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Does Your Beer Glass Really Matter? We Consulted a Beer Expert to Find Out ( Serious Eats ) | Do spatial relationships matter more than names when learning geography? ( Geography ) | New T-Shirts (Now in 100% Organic Cotton) and New Mugs in Our Shop! ( The Public Domain Review ) | Israeli Strikes in Gaza Kill 11, Including Three Journalists ( NYT > Top Stories ) | Is Breville’s New Joule Air Fryer Toaster Oven Worth Buying? ( Serious Eats ) | GitHub - different-ai/openwork: An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork, powered by OpenCode ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Trump Can Prosecute Anyone Now ( The Atlantic ) | Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi ( Hacker News ) | A sudden change and recovery in the magnetic environment around a repeating fast radio burst ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | Support Jennifer Kelly’s battle against cancer ( dusted ) | Relatively warm deep-water formation persisted in the Last Glacial Maximum ( Nature ) | affaan-m/everything-claude-code: Complete Claude Code configuration collection - agents, skills, hooks, commands, rules, MCPs. Battle-tested configs from an Anthropic hackathon winner. ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Tolerating Delay With DTN | Hackaday ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | What’s the Deal With Instant Cold Brew Makers? ( Serious Eats ) | Notchie - Invisible Mac Teleprompter for Screen Sharing ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | ‘Sentimental Value’ Dominates the European Film Awards ( NYT > Arts ) | What Caused the Rise and Fall of Journalistic Integrity/neutrality in the U.S.? ( AskHistorians ) | Palestinian Food 101: Recipes to Get You Started ( Serious Eats ) | ElevenLabs launches an album of original tracks made by artists like Liza Minnelli and Art Garfunkel in "collaboration" with its Eleven Music AI model (Todd Spangler/Variety) ( Techmeme ) | In Other Journals ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | A New Era for Pitchfork: Introducing Reader Scores and Commenting ( Pitchfork ) | The Best Experimental Music of 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) | If our national security rests on US tech, we have no national security ( MetaFilter ) | Skip is now free and open source ( Hacker News ) | A theory of change approach to enhance the post-2030 sustainable development agenda ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | simple crispy pan pizza – smitten kitchen ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Washington National Opera Finds a Stage Outside Kennedy Center Amid Trump Tensions ( NYT > Arts ) | The Dilbert Afterlife ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | The Strange World Of… Free Jazz & Improvised Music ( The Quietus ) | Macrophage MR1 antigen presentation promotes MAIT cell immunity and lung microbiota modulation ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | Fantazius’ Folly: Tiny Cryptic #1 ( The Public Domain Review ) | Quantum spin resonance in engineered proteins for multimodal sensing ( Nature ) | Michele Tafoya Announces Senate Run in Minnesota ( NYT > Top Stories ) | Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science ( The Public Domain Review ) | Treen — Kaikō (Sauajazz) ( dusted ) | The Best Methods for Making Whipped Cream, Explained ( Serious Eats ) | Bruno Duplant & Judith Wegmann — Univers Parallèles: Des Nuits Et Des Jours (Moving Furniture) ( dusted ) | Tesla is losing the EV race. Its stock keeps winning ( Rest of World - ) | The Old, Old, Very Old Man: Thomas Parr and the Longevity Trade ( The Public Domain Review ) | Peer Review: Jason Williamson Interviews Ben Wheatley… and Vice Versa ( The Quietus ) | Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews for January by Daryl Worthington ( The Quietus ) | Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century ( The Public Domain Review ) | The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Reality Iced: Robert J. Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind’s Katzensymphonie (1868) ( The Public Domain Review ) | 19 Sides to Go With Wings ( Serious Eats ) | Stand on My Shoulders ( Pitchfork ) | My KitchenAid Stand Mixer is Leaking Oil—What’s Going On? ( Serious Eats ) | Genuinely horrible vibes ( MetaFilter ) | Editorial Expression of Concern: En passant neurotrophic action of an intermediate axonal target in the developing mammalian CNS ( Nature ) | Valentine ( Pitchfork ) | Retro Recomendo: Career ( Cool Tools ) | A Bay Area Rap Cult Classic Gets a Second Life ( Bandcamp Updates ) | Study decision-making to understand how technology will affect behaviour ( Nature ) | Would the Emancipation Proclamation have survived judicial scrutiny of Reconstruction if Lincoln hadn't gone for the 13th amendment? ( AskHistorians ) | Can you slim macOS down? ( Hacker News ) | Ivan Aivazovsky’s Miniature Seascapes (ca. 1887) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Why A Small Fine Mesh Strainer Is Incredibly Versatile ( Serious Eats ) | Planet Fitness 55 Opening ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | Yet another phone problem! ( Ask MetaFilter ) | We Tested 10 Tofu Presses—Three Squeezed Out the Competition ( Serious Eats ) | Madeleines ( Serious Eats ) | Rethinking “Pixel Perfect” Web Design — Smashing Magazine ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | “The Great Enigma of Our Times”: Henry George’s Poverty and Progress (1881 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Springsteen Denounces ICE Deployments and Renee Good’s Killing ( NYT > Arts ) | Low doses of insecticide speed fish aging and death ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | Tri-Con: The Trident Conference for Speculative Fiction ( MetaFilter Projects ) | Tina Packer, Powerhouse of Shakespeare Performance, Dies at 87 ( NYT > Arts ) | F.T.C. Appeals Loss in Meta Antitrust Case ( NYT > Technology ) | new jersey “19th century” “eclecticism” ( McMansion Hell ) | Another State's Public Universities Are Tightening Post-Tenure Review and Dictating Teaching Loads ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) | What Happened to Pam Bondi? ( The Atlantic ) | Nested code fences in Markdown ( Hacker News ) | Baking Steels vs. Stones: Which One Should You Buy? ( Serious Eats ) | Not a big baby ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s Peruvian Art in the School (1926) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Croquembouche ( Serious Eats ) | LetA defines a structurally distinct transporter family ( Nature ) | Bari Weiss Is The Symptom ( MetaFilter ) | Lebenese ancestry in the Americas ( Geography ) | We Tested 7 Squeeze Bottles to Find the Best for Your Kitchen ( Serious Eats ) | Claude's new constitution ( Hacker News ) | All of the Gear You Need to Make Your Own Gingerbread House ( Serious Eats ) | Book Review: ‘Tangerinn,’ by Emanuela Anechoum ( NYT > Arts ) | Hollywood’s Woke Era Is Over. Now It’s Turning the Culture War Into Camp. ( NYT > Top Stories ) | Sheet Pans Aren't Cookie Sheets: A Baking Sheet Explainer ( Serious Eats ) | Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch ( The Public Domain Review ) | Loot Drop | 925+ Failed Startup Case Studies & Ideas to Steal ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Author Correction: Anthropogenic influences on major tropical cyclone events ( Nature ) | In the Penal Colony: Now and Then #3 ( The Public Domain Review ) | Gelli Haha Announces North American Headlining Tour ( Pitchfork ) | Book Freak #193: How to Decide ( Cool Tools ) | DOCTYPE magazine ( MetaFilter Projects ) | Why We've Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969 ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds - WSJ ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Pyramidal neurons proportionately alter cortical interneuron subtypes ( Nature ) | How Do Air Fryers Work? ( Serious Eats ) | Website hosting tips ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | 'The past is an underused tool': An Elizabethan mansion's secrets for staying warm ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Cheese Foam Tea ( Serious Eats ) | research!rsc: Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple And Fast (Floating Point Formatting, Part 3) ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Losh Kebabs (Armenian Grilled Meat Patties) ( Serious Eats ) | How to Deep-Clean Your Dutch Oven (and Keep It Looking Like New) ( Serious Eats ) | Electric bill ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | Trump brings his attacks on Somalis onto the world stage at Davos ( National ) | How Ralph Fiennes Rocks Out to Iron Maiden in ‘The Bone Temple’ ( NYT > Arts ) | Oneohtrix Point Never Unveils 2026 Tour Dates ( Pitchfork ) | Ikonika, “SAD” ( Bandcamp Updates ) | Our Winning Milk Frother Is Finally Back in Stock—And It's On Sale ( Serious Eats ) | Light Mode InFFFFFFlation ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Are there any records of the moral thoughts of bandit cultures? ( AskHistorians ) | Cheapest Flight Destinations/Packable Daypacks/Europe Ski Bargains ( Cool Tools ) | Efo Riro (Nigerian Stewed Greens) ( Serious Eats ) | We Tested 13 Wine Decanters and Came Away with 2 Favorites ( Serious Eats ) | Footwork’s New Wave ( Bandcamp Updates ) | 64% of UAE residents now use generative AI ( Rest of World - ) | How Do Keurig Coffee Makers Work, Anyways? ( Serious Eats ) | What places are like New Hope and Lambertville? ( Geography ) | The Rise of Prediction Markets ( NYT > Technology ) | Thing-Like Robotic Hand Makes Life Resemble ‘The Addams Family’ ( NYT > Science ) | Easy to read American history book for adults? ( AskHistorians ) | A Vegetarian's Christmas Eve Pig Roast ( Serious Eats ) | ‘Finding Her Edge,’ Plus 8 Things to Watch on TV This Week ( NYT > Arts ) | Trump ties Greenland takeover bid to Nobel Prize in text to Norway leader ( World ) | Sunburst Finish by Be-Bop Deluxe, 50 years on ( The Quietus ) | Transforming mental health research and care through artificial intelligence ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | The Best Albums of 2025: Essential Releases ( Bandcamp Updates ) | ‘Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart’ Review: A Survivor Speaks Out ( NYT > Arts ) | Ljubljana Festival MENT Reveals Full Lineup for 2026 Edition ( The Quietus ) | What was sex like in early medieval times? ( AskHistorians ) | Mixed Berry Trifle ( Serious Eats ) | GitHub - blader/Claudeception: A Claude Code skill for autonomous skill extraction and continuous learning. Have Claude Code get smarter as it works. ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Khorovats (Armenian Shish Kebabs) ( Serious Eats ) | Denmark fought alongside the U.S. Now, Trump is threatening it over Greenland. ( World ) | Avalon Emerson & the Charm Announce New Album Written Into Changes ( Pitchfork ) | Best geopolitical map ever ( Geography ) | Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season - 2025 ( The Public Domain Review ) | Zu – Ferrum Sidereum ( The Quietus ) | Honing Versus Sharpening a Knife: What's the Difference? ( Serious Eats ) | She’s a Billionaire. He’s a Socialist. Can They Get Along? ( NYT > Top Stories ) | Office Hours January 19, 2026: Questions and Discussion about Navigating Academia, School, and the Subreddit ( AskHistorians ) | Ka'ak al Quds (Jerusalem Sesame Bread) ( Serious Eats ) | Pakistan will surpass China in total annual births by 2030 ( Geography ) | Metformin (Glucophage) may have made me smarter. ( MetaFilter Projects ) | Flux 2 Klein pure C inference | Hacker News ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Jersey Club Keeps on Moving ( Bandcamp Updates ) | Grammar of the Carapana language (1981) [Spanish] ( Linguistics ) | Today’s Atlantic Trivia: Looksmaxxer and the Beast ( The Atlantic ) | Sugar Are Going on Their First Tour in 30 Years ( Pitchfork ) | Complex mesoscale landscapes beneath Antarctica mapped from space ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | Trump plans to charge $1 billion for permanent seat on ‘Board of Peace’ ( World ) | Birth of the Pearl (1901) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Greenland is not, in fact, "smack in the middle between Russia, China, and the United States" ( Geography ) | “Riders on the Storm” Performed by John Densmore, Robby Krieger and 20+ Musicians Around the World ( Open Culture ) | Meet Veronika, the tool-using cow ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Tucker Zimmerman, Storied Singer-Songwriter, Dies at 84 ( Pitchfork ) | Nikolai Agnivtsev’s Little Screw (1925) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Why does this area of the us have significantly less wildfires than anything else? ( Geography ) | Well… ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | The only two markup languages ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | The transition from monocyte to tissue-resident macrophage requires DHPS ( Nature ) | How NASA deals with astronauts’ medical needs on the I.S.S. ( NYT > Science ) | Feather Tickler: Tiny Cryptic #8 ( The Public Domain Review ) | Supreme Court Hearing Reveals Unease Over Threats to Fed Independence ( NYT > Top Stories ) | Eating Litter (a poem) ( MetaFilter Projects ) | Symmetry, microscopy and spectroscopy signatures of altermagnetism ( Nature ) | What’s the Difference Between Glass and Metal Baking Pans? ( Serious Eats ) | CONFLICT DLC ( Pitchfork ) | Q&A weekly thread - December 29, 2025 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) | Blue Origin unveils TeraWave, a satellite communications network for enterprise, data center, and government customers, and plans to begin deployment in Q4 2027 (Annie Palmer/CNBC) ( Techmeme ) | Q&A weekly thread - January 19, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) | Canada’s dismantled safeguards threaten salmon ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | State and Federal Lawmakers Want Data Centers to Pay More for Energy ( NYT > Technology ) | I’m being nosy are they filming something on Market Street? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | The Charming Raconteur Semyon Bychkov’s Next Job: Music Director at Paris Opera ( NYT > Arts ) | Did Stalin Order The Destruction of Permanent Fortifications Shortly Before Operation Barbarossa As A Token of "Good Faith" Toward Hitler? ( AskHistorians ) | ‘The Disappear’ Review: A Couple on the Rocks and Out of Sync ( NYT > Arts ) | Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Dry Cleaning — Secret Love (4AD) ( dusted ) | Con Heir: Tiny Cryptic #4 ( The Public Domain Review ) | Publisher Correction: Polyamine-dependent metabolic shielding regulates alternative splicing ( Nature ) | Food Processor vs. Blender: What's the Difference? ( Serious Eats ) | Tepache (Mexican Fermented Pineapple Drink) ( Serious Eats ) | Why is there a series of lakes at the intersection of two desert types near the city of Siwa, Egypt? ( Geography ) | ‘We got lazy and complacent’: Swedish pensioners explain how abolishing the wealth tax changed their country ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Sabrina Carpenter, Addison Rae to Perform at 2026 Grammys ( Pitchfork ) | What was the Roman ideal of fatherhood? Do we know of anyone specifically regarded as a good father? ( AskHistorians ) | How to Make Kombucha ( Serious Eats ) | Despite Drastic Financial Steps, Met Opera Turns to Layoffs and Cuts ( NYT > Arts ) | 3 Durham school administrators indicted for obstruction after probe into student tied to chair ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | Davos Man May Burn the Whole Thing Down ( The Atlantic ) | William Labov - The Linguistic Consequences of Being a Lame (1973) ( Linguistics ) | Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | coreyhaines31/marketingskills: Marketing skills for Claude Code and AI agents. CRO, copywriting, SEO, analytics, and growth engineering. ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | ADHD is on the rise, but why? ( Nature ) | Trump and States Aim to Stop A.I. From Inflating Energy Bills ( NYT > Technology ) | US Congress set to reject Trump’s sweeping science budget cuts ( Nature ) | The Great Crime Decline Is Happening All Across the Country ( The Atlantic ) | Flamingo fans fight to unseat the mockingbird as Florida’s state bird ( National ) | How a Pro-Greenland Song Became a Protest Anthem ( NYT > Arts ) | The Best Albums of 2025: Day 2, M–Z ( Bandcamp Updates ) | Stream 4,000+ Public Domain Movies on WikiFlix: Silent Classics, Academy Award-Winners, Hitchcock Films & More ( Open Culture ) | Lured by AI, Colleges Are Sleepwalking Into Irrelevance ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) | Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now ( NYT > Arts ) | The Strange World of… David Berman ( The Quietus ) | Mary Lattimore & Julianna Barwick – Tragic Magic ( The Quietus ) | on neuschwanstein castle (part 1) ( McMansion Hell ) | ‘House burping’ is a cold reality in Germany. Americans are warming to it. ( World ) | Thing-Like Robotic Hand Makes Life Resemble ‘The Addams Family’ ( NYT > Technology ) | Elementary School Choir Sings the Grateful Dead’s “Ripple,” “Box of Rain,” “Brokedown Palace” & More: RIP Bob Weir ( Open Culture ) | Empire Wind Project Can Resume Construction, Judge Rules ( NYT > Science ) | Untangling the connection between dopamine and ADHD ( Nature ) | Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912) ( The Public Domain Review ) | US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains ( Nature ) | What ‘Marty Supreme’ Says About Being Jewish in America ( NYT > Arts ) | The Government’s Posts Just Took a Sharp Far-Right Turn ( The Atlantic ) | Trump says U.K. ‘stupidity’ on Chagos Islands justifies Greenland demands ( World ) | Ham Radio Crackdown in Belarus: Amateurs Face Death | Medium ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Blut Aus Nord, “Ethereal Horizons” ( Bandcamp Updates ) | Saving La Clef Cinema, With Help From Scorsese and Tarantino ( NYT > Arts ) | Why does this mountain in New Zealand have a circular border? ( Geography ) | The Best Hip-Hop of 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) | What’s a Human Life Worth? The E.P.A. Says Zero Dollars. ( NYT > Science ) | Characterizing transport in a quantum gas by measuring Drude weights ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | A Look Through a Century of Times Reporting From Antarctica ( NYT > Science ) | 2025: Patrick Masterson ( dusted ) | Martha Graham Dance Company Won’t Celebrate Centennial at Kennedy Center ( NYT > Arts ) | Strings Attached: Helen Haiman Joseph’s A Book of Marionettes (1920) ( The Public Domain Review ) | The 12 Days of Christmas Cookies ( Serious Eats ) | Anti-ICE protest at Minnesota church is latest flash point over Trump’s crackdown ( National ) | Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography ( The Public Domain Review ) | A Popeless Situation: Now and Then #2 ( The Public Domain Review ) | Supreme Court to Decide if the Pesticide Roundup Is Shielded From Lawsuits ( NYT > Science ) | namesake mcmansion ( McMansion Hell ) | Are y’all really buying all the bread ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | Take potentially dangerous PDFs, and convert them to safe PDFs ( Hacker News ) | With ‘Sinners’ and ’28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,’ Jack O’Connell Is in His Villain Era ( NYT > Arts ) | Motif: create patterns, see them repeat ( MetaFilter Projects ) | Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) | K2, the Second Highest Border Between Two Countries (Pakistan and China) ( Geography ) | How ‘Wine Moms’ Became an Insult for Anti-ICE Protesters ( NYT > Top Stories ) | We Reviewed 3 Cast Iron Bread Ovens and Recommend All of Them ( Serious Eats ) | Mohammad Syfkhan, Eric Chenaux and more for Dig That Treasure! Festival ( The Quietus ) | “Quaint Dessert Dishes” in American Homes and Gardens (1911) ( The Public Domain Review ) | New Palaeohispanica volume (2025) ( Linguistics ) | Aniles fabulae ( MetaFilter ) | Layoffs hit Vimeo for the second time since September 2025, when it laid off 10% of its workforce; Bending Spoons acquired Vimeo for around $1.38B in November (Business Insider) ( Techmeme ) | Sources: Apple plans to revamp Siri this fall in iOS 27 and macOS 27 by turning it into the company's first AI chatbot, replacing the current Siri interface (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) ( Techmeme ) | Trump takes swipe at Canada after Carney’s Davos speech ( World ) | Fibre integrated circuits by a multilayered spiral architecture ( Nature ) | OpenAI Teams Up With Cerebras in Chip Maker Deal ( NYT > Technology ) | Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) | We Tested 8 Mini Whisks And Came Away with Three Favorites ( Serious Eats ) | Snap Settles Lawsuit on Social Media Addiction, Avoiding a Landmark Trial ( NYT > Technology ) | Show HN: RatatuiRuby wraps Rust Ratatui as a RubyGem – TUIs with the joy of Ruby ( Hacker News ) | The Best Video Game Soundtracks of 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) | The metaphor we didn't know we needed ( MetaFilter ) | 16 Easy Noodle Recipes for a Quick Meal Any Time of Day ( Serious Eats ) | TrustTunnel: AdGuard VPN protocol goes open-source ( Hacker News ) | Afar fossil shows broad distribution and versatility of Paranthropus ( Nature ) | Accessible faux-nested interactive controls - Piccalilli ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Elon Musk’s latest feud is a mudslinging match with a budget airline ( World ) | the motel room, or: on datedness ( McMansion Hell ) | What comes next after "Python Programming Exercises, Gently Explained"? ( Ask MetaFilter ) | A Princely Ploy: Inside the Ruse of a French-Armenian Scammer ( The Public Domain Review ) | Q&A weekly thread - January 05, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) | The Best Field Recordings of 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) | Davide Cedolin — Ligurian Pastoral Vol. II (Torto Editions/Island House) ( dusted ) | ‘Morally acceptable’ for U.S. troops to disobey orders, archbishop says ( World ) | simulacra for bootlickers ( McMansion Hell ) | Signs of Deaf Ni-Vanuatu: A sociolinguistic study ( Linguistics ) | The Best Contemporary Classical Music of 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) | Accretion bursts crystallize silicates in a planet-forming disk ( Nature ) | The population and religious makeup of Europe's largest cities in 1900 ( Geography ) | What Happens When Mortals Try to Drink Winston Churchill’s Daily Intake of Alcohol ( Open Culture ) | Lots of snow is headed our way. If you have spare boxes and blankets, turn them into a cozy shelter for stray animals. Little kindness goes a long way. ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | An A.I. Start-Up Says It Wants to Empower Workers, Not Replace Them ( NYT > Technology ) | We Reviewed the Challenger Fermentation Mat and Recommend It for Sourdough Bakers ( Serious Eats ) | 2026 Oscar Nomination Predictions ( NYT > Arts ) | Why So Many Writers Are Athletes ( The Atlantic ) | Woody Guthrie / Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf ( Cool Tools ) | This Sunday in Durham... ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura ( The Public Domain Review ) | Clash between U.S. allies in Syria threatens ISIS detention centers ( World ) | NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books * TorrentFreak ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Grok’s biggest danger isn’t what it says — it’s where it lives ( Rest of World - ) | Rebecca Hall Is OK With Her Cats Waking Her at All Hours ( NYT > Arts ) | Immigration visas for people from these 75 countries are paused ( World ) | Trump Gives a Stump Speech at Davos ( The Atlantic ) | Sleaford Mods – The Demise of Planet X ( The Quietus ) | The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903) ( The Public Domain Review ) | World’s First Treaty to Protect the High Seas Becomes Law ( NYT > Science ) | Malloreddus Alla Campidanese (Sardinian Ridged Pasta With Saffron and Pork Ragù) ( Serious Eats ) | At New York Performance Festivals, Finding the Dance in Theater ( NYT > Arts ) | MTV Rewind Lets You Revisit 40,000 Music Videos & Commercials from the Golden Age of MTV ( Open Culture ) | ADHD treatments move beyond stimulants ( Nature ) | A difficult rebirth ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) | Predator-free fence project restoring Kangaroo Island's native wildlife ( MetaFilter ) | ‘An Unbelievable Mess’: Artists Are Stymied by Trump Travel Bans ( NYT > Arts ) | Anthropic overhauls Claude's "constitution" to enable the AI model to generalize and apply broad principles rather than mechanically follow specific rules (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune) ( Techmeme ) | Bloom Phase: How to Read the Bubbles In Your Coffee ( Serious Eats ) | Oxygen-free metabolism in the bird inner retina supported by the pecten ( Nature ) | We Tested 12 Garlic Presses—Two Smashed the Competition ( Serious Eats ) | Will ‘Psychiatry’s Bible’ Add a Postpartum Psychosis Diagnosis? ( NYT > Science ) | I made Apple Syrup! ( MetaFilter Projects ) | Master of Claude de France’s Book of Flower Studies (ca. 1510–1515) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Can You Stop Beans From Making You Fart? We Put 17 Methods to the Test ( Serious Eats ) | Biological insights into schizophrenia from ancestrally diverse populations ( Nature ) | Forget formalism: mathematics was built on infighting and emotional turmoil ( Nature ) | 17 Quick Dinner Recipes in 20 Minutes or Less ( Serious Eats ) | Core–envelope miscibility in sub-Neptunes and super-Earths ( Nature ) | Baroque and Roll: Halt by Foetus ( The Quietus ) | Scaling long-running autonomous coding ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | How the Cleveland Orchestra Stays at the Top of Classical Music ( NYT > Arts ) | Joshua Chuquimia Crampton Announces New Album Anata, Shares New Song ( Pitchfork ) | The Carney doctrine - Paul Wells ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | “That’s Okay, Things Are Going To Be Okay”: Bryon Hayes ( dusted ) | Is it risky to fly a sick astronaut home to Earth? ( NYT > Science ) | Cows Use Tools, Too, New Study Finds ( NYT > Science ) | Moin Moin (Nigerian Steamed Bean Cake) ( Serious Eats ) | Westside Cowboy — So Much Country till We Get There (Nice Swan) ( dusted ) | Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB ( Hacker News ) | A typological profile of Longjia, an archaic Sinitic language (2022) ( Linguistics ) | Imagining an Idle Countess: George Wightwick’s The Palace of Architecture ( The Public Domain Review ) | On the Coming Industrialisation of Exploit Generation with LLMs – Sean Heelan's Blog ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | At Check-In, Your Face Is Increasingly Your ID ( NYT > Technology ) | u might want to get tested - toomuchplor - Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid [Archive of Our Own] ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | In the book “blood red snow” the author mentions the Russians using kalashnikovs. How accurate is this considering the kalashnikov wasn’t in service until after the war? ( AskHistorians ) | Jana Horn—S-T (No Quarter) ( dusted ) | Filoplumes Are Nature’s Super Feather ( NYT > Science ) | Kitchen Gear and Tools We Think You Should Have Two (Or More) Of ( Serious Eats ) | Bandcamp Fridays Return in 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) | Appeals Court Stays Restrictions on Federal Tactics in Minnesota ( NYT > Top Stories ) | What’s in my NOW? — Joele Lucherini ( Cool Tools ) | texas gothic revival ( McMansion Hell ) | Various Artists, “Late Shift Silk” ( Bandcamp Updates ) | What a Road Trip to Badlands National Park With My Son Taught Me ( NYT > Arts ) | Welcome to Gas Town. Happy New Year, and Welcome to Gas… | by Steve Yegge | Jan, 2026 | Medium ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | She's not going out today because she's too upset ( MetaFilter ) | GitHub - dannote/figma-use: Control Figma from the command line. Full read/write access for AI agents — create shapes, text, components, set styles, export images. 100+ commands. ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) | Fossil-fuel phase out is not enough: countries must remove atmospheric carbon ( Nature ) | There's a town in the deserts of Western Texas called Notrees. What's another town with an extremely uncreative name? ( Geography ) | Scientists Set Up Camp on Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica ( NYT > Science ) | Under Construction: Tiny Cryptic #10 ( The Public Domain Review ) | Sartorial Codes: Tiny Cryptic #3 ( The Public Domain Review ) | Trump Exhaustion Syndrome ( The Atlantic ) | My achilles tendon and heel have been screwed up for 18 months ( Ask MetaFilter ) | Essential Releases, January 16, 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) | I finally got my sway layout to autostart the way I like it ( Hacker News ) | College Presidents Can't Escape Trump ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) | Austin Thompson Pleads Guilty in North Carolina Shooting That Left 5 Dead ( NYT > Top Stories ) | Starlink Users in Iran Get Free Internet Access, Nonprofits Say ( NYT > Technology ) | For Men, How Much Alcohol Is Too Much? ( NYT > Science ) | Why Trump Sides With Putin ( The Atlantic ) | What’s in my NOW? — Jeremiah Krage ( Cool Tools ) | Snowmageddon 2K26 Mega Pro Tip ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) | Elon Musk’s X Restricts Ability to Create Explicit Images With Grok ( NYT > Technology ) | Dekmantel Reveals Full 2026 Lineup ( The Quietus ) | Stevey's Birthday Blog ( Hacker News ) | Too Computerised? Too Cold?: 1999 A.D. (1967) ( The Public Domain Review ) | Lomi Composter Review: Here’s Whether It’s Worth It (or Not) ( Serious Eats ) | 18 Date-Night Recipes for a Cozy Meal at Home ( Serious Eats ) | Killer of Japanese leader Shinzo Abe sentenced to life in prison ( World ) | Miles Davis Opens for Neil Young and “That Sorry-Ass Cat” Steve Miller at The Fillmore East (1970) ( Open Culture ) | Richard D. 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