studies in the Atharvaveda (Leach et. al 2025) ( Linguistics ) |
Madeleines ( Serious Eats ) |
Sam Bankman-Fried Has Applied for a Pardon From Trump ( NYT > Technology ) |
Essential Releases, May 29, 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Moin Moin (Nigerian Steamed Bean Cake) ( Serious Eats ) |
Conor McGregor’s Comeback: A Tale of Banned Drugs and a Famous Doctor ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Gilded Fish: Illustrations from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
TB vaccine from the 1920s shows promise in diabetes trial ( Nature ) |
They're Made Out of Weights ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
My overseas job offer was rescinded. Here’s how I bounced back ( Nature ) |
Our Favorite Features of 2022 ( Serious Eats ) |
Macaroni – a single HTML file messenger ( Hacker News ) |
The Victoria and Albert Museum Gets Nostalgic for Britain’s Lost Music Venues ( NYT > Arts ) |
KKR launches Helix Digital, a new company to finance AI infrastructure, with $10B+ in committed capital from Nvidia, the Kuwait Investment Authority, and others (Brian Fagioli/NERDS.xyz) ( Techmeme ) |
Monolord, “Neverending” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
In Science Journals ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Desi Lydic Does a Spit Take at the Price of Trump’s Gold Coin ( NYT > Arts ) |
Doctor Who is cancelled again, probably ( MetaFilter ) |
Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Photos From Around the North Pacific ( The Atlantic ) |
SpaceX Has $30 Billion Deal to Provide Google With A.I. Computing Power ( NYT > Technology ) |
Threatened ‘rolling stone reefs’ are surprisingly diverse ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Daily briefing: Ancient ground squirrels ate like ‘zombies of the Pleistocene’ ( Nature ) |
Sex, Lies and Secrets: A Federal Judge’s Trysts Go Public ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Remember Apollo 9? No? Have a Look at Artemis III. ( NYT > Science ) |
White Heaven, “Next to Nothing” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Why did so many ancient societies have a problem with actors? ( AskHistorians ) |
The New World Screwworm Is Back. Here’s What That Means. ( NYT > Science ) |
NASA Will Announce New Artemis III Astronauts and an Update on Its Moon Program ( NYT > Science ) |
Why It’s Nearly Impossible to Build a Robot Without China ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
2026 Tonys: How to Get Tickets for Winning Plays and Musicals ( NYT > Arts ) |
Unexpected expansion and regrowth in Earth’s mangrove forests over the past four decades ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Coastal Time: New Fiction by M. John Harrison ( The Quietus ) |
Lake Michie Water Reservoir levels ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Core PPI up 9.6% annualized (0.8% MoM) in May ( Hacker News ) |
How to Make Kombucha ( Serious Eats ) |
In an Italy of Many Voices, Emma Dante’s Plays Speak ‘the Language of the People’ ( NYT > Arts ) |
Under Construction: Tiny Cryptic #10 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
How I Learned to Read Way, Way More - John Paul Brammer ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Fake 'Nduja ( Serious Eats ) |
Herndon Hills Farm Registered Sex Offender ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Old'aVista: Main Page ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
We Tested 7 Pasta Makers to Find the Best Ones for Rolling and Cutting Dough ( Serious Eats ) |
Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report | WIRED ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
AI technology must serve human cognitive development, not the other way around ( Nature ) |
Don’t compete, collaborate: why collective funding applications are the future ( Nature ) |
Inside America’s Ugly Birthday Battle ( The Atlantic ) |
Dust, Volume 12, Number 5 — Part 2 ( dusted ) |
Kyle Gallner Is More Than Just a Scream King ( NYT > Arts ) |
The Best New Year's Kitchen Sales ( Serious Eats ) |
The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, May 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
String theory is rebuilt from first principles ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
A prognostic human brain network for diffuse midline glioma ( Nature ) |
NYC Street Named for Jimi Hendrix After 56-Year Petition ( Pitchfork ) |
Sources: SpaceX's IPO has attracted $70B+ in orders from retail investors, who are expected to be allocated at least 20% of the available shares (Bloomberg) ( Techmeme ) |
How to Deep-Clean Your Dutch Oven (and Keep It Looking Like New) ( Serious Eats ) |
‘I Am Frankelda’ Review: Nightmares in Stop-Motion ( NYT > Arts ) |
Nature Index 2026 Research Leaders rankings: are China’s East Asian neighbours keeping pace with it? ( Nature ) |
Your Search Results Are Getting Sloptimized - The Atlantic ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Back of the House: Meet Our 2022 Contributors ( Serious Eats ) |
The Artemis II mission transfixed the nation. ( NYT > Science ) |
Q&A weekly thread - April 20, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
The Iran War is Forcing Energy-Importing Countries to Turn Inward ( NYT > Technology ) |
Is there any record of the Amish settling the American West? ( AskHistorians ) |
Bonobo Enlists Arooj Aftab, Nilüfer Yanya for New Album Distance in Static ( Pitchfork ) |
These Young Politicians Want to Fix America’s Housing Problems ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
The Breville Pizzaiolo Oven Makes Great Neapolitan Pizza—And It’s 20% Off This Week ( Serious Eats ) |
Daring Fireball: SwiftUI Only Makes It Easy to Develop Bad Apps ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Why did ‘techno’ become a generic term for electronic music despite being a relatively niche genre with limited commercial impact (compared to say, House)? ( AskHistorians ) |
Nearly Everyone, Everywhere, Veers Left When Walking ( NYT > Science ) |
Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Leaks on Space Station Lead Astronauts Briefly to Seek Shelter in Spacecraft ( NYT > Science ) |
Build a Basic AI Agent from Scratch: Long Task Planning ( Hacker News ) |
Vowel reduction is conditioned by quality and quantity interactions: Evidence from Bolognese ( Linguistics ) |
Mitochondria directly interact with the nuclear pore complex ( Nature ) |
The architecture of the internet creates risks for democracy ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
17 Quick Dinner Recipes in 20 Minutes or Less ( Serious Eats ) |
Kitchen Gear and Tools We Think You Should Have Two (Or More) Of ( Serious Eats ) |
‘O Horizon’ Review: Trying to Skip Pain ( NYT > Arts ) |
A Cave in the Woods ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Bad Bunny’s private audience: Latin trap megastar met Pope Leo in Spain ( World ) |
texas gothic revival ( McMansion Hell ) |
10 Cake Flour Recipes to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth ( Serious Eats ) |
The End of the World as We (Didn’t) Know It: Now and Then #5 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
To the I-147 overpass Tuesday morning protestors ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Soft Cell Unveil Final Album Danceteria ( Pitchfork ) |
A Disorienting Weekend With the Women of Turning Point ( The Atlantic ) |
Most cost effective Food Co-Op in Research Triangle? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
How did North Korea obtain the resources and expertise required to create nuclear weapons? ( AskHistorians ) |
Ancient ground squirrels feasted on carcasses like ‘zombies of the Pleistocene’ ( Nature ) |
Author Correction: A broadly protective antibody targeting gammaherpesvirus gB ( Nature ) |
Whale graveyard discovered 7km under the sea ( Nature ) |
Genius of Dub: Mad Professor’s Guide to Ariwa Sounds ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
A Minneapolis Restaurant Stopped Charging for Food. And Profits Are Up. - The New York Times ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
How Tesla’s Stock Listing in 2010 Enabled SpaceX’s I.P.O. ( NYT > Technology ) |
Does Your Beer Glass Really Matter? We Consulted a Beer Expert to Find Out ( Serious Eats ) |
How Humans Migrated Across The Globe Over 200,000 Years: An Animated Look ( Open Culture ) |
Matt Pocock AI Skills ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Hot I.P.O. Summer + What Is A.I. Doing to Math? + HatGPT ( NYT > Technology ) |
Ivan Aivazovsky’s Miniature Seascapes (ca. 1887) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Why Your Next Diagnosis May Be Guided by an A.I. Helper - The New York Times ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Pulex irritans: The Attack of the Monster (1885) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
World-first: therapy to make cells young again trialled in a person ( Nature ) |
Why is this coast in Denmark a nearly perfect 90 degree angle ( Geography ) |
Fruit Is Nothing Like It Used to Be ( The Atlantic ) |
GitHub - chopratejas/headroom: The Context Optimization Layer for LLM Applications ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Photocatalyzed oxidative cleavage of alkenes using CO2 as an oxygen donor ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles ( Hacker News ) |
GeoLibre 1.0 ( Hacker News ) |
Linux latency measurements and compositor tuning ( Hacker News ) |
Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The President’s Arsenal of Insults Has a Telling New Entry ( The Atlantic ) |
Sinking ( Pitchfork ) |
If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know — Jonathon Ready ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
A graph showing how sunshine hours in major cities have changed since the 1990s and what they will most likely be by the year 2050 ( Geography ) |
A provocative view of evolution turns 50 ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
chud atlantis ( McMansion Hell ) |
Patently imperfect ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
A historical grammar of Phrygian (Sorgo 2026) ( Linguistics ) |
why do I have to listen to your car from half a mile away ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Hungary plans to decriminalize crypto trading in a reversal of restrictions, which prompted Revolut and others to suspend services, under former PM Viktor Orban (Zoltan Simon/Bloomberg) ( Techmeme ) |
The Official Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood YouTube Channel Goes Live: Watch Complete Episodes, Including the Very First ( Open Culture ) |
Gunman expected to plead guilty to killing Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman ( National ) |
Democrats Once Vowed to Stop Oil and Gas. Now They’re Not So Sure. ( NYT > Science ) |
White Heaven — Next to Nothing (Black Editions ( dusted ) |
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, May 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Tonight's sunset from the durham hotel's rooftop bar ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Meta A.I. Bug Allowed Hackers to Take Over Instagram Accounts ( NYT > Technology ) |
Malloreddus Alla Campidanese (Sardinian Ridged Pasta With Saffron and Pork Ragù) ( Serious Eats ) |
simulacra for bootlickers ( McMansion Hell ) |
Space Afrika Return with New LP, ‘Quiet Storm’ ( The Quietus ) |
Latin Roots Music Fights Back ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
The Strange World Of… Melinda Gebbie ( The Quietus ) |
Trump Isn’t Giving Up on His Slush Fund ( The Atlantic ) |
Democrats Are Starting to Worry About California ( The Atlantic ) |
Animal Costumes from the 1862 Fairytale Ball of the Jung-München Artist’s Association ( The Public Domain Review ) |
At‑home writing retreat / Surprising podcasts / Tiny camera ( Cool Tools ) |
Society of the Spectacles: Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! by Horse Lords ( The Quietus ) |
The Mystery Artist Filling Subway Ad Space With Whimsy ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Elon Musk is busy stoking far-right culture wars across the West on the eve of SpaceX's IPO, with an impunity unmatched in modern corporate history (Zachary Basu/Axios) ( Techmeme ) |
I replaced Spotify with a homemade FM radio station | Hacker News ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Preventing cancer requires more than a list of carcinogens ( Nature ) |
The Visitors, “Motherland (Remastered 2026)” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Texas Water Quality Visualization/Map ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Our Favorite Images of 2022 ( Serious Eats ) |
Cheese Foam Tea ( Serious Eats ) |
Iambic domains ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
American Grass Could Ruin the World Cup ( The Atlantic ) |
Average annual precipitation of the Americas by subdivision ( Geography ) |
Stage 2 water restriction in effect June 15 ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
‘Footballers are not superheroes’: we must tackle the mental and physical pressures of elite sport ( Nature ) |
Better Sex, Better Hair, Better Sleep: ‘Humanmaxxing’ Is Here ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Unflattening / Exploring Calvin and Hobbes ( Cool Tools ) |
Patti Smith, Jon Batiste and More Tell the History of SummerStage ( NYT > Arts ) |
B.F.I. Preserves ‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ and 430 Videos in Archive of Viral Moments ( NYT > Technology ) |
What country or region has a higher obesity rate than you would have thought? ( Geography ) |
This Is Mexico and Canada’s World Cup, Too. Don’t Expect Unity. ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Apache Burr (Incubating) - Build Reliable AI Agents and Applications ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
GitHub - apple/container: A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It's written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon. ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
What Does ‘Triggered’ Really Mean? ( NYT > Science ) |
For Painting’s Great Skeptic, Gerhard Richter, History Is a Blur ( NYT > Arts ) |
Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Unbridled Passions: The Eight Horses of King Mu, Son of Heaven (ca. 1300) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Snail Homes, Bog Bodies, and Mechanical Flies: Robert Testard’s Illustrations for Les secretz de l’histoire naturelle (ca. 1485) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
This pattern - is it okay? (Take a look at these hands!) ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
Strings Attached: Helen Haiman Joseph’s A Book of Marionettes (1920) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Roses ( Pitchfork ) |
Mace Defeat Heralds an Exodus of Rabble-Rousers From Congress ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Bernard Roizman, Virologist Who Demystified Herpes, Dies at 96 ( NYT > Science ) |
CEOs Who Think AI Replaces Their Employees Are Just Bad CEOs | Techdirt ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Who gets to be a NASA astronaut? ( NYT > Science ) |
RYBitten ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Jeff Bezos' Prometheus, which is building AI models for physical tasks, raised a $12B Series B at a $41B valuation, following a $6.2B Series A (Dan Primack/Axios) ( Techmeme ) |
Q&A weekly thread - May 18, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
container/docs/container-machine.md at main · apple/container · GitHub ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
What a New Report About the Humanities Gets Right — and Wrong ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
All of the Gear You Need to Make Your Own Gingerbread House ( Serious Eats ) |
Aeger Anima — The Falling Leaves (eerie sounds) ( dusted ) |
Molecular mimicry of a pathogen virulence target by a plant immune receptor ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Giant crustacean of the deep sea steals a trick from bacteria ( Nature ) |
We Tested the Ankarsrum Stand Mixer for Months to Find Out if It’s Worth Buying ( Serious Eats ) |
Introduction - Rust for Python Programmers ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Duane Michals, Artist of Wit and Courage ( NYT > Arts ) |
State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change? ( Geography ) |
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, May 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Digital Asset, which builds Canton Network, a public blockchain with privacy features, raised $355M, including $100M from a16z crypto (Bloomberg Law) ( Techmeme ) |
Melanie Mitchell: What we get wrong about AI ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The 12 Days of Christmas Cookies ( Serious Eats ) |
Great 🏳️🌈Exhibit at the Museum of Durham History ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Isochronic Passage Chart for Travellers — 2026 ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Disneyland With No People ( The Atlantic ) |
Homestyle Bibimbap ( Serious Eats ) |
CrankGPT ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Dopamine Fracking | Hacker News ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Swallow, “Blown” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
100 Guitars’ Worth of Glenn Branca’s Violent Ecstasy ( NYT > Arts ) |
We Reviewed The Vitamix Immersion Blender (And It Was Almost Silly Powerful) ( Serious Eats ) |
https://runtimewire.com/article/deepseek-v4-pro-beats-gpt-5-5-pro-on-precision ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
In the film "The Sound of Music” (1965), following the Anschluss, Catholic nuns actively assist the Von Trapp family in fleeing Austria. Would these nuns have been met with reprisals from the Nazi Party or from Austrian-German nationalists? ( AskHistorians ) |
‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’: The Lessons Behind These Horror Hits ( NYT > Arts ) |
L’Rain Returns With New Album Fata Morgana ( Pitchfork ) |
“Plaything of the Gods”: Photographs of Pushball (early 1900s) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Káryyn – Physics Universal Love Language (PULL) ( The Quietus ) |
Democrats Once Vowed to Stop Oil and Gas. Now They’re Not So Sure. ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Coram AI, which helps organizations use AI with their existing security equipment to find incidents, raised a $35M Series B, bringing its total funding to $66M (Rya Jetha/Business Insider) ( Techmeme ) |
Prior to WW2, German was language of scientific research. ( Geography ) |
A Collection of Old English Customs, and Curious Bequests and Charities (1842) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Bulk pick up- Los Angeles ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
As Screwworm Cases Mount, U.S. Officials Ramp Up Response ( NYT > Science ) |
A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The Largest Bookshelf Tour Ever Filmed: Inside a Classicist’s 20,000-Volume Library ( Open Culture ) |
Ultralow chromium doping enables all-PbSe thermoelectric cooling ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
The Economics of Speculative Decoding ( Hacker News ) |
David Bowie Picks His 12 Favorite David Bowie Songs ( Open Culture ) |
We Tested 9 Olive Oil Dispensers—Here Are Our Favorites ( Serious Eats ) |
How LLMs Actually Work | 0xkato ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Voice Acting: "Overheard On A Saltmarsh" ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
In a Trump-Endorsed Presidential Candidate, Colombia’s Women See a Familiar Far-Right Playbook ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
The Bug Club — Every Single Muscle (Sub Pop) ( dusted ) |
Seven steps for critically analysing research papers ( Nature ) |
Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Teensy ☆ News ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
What it feels like to work with Mythos - by Ethan Mollick ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
SpaceX’s IPO Could Turn 4,400 Employees Into Millionaires ( NYT > Technology ) |
US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance ( Hacker News ) |
Four Tet Surprise Releases New Album Under Wingdings Alias ( The Quietus ) |
New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, “wonderful” rooms!“ ( McMansion Hell ) |
Life in ancient times / Desperate Oasis / Theatrical releases you can stream ( Cool Tools ) |
Nespresso vs. Keurig: Which Coffee Maker is Better? ( Serious Eats ) |
How Tesla’s Stock Listing in 2010 Enabled SpaceX’s I.P.O. ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser! ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Can You Stop Beans From Making You Fart? We Put 17 Methods to the Test ( Serious Eats ) |
We Tested 8 Mini Whisks And Came Away with Three Favorites ( Serious Eats ) |
Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Play Ball! ( MetaFilter ) |
For Sharada Shashidhar, Play Comes Before Perfection ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
No Borders Geography Quiz ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
What’s in my NOW? — Pavel Guzhikov ( Cool Tools ) |
found wallet ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Datatype — variable font that turns text into charts ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The Strange History of Lorem Ipsum: How Cicero’s Words Became the World’s Favorite Placeholder Text ( Open Culture ) |
Food Processor vs. Blender: What's the Difference? ( Serious Eats ) |
29 Shows to Watch This Summer ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Anyone else think the CFA Koppen Climate classification is too broad? How are Sao Paulo, Tokyo, NYC, Sydney, Houston, and Milan in the same climate category? ( Geography ) |
Microsoft C.E.O. Satya Nadella Says ‘Everyone Is a Stakeholder’ in A.I. ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Feather Tickler: Tiny Cryptic #8 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
We Tested 7 Squeeze Bottles to Find the Best for Your Kitchen ( Serious Eats ) |
Bowerbirds Are Stealing Cash, Plastic and Handcuffs for Love ( NYT > Science ) |
Happy Memorial Day from Dusted; we’ll be back as normal tomorrow. ( dusted ) |
Open Mike Eagle and Kenny Segal Team for New Album Doomed! ( Pitchfork ) |
performative-ui | AI-native React Components ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The Spinn Coffee Maker Is One of the Only Automated Brewers We Like ( Serious Eats ) |
“A Beautiful Purplish Hue”: Frank Dudley Beane’s Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The Professional ( Pitchfork ) |
Elizabeth I’s Manuscript Copy of Pierre Boaistuau’s Histoires Prodigieuses (1559) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Eichner’s law: a critical survey of the evidence by Tijmen Pronk (2019) ( Linguistics ) |
the motel room, or: on datedness ( McMansion Hell ) |
The Divided World Cup ( The Atlantic ) |
Mutation-dependent responses to sleep and exercise in clonal haematopoiesis ( Nature ) |
Introducing FrontierCode | Cognition ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Ambient Albums from Non-Ambient Artists ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Orlan’s Face Is Her Canvas, and Her Calling Card ( NYT > Arts ) |
ULTRA ( Pitchfork ) |
When Should You Say Goodbye to a Pet? | The New Yorker ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The Best New Hip-Hop on Bandcamp, May 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Magic Tuber Stringband — Heavy Water (Thrill Jockey) ( dusted ) |
What to read: A summer book list ( Rest of World - ) |
Happy Public Domain Day 2026! ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The Best Methods for Making Whipped Cream, Explained ( Serious Eats ) |
A Scientific Achievement That’s Totally Random ( NYT > Science ) |
El Nino's possible ratchet effect on global temperatures ( Geography ) |
Q&A weekly thread - May 11, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
Bloom Phase: How to Read the Bubbles In Your Coffee ( Serious Eats ) |
Trump vows to hit Iran ‘very hard tonight,’ take over Kharg Island and oil industry ( World ) |
Brazil has to be the biggest wasted-potential country ( Geography ) |
Whole-genome duplication shaped cell-type evolution in the vertebrate brain ( Nature ) |
All of the Tools You Need to Make Really Great Baguettes at Home ( Serious Eats ) |
Peter Bjorn and John Plot Writer’s Block 20th Anniversary Tour ( Pitchfork ) |
Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration ( Hacker News ) |
A thalamus–brainstem attractor network drives history-biased decisions ( Nature ) |
OpenAI Files Confidentially for IPO as AI Companies Rush to Wall St. ( NYT > Technology ) |
Book Freak #212: Prometheus Rising ( Cool Tools ) |
Off Campus Is Driving Women Wild. Why? ( The Atlantic ) |
The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
China builds a rival satellite constellation as SpaceX goes public ( Rest of World - ) |
Reverse engineering the Creative Katana soundbar to control it from Linux ( Hacker News ) |
Trump Once Played Soccer ( The Atlantic ) |
How Unprecedented Were Mary's Bare Arms in Michelangelo's Doni Tondo? ( AskHistorians ) |
We Tested 12 Garlic Presses—Two Smashed the Competition ( Serious Eats ) |
Militarie Gun Promise 20 Songs for 20 Dollars on North American Tour ( Pitchfork ) |
Nope Rope ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Big Tech, big cons: Scammers are hiding in the apps that make your life easy ( Rest of World - ) |
When Both Parties Try to Out-Macho Each Other ( The Atlantic ) |
Apple Updates App Store Guidelines With Stricter Rules for Low-Quality Apps - MacRumors ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
How did Mercenaries/Soldiers who spoke different languages communicate in the 30 years war? ( AskHistorians ) |
Is there a landlocked country that has as remote capital city as Slovakia? ( Geography ) |
Organic Intelligence LVII: New York Sublime – The State of Abstract Hip Hop Now ( The Quietus ) |
Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI? | Hacker News ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Nikolai Agnivtsev’s Little Screw (1925) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Vacuum-Form Signage ( Hacker News ) |
Why religious construction is on the rise when most other building has stalled ( National ) |
The Old, Old, Very Old Man: Thomas Parr and the Longevity Trade ( The Public Domain Review ) |
A Lecturer Was Investigated Under Indiana’s Intellectual-Diversity Law. Now She’s Out of a Job. ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
A narrowing window to understand AI ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Q&A weekly thread - April 13, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
Magazine ( Pitchfork ) |
AddyOsmani.com - Loop Engineering ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
thi.ng - computational design tools for Clojure & Clojurescript ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
21 Recipes to Make With Your Newly Gifted Gear ( Serious Eats ) |
A Crime Doesn’t Make a Child an Adult ( The Atlantic ) |
Gene ancestries reveal diverse microbial associations during eukaryogenesis ( Nature ) |
Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Warburg’s Werewolf: An Anamnesis ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Sarah Davachi Details New Album, ‘The Will Of Tongues’ ( The Quietus ) |
How the Hagia Sophia Was Built, and How It’s Being Saved from Collapse ( Open Culture ) |
Dutch Authorities Block $115 Million Deal by a U.S. Tech Company ( NYT > Technology ) |
Making a Shading Language for My Offline Renderer ( Hacker News ) |
Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones ( Hacker News ) |
‘Stop! That! Train!’ Review: Gleefully Going Off the Rails ( NYT > Arts ) |
Jeff Bezos Wants to Build an ‘Artificial General Engineer’ ( NYT > Technology ) |
The American Federation of Musicians Sues Major Labels Over AI Licensing Deals ( The Quietus ) |
Jane Remover on Beef, Biting, and Their Next Album ( Pitchfork ) |
Ultraprocessed foods and obesity: Interpreting the evidence ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Indonesia Landslides Devastated Endangered Orangutans, Study Finds ( NYT > Science ) |
Introducing PDR Press Minis ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos ( MetaFilter ) |
glam metal modern but also your contractor is going to jail dawg ( McMansion Hell ) |
Wayang Kulit: Raden Soelardi’s Illustrations of Javanese Puppets (1919) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Anyone looking to adopt a kitty? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Is watching the News a good way to learn more about Geography? ( Geography ) |
Golden Goal ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Lesser-known isthmus cities ( Geography ) |
Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Mitochondria tethered to the nucleus secure its energy supply ( Nature ) |
Magic by Return of Post: How Mail Order Delivered the Occult ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Autobiographies to be Published in English for First Time ( The Quietus ) |
An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt | La Vita Nouva ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone ( Nature ) |
AllThingsSmitty/typescript-tips-everyone-should-know: A curated collection of practical TypeScript patterns that improve safety, readability, maintainability, and developer experience. ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Why is this dry region askew? ( Geography ) |
Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Is It Worth Buying a Refurbished Vitamix or KitchenAid? ( Serious Eats ) |
Driving in America Is Headlight Hell ( The Atlantic ) |
The Amazon can be saved — with concerted action inside and outside Brazil ( Nature ) |
LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do | the human in the loop ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Peter Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Light slows down carbon nanotubes in water ( Nature ) |
Bonus Post: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a treatise ( McMansion Hell ) |
Gen Z scepticism towards AI is a wake-up call — universities must take it seriously ( Nature ) |
AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere ( Hacker News ) |
Erratum for the Research Article “Invasion impacts in terrestrial ecosystems: Global patterns and predictors” ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Driver alert ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Dual-use research under scrutiny ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
From Cow-Milking Robots to Weed-Zapping Lasers, Farmers Are Embracing A.I. ( NYT > Technology ) |
Hello everyone! The word is out – I am writing a book! ( McMansion Hell ) |
A Thousand and One Nights in Italy: The Moorish Fantasias of Cesare Mattei and Ferdinando Panciatichi ( The Public Domain Review ) |
How Maya Rudolph Became an ‘Absolute Menace’ in ‘Oh, Mary!’ ( NYT > Arts ) |
Dust, Volume 12, Number 5 — Part 1 ( dusted ) |
Honing Versus Sharpening a Knife: What's the Difference? ( Serious Eats ) |
iheartlists game - from easy to death ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
18 Date-Night Recipes for a Cozy Meal at Home ( Serious Eats ) |
Cinderella Impersonator? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Global extent and drivers of tree cover loss quantified with high-resolution satellite data ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Imagining an Idle Countess: George Wightwick’s The Palace of Architecture ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Genevieve Stebbins’ Delsarte System of Dramatic Expression (1886) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The Big Questions About Jeffrey Epstein: What The Times Has Learned ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Erratum for the Research Article “Preventing hypocontractility-induced fibro-blast expansion alleviates dilated cardiomyopathy” ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Are there records of named foreign architects who designed buildings for the Qing Dynasty during the Self-Strengthening Movement? ( AskHistorians ) |
2007-core nostalgia extravaganza ( McMansion Hell ) |
Is Breville’s New Joule Air Fryer Toaster Oven Worth Buying? ( Serious Eats ) |
Aquavoltaics knowledge gaps undercut benefits ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Interpol Ready New Album, Share Two Songs ( Pitchfork ) |
Ka'ak al Quds (Jerusalem Sesame Bread) ( Serious Eats ) |
Another (small) Tax Hike in a Red State ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
American Christians Face a Choice ( The Atlantic ) |
The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Mansaf (Palestinian Spiced Lamb With Rice and Yogurt Sauce) ( Serious Eats ) |
Is the Instant Pot Duo Crisp Ultimate Lid a Good Air Fryer? ( Serious Eats ) |
Microsoft C.E.O. Satya Nadella Says ‘Everyone Is a Stakeholder’ in A.I. ( NYT > Technology ) |
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure ( Linguistics ) |
The Workers' Daily, the official mouthpiece of China's umbrella trade union, urges regulators to protect worker rights and strengthen oversight amid the AI boom (Bloomberg) ( Techmeme ) |
Q&A weekly thread - April 27, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake - The Onion ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
A Newer Approach to Editing Embryos Ignites Debate ( NYT > Science ) |
Sir Render ( Pitchfork ) |
How Will the Artemis III Astronauts Train? ( NYT > Science ) |
A Newer Approach to Editing Embryos Ignites Debate ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Editorial Expression of Concern for the Research Article “Continental mantle earthquakes of the world” ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Bad memories, bad sleep ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Nigerian Beef Stew ( Serious Eats ) |
Can SpaceX Defy A.I. Gravity? ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Ed O’Brien — Blue Morpho (Transgressive) ( dusted ) |
Bees Are Swarming Earlier: What to Do if You’re Attacked ( NYT > Science ) |
Puntarelle Alla Romana (Puntarelle Salad With Anchovy and Garlic Dressing) ( Serious Eats ) |
Baking Steels vs. Stones: Which One Should You Buy? ( Serious Eats ) |
Which geographical location has had the greatest influence on world history, and why? ( Geography ) |
I AM HANDS — S-T (Self-Release) ( dusted ) |
Tortoise to Tour U.S. and Canada ( Pitchfork ) |
Measurement of reactor neutrino oscillation with the first JUNO data ( Nature ) |
Reid Hoffman to Leave Microsoft’s Board of Directors ( NYT > Technology ) |
If these trends continue… ( MetaFilter ) |
ANWR Oil Draws Few Bids, Despite Trump’s Push for ‘Liquid Gold’ ( NYT > Science ) |
Lignin to adipic acid in a high-yield chemical and biological redox process ( Nature ) |
The Field Guide to CSS Grid Lanes ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Music Decoy - Stop launching the Music app whenever you press ▶ Play ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
As Bright as a Feather: Ostriches, Home Dyeing, and the Global Plume Trade ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Catlantean 3D - Making Graphics Like It's 1993 ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now ( NYT > Arts ) |
A.I. and the Chip Boom: Take a Quiz on New Korean Slang and Memes ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
What Is the Democrats’ Answer to ‘America First’? ( The Atlantic ) |
namesake mcmansion ( McMansion Hell ) |
Scale PostgreSQL horizontally | PgDog ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
In ‘Widow’s Bay,’ History Is Hard to Kill ( NYT > Arts ) |
To the left, to the left ( MetaFilter ) |
Artemis Astronauts to Wear Prada Spacesuits ( NYT > Science ) |
A stellar dynamical mass measurement of an inactive black hole at redshift 2 ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Strange Attraction: Why Olivia Rodrigo’s Love of The Cure is Pop’s Greatest Medicine ( The Quietus ) |
People are turning to AI chatbots to plug gaps in health information ( Nature ) |
Is it true I can be in the sun all day in some parts of the world and not get burned? ( Geography ) |
‘Hidden hero’ peptides guard crops against sudden cold ( Nature ) |
Through the Magnifying Glass: The Cheese Mites (1903) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Newly discovered whale graveyard dates back millions of years ( Nature ) |
Bill Orcutt & Mabe Fratti – Almost Waking ( The Quietus ) |
16 Easy Noodle Recipes for a Quick Meal Any Time of Day ( Serious Eats ) |
Diagnosis drives treatment. Treatment is what matters. ( MetaFilter ) |
The Breville Barista Express Impress Makes Home Espresso Approachable ( Serious Eats ) |
The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, May 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
After Mormon lawmakers object, Pentagon revises Christian religious categories ( National ) |
We Tested 13 Nakiri Knives—Three Sliced Through the Competition ( Serious Eats ) |
guidoschmidt.cc · Creative Coder ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Marbled Eye — Forever (Digital Regress) ( dusted ) |
Mixed Berry Trifle ( Serious Eats ) |
Wine’s warning for farming in climate change ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
About my last few months. ( McMansion Hell ) |
CUNY's Black Male Initiative Discriminates Against White Students, Justice Dept. Says ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
Metropolis Shift - a game about futility ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Rocking Speaker/Don’t Work in Bali/Airbnb and Housing ( Cool Tools ) |
We Tested 20 Bread Machines—Three Proved They Were The Best ( Serious Eats ) |
Our Favorite Recipes of 2022 ( Serious Eats ) |
For Patreon, I wrote about developer slop flooring, the history of walking on plastic, and what fake… ( McMansion Hell ) |
Two-component exciton condensates in an electron–hole bilayer ( Nature ) |
A footprint in the sand on the Island of Despair ( MetaFilter ) |
Why the SpaceX IPO Will Affect Your 401(k), Like It or Not ( NYT > Technology ) |
The Cypherpunk Library ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
performative-ui | AI-native React Components ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Trump Announces $700 Million in Funds Meant to Boost Coal Industry ( NYT > Science ) |
Zoh Amba Sees You ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, May 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
The Blinkered Flâneur: Walking with Franz Hessel in 1920s Berlin ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The last astronomers ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Thursday Reading & Recommendations | June 11, 2026 ( AskHistorians ) |
How did explorers “send” letters back home? ( AskHistorians ) |
Building from Zero After Addiction, Prison, and a Felony ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Why an Offset Spatula Is the Tool I Can’t Bake Without ( Serious Eats ) |
A teardown reveals the Trump Mobile T1 is a gold-painted HTC U24 Pro but features some changes, including memory from Micron instead of SK Hynix (Shahram Mokhtari/iFixit News) ( Techmeme ) |
Best and Worst Moments From the 2026 Tony Awards: Pink, Maya Rudolph, Cole Escola, ‘Cats’ ( NYT > Arts ) |
Artificial intelligence shines a light on hidden global migration flows ( Nature ) |
Floating Point Details New Album, ‘Mere Mortals’ ( The Quietus ) |
The Launch of Our Mid-Year Fundraiser! ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Tech Influence Watch ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its History ( The Public Domain Review ) |
How Does the Blue Origin Rocket Explosion affect NASA’s Moon Plans? ( NYT > Science ) |
GitHub - devenjarvis/lathe: Generate hands-on, multi-part technical tutorials on demand, with LLM skills tuned to make content approachable. Then you work through them yourself, by hand ✋ · GitHub ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Trump seeks tighter grip on grantmaking ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
aja monet, “the color of rain” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Old Tricks: Tiny Cryptic #9 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Sustainable fish share (CSF) in Durham? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
29 Shows to Watch This Summer ( NYT > Arts ) |
A first-in-class pulsatile FXR agonist for bile-acid-related liver diseases ( Nature ) |
Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
How Conflict Helped Create Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” and Its Legendary Guitar Solos ( Open Culture ) |
The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Kevin Morby — Little Wide Open (Dead Oceans) ( dusted ) |
G.M. Plans to Develop Energy Storage Batteries as E.V. Sales Flag ( NYT > Technology ) |
Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2025 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Neptune, “Play Some Music” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Autobiography of a “Jeep” (1943) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
A Texas city was already struggling with racial divisions. Then came a bitter murder trial. ( National ) |
The Absurdly Optimized Pancake: Leavening Chemistry, Acid-Base Stoichiometry, and an Interactive Calculator | Absurdly Optimized ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
We Tested 11 Different Bundt Pans—Three Won Top Marks ( Serious Eats ) |
Would the average person in England have cared if their King was Norman, Anglo-Saxon, or Norwegian? ( AskHistorians ) |
Is the iPhone Birth Control? Causal Evidence from AT&T’s 2007–2011 Carrier Monopoly | NBER ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The Crisis Iran’s Leaders Can’t Ignore ( The Atlantic ) |
Good recycling starts at home — and benefits the world ( Nature ) |
How Double Bassist Ron Carter Permanently Altered the DNA of Jazz ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
hanxiao/omni-macos: Native macOS semantic search over your local files - text, images, audio, video in one vector space, on-device on Apple silicon. ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Silicon Valley’s lure is fading for India’s tech talent ( Rest of World - ) |
Memory reactivation underlies experience-dependent adaptive regulation of sleep ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
John Basinger, Who Memorized All 12 Books of ‘Paradise Lost,’ Dies at 92 ( NYT > Arts ) |
How I use AI to turn failed drugs into new medicines ( Nature ) |
Spice World: A Look Inside the Serious Eats Team's Spice Cabinets ( Serious Eats ) |
Essential Releases, June 5, 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Flights of Fancy: The Nine Birds of Jacques de Fornazeris (1594) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Deep learning four decades of human migration ( Nature ) |
Power ESP32/ESP8266 with Solar Panels | Random Nerd Tutorials ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Before Andrew Johnson, did representation in America resemble that in communist states? ( AskHistorians ) |
Ivo Perelman Picks His Bandcamp Favorites ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Glissandro 70 — G70 2: Bones of Dundasa (Constellation) ( dusted ) |
In the Penal Colony: Now and Then #3 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Tool flags suspicious journals before researchers submit papers ( Nature ) |
Testing the Efficiency of a Machine Learning-Based Automatic Prosodic Segmentation Method for Brazilian Portuguese ( Linguistics ) |
How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Scarcity is driving AI innovation outside Silicon Valley ( Rest of World - ) |
Handy Stuff ( Cool Tools ) |
19 Sides to Go With Wings ( Serious Eats ) |
Sell These Jeans ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
Listed: Illusion of Safety ( dusted ) |
Top Pentagon Official Worked Closely With C.I.A. Officer Later Found With Gold Bars ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Arooj Aftab on Adopting Stray Cats ( The Quietus ) |
EXIT 2B ( Pitchfork ) |
Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival ( The Public Domain Review ) |
We Tested 13 Carbon Steel Pans—Three Stood Out ( Serious Eats ) |
Kurt Vonnegut Diagrams the Shape of All Stories in a Master’s Thesis Rejected by U. Chicago ( Open Culture ) |
Open Reproduction of DeepSeek-R1 ( Hacker News ) |
JUNO experiment ushers in next generation of neutrino experiments ( Nature ) |
An Introduction to the Islamic World: 1,000 Years of History in 19 Minutes ( Open Culture ) |
Mudpots and Fumaroles: Lithographs of Yellowstone’s Thermal Springs (1883) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Broken Ground: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Lomi Composter Review: Here’s Whether It’s Worth It (or Not) ( Serious Eats ) |
The DOGE Bros Want Another Shot ( The Atlantic ) |
Antiviral pill gets first test for Ebola prevention ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Our Winning Milk Frother Is Finally Back in Stock—And It's On Sale ( Serious Eats ) |
‘Disclosure Day’ Review: Spielberg Plays His Greatest Cosmic Hits ( NYT > Arts ) |
A Faculty Dispute Over ‘Word Salad’ Gets Messy ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
Scientist Charged With Conspiring to Smuggle Mpox Virus Into U.S. ( NYT > Science ) |
Return subject to Non-proliferation Policy ( MetaFilter ) |
How Artists With Disabilities Are Blazing New Musical Frontiers ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Stereoretentive radical-based alkyl-alkyl cross-coupling ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Ozone from wildfire plumes increases mortality ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
A Professor Was Ejected From a Conference for Criticizing the Trump Administration. He Says He Was 'Shocked.' ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
Introducing DiffusionGemma ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races before the Age of Linotype ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Sequoyah’s syllabary created a written language for the Cherokee ( Hacker News ) |
The Ever-Expanding Ambient Album of the “Across the Horizon” Series ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
What’s the Difference Between Glass and Metal Baking Pans? ( Serious Eats ) |
Amplified Arctic iceberg traffic reshapes benthic biodiversity ( Nature ) |
How William S. Burroughs Used the Cut-Up Technique to Shut Down London’s First Espresso Bar (1972) ( Open Culture ) |
Durham now at highest drought level ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Bad Hittite, Good Hattian: Linguistic Interference in the Old Hittite Oracle KBo 18.151 (2025) ( Linguistics ) |
Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season - 2025 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Nick Reiner, Accused of Killing Parents, Asks to Use Trust Fund for His Defense ( NYT > Arts ) |
Molecular glue degraders of HuR suppress BRAF-mutant colorectal cancer ( Nature ) |
How a Food Dehydrator Can Help You Reduce Food Waste ( Serious Eats ) |
A unicellular relative links aggregative multicellularity to animal origins ( Nature ) |
Book Review: ‘Cocked and Boozy,’ by Brooke Barbier ( NYT > Arts ) |
Late Night Roasts Trump for Walking Out on ‘Meet the Press’ ( NYT > Arts ) |
Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos ( Hacker News ) |
What was the etiquette around “spoilers” in the past? Did reviews and advertisements used to openly talk about endings? ( AskHistorians ) |
Was Scott Rudin the Biggest Winner at This Year’s Tony Awards? ( NYT > Arts ) |
Resistance is Everywhere (part of The Democracy Habit) ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Vince Staples, “Cry Baby” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
What’s the Deal With Instant Cold Brew Makers? ( Serious Eats ) |
Attack of the $5 Film Festival! Submissions open! ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Diles Que No Me Maten, “Escrito en Agua” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
James Blood Ullmer, Pioneering Funk and Jazz Guitarist, Dies art 86 ( Pitchfork ) |
Starfish by Peter Watts (1999) ( Hacker News ) |
Building user-driven climate adaptation products ( Nature ) |
A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The Gustavo Dudamel Era in Los Angeles Approaches Its End ( NYT > Arts ) |
Backrooms (Original Soundtrack) ( Pitchfork ) |
Your Obsidian Vault Can Now Run SQL (and Your Agent Can Read It) ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Slow Pulp Return With New Album, Song, and Fall Tour Dates ( Pitchfork ) |
Exploring the majestic Karri Trees at Boranup Forest, Western Australia ( Geography ) |
Free Poetry Event This Sunday @ The Library! ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
State of NC suing Brenntag in East Durham ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Cohere open-sources a coding agent that runs on a single H100 | VentureBeat ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Improved quantum processor logical error rates via correction and detection ( Nature ) |
In the Hybrid A.I.-Human Work Force, Who Will Actually Thrive? ( NYT > Technology ) |
Animal, Vegetable, Lamb: The Zoophyte from Tartary ( The Public Domain Review ) |
We Reviewed 11 Bento Boxes to Find One We’d Pack Lunch In ( Serious Eats ) |
Broadway Shows Closing Soon: ‘Becky Shaw,’ ‘Giant’ and More ( NYT > Arts ) |
Nvidia and Abridge, maker of an AI note-taking app for doctors, are training an AI model for clinical conversations using de-identified data and Nemotron models (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal) ( Techmeme ) |
When Spanish Jews fled to the Ottoman Empire in 1492, what route did the ships that brought them take? ( AskHistorians ) |
In Other Journals ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
The accentuation of the PIE word for ‘daughter’ by Alwin Kloekhorst ( Linguistics ) |
A.I. Chatbot Helps a $100 Thrift Store Painting Sell for Over $250,000 ( NYT > Arts ) |
Confirmation that bryozoan animals were present during the Cambrian explosion ( Nature ) |
We Reviewed Anyday Cookware: Are the Microwavable Dishes Worthwhile? ( Serious Eats ) |
Why isn't Huntsville, Alabama on the Tennessee River? ( Geography ) |
Gaswerk Music Days Finalises 2026 Music Programme ( The Quietus ) |
On Broadway’s Biggest Night, ‘Saturday Night Live’ Shows Its Strength ( NYT > Arts ) |
Sources: Google is in talks with Samsung to manufacture a memory input-output die for its 10th-gen Icefish TPU, while making the computing engine at TSMC (Qianer Liu/The Information) ( Techmeme ) |
Scientists have a bad case of AI FOMO, Nature poll reveals ( Nature ) |
What causes native palm trees to grow in this region of Chile? ( Geography ) |
Julio Le Park, Kinetic Sculpture and Op-Art Master, Dies at 97 ( NYT > Arts ) |
Breaking the Celestial Ceiling: Now and Then #4 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Why does the Missouri River not have much development around it compared to other large rivers? ( Geography ) |
Balmuda: Our Review of the Pretty, Steam-Powered Toaster ( Serious Eats ) |
The Good List: 6 Things to Add Joy to Your Day ( NYT > Arts ) |
B.F.I. Preserves ‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ and 430 Videos in Archive of Viral Moments ( NYT > Arts ) |
Rod Phillips answering questions about the history of cats ( AskHistorians ) |
Paramaribo and the Plantation: Gerrit Schouten’s Dioramas of Suriname (1810–30) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Women Who Fled Iran Are to Be Deported to Central African Republic, Lawyers Say ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
“soulless cycle” ( Pitchfork ) |
luke8086/gentleos32: Hobby operating system for vintage 32-bit PCs ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Effigy — Burnt Offerings (Sealed) ( dusted ) |
The Barigozzi Group, “Woman’s Colours” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Apple’s best AI idea looks a lot like vibe coding in Shortcuts and Safari | The Verge ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Delivering at Duke Hospital ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Dopamine Fracking | beware, the german! ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
on neuschwanstein castle (part 1) ( McMansion Hell ) |
At City Ballet, Spring Fever Hit, With Ups and Some Dispiriting Downs ( NYT > Arts ) |
The Smallest Brain You Can Build | Devarsh Ranpara ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Distributed control circuits across a brain-and-cord connectome ( Nature ) |
The Most Popular Serious Eats Recipes of 2022 ( Serious Eats ) |
GeoLibre ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Conductor - Run a team of coding agents on your Mac ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
More molly guards – Unsung ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
An old-timey radio dial for the internet ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
In the Protein Era, Even He-Man Is Hawking Supplements ( NYT > Arts ) |
Pope’s encyclical raises questions on who gets to shape AI ( Rest of World - ) |
Light-induced quantum friction of carbon nanotubes in water ( Nature ) |
Sting Never Gave Up on His Musical ‘The Last Ship.’ Now It’s Back ( NYT > Arts ) |
FYI, this post is now available for all to read! ( McMansion Hell ) |
The Best Kitchen Shoes, According to the Serious Eats Team ( Serious Eats ) |
We Tested 8 Countertop Ice Makers—Three Stood Out ( Serious Eats ) |
' The only tab he ever managed to pick up was at the bar.' ( MetaFilter ) |
Ernest Chambers, ‘Smothers Brothers’ TV Show Producer, Dies at 97 ( NYT > Arts ) |
I made a map of Punjab, the Land of five rivers [OC] (more pictures below) ( Geography ) |
Debit’s Cutting-Edge Guaracha Techno Dissolves Borders ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Charles Butler’s The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Morellet Art Generator ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Traces of language contact in Niya Prakrit: Bactrian and other foreign elements (Schoubben 2026) ( Linguistics ) |
ode to a faux grecian urn ( McMansion Hell ) |
White House defangs NSF watchdog unit ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Jack White Releasing New Album Next Month ( Pitchfork ) |
Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago (1928) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, May 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Effects of China’s underground infrastructure ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Mechanical Pencil ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal for June Reviewed by Kez Whelan ( The Quietus ) |
Hybrid refinery process turns plant material into industrially important chemical ( Nature ) |
XOXO Explore ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Anthropic's Model Naming, Extrapolated · Sam Wilkinson ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Opinion | My Students Can’t Read ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Albert Wolsky, Costume Designer for ‘All That Jazz’ and ‘Grease,’ Dies at 95 ( NYT > Arts ) |
The Researcher Who Didn’t Want to Know ( NYT > Science ) |
DPS Work Session - June 9, 2026: Living Wages, Right-Sizing Schools, and Discipline Reforms ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Q&A weekly thread - June 08, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
How ice forms is a mystery — now scientists are cracking the case ( Nature ) |
feeble little horse, “bitknot” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Various Artists, “Mzansi Bass curated by Shannen SP” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Pharmacist — Vertebrae after Vertebrae (Hells Headbangers) ( dusted ) |
Decades-old trees in Darwin finally flower for the first, and only, time ( MetaFilter ) |
Anthropic Releases ‘Safe’ Version of Its Mythos A.I. Technology ( NYT > Technology ) |
In situ nanocrystal confinement for efficient blue perovskite LEDs ( Nature ) |
good rugs for tropical climates ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
The Great Majority: Body Snatching and Burial Reform in 19th-Century Britain ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Google Chrome is killing uBlock Origin , Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow (still works fine on Firefox) ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
DataCenter.FM ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Doubting Thomas ( Nature ) |
Structural basis for chaperone-guided assembly of RNA-induced silencing complex ( Nature ) |
A treasure trove of Neolithic necklace beads ( Nature ) |
Songs from the Commons: A Q&A with Simon Close about the Public Song Project ( The Public Domain Review ) |
14 Last-Minute, Food-Related Valentine’s Day Gifts ( Serious Eats ) |
The best way to start your day? The science backs naked cartwheels in the sun ( Nature ) |
‘Doctor Who’ Is in Limbo. What Does That Mean for Fans? ( NYT > Arts ) |
Robert Poss and E-Clark Cornell—Kepler’s Choice (No Sides) ( dusted ) |
We Reviewed the Challenger Fermentation Mat and Recommend It for Sourdough Bakers ( Serious Eats ) |
As American as the Forward Pass ( The Atlantic ) |
Desi Lydic Does a Spit Take at the Price of Trump’s Gold Coin ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
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The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python | Hacker News ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Trump Muses About Government Taking a Piece of A.I. Companies ( NYT > Technology ) |
Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Patois Counselors — Protection Racket (ever/never) ( dusted ) |
Hunter Biden’s Life After Shame ( The Atlantic ) |
China is training a robot future — one folded shirt at a time ( Rest of World - ) |
Just a moment... ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
What is the history behind the “Followers of Horus” “Shemsu Hor”of ancient Egypt? ( AskHistorians ) |
Soft Cell Announce Final Album, ‘Danceteria’ ( The Quietus ) |
Chinese detector edges closer to solving the mystery of neutrino mass ( Nature ) |
Q&A weekly thread - June 01, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
Tepache (Mexican Fermented Pineapple Drink) ( Serious Eats ) |
Statistical structure and the evolution of languages ( Linguistics ) |
DoorDash launches an in-app AI chatbot to let users order food and groceries and make reservations with photos and prompts (Samantha Subin/CNBC) ( Techmeme ) |
How Do Air Fryers Work? ( Serious Eats ) |
Inside Trump’s White House, the Epstein Files Caused a Freakout ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Booooookmarks is simple, gratifying bookmarking for people who miss Pocket (RIP) ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Ty Segall Is Releasing a New Album and EP on the Same Day ( Pitchfork ) |
PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you ( Hacker News ) |
Author Correction: De novo design of quasisymmetric two-component protein cages ( Nature ) |
Duane Michals, Photographer With Stories to Tell, Dies at 94 ( NYT > Arts ) |
Efficient and accurate neural-field reconstruction using resistive memory ( Nature ) |
Say precisely what you mean. ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
EVs are getting more affordable worldwide — except in the U.S. ( Rest of World - ) |
A new wave of anti-immigrant violence hits U.K. as riots convulse Belfast ( World ) |
ntsc-rs - an accurate VHS video effect ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Untitled (https://n8n.io/) ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The Screwworm Is Messing With America’s Beef ( The Atlantic ) |
Thomas Bangalter Shares Rare DJ Set for The Lot Radio ( The Quietus ) |
Too Computerised? Too Cold?: 1999 A.D. (1967) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Landscaping consulting in Durham/general Triangle? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Patrick Bruel, French Singer, Is Taken Into Custody Over Sex Assault Claims ( NYT > Arts ) |
Saving the Pint: How a CO2 Shortage is Changing Beer Brewing ( Serious Eats ) |
The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Proposed orbital ‘airbag’ would block solar storms ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
‘Honeyjoon’ Review: Island Healing ( NYT > Arts ) |
‘Promised Sky’ Review: Living in a State of Uncertainty ( NYT > Arts ) |
Apple Expected to Detail Its A.I. Plans at Conference ( NYT > Technology ) |
As the world embraces EVs, the U.S. hits the brakes ( Rest of World - ) |
Why is NASA going back to the moon? ( NYT > Science ) |
What’s in my NOW? — Jordan Meyers ( Cool Tools ) |
Life is too short for a slow terminal - Mijndert Stuij ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Gordon S. Wood, Pioneering Historian of Early America, Dies at 92 ( NYT > Arts ) |
Against claims of 'extractive colonialism', why was colonial Brazil relatively wealthy? ( AskHistorians ) |
Palestinian Food 101: Recipes to Get You Started ( Serious Eats ) |
The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, May 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Interpol Reveal New Album, ‘This Mirror Weighs A Ton’ ( The Quietus ) |
poet.horse - a horse poetry website ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Should You Be Storing Coffee in a Coffee Canister? ( Serious Eats ) |
12 Freezer-Friendly Soups for a Warm Meal Whenever You Want It ( Serious Eats ) |
Texas teenager sentenced to 35 years in prison in murder of high school student ( National ) |
Luke Howard’s Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Supporting Exchange and beyond ( Hacker News ) |
Let’s talk about biomedical research kits ( Nature ) |
Your Search Results Are Getting Sloptimized ( The Atlantic ) |
Trojan Pig: Tiny Cryptic #11 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
In the ancient Roman Empire and republic, what were considered “upper middle class” and “middle class” jobs for citizens ? ( AskHistorians ) |
We Tested 12 Flatware Sets to Find the Best Ones for Everyday Use ( Serious Eats ) |
What Is Artemis III? What to Know About NASA’s Latest Space Mission. ( NYT > Science ) |
The First Live Performance of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991) ( Open Culture ) |
Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s Peruvian Art in the School (1926) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
We Tested 7 Anti-Fatigue Mats—Here Are the Best Ones for Your Kitchen ( Serious Eats ) |
The Best Punk on Bandcamp, May 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
12 Spicy Snacks That Bring the Heat ( Serious Eats ) |
A Surprising Find in Ancient Squirrel Poop: Woolly Mammoth Meat ( NYT > Science ) |
Apple Reveals New AI Architecture Built Around Google Gemini Models - MacRumors ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Short Answers to Simple Questions | June 10, 2026 ( AskHistorians ) |
NASA’s moon-base plans are off to a slow start. ( NYT > Science ) |
Are there significant non-Western republics before the modern age? ( AskHistorians ) |
Leave it open! ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
New T-Shirts (Now in 100% Organic Cotton) and New Mugs in Our Shop! ( The Public Domain Review ) |
When did the first guided tours of the great pyramids start? Who was giving the tours? How did the content of the tours change over time? ( AskHistorians ) |
Under the Trump crypto playbook, the family always wins. Investors don’t: Risking little of their own money, the US president and his sons have added at least $2.3 billion to the family fortune from their main crypto ventures, while the investors they'v ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
"AI for the Good of All"? ( Linguistics ) |
Parent Hacks / The 50 States ( Cool Tools ) |
Can NASA Really Land Astronauts on the Moon by 2028? ( NYT > Science ) |
new jersey “19th century” “eclecticism” ( McMansion Hell ) |
Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable ( Hacker News ) |
U. of Florida Plays Punching Bag — Again ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
validation-enhancer - npm ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
How Karen Borca Brought the Bassoon Into Free Jazz ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
People Love to Hate This Fake Private Equity Guy ( NYT > Technology ) |
How to Roast Butternut Squash ( Serious Eats ) |
How Do Keurig Coffee Makers Work, Anyways? ( Serious Eats ) |
SIRT7 regulates dosage compensation and safeguards the female X chromosome ( Nature ) |
Pyramid of the Capitalist System (1911) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
How Elon Musk’s Friendship With the F.C.C. Smooths the Way for SpaceX’s I.P.O. ( NYT > Technology ) |
Cabaret Voltaire Collaborate with Henderson’s Relish for Final Live Show ( The Quietus ) |
The World Cup ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
RIP Sonny Rollins ( dusted ) |
We Tested 8 Mandolines to Find Ones That Could Slice with Ease ( Serious Eats ) |
Chè Chuối (Vietnamese Banana, Tapioca, and Coconut Milk Dessert) ( Serious Eats ) |
Ritual Listens: Jacob Bannon’s Favourite Albums ( The Quietus ) |
KOGG – Mechanista ( The Quietus ) |
Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Modern Woman — Johnny’s Dreamworld (One Little Independent) ( dusted ) |
India’s AI deal with the UAE challenges U.S. cloud dominance ( Rest of World - ) |
Khorovats (Armenian Shish Kebabs) ( Serious Eats ) |
Believing I belong ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
In a Timely “Under the Shadow” Staging, a Ghost Haunts War-Torn Iran ( NYT > Arts ) |
Hail to the Thief Version of Hamlet Heads to London ( Pitchfork ) |
Does Africa have any safe freshwater swim holes to swim in at all ? ( Geography ) |
Luwic Stress: Uncovering word accent in an extinct language family (2026) ( Linguistics ) |
A Popeless Situation: Now and Then #2 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Linguistic Anthropology: One special issue & one "cluster" on LLMs ( Linguistics ) |
Why were History classes replaced with Social Studies in America? ( AskHistorians ) |
Diagrams from Willem ten Rhijne’s De Acupunctura (1683) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Harold A. Taylor’s Autochromes of California Flowers (early 20th century) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
for patreon i wrote about getting stranded in tomorrowland as an 8th grader, michael sorkin’s… ( McMansion Hell ) |
Pixies Announces 2026 Remasters of ‘Bossanova’ and ‘Trompe Le Monde’ ( The Quietus ) |
SignalTrace: dai lettori di targhe al tracciamento di telefoni e wearable ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
In the Fastest-Warming City in the U.S., These Artists See Hope ( NYT > Arts ) |
L’Rain Unveils New Album, ‘fata morgana’ ( The Quietus ) |
Wary of U.S., Carney Bets on AI Strategy for Canada ( NYT > Technology ) |
8 Pro-Palestinian Protesters Face Federal Charges for Allegedly Threatening U. of Michigan Leaders ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
More AI-generated code doesn't make your team faster. It might slow you ( Hacker News ) |
Deezer launches an AI music detection tool for users of 20 services, including Spotify and Apple Music, after no company licensed its AI detection tech (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge) ( Techmeme ) |
Nyege Nyege Announces European Sister Festival, MIRROR WORLD ( The Quietus ) |
“The Great Enigma of Our Times”: Henry George’s Poverty and Progress (1881 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA ( Hacker News ) |
A Bewildering Bejeweled Has Kafka’s Fingerprints ( NYT > Arts ) |
Beastie Boys’ Mike D to Release Debut LP, ‘Thank You’ ( The Quietus ) |
China’s tech rise is creating a new kind of tourism ( Rest of World - ) |
Q&A weekly thread - May 04, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
Female Kill Machine 3 ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Birth of a Language in the Backlands of Brazil (Anderson Almeida-Silva & al. 2025) ( Linguistics ) |
“You Think Me a Bold Cheat”: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Sheet Pans Aren't Cookie Sheets: A Baking Sheet Explainer ( Serious Eats ) |
Calicornication: Postcards of Giant Produce (1909) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision | Hacker News ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Cinemaesthesia & Decoding the Big Screen Horrors of Cardiacs’ Sing To God ( The Quietus ) |
“Quaint Dessert Dishes” in American Homes and Gardens (1911) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The New York Hip-Hop Soundtracking the Knicks’ Run to the N.B.A. Finals ( NYT > Arts ) |
Bounty of Frida Kahlo Art Emerges in Mexico’s Restored Museum ( NYT > Arts ) |
Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Knicks in ’73: Revisiting the Charts From a Championship Year ( NYT > Arts ) |
Recall ( Cool Tools ) |
Would Scottish Highlanders during the Napoleonic Wars have spoken Scots, Gaelic or English most commonly? ( AskHistorians ) |
How LinkedIn Found Its Social Platform Era ( NYT > Technology ) |
Birth of the Pearl (1901) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Leftward Progressives v. No Apologies Right ( MetaFilter ) |
Antonio Gracias, Elon Musk’s Friend, Is Set to Reap Billions From SpaceX’s IPO ( NYT > Technology ) |
Sara Weiss’ Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Britain Is Weighing a Social Media Ban for Children. How Did It Get Here? ( NYT > Technology ) |
At the Tony Awards After-Parties, a ‘Harry Potter’ Reunion and Winner Celebrations ( NYT > Arts ) |
Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items ( Hacker News ) |
How accurate is Dostoyevsky’s portrayal of Russian Society? ( AskHistorians ) |
WWDC26 — The Small Things - Oneberri Blog ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
GPR15-guided CD8+ T regulatory cells control intestinal inflammation ( Nature ) |
Q&A weekly thread - May 25, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
Covers from Cerîde-i Adliye, a Turkish Law Journal (1924–26) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The lost social infrastructure of work ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
London's Met Police calls on tech companies to make stolen phones unusable and says it is sharing data with Apple to build a "global picture" of stolen devices (Yang Tian/BBC) ( Techmeme ) |
Why A Small Fine Mesh Strainer Is Incredibly Versatile ( Serious Eats ) |
Five winning images of scientists at work ( Nature ) |
Republicans vs. the Fourteenth Amendment ( The Atlantic ) |
Author Correction: PTC-bearing mRNA elicits a genetic compensation response via Upf3a and COMPASS components ( Nature ) |
Why doesn't Durham County have water restrictions in place? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
mcmodernslopcore ( McMansion Hell ) |
PDR's Halloween Reader ( The Public Domain Review ) |
More Than 40 Million Adults Plan to Pursue Education. Here's What Stops Them. ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
Two New Studies Ask: Did the iPhone Cause Birthrates to Decline? ( NYT > Technology ) |
Our beaches in Washington aren’t exactly the type you would throw a blanket out and have a picnic. I’m curious what carved out the rocks but left some of them standing. Was this from the ice retreating? ( Geography ) |
They Spent Years on a Math Problem. Then They Were Scooped by A.I. ( NYT > Science ) |
Diverse binding poses of agonistic neurotoxins on human Nav1.6 ( Nature ) |
I created a local social club in the Triangle to help people find genuine connection and build meaningful relationships. I started this 1 month ago, but its already grown to 75 people. The feedback is overwhelmingly positive. It makes me a little emotional. I'll explain below: ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Genital herpes tests are notoriously unreliable, but better ones are in the works | Scientific American ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Brain-mapping effort searches for roots of neurodegenerative diseases ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
How JPL keeps the 13-year-old Curiosity rover doing science ( Hacker News ) |
Human migration has surged since 2000 — these maps reveal where people are going ( Nature ) |
Bi-Weekly 'Anything Goes' Thread - aka Moving/Buy/Sell/Trade/Rent/Lease/Eat/Jobs ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
World's biggest whale graveyard found in Indian Ocean off Australia ( MetaFilter ) |
Is there a name for this strange mountain/ridge formation in northeastern Utah, right above the Uintah mountains before the Wyoming border? ( Geography ) |
Maximalism Is Back at the Tonys ( NYT > Arts ) |
How Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi ( The Atlantic ) |
Underground Medicine #4 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Learning to read written text fundamentally alters the pathways the human brain uses to process spoken words ( Linguistics ) |
Nathan Evans Fox, “Heirloom” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Analysis of Satellite Image and Videos Suggest Precision U.S. Strikes on Iranian Water Facility ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Efo Riro (Nigerian Stewed Greens) ( Serious Eats ) |
Laurence Tratt: Test-case Reducers Are Underappreciated Debugging Tools ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
What Happens When ‘Star Wars’ Replaces Mozart? ( NYT > Arts ) |
McMansion Hell urges all New Yorkers to Rank Zohran Mamdani #1 for Mayor of NYC ( McMansion Hell ) |
The Best Latin Music on Bandcamp, May 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
NotebookLM’s Gemini 3.5 upgrade adds a cloud computer and help finding sources | The Verge ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
"The 2026 World Cup, then, represents the apotheosis of sportwashing" ( MetaFilter ) |
Helado Tropical to Embark on Debut Tour ( Pitchfork ) |
mctuscan heaven ( McMansion Hell ) |
The Adventures and Experiences of the First Slovak Novel ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Playing with Vision Embeddings | Preston Jensen ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Tree damage responsibility ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
The Great AI Divide: Navigating U.S. and Chinese dominance ( Rest of World - ) |