Food Processor vs. Blender: What's the Difference? ( Serious Eats ) |
London to Get New 2,300-Capacity Music Venue in Late 2027 ( The Quietus ) |
Nettspend Drops New Album Early Life Crisis ( Pitchfork ) |
We Tested 7 Pasta Makers to Find the Best Ones for Rolling and Cutting Dough ( Serious Eats ) |
We Tested 8 Mini Whisks And Came Away with Three Favorites ( Serious Eats ) |
Cancer blood tests are everywhere. Do they really work? ( Nature ) |
Saturday Showcase | March 07, 2026 ( AskHistorians ) |
Can You Stop Beans From Making You Fart? We Put 17 Methods to the Test ( Serious Eats ) |
OpenAI’s Fog of War + Betting on Iran + Hard Fork Review of Slop ( NYT > Technology ) |
Zig-a-zig-ah: Tiny Cryptic #6 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Pokémon Company Objects to White House’s Political Memes ( NYT > Arts ) |
Black-box AI and cheap drones are outpacing global rules of war ( Rest of World - ) |
She said it’s just dinner with her Scottish family… 💀😂 - YouTube ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Pushing the Limits of Historical Fiction ( The Atlantic ) |
13 Make-Ahead Desserts for the Holidays ( Serious Eats ) |
Khorovats (Armenian Shish Kebabs) ( Serious Eats ) |
Warburg’s Werewolf: An Anamnesis ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Short Answers to Simple Questions | March 04, 2026 ( AskHistorians ) |
DJ Marcelle to Take DJing Hiatus After Heart Attack ( The Quietus ) |
Essential Releases, March 6th, 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
What's happening on the corner of E Pettigrew st & Ellis road? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Jam-packed star system is most compact of its kind ever found ( Nature ) |
Abronia — Shapes Unravel (Cardinal Fuzz/Feeding Tube) ( dusted ) |
Crash and Burn Brighter - SuperiorJello - Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid [Archive of Our Own] ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The 12 Days of Christmas Cookies ( Serious Eats ) |
PSA- Dunk Mosquitoes now for a summer without mosquitoes. ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Ideal Conditions Calculator ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Birth of the Pearl (1901) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting ( The Public Domain Review ) |
First ‘half Möbius’ carbon chain wows chemists ( Nature ) |
Guided tours of museums and sights in Paris? ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
Our Favorite Features of 2022 ( Serious Eats ) |
Charles Butler’s The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Trump team bashed Europe for a year. Now he wants support in war on Iran. ( World ) |
8 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Harry Styles, Johnny Blue Skies, and More ( Pitchfork ) |
Why on Earth Did Maggie Gyllenhaal Make This Movie? ( The Atlantic ) |
[AI] The Machines Built a Church While You Were Sleeping ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
As Bright as a Feather: Ostriches, Home Dyeing, and the Global Plume Trade ( The Public Domain Review ) |
What Iran Might Do When It Has Nothing to Lose ( The Atlantic ) |
Inside Harry Styles’s ‘Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.’ With Kid Harpoon ( NYT > Arts ) |
Building Blocks for DC Energy Systems - Libre Solar ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Thoughts on critique of CDA? ( Linguistics ) |
Ahead of Midterms, Economic Warning Signs Pile Up for Republicans ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Inhibition of 15-hydroxy prostaglandin dehydrogenase promotes cartilage regeneration ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
How these koalas bounced back from the brink of extinction ( Nature ) |
Loraine James Details New Album, ‘Detached From The Rest Of You’ ( The Quietus ) |
The View From RSS ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Bulk hexagonal diamond ( Nature ) |
Radiohead Tell ICE to “Go Fuck Yourselves” in Social Media Dispute ( The Quietus ) |
Batman and Daredevil Artist Klaus Janson Flies Solo in Gallery Show ( NYT > Arts ) |
S.E.C. Settles Its Case Against Justin Sun, an Investor in the Trumps’ Crypto Coins ( NYT > Technology ) |
Are there any extraordinary factor why Reunion Island (of France) 🇷🇪🇫🇷 possess so many Rivers and Streams? ( Geography ) |
Hamster Mortis Audioboook ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
SPATIAL CODE AND CULTURAL GESTALT IN THE MEDIA FRAMING OF BUSINESS DISCOURSE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY ( Linguistics ) |
Heart surgery with quick-setting magnetic fluid could prevent strokes ( Nature ) |
Tatjana Wood, Award-Winning Comic Book Colorist, Dies at 99 ( NYT > Arts ) |
Training chatbots on specific topics ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
You’ve Never Seen Ants Like This Before ( NYT > Technology ) |
How the Psychedelic Drug Ibogaine Changed Me Forever ( NYT > Science ) |
A genetic switch turns off parental behaviour and drives infanticide in male striped mice ( Nature ) |
How to Deep-Clean Your Dutch Oven (and Keep It Looking Like New) ( Serious Eats ) |
These are the days of miracle and wonder ( MetaFilter ) |
His opera career stalled. Now he’s a car salesman, and his ads are viral. ( National ) |
The Past, Present, and Future of Dance Music in D.C. ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
What did the nerds of back then (around 3,000-4,000 years ago) do? ( AskHistorians ) |
Bourdieu's theory of taste: a grumbling abrégé (2023) ( Hacker News ) |
Wide-swath altimetry maps bank shapes and storage changes in global rivers ( Nature ) |
Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Very interesting square borders on south east side of Navajo Nation (USA) ( Geography ) |
Art Gallery Shows to See in March ( NYT > Arts ) |
Christ the Redeemer scale ( Geography ) |
Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Reissue of the Week: Darkthrone’s The Fist in the Face of God ( The Quietus ) |
Honing Versus Sharpening a Knife: What's the Difference? ( Serious Eats ) |
Conductor Andris Nelsons Has Become a Cautionary Tale ( NYT > Arts ) |
The Best Latin Music on Bandcamp. February 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Long-term thrombus-free left atrial appendage occlusion via magnetofluids ( Nature ) |
A profile of Simile, which offers "agentic twins" modeled on real people to provide answers for polling and market research for companies like CVS and Gallup (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal) ( Techmeme ) |
Through the Magnifying Glass: The Cheese Mites (1903) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
U.S. was only country in a worldwide survey to say most fellow citizens are bad people ( National ) |
Feel the Darkness: The Story of Poison Idea ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Investing in hope ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Interview: Epic CEO Tim Sweeney after his Google antitrust win | The Verge ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
“Stickerbush Symphony” ( Pitchfork ) |
M5 Pro and M5 Max are surprisingly big departures from older Apple Silicon - Ars Technica ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Good software knows when to stop | Olivier Girardot's Ramblings ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Luke Howard’s Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
MicroGPT explained interactively | growingSWE ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Ekko Astral Postpone Album Release, Won’t Play Liberation Weekend II ( Pitchfork ) |
Soaking up destructive signals ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Five International Movies to Stream Now ( NYT > Arts ) |
Unprepared for Iranian drones, U.S. and partners seek Ukraine’s help ( World ) |
We Tested 12 Flatware Sets to Find the Best Ones for Everyday Use ( Serious Eats ) |
Snail Homes, Bog Bodies, and Mechanical Flies: Robert Testard’s Illustrations for Les secretz de l’histoire naturelle (ca. 1485) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Why would potholes appear disproportionately between the wheel tracks? ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
Looking for local artists who work in linocut/Letterpress ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
5 Takeaways From Harry Styles’ New Album Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. ( Pitchfork ) |
Google faces lawsuit after Gemini chatbot allegedly instructed man to kill himself | Google | The Guardian ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Trump Witnesses Return of Bodies of 6 U.S. Service Members ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Photo by Domenico Gruosso, used with permission. ( dusted ) |
Ski Coat Sales/Delayed Luggage Tactics/Another United Devaluation ( Cool Tools ) |
Live at Third Man Records ( Pitchfork ) |
Madeleines ( Serious Eats ) |
How I run 4–8 parallel coding agents with tmux and Markdown specs — Manuel Schipper ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Q&A weekly thread - January 26, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
mctuscan heaven ( McMansion Hell ) |
Autoresearch: Agents researching on single-GPU nanochat training automatically ( Hacker News ) |
America’s and Israel’s Goals Are Already Colliding ( The Atlantic ) |
Lusitanian language and onomastics of Lusitania: 25 years later (2021) [Spanish] ( Linguistics ) |
The Breville Pizzaiolo Oven Makes Great Neapolitan Pizza—And It’s 20% Off This Week ( Serious Eats ) |
The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, February 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
16 Easy Noodle Recipes for a Quick Meal Any Time of Day ( Serious Eats ) |
Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
simulacra for bootlickers ( McMansion Hell ) |
How did the Iroquois Confederacy govern their vast conquered land and deal with defeated tribes? ( AskHistorians ) |
Mixed Berry Trifle ( Serious Eats ) |
2007-core nostalgia extravaganza ( McMansion Hell ) |
Global majority countries must embed critical minerals into AI governance ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
The Spinn Coffee Maker Is One of the Only Automated Brewers We Like ( Serious Eats ) |
What Did the Instruments in Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights Sound Like? Oxford Scholars Recreate Them ( Open Culture ) |
The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, February 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
https://lightyear.fm ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Boston Symphony Abruptly Ends Andris Nelsons’ Contract ( NYT > Arts ) |
how have you helped aging parents from a distance ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
Timothée Chalamet Has a Point About Ballet ( NYT > Arts ) |
Mudpots and Fumaroles: Lithographs of Yellowstone’s Thermal Springs (1883) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Map on GPS from proto Nissan car from the 80’s. I’m assuming it’s Japan, but what part? ( Geography ) |
We Tested 10 Tofu Presses—Three Squeezed Out the Competition ( Serious Eats ) |
In Other Journals ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
From 1960: Zora Hurston, 57, Writer, Is Dead ( NYT > Arts ) |
Should You Be Storing Coffee in a Coffee Canister? ( Serious Eats ) |
Bruce Johnston Leaves Beach Boys After Six Decades ( Pitchfork ) |
Kristi Noem Review Delayed FEMA Aid by Weeks, Senate Finds ( NYT > Science ) |
Does anyone know why most of the nuclear power plants in the USA are in the east of the country ? ( Geography ) |
Why don’t you find Swamp like this image in Florida? ( Geography ) |
When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Alan Trustman, Who Wrote ‘Bullitt’ and ‘Thomas Crown Affair,’ Dies at 95 ( NYT > Arts ) |
I need boys ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
How can you distinguish whether a character in 19th century British literature is non-white or just someone of Spanish descent? ( AskHistorians ) |
namesake mcmansion ( McMansion Hell ) |
Funding from individual donors: lessons from the Epstein case ( Nature ) |
An AI avatar is running to represent Indigenous voters in Colombia ( Rest of World - ) |
nicobailon/visual-explainer: Agent skill + prompt templates that generate rich HTML pages for visual diff reviews, architecture overviews, plan audits, data tables, and project recaps ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
There's a grain of truth in every "myth", or, Why the discussion of lexical classes in Mundari isn't quite over yet. (2005) ( Linguistics ) |
glam metal modern but also your contractor is going to jail dawg ( McMansion Hell ) |
We Reviewed 3 Cast Iron Bread Ovens and Recommend All of Them ( Serious Eats ) |
In Science Journals ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Does Your Beer Glass Really Matter? We Consulted a Beer Expert to Find Out ( Serious Eats ) |
The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, February 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Flowers of Fealty: Wilhelm Dilich’s Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Ukrainian forces halt advance in Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv officials say ( World ) |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Lawmakers Question Intel’s Use of Tools From Blacklisted Chinese Firm ( NYT > Technology ) |
From 1975: Hannah Arendt, Political Scientist, Is Dead at 69 ( NYT > Arts ) |
Magnetic fluid offers better seal in heart-plugging medical procedure ( Nature ) |
texas gothic revival ( McMansion Hell ) |
NIMF, “Sirenoscape” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
From 1962: Brilliant Stardom and Personal Tragedy Punctuated the Life of Marilyn Monroe ( NYT > Arts ) |
superpowers ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Bloom Phase: How to Read the Bubbles In Your Coffee ( Serious Eats ) |
A Danish Program Takes On the Stigma of Mental Illness ( NYT > Science ) |
For He’s a Jolly Bad Fellow: Now and Then #1 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, February 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Today is Bandcamp Friday ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
12 Spicy Snacks That Bring the Heat ( Serious Eats ) |
Community health project slashes new HIV infections ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
“Quaint Dessert Dishes” in American Homes and Gardens (1911) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The next AI whistleblower could come from anywhere in the world ( Rest of World - ) |
Why do both the southern and northern pacific coasts of the americas have this kind of fractured, archipelago-like coastline? is there any relationship or is it just a coincidence? ( Geography ) |
Eating Litter (a poem) ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
The False Flag of Viewpoint Diversity ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
Photos: Blood Moon Total Lunar Eclipse 2026 ( NYT > Science ) |
Bobby Cannavale Loves ‘Heated Rivalry’ and His Bearded Dragon ( NYT > Arts ) |
AI and quantum now drive NSF grantmaking, officials say ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
What’s the Difference Between Glass and Metal Baking Pans? ( Serious Eats ) |
Six Days of War, 10 Rationales ( The Atlantic ) |
Author Correction: Programmable 200 GOPS Hopfield-inspired photonic Ising machine ( Nature ) |
From 2019: Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88 ( NYT > Arts ) |
Sources: online DTC luxury brand Quince is in talks to raise funding at a $10B+ valuation, up from $4.5B in July; its annualized revenue run rate has hit ~$2B (The Information) ( Techmeme ) |
Experiment Shows Possibility of Martian Microbes Hitching a Ride to Earth ( NYT > Science ) |
The yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan ( Hacker News ) |
How to Make Homemade Vanilla Extract ( Serious Eats ) |
Laden Iranian ships depart Chinese port tied to key military chemicals ( World ) |
South Korea’s AI framework act focuses on rights and safety ( Nature ) |
Will Self-Criticism Save Colleges? ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
Pete Hegseth’s Moral Unseriousness ( The Atlantic ) |
A metabolic alarmin from keratinocytes potentiates systemic humoral immunity ( Nature ) |
Hen Ogledd — DISCOMBOBULATED (Weird World) ( dusted ) |
Something New Is Happening in Lebanon ( The Atlantic ) |
Repeated convergent evolution of bradykinin mimics as defensive toxins ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Governing real-world health data as a public utility ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Divisive F.D.A. Vaccine Regulator Is Resigning ( NYT > Science ) |
Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Science stories for young readers ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Why didn't the South Korean government develop Busan into a major urban center like Seoul? ( Geography ) |
Octo Octa Returns With First Album in 7 Years ( Pitchfork ) |
Trump Assembles a New Coalition to ‘Eradicate’ Cartels ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Nondi… ( Pitchfork ) |
Targeting amyloid-β pathology by chimeric antigen receptor astrocyte (CAR-A) therapy ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Is it true that ancient/medieval Europeans didn't know much about hygiene? ( AskHistorians ) |
“I Am Making the World My Confessor”: Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Is the Instant Pot Duo Crisp Ultimate Lid a Good Air Fryer? ( Serious Eats ) |
Single intramuscular injection of self-amplifying RNA of Nppa to treat myocardial infarction ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Feeling the Effects of 260,000 Federal Jobs Lost ( NYT > Science ) |
A decade of Docker containers ( Hacker News ) |
A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
How did craftsmen protect their eyes? ( AskHistorians ) |
An Interactive Intro to CRDTs | jakelazaroff.com ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
How a Food Dehydrator Can Help You Reduce Food Waste ( Serious Eats ) |
Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs | Cornell Chronicle ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Why an Offset Spatula Is the Tool I Can’t Bake Without ( Serious Eats ) |
Get absolutely effed ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
The White Hotel Adds Kali Malone, Klein and More to Lineup for Blackpool Festival ( The Quietus ) |
Seefeel Reveal First New Album in 15 Years ( The Quietus ) |
Dreamers in Exile ( Pitchfork ) |
Releasing open-weight AI in steps would alleviate risks ( Nature ) |
William Labov - The Linguistic Consequences of Being a Lame (1973) ( Linguistics ) |
Meta-Analysis of Verbal Negation Studies in the Northeast and Southeast Regions ( Linguistics ) |
UNC Investigated Controversy Over Its Civic-Life School. It Won't Say What It Found. ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
EXEK, “Prove The Mountains Move” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Balmuda: Our Review of the Pretty, Steam-Powered Toaster ( Serious Eats ) |
Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago (1928) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Judge Voids Mass Layoffs at Voice of America ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
From 1992: Audre Lorde, 58, a Poet, Memoirist and Lecturer, Dies ( NYT > Arts ) |
What’s the Deal With Instant Cold Brew Makers? ( Serious Eats ) |
Where did Japan's characteristic obsession with adult entertainment and related themes come from? Does it have any actual basis in pre-WWII Japanese Culture? ( AskHistorians ) |
High-rise transistors can be used to build space-saving circuits ( Nature ) |
Peanut-processing microbes ward off dangerous allergic shock ( Nature ) |
Bill Callahan — My Days of 58 (Drag City) ( dusted ) |
A Film That Makes a Strong Argument for the Value of Debate ( NYT > Arts ) |
An Uncomfortable Emotion That’s Worth Feeling ( The Atlantic ) |
As Kennedy Turns From Vaccines, MAHA Allies See a ‘Betrayal’ ( NYT > Science ) |
Why A Small Fine Mesh Strainer Is Incredibly Versatile ( Serious Eats ) |
Back of the House: Meet Our 2022 Contributors ( Serious Eats ) |
Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
What is Sumac? ( Serious Eats ) |
KeygraphHQ/shannon: Fully autonomous AI hacker to find actual exploits in your web apps. Shannon has achieved a 96.15% success rate on the hint-free, source-aware XBOW Benchmark. ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Give Up GitHub – Software Freedom Conservancy ( Hacker News ) |
Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
In 1033, an apocalyptic Christian pilgrimage traveled to Jerusalem. Did the timing of this influence the Crusades? ( AskHistorians ) |
Q&A weekly thread - January 19, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
We Tested 7 Squeeze Bottles to Find the Best for Your Kitchen ( Serious Eats ) |
Climate research is global — risks and responsibilities should also be distributed ( Nature ) |
In War’s First Week, a Punishing Military Campaign With No Coherent Endgame ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Fredo Valla and the Occitan Language ( MetaFilter ) |
From 2000: Hedy Lamarr, Sultry Star Who Reigned in Hollywood ( NYT > Science ) |
We Reviewed the Challenger Fermentation Mat and Recommend It for Sourdough Bakers ( Serious Eats ) |
Will Claude Code ruin our team? ( Hacker News ) |
Best Hotel Values/Reserved Seat Tactics/Fastest-growing Tourism Destinations ( Cool Tools ) |
We Tested 14 Popular Vegetable Peelers to Find the Best Ones ( Serious Eats ) |
Fewer Pregnant Women Received Acetaminophen in E.R.s After White House Warnings ( NYT > Science ) |
US investors are pushing Asian fund managers to create special vehicles so they can invest in Asia while avoiding US investment restrictions on Chinese tech (Financial Times) ( Techmeme ) |
The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the Oldest Surviving Animated Feature Film, Is Now in the Public Domain (1926) ( Open Culture ) |
Lemurs Love This Fruit That Is Choking Madagascar’s Forests ( NYT > Science ) |
Growing appetite for native grasses reshapes rural landscapes ( MetaFilter ) |
Nikolai Agnivtsev’s Little Screw (1925) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
From 2014: Maya Angelou, Lyrical Witness of the Jim Crow South, Dies at 86 ( NYT > Arts ) |
The Adventures and Experiences of the First Slovak Novel ( The Public Domain Review ) |
How did Ombudsman become such a globally used term? ( AskHistorians ) |
Book Review: ‘Stories,’ by Helen Garner ( NYT > Arts ) |
Our Favorite Images of 2022 ( Serious Eats ) |
Thinking of majoring in geography. What are some good ways to learn more about it before taking classes? ( Geography ) |
Under Construction: Tiny Cryptic #10 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Introducing GPT-5.4 | OpenAI ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
CLAUDE.mdに本当は何を書くべきなのか ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
A Ternary Chart of Citrus ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
From 1969: Judy Garland, 47, Found Dead ( NYT > Arts ) |
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: From the Walls of Babylon to the Sewers of Rome ( Open Culture ) |
Flights of Fancy: The Nine Birds of Jacques de Fornazeris (1594) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
‘Truly spectacular’ drug for sleeping sickness simplifies treatment, raising hopes for eradication ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Autobiography of a “Jeep” (1943) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Defuddle — Get the main content of any page as Markdown. ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Organizations that track public comment opportunities for fed policies? ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
“You Think Me a Bold Cheat”: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The First Robot Movie: Watch a Newly Discovered Georges Méliès Film from 1897 ( Open Culture ) |
The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, February 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
A science project videophiles can do at home ( MetaFilter ) |
The Economy’s Warning Light Is Flashing Yellow ( The Atlantic ) |
Do wet or dry soils trigger thunderstorms? It depends on how the wind blows ( Nature ) |
Mechanism of co-transcriptional cap snatching by influenza polymerase ( Nature ) |
How to Roast Butternut Squash ( Serious Eats ) |
Carla dal Forno to Release New Album, ‘Confession’ ( The Quietus ) |
Did Netflix Ruin Movies? ( The Atlantic ) |
Open-source AI hardware could weaken Big Tech’s grip on AI ( Rest of World - ) |
A Sociophilological Account of the Formation and Evolution of the Term Língua Geral, with Emphasis on Amazonia ( Linguistics ) |
'Well, it's twinkle, twinkle, little star, / ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Strict new Kansas law forces trans drivers to hand over their licenses ( National ) |
Welcome to Academe's Age of Cutthroat Competition ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
「定時実行」と「定期実行」の実装ガイド | blog.jxck.io ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The Mermaid “at Home!” (1809) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Censoring Courses Isn't the Law in Texas. Universities Are Doing It Anyway. ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
How Talks Between Anthropic and the Defense Dept. Fell Apart ( NYT > Technology ) |
Q&A weekly thread - February 23, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
What sort of specialized aiming devices and calculation guides/devices would a catapult or trebuchet crew have used on the battlefield? ( AskHistorians ) |
From 1983: Karen Carpenter, 32, Is Dead; Singer Teamed With Brother ( NYT > Arts ) |
Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews for March by Daryl Worthington ( The Quietus ) |
A son waits for a daily call from Iran saying his parents are still safe ( National ) |
NCCU passport questions ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The Best New Year's Kitchen Sales ( Serious Eats ) |
How Do Keurig Coffee Makers Work, Anyways? ( Serious Eats ) |
Behind NME Lines: The 1990s Through The Lens of Martyn Goodacre ( The Quietus ) |
new jersey “19th century” “eclecticism” ( McMansion Hell ) |
Leading the Future, a pro-AI PAC backed by Palantir-cofounder Joe Lonsdale, hit pro-regulation Democrat Alex Bores with attack ads over Bores' work for Palantir (Nancy Scola/Politico) ( Techmeme ) |
Found this interesting ( Geography ) |
From 2018: Aretha Franklin, Indomitable ‘Queen of Soul,’ Dies at 76 ( NYT > Arts ) |
Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Lots of metro areas have great parks and nature. Which ones definitely don't? ( Geography ) |
Lisp-style C++ template meta programming ( Hacker News ) |
Angélique Kidjo Announces Album With Pharrell, Nile Rodgers, and More ( Pitchfork ) |
Shabaka, “Of The Earth” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Yo La Tengo 2026 WFMU All-Request Marathon TODAY ( MetaFilter ) |
Ease the struggle of young researchers ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Request for developer feedback: focusgroup | Blog | Chrome for Developers ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
When historians see a document, like a letter for example, dated "03/01/XXXX", how do they determine if it's January 3rd, or March 1st? ( AskHistorians ) |
The Ingenious Engineering of Silk: How the 2,000-Year-Old Pattern Loom Powered the Silk Road and the Wealth of Ancient China ( Open Culture ) |
What are some natural wonders or distinct landmarks that no longer exist? ( Geography ) |
Nanodomain-localized formin gates symbiotic microbial entry in legume and solanaceous plants ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
The Tape Label Report, February 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Ovella Negra — Va de Mescles! (Segell Microscopi) ( dusted ) |
Today’s Atlantic Trivia: What’s Light, Sweet, and Undrinkable? ( The Atlantic ) |
Listed: Department ( dusted ) |
From 2011: Amy Winehouse, British Soul Singer With a Troubled Life, Dies at 27 ( NYT > Arts ) |
Bound by a handshake ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Author Correction: Healthy forests safeguard traditional wild meat food systems in Amazonia ( Nature ) |
From 2003: Leni Riefenstahl, Filmmaker and Nazi Propagandist, Dies at 101 ( NYT > Arts ) |
Short Fiction about Academic Tech ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Epstein Doctor Steps Away From Elite Health Clinics ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
AIエージェント用にCLIを書き直す必要がある ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Iranian strikes test the Gulf’s trillion-dollar AI dream ( Rest of World - ) |
"See all the other memes I made" ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Steve Shelley’s Sonic Afterlife ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Book Freak #199: Thinking in Systems ( Cool Tools ) |
The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Aldous Harding Details New Album, ‘Train On The Island’ ( The Quietus ) |
When did fashions start “coming back around?” ( AskHistorians ) |
Has anyone ever mentioned seppuku being stinky? ( AskHistorians ) |
“That’s Why We Become Witches”: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (1926) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Climate change and geopolitics threaten water supplies — but disaster is not inevitable ( Nature ) |
We Tested 20 Bread Machines—Three Proved They Were The Best ( Serious Eats ) |
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Climate change is speeding up — the pace nearly doubled in ten years ( Nature ) |
GENA – The Pleasure Is Yours ( The Quietus ) |
Uta Frith: why I no longer think autism is a spectrum ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
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Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes • Futurism ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Stress-hormone signalling protects spreading cancer cells from immune system ( Nature ) |
What Is Now — Both/And (Algorithm Free) ( dusted ) |
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Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season - 2025 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Heavenly — Highway to Heavenly (Skep Wax) ( dusted ) |
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Dominique Fils-Aimé, “My World is the Sun” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
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An unconventional Rubisco small subunit underpins the CO2-concentrating organelle in land plants ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Arca, Mark Pritchard and More Rework Nine Inch Nails for ‘TRON: Ares’ Remix Album ( The Quietus ) |
Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Did critics immediately respond to the hypocrisy of Thomas Jefferson's claim that "all men are created equal?" ( AskHistorians ) |
OpenAI Amends A.I. Deal With the Pentagon ( NYT > Technology ) |
Kristi Noem Misled Congress About Corey Lewandowski’s Role in DHS Contracts — ProPublica ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
We Tested 13 Nakiri Knives—Three Sliced Through the Competition ( Serious Eats ) |
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In the Penal Colony: Now and Then #3 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
12 Freezer-Friendly Soups for a Warm Meal Whenever You Want It ( Serious Eats ) |
From 1977: Maria Callas, 53, Is Dead of Heart Attack in Paris ( NYT > Arts ) |
My perfect Music app doesn’t exist - Hicks.design ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Breaking the Celestial Ceiling: Now and Then #4 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
In WWI, what made German mobilization unlike the others? ( AskHistorians ) |
MacBook Neo hands-on: Apple build quality at a substantially lower price - Ars Technica ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
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How Alberto Carvalho Became L.A.U.S.D. Superintendent Despite Scandals ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Inside Mexico’s stem-cell industry ( Nature ) |
DICER cleavage fidelity is governed by 5′-end binding pockets ( Nature ) |
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From 2017: Frances Gabe, Creator of the Only Self-Cleaning Home, Dies at 101 ( NYT > Technology ) |
Trump demands ‘UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER’ from Iran; U.S. evacuates citizens from Middle East ( World ) |
Cheese Foam Tea ( Serious Eats ) |
The Best Punk on Bandcamp, February 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Saving the Pint: How a CO2 Shortage is Changing Beer Brewing ( Serious Eats ) |
Feather Tickler: Tiny Cryptic #8 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
How to Carve Hieroglyphs Just Like the Ancient Egyptians Did ( Open Culture ) |
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Malloreddus Alla Campidanese (Sardinian Ridged Pasta With Saffron and Pork Ragù) ( Serious Eats ) |
Rising temperatures pose a threat to tropical insects ( Nature ) |
Knuth on Claude ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
About my last few months. ( McMansion Hell ) |
How We Analyzed the Strike on the Iranian School ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
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What Are the Trump Administration’s Objectives in Iran? ( The Atlantic ) |
Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Trump Announces A.I. Industry Pledge to Pay for Power ( NYT > Technology ) |
Qwen3.5 Fine-tuning Guide | Unsloth Documentation ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Chris Crack, “Too Late to Start Following the Rules Now” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Microbiota-mediated induction of beige adipocytes in response to dietary cues ( Nature ) |
Thaddeus Mosley, Sculptor Who Found Fame in His Last Decade, Dies at 99 ( NYT > Arts ) |
Hollywood Isn’t Directly Attacking Trump. It’s Doing Something More Interesting. ( The Atlantic ) |
Intel report warns large-scale war ‘unlikely’ to oust Iran’s regime ( World ) |
Justin K. Broadrick Halts Godflesh Live Shows Following Abdominal Surgery ( The Quietus ) |
A Critical Nuclear Site in Iran Is Spared During U.S.-Israeli Airstrikes, for Now ( NYT > Science ) |
The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database ( Hacker News ) |
These brain cells clear proteins that contribute to Alzheimer’s ( Nature ) |
Alysa Liu on Dancing Her Way to Olympic Gold: ‘The Music Carries My Body’ ( NYT > Arts ) |
The stagnancy of publishing and the disappearance of the midlist ( Hacker News ) |
From 1983: Lise Meitner, Physicist, Is Dead at 89; Paved Way for Splitting of Atom ( NYT > Science ) |
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The Best Methods for Making Whipped Cream, Explained ( Serious Eats ) |
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Boxing Clever: Tiny Cryptic #5 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Philosophy of Grammar in Ancient India: Reinterpreting the Gārgya Controversy in Nirukta 1.12–1.14 ( Linguistics ) |
F.D.A. Faces Upset Over Denials of New Drugs ( NYT > Science ) |
Trojan Pig: Tiny Cryptic #11 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Reissue Of The Week: Circle X’s Prehistory ( The Quietus ) |
Financial figures shared with prospective investors: Anduril expects its revenue to grow 100% in 2026 to ~$4.3B, and its operating loss to rise by ~50% to $1.2B (Cory Weinberg/The Information) ( Techmeme ) |
Operational Excellence, Strategic Incompetence ( The Atlantic ) |
Carpenter Brut Picks His Bandcamp Favorites ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
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What’s in my NOW? — Eric Goebelbecker ( Cool Tools ) |
Escaping bottlenecks: The demographic path to genetic recovery in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
14 Last-Minute, Food-Related Valentine’s Day Gifts ( Serious Eats ) |
Behold the First Realistic Depiction of the Human Face (Circa 25,000 BCE) ( Open Culture ) |
Microsoft teases its next Xbox, says ‘Project Helix’ will play PC games too | The Verge ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Gabriele Svelto: "A few years ago I designed a w…" - mas.to ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
gradient.horse ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Jeremy Larner, Who Wrote ‘The Candidate,’ a Political Film Classic, Dies at 88 ( NYT > Arts ) |
We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell. Here's how. | Video Game History Foundation ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
A negative feedback loop between TERMINAL FLOWER1 and LEAFY protects inflorescence indeterminacy ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Uncharted: Understanding women’s health across the body ( Nature ) |
When You're an ‘Expert’ Reviewing Students’ Work on Grammarly But Didn't Know It ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of hardware and robotics, resigns over concerns about domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons after OpenAI's DOD contract (Sharon Goldman/Fortune) ( Techmeme ) |
Moin Moin (Nigerian Steamed Bean Cake) ( Serious Eats ) |
What historical and social factors have allowed Zoroastrianism to survive for over 3,000 years despite its small number of followers today? ( AskHistorians ) |
Puntarelle Alla Romana (Puntarelle Salad With Anchovy and Garlic Dressing) ( Serious Eats ) |
Keanu Reeves’ Dogstar Announce New Album and Tour, Share Title Track ( Pitchfork ) |
Bertrand Russell’s Advice For How (Not) to Grow Old: “Make Your Interests Gradually Wider and More Impersonal” ( Open Culture ) |
For the Friars, a Sad Sale of Their Club’s Last Vestiges ( NYT > Arts ) |
We Reviewed 11 Bento Boxes to Find One We’d Pack Lunch In ( Serious Eats ) |
El Gran Grupo, “Sí aquí llegó ya” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
The Greatest Double Agent Ever: How a Spanish Chicken Farmer Became the Most Important Double Agent in WWII ( Open Culture ) |
Transplanting Traditions Farmshare ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
From 2001: Aaliyah, 22, Singer Who First Hit the Charts at 14 ( NYT > Arts ) |
Bring On Defunct: The iPod Enthralls Young Music Listeners ( NYT > Technology ) |
Americans Are Now a Target for ICE ( Hacker News ) |
In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad ( Hacker News ) |
Task learning increases information redundancy of neural responses in macaque visual cortex ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
New today on YouTube ( MetaFilter ) |
Genetically encoded assembly recorder temporally resolves cellular history ( Nature ) |
Rockie ( Pitchfork ) |
The End of the World as We (Didn’t) Know It: Now and Then #5 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 9 Recap: Family Separation ( NYT > Arts ) |
Lomi Composter Review: Here’s Whether It’s Worth It (or Not) ( Serious Eats ) |
Various Artists, “HELP(2)” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, February 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Chimpanzees Are Really Into Crystals ( NYT > Science ) |
The US' February jobs report shows the tech sector's post-2022 job losses are now outpacing past downturns in 2008 and 2020 (Business Insider) ( Techmeme ) |
Spotted all these lights in the ocean off the Kuril Islands on a flight back from Japan. Ships? Oil? Atlantis? ( Geography ) |
An outline of Proto-Indo-European ( Linguistics ) |
Old Tricks: Tiny Cryptic #9 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
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Tech Publications Lost 58% of Google Traffic Since 2024 | Growtika ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Ka'ak al Quds (Jerusalem Sesame Bread) ( Serious Eats ) |
Q&A weekly thread - March 02, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
A Popeless Situation: Now and Then #2 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The Art of Finding Dory / Jellyfish: A Natural History ( Cool Tools ) |
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Did a penguin chose your pebble? ( MetaFilter ) |
Payphone Go ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
He Vibe-Coded a Crisis for Higher Education ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
Ragger – Euphonic Sounds ( The Quietus ) |
Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over. | THE LOCAL STACK ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Structural basis for the recruitment and selective phosphorylation of Akt by mTORC2 ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Out of this World: SHERELLE’s Favourite Records ( The Quietus ) |
Dust, Volume 12, Number 2 — Part 2 ( dusted ) |
As cheap, powerful GPS jammers proliferate, a look at some alternatives to GPS, including using supersensitive, quantum-based magnetic sensors (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal) ( Techmeme ) |
How Candidates Are Using Winks and Posts to Seek Crypto and A.I. Cash ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Relationship Evaluation Form, redux ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
How Kuljit Bhamra Invented Punjabi Disco ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
The oldest articulated bony fish from the early Silurian period ( Nature ) |
Mansaf (Palestinian Spiced Lamb With Rice and Yogurt Sauce) ( Serious Eats ) |
How to Make Kombucha ( Serious Eats ) |
Happy Public Domain Day 2026! ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Wayang Kulit: Raden Soelardi’s Illustrations of Javanese Puppets (1919) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Skin cells boost distant antibody responses ( Nature ) |
Why are Chinese EVs cheaper than Tesla? ( Rest of World - ) |
We Reviewed Anyday Cookware: Are the Microwavable Dishes Worthwhile? ( Serious Eats ) |
Phew and Danielle de Picciotto, “Paper Masks” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
8 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week ( NYT > Arts ) |
Democratizing climate change mitigation pathways using modernized stabilization wedges ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Iron & Wine — Hen’s Teeth (Sub Pop) ( dusted ) |
Anthropic Courses ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Essential Releases, February 27, 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Meta’s Oversight Board races to govern the AI surge ( Rest of World - ) |
Mechanical Turk delights ( MetaFilter ) |
En suite bath vs hall bath in one-bedroom apartment? ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
Under pressure: the reality of Mexico’s research system ( Nature ) |
Marty Ehrlich, Julius Hemphill — Circle the Heart (Relative Pitch Records) ( dusted ) |
Whitehall Terrace (105 W Knox / Wright House) rezoning update & neighborhood meeting March 25 (5:30pm) ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
a grand vision for rust ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Three 6 Mafia on Their Oscars Win, 20 Years Later ( NYT > Arts ) |
Math Notepad ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
China's commerce ministry warns of global chip shortages due to "new conflicts" between Dutch chipmaker Nexperia and its Chinese subsidiary (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters) ( Techmeme ) |
The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
FLASH radiotherapy's bold approach to cancer treatment ( Hacker News ) |
Merlin: a computed tomography vision–language foundation model and dataset ( Nature ) |
Celebrate women in research and the networks that sustain them ( Nature ) |
Modelling the cosmos and imagining a future without meat: Books in brief ( Nature ) |
Limited thermal tolerance in tropical insects and its genomic signature ( Nature ) |
Spice World: A Look Inside the Serious Eats Team's Spice Cabinets ( Serious Eats ) |
The Gulf Countries Can’t Take Much More ( The Atlantic ) |
Look Inside Richard Hell’s East Village Tenement Apartment - The New York Times ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code? ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Radiology AI makes consistent diagnoses using 3D images from different health centres ( Nature ) |
From 1995: Grammy-Winning Singer Selena Killed in Shooting at Texas Motel ( NYT > Arts ) |
Scientists Decry ‘Political Attack’ on the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence ( NYT > Science ) |
Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia and the Ostrich in Ancient and Modern Times (1926) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Young New Yorkers Decided the Revolution Will Have Roommates ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
From 1961: Anna May Wong Is Dead at 54; Actress Won Movie Fame in ’24 ( NYT > Arts ) |
When Britney Spears’s Conservatorship Ended, Concern for Her Did Not ( NYT > Arts ) |
Genetically modified pig liver keeps man alive until human organ transplant ( Nature ) |
From 1981: Death Ends a 39-Year Career, Starting With Child Roles at 4 ( NYT > Arts ) |
Support communities to conserve the Third Pole ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Most Patients Keep Weight Off With Fewer GLP-1 Shots, Study Finds ( NYT > Science ) |
Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2025 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM types over 7 providers ( Hacker News ) |
Christine Ott and the Mysteries of the Martenot ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Google's TIG documented 90 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in 2025, up from 78 in 2024; commercial spyware vendors and China-linked groups led the abuse (Jessica Lyons/The Register) ( Techmeme ) |
We Tested 8 Countertop Ice Makers—Three Stood Out ( Serious Eats ) |
Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST ( Hacker News ) |
Just want to appreciate the folks who made it to our dnd game today ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Macros Diet App ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
AI can write genomes — how long until it creates synthetic life? ( Nature ) |
In My Dreams ( Pitchfork ) |
Daily briefing: How DNA testing can tell identical twins apart ( Nature ) |
Can the Most Abstract Math Make the World a Better Place? | Quanta Magazine ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Where does the shepherds flute/fluting in general originate from? ( AskHistorians ) |
Justin Broadrick Says Godflesh Will End Soon Due to Doctor’s Orders ( Pitchfork ) |
Fresh claim of making elusive ‘hexagonal’ diamond is the strongest yet ( Nature ) |
How D.H.S. Retreated on Immigration Tactics After Minneapolis ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
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Why ‘quantum proteins’ could be the next big thing in biology ( Nature ) |
Anne Hathaway’s New Song “Burial” Does Not Feature Burial ( Pitchfork ) |
Bong II – This Time It’s Personnel ( The Quietus ) |
Briefing chat: What Galileo’s scribbled margin notes reveal about his scientific journey ( Nature ) |
microgpt ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
We Tested 13 Carbon Steel Pans—Three Stood Out ( Serious Eats ) |
Structural basis of RNA-guided transcription by a dCas12f–σE–RNAP complex ( Nature ) |
All the world is staged ( Nature ) |
Free sports TV / Hot and cold face wand / Best pencil ( Cool Tools ) |
Poland: No country for PhD researchers ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities ( NYT > Arts ) |
A French grandmother took an American road trip — and was struck by what she saw ( National ) |
My KitchenAid Stand Mixer is Leaking Oil—What’s Going On? ( Serious Eats ) |
Iranian drone strikes at Amazon sites raise alarms over protecting data centers ( Rest of World - ) |
Paramaribo and the Plantation: Gerrit Schouten’s Dioramas of Suriname (1810–30) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
For anyone who still gets confused about Latitude and Longitude... ( Geography ) |
Pigeons Transmogrified: Hannah Glasse’s Art of Cookery (1751 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
CasNum ( Hacker News ) |
From 1959: Billie Holiday Dies Here at 44; Jazz Singer Had Wide Influence ( NYT > Arts ) |
Your Partner Bought Zuck’s Ray-Bans. Now Someone in Nairobi Is Watching You Poop. ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
macOS code injection for fun and no profit (2024) ( Hacker News ) |
What America’s Next Top Model Was Really Selling ( The Atlantic ) |
Files are the interface humans and agents interact with ( Hacker News ) |
Astrocytes engineered to fight Alzheimer’s plaques ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Video appears to show the moment a Kuwaiti fighter jet accidentally shot down a U.S. F-15 ( World ) |
Is It Worth Buying a Refurbished Vitamix or KitchenAid? ( Serious Eats ) |
Ford and G.M. Face a Dilemma as China Excels in Electric Vehicles ( NYT > Technology ) |
The Blinkered Flâneur: Walking with Franz Hessel in 1920s Berlin ( The Public Domain Review ) |
From 1999: Charlotte Perriand, Designer, Is Dead at 96 ( NYT > Arts ) |
I made Apple Syrup! ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Chinese institution rejects pricey open-access fees ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
What are the most extreme highway drives in the world? This is G318, Sichuan, China ( Geography ) |
The Early – I Want To Be Ready ( The Quietus ) |
Crimes of the Future: Torn by Cobrah ( The Quietus ) |
Cryptic Shift, “Overspace & Supertime” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
There Is One Crucial Reason We’re Talking About Boots on the Ground ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Places for teens? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Wallace Shawn’s ‘What We Did Before Our Moth Days’ Is Purgatory Done Right ( NYT > Arts ) |
What a viral TikTok taught me about personal storytelling in science ( Nature ) |
From 2006: Oriana Fallaci, Incisive Italian Journalist, Is Dead at 77 ( NYT > Arts ) |
Mailbag: URLs as UI – Unsung ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Cancellation of Army exercise fuels speculation about Mideast troop deployments ( World ) |
Your February Catch-up Playlist is Here ( The Quietus ) |
Reporters Seek Comment. What Happens Next May Surprise You. ( NYT > Technology ) |
Over 55.000 car brochures from brands around the world ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, “wonderful” rooms!“ ( McMansion Hell ) |
Mr Smith Goes to Dalston: John Smith on The Girl Chewing Gum at 50 ( The Quietus ) |
Effort to prevent government officials from engaging in prediction markets ( Hacker News ) |
TerraPower Nuclear Reactor in Wyoming Gets Federal Permit ( NYT > Science ) |
Con Heir: Tiny Cryptic #4 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
All of the Gear You Need to Make Your Own Gingerbread House ( Serious Eats ) |
Dust, Volume 12, Number 2 — Part 1 ( dusted ) |
Kitchen Gear and Tools We Think You Should Have Two (Or More) Of ( Serious Eats ) |
Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Efo Riro (Nigerian Stewed Greens) ( Serious Eats ) |
What countries will be least affected by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz? ( Geography ) |
Rockets & Penises in the Persian Gulf ( MetaFilter ) |
For These Design Materials, It’s Goodbye and Good Riddance ( NYT > Science ) |
Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind’s Katzensymphonie (1868) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Too Computerised? Too Cold?: 1999 A.D. (1967) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Concentrating on work ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
From 2010: Lucille Clifton, Poet Who Explored Black Lives, Dies at 73 ( NYT > Arts ) |
We Might All Be AI Engineers Now — Yas ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
We Tested the Anova Precision Chamber Vacuum Sealer ( Serious Eats ) |
Jackie West — Silent Century (Ruination) ( dusted ) |
Hammok Sign to Sargent House, Announce New Album ( Pitchfork ) |
Think Workforce Pell Is a Jackpot? Think Again. ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
PDR's Halloween Reader ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Global Warming Has Accelerated Significantly | Hacker News ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
we’ve found it folks: mcmansion heaven ( McMansion Hell ) |
The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser! ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Wrote my first novel ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
US citizens using a passport card instead of book? ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
10 Cake Flour Recipes to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth ( Serious Eats ) |
Bill Callahan, “My Days of 58” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Protein therapy with self-amplifying RNA ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
The Bug Remembers ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
What city is this? Spotted on the way from London to Istanbul. ( Geography ) |
Wind shear enhances soil moisture influence on rapid thunderstorm growth ( Nature ) |
A new study reveals that newborn chicks connect sounds with shapes just like humans, suggesting deep evolutionary roots of the “bouba-kiki” effect ( Linguistics ) |
We Tested 13 Wine Decanters and Came Away with 2 Favorites ( Serious Eats ) |
Smalltalk’s Browser: Unbeatable, Yet Not Enough ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Rome in 1890 Captured in Color Photographs: The Colosseum, Forum, Trevi Fountain & More ( Open Culture ) |
Emacs internals: Deconstructing Lisp_Object in C (Part 2) ( Hacker News ) |
Big Tech’s Gulf megaprojects are trapped between two war choke points ( Rest of World - ) |
From 1967: Dorothy Parker, Literary Wit, Dies at Age 73 ( NYT > Arts ) |
Exapted CRISPR–Cas12f homologues drive RNA-guided transcription ( Nature ) |
After Tornadoes Ravage Michigan and Oklahoma, Residents Survey Damage ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Peter Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
How Fritz Lang’s Metropolis Created the Blueprint for Modern Science Fiction (1927) ( Open Culture ) |
We Tested 7 Anti-Fatigue Mats—Here Are the Best Ones for Your Kitchen ( Serious Eats ) |
Roman Statues Weren’t White; They Were Once Painted in Vivid, Bright Colors ( Open Culture ) |
Spotted in Northwestern Territories ( Geography ) |
We Tested 11 Different Bundt Pans—Three Won Top Marks ( Serious Eats ) |
Stem cell therapies ‘come of age’ with two conditional approvals in Japan ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Bonus Post: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a treatise ( McMansion Hell ) |
OpenAI Is Opening the Door to Government Spying ( The Atlantic ) |
the motel room, or: on datedness ( McMansion Hell ) |
José Guadalupe Posada’s Engravings of Unusual Births (ca. 1880–1910) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
A Vegetarian's Christmas Eve Pig Roast ( Serious Eats ) |
All of the Tools You Need to Make Really Great Baguettes at Home ( Serious Eats ) |
“One of Those” ( Pitchfork ) |
Why Were Millers Deemed Untrustworthy? ( AskHistorians ) |
Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch ( The Public Domain Review ) |
How Do Air Fryers Work? ( Serious Eats ) |
Glaze by Raycast. Desktop apps, reimagined by you. ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Erwin Rd army ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
‘We Need to Do McCarthyism to the Tenth Power’ ( The Atlantic ) |
chud atlantis ( McMansion Hell ) |
Why did all the Russian communists have fake names? ( AskHistorians ) |
Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s Dance With the Pentagon: What to Know ( NYT > Technology ) |
Dog Chocolate — So Inspired So Done In (Upset the Rhythm) ( dusted ) |
From 1975: Josephine Baker Is Dead in Paris at 68 ( NYT > Arts ) |
DHS feeds talking points to Republicans as opposition to ICE warehouses swells ( National ) |
Should New York City Burn Its Parks? This Scientist Thinks So. ( NYT > Science ) |
Dumping Lego NXT firmware off of an existing brick (2025) ( Hacker News ) |
Does Republika Srpska have the right to secede from Bosnia? ( Geography ) |
Justice Department targets Cuban officials, aims for indictments ( World ) |
China's smartphone market is seeing one of its widest price hikes as memory chip crunch deepens; Meizu announces it will suspend developing new mobile hardware (Nikkei Asia) ( Techmeme ) |
Q&A weekly thread - February 16, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
What do we know about the transmission of eastern thought, particularly Buddhism, among working class sailors, during the period of Moby-Dick? ( AskHistorians ) |
Is it accurate to call the Khmer Rouge a genocidal regime? ( AskHistorians ) |
Why Hasn’t Trump Mentioned Iran’s Oil? ( The Atlantic ) |
From 2007: Anna Nicole Smith Dies at 39 ( NYT > Arts ) |
GENA Announce Tour of North America and United Kingdom ( Pitchfork ) |
Why is the U.S. at war with Iran? Here’s what the Trump administration says. ( World ) |
list animals until failure ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
A glucocorticoid–FAS axis controls immune evasion during metastatic seeding ( Nature ) |
Say hello to MacBook Neo - Apple ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Best takeaway sushi ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Guest Playlist: Alexis Taylor ( The Quietus ) |
Antscan's 3D Scanning Reveals Ant Anatomy - IEEE Spectrum ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Climate change will increase forest disturbances in Europe throughout the 21st century ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Trump’s Iran War and the Shadow of Iraq ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Minegishi, Makoto - Santali English Japanese Wordlist ( Linguistics ) |
The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying — Acko.net ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Pāṇini - Paul Kiparsky, 2022 ( Linguistics ) |
Cracked, but still there: the glass ceiling persists for senior women in science ( Nature ) |
Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say ( World ) |
Shared neural substrates of prosocial and parenting behaviours ( Nature ) |
What if there were no Himalayas ? How would it have changed the course of time and what would have been the effects on people from the surrounding region ? ( Geography ) |
Looking for custom muscian's earplugs in Toronto ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
From 1992: Marlene Dietrich, 90, Symbol of Glamour, Dies ( NYT > Arts ) |
on neuschwanstein castle (part 1) ( McMansion Hell ) |
skill-creatorから学ぶSkill設計と、Orchestration Skillの作り方 ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
openai/symphony: Symphony turns project work into isolated, autonomous implementation runs, allowing teams to manage work instead of supervising coding agents. ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
From 2019: Agnès Varda, Influential French New Wave Filmmaker, Dies at 90 ( NYT > Arts ) |
Honey Dijon Drops New Track “Just Friends” ( Pitchfork ) |
Shabaka – Of The Earth ( The Quietus ) |
Daily briefing: The return of the snail — the month’s best science images ( Nature ) |
a durham guitar repair shop to restring and setup my acoustic where i never ever thought it would be ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Tweakbench - Audio Plugins for Musicians ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Show HN: A weird thing that detects your pulse from the browser video ( Hacker News ) |
Your Closest Forest Gets Lit Up by a Hidden Purple Glow ( NYT > Science ) |
India’s tech sovereignty is built on digital dependence ( Rest of World - ) |
Green Man Unveils Lineup for 2026 Edition ( The Quietus ) |
The Slinky to Poofy Continuum ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
Fake 'Nduja ( Serious Eats ) |
Strings Attached: Helen Haiman Joseph’s A Book of Marionettes (1920) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
What is this kind of island formation called and how was it formed? ( Geography ) |
“The Great Enigma of Our Times”: Henry George’s Poverty and Progress (1881 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Tepache (Mexican Fermented Pineapple Drink) ( Serious Eats ) |
Gilded Fish: Illustrations from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s Peruvian Art in the School (1926) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
An experiment in reading resumes under time pressure ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Overheads (2023) ( Hacker News ) |
Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Hello everyone! The word is out – I am writing a book! ( McMansion Hell ) |
The Best Hip-Hop on Bandcamp, February 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Man killed Utah women on hike and another at home for cars, prosecutors say ( National ) |
Motif: create patterns, see them repeat ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Fugazi Unearth Shelved Steve Albini Sessions for New Charity Album ( Pitchfork ) |
Master of Claude de France’s Book of Flower Studies (ca. 1510–1515) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
U.S. was only country in a worldwide survey to say most fellow citizens are bad people ( World ) |
ode to a faux grecian urn ( McMansion Hell ) |
A Grammar of Gaddi ( Linguistics ) |
Tattoo Artist ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Homestyle Bibimbap ( Serious Eats ) |
The Breville Barista Express Impress Makes Home Espresso Approachable ( Serious Eats ) |
Deciphering Glyph :: What Is Code Review For? ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
TRON Ares: Divergence ( Pitchfork ) |
So, attendee of a middle or upper middle class ball, or dinner party, Europe or America, 17th - 19th century. You have to go number 2. What is the expected procedure? ( AskHistorians ) |
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, February 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Smoking Jars of Metal and Fuses Thrown at Protest Near Mayor’s House ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently ( NYT > Science ) |
NASA’s Asteroid-Smashing DART Mission Sped Up Space Rock’s Orbit Around the Sun ( NYT > Science ) |
Daring Fireball: Thoughts and Observations on the MacBook Neo ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Multiple chromosomal inversions modulate continuous local adaptation along a steep thermal cline ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
A Fast-Rising American Director Is Wowing the West End ( NYT > Arts ) |
A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines | grith ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
for patreon i wrote about getting stranded in tomorrowland as an 8th grader, michael sorkin’s… ( McMansion Hell ) |
The Pentagon’s Favorite Tech Guy Is This Hawaiian Shirt-Wearing Founder ( NYT > Technology ) |
Confessional Boxes: Tiny Cryptic #7 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Thirty-six solutions to stabilize Earth’s climate ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
I think imma die in this house (the house being dps) ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Sturgill Simpson, Olivia Rodrigo: 8 Songs We’re Talking About This Week ( NYT > Arts ) |
Animal Costumes from the 1862 Fairytale Ball of the Jung-München Artist’s Association ( The Public Domain Review ) |
From 2005: Ruth Clement Bond, 101, Quilter and Civic Leader, Is Dead ( NYT > Arts ) |
A look at the rivalry between Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour and Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, who have competing visions for how prediction markets should grow (Bobby Allyn/NPR) ( Techmeme ) |
FYI, this post is now available for all to read! ( McMansion Hell ) |
mynderMail v2 - send a note to yourself others as fast as you can type it ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Tim Sweeney signed away his right to criticize Google’s app store until 2032 | The Verge ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Unbridled Passions: The Eight Horses of King Mu, Son of Heaven (ca. 1300) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
A Thousand and One Nights in Italy: The Moorish Fantasias of Cesare Mattei and Ferdinando Panciatichi ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Identical twins on trial: can DNA testing tell them apart? ( Nature ) |
Are A.I.-Generated Videos Changing How We See Animals? ( NYT > Technology ) |
Compiling Prolog to Forth [pdf] ( Hacker News ) |
Genome modelling and design across all domains of life with Evo 2 ( Nature ) |
Chad Taylor Quintet — Smoke Shifter (Otherly Love) ( dusted ) |
We Tested 8 Enameled Cast Iron Skillets and Found Three Great Options ( Serious Eats ) |
WebHaptics – Haptic feedback for the mobile web. ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Looking to hire unique entertainment for adult birthday party. Card magician, snake dancer, anything ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Fugazi Share Previously Unreleased Recordings Made Alongside Steve Albini ( The Quietus ) |
Mapa da expansão territorial da Sérvia e Montenegro durante o século XIX, até 1913. ( Geography ) |
An Entirely Other Day: Lose Myself ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Do obesity drugs treat addiction? Huge study hints at their promise ( Nature ) |
Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Vorago — Morulus (Amor Fati) ( dusted ) |
IP66 - Free IP Geolocation Database ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The Emperor’s New Clothes: Fashion, Politics, and Identity in Mughal South Asia ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Advancing operational global aerosol forecasting with machine learning ( Nature ) |
The Reconstruction of Indo-European Stop Systems: From the Traditional Model to Glottalic Theories (Kloekhorst & Pronk eds. 2026) ( Linguistics ) |
Influencers sold the world a fantasy Dubai – and now it’s gone in a puff of missile smoke ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
RE#: how we built the world's fastest regex engine in F# | ian erik varatalu ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
What Python's asyncio primitives get wrong about shared state - Inngest Blog ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss’ Retrofuturism ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Essential Releases, February 20, 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Language Ownership and Language Ideologies - Margaret Speas in Negotiating Culture: Heritage, Ownership, and Intellectual Property (2013) ( Linguistics ) |
The Drop in International Students Last Year Was Worse Than We Thought ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
Pentagon Officially Notifies Anthropic It Is a ‘Supply Chain Risk’ ( NYT > Technology ) |
The Most Popular Serious Eats Recipes of 2022 ( Serious Eats ) |
How AI is shaping the war in Iran — and what’s next for future conflicts ( Nature ) |
Precancerous niche remodelling dictates nascent tumour persistence ( Nature ) |
Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans ( Hacker News ) |
Baking Steels vs. Stones: Which One Should You Buy? ( Serious Eats ) |
My Name ( Pitchfork ) |
To whom is posting these around town ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Magnetic gel injected into the heart could stop strokes ( Nature ) |
Bill Callahan Is Coming to a Record Store Near You ( Pitchfork ) |
More Bands Left Behind By Streaming ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
18 Date-Night Recipes for a Cozy Meal at Home ( Serious Eats ) |
Elon Musk Defends Social Media Posts in Twitter Shareholder Lawsuit ( NYT > Technology ) |
Top National Symphony Leader Quits in New Blow to Kennedy Center ( NYT > Arts ) |
Q&A weekly thread - February 09, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
I Make Connections. Here’s What I’m Actually Thinking. ( NYT > Arts ) |
Late Night Isn’t Sad to See Kristi Noem Leave Homeland Security ( NYT > Arts ) |
Sheet Pans Aren't Cookie Sheets: A Baking Sheet Explainer ( Serious Eats ) |
Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley ( The Public Domain Review ) |
“The Form of a Demon and the Heart of a Person”: Kitagawa Utamaro’s Prints of Yamauba and Kintarō (ca. 1800) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Bill Lawrence’s TV Empire Is Built on Humor and Heart ( NYT > Arts ) |
rest symbol — s/t (AN1MA) ( dusted ) |
LibreSprite ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Lipid metabolism drives dietary effects on T cell ferroptosis and immunity ( Nature ) |
Are there any myths/legends that potentially contain some folk memory of the Ice Age? That is, a primordial era where the world was much colder? ( AskHistorians ) |
U.S. research agency moves to restrict foreign scientists ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Irregular hierarchical-porous polymer for high-performance soft thermoelectrics ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Croquembouche ( Serious Eats ) |
Aldous Harding Announces New Album Train on the Island ( Pitchfork ) |
Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Polysynthesis in Sora (Munda) with Special Reference to Noun Incorporation (2017) ( Linguistics ) |
Our Winning Milk Frother Is Finally Back in Stock—And It's On Sale ( Serious Eats ) |
Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of February 2026 ( The Quietus ) |
The Drift of Things: David Goodman Croly’s Glimpses of the Future (1888) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Smuggler’s Cove / Hieronymous Bosch ( Cool Tools ) |
FileShot.io - Fast, Private File Sharing ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
AlexsJones/llmfit: 94 models. 30 providers. One command to find what runs on your hardware. ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
parakeet sighting ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Iran targeting commercial datacenters in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare and raises doubts over the Gulf as a global AI hub (Daniel Boffey/The Guardian) ( Techmeme ) |
Our Favorite Recipes of 2022 ( Serious Eats ) |
Michael Pisaro-Liu / Forming — Concentric Rings in Magnetic Levitation (Sawyer Editions) ( dusted ) |
‘Designed to Wreak Havoc’: The Cheap Drones Shaping the War With Iran ( NYT > Technology ) |
Bob Power on His Work on A Tribe Called Quest’s ‘The Low End Theory’ ( NYT > Arts ) |
From Endangered Plants Come Whiffs of Inspiration ( NYT > Science ) |
Lenovo’s New T-Series ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability - iFixit ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Hen Ogledd, “DISCOMBOBULATED” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Bill Callahan – My Days of 58 ( The Quietus ) |
We Reviewed The Vitamix Immersion Blender (And It Was Almost Silly Powerful) ( Serious Eats ) |
The Sound of Ocean Heat Energy ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
The Fugitive Slave Who Wrote to the President ( The Atlantic ) |
Why is the population of Italy declining so much? ( Geography ) |
Hunt for reactive metabolites uncovers unusual chemistry in a human pathogen ( Nature ) |
Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Anthropic’s Ethical Stand Could Be Paying Off ( The Atlantic ) |
Planting a seed ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming is Minutes Away From Being Obsolete ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Waiting for the check marks: The reality of connecting with family in Iran ( Rest of World - ) |
Chè Chuối (Vietnamese Banana, Tapioca, and Coconut Milk Dessert) ( Serious Eats ) |
Listen to Cash Cobain’s New Song “Wish” ( Pitchfork ) |
António Lobo Antunes, One of Europe’s Most Revered Writers, Dies at 83 ( NYT > Arts ) |
Sabotaging the NSF fellowship is a blunder ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Analyzing 5 years'-worth of heart rate and fitness data ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
From 2000: Hedy Lamarr, Sultry Star Who Reigned in Hollywood ( NYT > Arts ) |
Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Sea Levels Are Already Higher Than Many Scientists Think, New Study Shows ( NYT > Science ) |
The molecular basis of force selectivity by PIEZO2 ( Nature ) |
We Tested the Ankarsrum Stand Mixer for Months to Find Out if It’s Worth Buying ( Serious Eats ) |
The Pleasure Is Yours ( Pitchfork ) |
Midori Hirano — Otonoma (Thrill Jockey) ( dusted ) |
Roblox says it paid out $1.5B to game creators in 2025 and the top 1,000 earned $1.3M on average; 50%+ of creators list high school as their highest education (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg) ( Techmeme ) |
A Washington Museum Zeros In on the Watergate Scandal ( NYT > Arts ) |
Cracked bumper?? Need references for body shops at a good cost. ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Sources: Palmer Luckey's ModRetro, which wants to sell updated versions of 1990s consoles like the Nintendo 64, is in talks to raise funding at a $1B valuation (Financial Times) ( Techmeme ) |
Hear Aldous Huxley Read Brave New World. Plus 84 Classic Radio Dramas from CBS Radio Workshop (1956–57) ( Open Culture ) |
TSOFA - The Simple, Offline Flashcard App ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
The Auteurs Sing Uber Hate: After Murder Park At 30 ( The Quietus ) |
The influence of anxiety: Harold Bloom and literary inheritance ( Hacker News ) |
Midori Hirano, “ OTONOMA” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The first ‘AI societies’ are taking shape: how human-like are they? ( Nature ) |
Tree Rings Reveal Origins of Some of the World’s Best Violins ( NYT > Science ) |
Converge Pick Their Bandcamp Favorites ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments ( Nature ) |
Largest Silurian fish illuminates the origin of osteichthyan characters ( Nature ) |
Paramount Won Over Warner Bros. Now for the Regulators. ( NYT > Technology ) |
From the first telephone to videoconferencing in 100 years ( Nature ) |
Imagining an Idle Countess: George Wightwick’s The Palace of Architecture ( The Public Domain Review ) |
At Noma, Accusations of Past Physical Abuse ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Homologous recombination deficiency and hemizygosity drive resistance in breast cancer ( Nature ) |
Big Ups: Gorillaz Pick Their Bandcamp Favorites ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
The Women of Detroit House ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Paula Doress-Worters, who helped break the silence on postpartum depression, dies at 87 ( National ) |
How important was the Battle of Hastings? ( Hacker News ) |
Winter Paralympics Photo of the Day: Opening Ceremony ( The Atlantic ) |
Book Freak #198: How We Know What Isn’t So ( Cool Tools ) |
The Best Kitchen Shoes, According to the Serious Eats Team ( Serious Eats ) |
How Medieval Cathedrals Were Built Without Science, or Even Mathematics ( Open Culture ) |
Superfood Fuels Mating Frenzy for Critically Endangered Kakapo ( NYT > Science ) |
Trump opens for Vietnam the chip door he locked on China ( Rest of World - ) |
A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
A Philharmonic Conductor’s Concerts Surprise, for Better and Worse ( NYT > Arts ) |
For OpenAI and Anthropic, the Competition Is Deeply Personal ( NYT > Technology ) |
The Ireland-Scotland Platform ( Geography ) |
Trump voucher offers new money for public school students, and pressure for Democrats ( National ) |
Structural modeling reveals phage proteins that manipulate bacterial immune signaling ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Modern CSS Code Snippets | modern.css ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Women in science are not a ‘problem to be fixed’ ( Nature ) |
Negativas: A Prototype for Searching and Classifying Sentential Negation in Speech Data ( Linguistics ) |
More than Theoretical Girls: Adele Bertei on the Women of No Wave ( The Quietus ) |
New York City Housing Visualization ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Indefinite Book Club Hiatus | Whatever ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
How a mathematician is cracking open Mexico’s powerful drug cartels ( Nature ) |
‘We Are in a Crisis’: Why Louisville Is Proposing a Cap on Sports Spending ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
Winter Paralympics Photo of the Day: Flying Downhill ( The Atlantic ) |
Potomac River Reopens for Some Uses After Sewer Collapse ( NYT > Science ) |
21 Recipes to Make With Your Newly Gifted Gear ( Serious Eats ) |
HazeOver - Mac Productivity Aid Application ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The missing pieces of menopause science ( Nature ) |
We Tested 8 Mandolines to Find Ones That Could Slice with Ease ( Serious Eats ) |
A Princely Ploy: Inside the Ruse of a French-Armenian Scammer ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Insider Trading Is Going to Get People Killed ( The Atlantic ) |
For a Simpler Workout, Try Combining Moves - The New York Times ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
17 Quick Dinner Recipes in 20 Minutes or Less ( Serious Eats ) |
How Talarico Won Texas Democrats With Love, Luck and a Little Restraint ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Download 60,000 Works of Art from the National Gallery, Including Masterpieces by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rembrandt & More ( Open Culture ) |
Why Data Center Firms Are Working With Trump on Energy Costs ( NYT > Science ) |
You’ve Never Seen Ants Like This Before ( NYT > Science ) |
Trump’s High-Profile Oil and Gas Lease Sale in Alaska Has No Takers ( NYT > Science ) |
We Tested 9 Olive Oil Dispensers—Here Are Our Favorites ( Serious Eats ) |
Faster C software with Dynamic Feature Detection ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Ivan Aivazovsky’s Miniature Seascapes (ca. 1887) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Sara Weiss’ Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
River's ancient language awakens after "sleeping" for generations ( MetaFilter ) |
LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Hey Colossus – Heaven Was Wild ( The Quietus ) |
A Brief History of Domains (Dot Com Press) ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
I Don’t Know How the War Is Going ( The Atlantic ) |
Decision Trees ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
A Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit Is Now in the Hands of Foreign Spies and Criminals | WIRED ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure ( Linguistics ) |
Demand for AI Data Centers Sends Prospectors Hunting for Land and Power ( NYT > Technology ) |
Chris Fleming: Is This the Funniest Special of the Year So Far? ( NYT > Arts ) |
The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Nigerian Beef Stew ( Serious Eats ) |
‘War Machine’ Review: On the Fritz ( NYT > Arts ) |
Live Train Delay Markets ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Harry Styles Releases New Album: Listen and Read the Full Credits ( Pitchfork ) |
Trump says Iran targets will expand, honors U.S. troops killed in war ( World ) |
The Old, Old, Very Old Man: Thomas Parr and the Longevity Trade ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Did fashion (and social norms) diverge in the American colonies as compared to England? ( AskHistorians ) |
What is this building? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Q&A weekly thread - February 02, 2026 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
Nespresso vs. Keurig: Which Coffee Maker is Better? ( Serious Eats ) |
Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Hardware hotplug events on Linux, the gory details - ArcaneNibble's site ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Paper ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
A Collection of Old English Customs, and Curious Bequests and Charities (1842) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
New T-Shirts (Now in 100% Organic Cotton) and New Mugs in Our Shop! ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Palestinian Food 101: Recipes to Get You Started ( Serious Eats ) |
McMansion Hell urges all New Yorkers to Rank Zohran Mamdani #1 for Mayor of NYC ( McMansion Hell ) |
A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction – Retraction Watch ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Coruna: The Mysterious Journey of a Powerful iOS Exploit Kit | Google Cloud Blog ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Electric-vehicle batteries toughen up to beat the heat ( Nature ) |
FUBAR: Curated dystopian slop. Updated Daily. ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Cell-free chromatin state tracing reveals disease origin and therapy responses ( Nature ) |
E-Books ( Cool Tools ) |
The Technical Differences Between the MacBook Neo and MacBook Air - 512 Pixels ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Don't become an Engineering Manager - by Anton Zaides ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity – Terrible Software ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
We Tested 12 Garlic Presses—Two Smashed the Competition ( Serious Eats ) |
A Word to the Wise: Don’t Trust A.I. to File Your Taxes ( NYT > Technology ) |
State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change? ( Geography ) |
The Epstein scandal is a wake-up call — new rules are needed on links with rich donors ( Nature ) |