Blut Aus Nord, “Ethereal Horizons” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Does Your Beer Glass Really Matter? We Consulted a Beer Expert to Find Out ( Serious Eats ) |
A quantum centenary ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
High-fidelity human chromosome transfer and elimination ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Fake 'Nduja ( Serious Eats ) |
Gravetaker — Sheer Lunacy (Iron Bonehead) ( dusted ) |
Frank Gehry: 12 Essential, Stunning Projects ( NYT > Arts ) |
Russian Launch Site Mishap Leaves Country’s Space Program in Limbo ( NYT > Science ) |
Talking Heads Unveil Rarities Compilation for Record Store Day Black Friday ( The Quietus ) |
Columnus Metallicus: The Best Heavy Metal of 2025 ( The Quietus ) |
My Bloody Valentine, YHWH Nailgun and More Join No Music For Genocide Campaign ( The Quietus ) |
Pete Hegseth’s Weak Excuses ( The Atlantic ) |
Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science ( The Public Domain Review ) |
What should I learn! ( Geography ) |
The Adventures and Experiences of the First Slovak Novel ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Dekmantel Introduces New Morning Programming for 2026 Edition ( The Quietus ) |
Q&A weekly thread - October 27, 2025 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
What Was the Most Revolutionary Painting of the 20th Century?: The Case for Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon ( Open Culture ) |
We Tested 8 Enameled Cast Iron Skillets and Found Three Great Options ( Serious Eats ) |
Homo sapiens-specific evolution unveiled by ancient southern African genomes ( Nature ) |
Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop ( Hacker News ) |
Painting the phylogeny of life ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Intertapes ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Khorovats (Armenian Shish Kebabs) ( Serious Eats ) |
Confessional Boxes: Tiny Cryptic #7 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Did Tintin Creator Hergé Collaborate with the Nazis? A Historical Investigation ( Open Culture ) |
Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century ( The Public Domain Review ) |
We Tested 20 Bread Machines—Three Proved They Were The Best ( Serious Eats ) |
Tri-Con: The Trident Conference for Speculative Fiction ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015) ( Hacker News ) |
Sterile-neutrino search based on 259 days of KATRIN data ( Nature ) |
Topography and population density of Ethiopia ( Geography ) |
From Improv Class to Mayor-Elect: Zohran Mamdani’s Cultural Influences ( NYT > Arts ) |
Semantic Shift in Old English and Old Saxon Identity Terms ( Linguistics ) |
Birth of the Pearl (1901) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Were there any controveries and failings of Churchill's WW2 government that would have occupied the press and public conversation at the time? ( AskHistorians ) |
How I Reverse Engineered a Billion-Dollar Legal AI Tool and Found 100k+ Confidential Files | Alex Schapiro ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Hair emergency help in Durham?? Really bad mat ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
The Cat’s Meat Man: Feeding Felines in Victorian London ( The Public Domain Review ) |
'Vampire Squid from Hell' Reveals the Ancient Origins of Octopuses ( Hacker News ) |
We Tested 7 Squeeze Bottles to Find the Best for Your Kitchen ( Serious Eats ) |
Can a city in a desert really work? (Riyadh) ( Geography ) |
Pettable Croutons, for you and for me ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Morton Feldman— Intermission 6 (Another Timbre) ( dusted ) |
Our Favorite Images of 2022 ( Serious Eats ) |
Akabea (Great Andamanese) as an anumeric language and the problem of Akabea ordinals. Comrie & Zamponi (2024). Italian Journal of Linguistics, 36/2: 3–28. ( Linguistics ) |
The Best New Year's Kitchen Sales ( Serious Eats ) |
Is Gen X Actually the Greatest Generation? - The New York Times ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
In recent months, several companies like Airtable, Handshake, and Opendoor have announced that they are "refounding", as they scramble to add new AI features (Lora Kelley/New York Times) ( Techmeme ) |
Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley ( The Public Domain Review ) |
What’s the Difference Between Glass and Metal Baking Pans? ( Serious Eats ) |
Ikonika, “SAD” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
We Tested 10 Tofu Presses—Three Squeezed Out the Competition ( Serious Eats ) |
One of Higher Ed’s Emerging Growth Areas Is One It Struggles to Serve ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
The Salt Collective — A Brief History of Blindness (Propeller Sound) ( dusted ) |
Autism's confusing cousins ( Hacker News ) |
Address domestic pressures on endangered species ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Netflix to Buy Warner Bros in $83 Billion Deal ( NYT > Arts ) |
Trump Cut Funding to Higher Ed. Other Businesses Are Feeling the Pain. ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
The Breville Barista Express Impress Makes Home Espresso Approachable ( Serious Eats ) |
New Weird Britain: 2025 in Review by Noel Gardner ( The Quietus ) |
CO2 refills on the weekend ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Author Correction: The first-principles phase diagram of monolayer nanoconfined water ( Nature ) |
No NFL Game Has Ever Ended in a Score of 36–23 ( The Atlantic ) |
Superpower Competition: The Missing Chapter in Trump’s Security Strategy ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Website for geospatial resources ( Geography ) |
Is Commentarii de Bello Gallico the only source regarding druids? ( AskHistorians ) |
Voxtrot Announce Tour and First Album Since 2007, Share New Video: Watch ( Pitchfork ) |
Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Why doesn't my shower get hot until I turn on the faucet? ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
Wrigglies Extra: Unite The Worms by Golden Toad ( The Quietus ) |
Toward science-based conviction criteria to deter wildlife crime ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
We Tested 9 Olive Oil Dispensers—Here Are Our Favorites ( Serious Eats ) |
Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
For Patreon, I wrote about developer slop flooring, the history of walking on plastic, and what fake… ( McMansion Hell ) |
Reveries & Ritual: A British Solo Acoustic Guitar Primer ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
How did “Badoom, tish!” Become associated with a comical moment? ( AskHistorians ) |
Halloween costume: the night sky ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
These are a few of my favourite sounds: Books in brief ( Nature ) |
After ‘Working Girl,’ Can Christopher Ashley Bring His Sunshine to New York? ( NYT > Arts ) |
The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Old Irish Slang & Jargon: a Grammatical Approach, lecture by David Stifter ( Linguistics ) |
Was pirate rum white like Bacardi or dark like Captain Morgan? ( AskHistorians ) |
José Guadalupe Posada’s Engravings of Unusual Births (ca. 1880–1910) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
But Who Is the Snake in ‘Zootopia 2’? ( NYT > Arts ) |
As Bright as a Feather: Ostriches, Home Dyeing, and the Global Plume Trade ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Frank Gehry, the Disrupter, Opened Their Imaginations ( NYT > Arts ) |
40-year Experience: Home Improvements ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
My KitchenAid Stand Mixer is Leaking Oil—What’s Going On? ( Serious Eats ) |
Can a smaller U.S. National Academies remain relevant? ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
South Korea says it has signed an MOU with Arm to strengthen its chip and AI sectors, including a program to train ~1,400 high-level chip design specialists (Reuters) ( Techmeme ) |
We Tested 13 Nakiri Knives—Three Sliced Through the Competition ( Serious Eats ) |
The Most Popular Serious Eats Recipes of 2022 ( Serious Eats ) |
China’s scientific clout is growing as US influence wanes: the data show how ( Nature ) |
Primate embryo model leaps across developmental boundaries ( Nature ) |
sinelaw/fresh: Text editor for your terminal: easy, powerful and fast ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Home Front – Watch It Die ( The Quietus ) |
We Tested 11 Different Bundt Pans—Three Won Top Marks ( Serious Eats ) |
Conservative Project at Supreme Court Meets Trump’s Push to Oust Officials ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas | Hacker News ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The past was not that cute ( Hacker News ) |
25 dead after fire ravages nightclub in popular Indian tourism spot ( World ) |
A Wetted Beak: Engravings from Pauline Knip’s Les Pigeons (1811) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
How to Deep-Clean Your Dutch Oven (and Keep It Looking Like New) ( Serious Eats ) |
chud atlantis ( McMansion Hell ) |
The Inevitable Rise of Right-Wing DEI ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig | Sinclair Target ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
18,000 Reasons It’s So Hard to Build a Chip Factory in America ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The ‘silent’ brain cells that shape our behaviour, memory and health ( Nature ) |
12 Spicy Snacks That Bring the Heat ( Serious Eats ) |
Why did the Mexican empire collapsed? ( AskHistorians ) |
Pied Beauty: Wari Tie-Dye Textiles (ca. 425–1100) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Drive-By Truckers and Jason Isbell Reunite to Play “Hell No, I Ain’t Happy” on Colbert: Watch ( Pitchfork ) |
Gosh! names it's best graphic novels of 2025 ( MetaFilter ) |
DOCTYPE magazine ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Leather.head – Mud Again ( The Quietus ) |
Population density map of South Korea ( Geography ) |
AI reviewers are here — we are not ready ( Nature ) |
Lily Allen Announces 2026 North American Tour ( Pitchfork ) |
How Do Keurig Coffee Makers Work, Anyways? ( Serious Eats ) |
Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Is MAGA Becoming Pro-War? ( The Atlantic ) |
Melody’s Echo Chamber — Unclouded (Domino) ( dusted ) |
Peckish Alphabetics: The Tragical Death of a Apple-Pye (ca. 1793–1796) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Big feelings about a small water trough--physics people help me out ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
Will DeepSeek’s new model spark another global AI shake-up in 2026? ( Rest of World - ) |
The Mermaid “at Home!” (1809) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Inside Disney’s Long, Frustrated Quest to Create Artificial Human Beings: A Six-Hour Documentary ( Open Culture ) |
For Landmark Test of Executive Power, Echoes of a 1930s Supreme Court Battle ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Why universities need to radically rethink exams in the age of AI ( Nature ) |
The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser! ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The 30 Best Rock Albums of 2025 ( Pitchfork ) |
Pang Attack — Tears for the Wave (Independiente) ( dusted ) |
We Tested 7 Anti-Fatigue Mats—Here Are the Best Ones for Your Kitchen ( Serious Eats ) |
SLIDER II ( Pitchfork ) |
Judge Halts Justice Dept. Effort to Seek New Comey Indictment ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Hard Fork’s 50 Most Iconic Technologies of 2025 ( NYT > Technology ) |
A.I. Deal Making Is Getting Faster ( NYT > Technology ) |
How much and what prayers did people pray in the Middle Ages? ( AskHistorians ) |
What’s the Deal With Instant Cold Brew Makers? ( Serious Eats ) |
A Story About Some Expensive Shit ( MetaFilter ) |
Will blockbuster obesity drugs revolutionize addiction treatment? ( Nature ) |
Development of Aspect and Tense in Semitic Languages: Typological Considerations by Vit Bubenik ( Linguistics ) |
Everyone in Seattle Hates AI — Jonathon Ready ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
From The Shout to Bait: Listening to the Sound of Movies about Sound ( The Quietus ) |
Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, ‘Mortal Kombat’ Actor, Dies at 75 ( NYT > Arts ) |
texas gothic revival ( McMansion Hell ) |
What’s in my NOW? — Bob Oken ( Cool Tools ) |
Imagining an Idle Countess: George Wightwick’s The Palace of Architecture ( The Public Domain Review ) |
What’s in my NOW? — Emma Christley ( Cool Tools ) |
ChatGPT is huge in India. These locally focused startups found a way to compete ( Rest of World - ) |
Great science happens in great teams — research assessments must try to capture that ( Nature ) |
Drag Antics and ‘a Political Bomb’: Bringing ‘La Cage aux Folles’ Home ( NYT > Arts ) |
Gen Z is deeply concerned about the future — and politicians’ ability to fix it ( National ) |
It’s Not Just You. Users Struggle With the Instagram Repost Button. ( NYT > Technology ) |
The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Fallout From the Signal Report ( The Atlantic ) |
Various Artists – Metal Machine Music: Power to Consume, Vol. 1 ( The Quietus ) |
Rebecca Heineman, Transgender Video Game Pioneer, Dies at 62 ( NYT > Arts ) |
Thanksgiving Menu at the Plaza Hotel in New York City (1899) ( Open Culture ) |
Multiscale structure of chromatin condensates explains phase separation and material properties ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Andrew Weathers Ensemble — Fuck Everybody, You Can Do Anything [10 Year Anniversary] (Debacle) ( dusted ) |
Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Eurovision Is in Turmoil as Israel’s Participation Leads to Boycott ( NYT > Arts ) |
Larry Mitchell and Ned Asta’s Queer Cult Classic Debuts in New York ( NYT > Arts ) |
18 Date-Night Recipes for a Cozy Meal at Home ( Serious Eats ) |
Sartorial Codes: Tiny Cryptic #3 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Stacktower: An Accidental Deep Dive ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Iona Zajac, “BANG” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
the motel room, or: on datedness ( McMansion Hell ) |
Steve Cropper, Guitarist, Songwriter and Shaper of Memphis Soul Music, Dies at 84 ( NYT > Arts ) |
Saturday Showcase | December 06, 2025 ( AskHistorians ) |
How to Read the Epstein Files Like an Expert ( The Atlantic ) |
A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Best Songs of 2025 ( NYT > Arts ) |
Various Artists, “Late Shift Silk” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Art Gallery Shows to See in December ( NYT > Arts ) |
SAFE Act hinders US-China collaboration ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Niontay Announces New Mixtape, Shares Video for New Song “100days100nights”: Watch ( Pitchfork ) |
Arthur Szyk: Spotlight Returns to a Forgotten ‘Soldier in Art’ ( NYT > Arts ) |
Eurydice: a Rust to C compiler (yes) ( Hacker News ) |
OpenAI Calls a ‘Code Red’ + Which Model Should I Use? + The Hard Fork Review of Slop ( NYT > Technology ) |
Data drive city transportation forwards ( Nature ) |
16 Easy Noodle Recipes for a Quick Meal Any Time of Day ( Serious Eats ) |
Street Names After Characteristic of the Road Itself ( Geography ) |
Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure ( Linguistics ) |
A glasses-free 3D display uses AI to direct images straight to the viewer’s eyes ( Nature ) |
Could Weight Loss Drugs Turn Fat Cats Into Svelte Ozempets? ( NYT > Science ) |
Happy Together: The Laughing Prince: A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1921) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over. ( National ) |
Bloom Phase: How to Read the Bubbles In Your Coffee ( Serious Eats ) |
Madeleines ( Serious Eats ) |
Determination of the spin and parity of all-charm tetraquarks ( Nature ) |
Hong Kong Holds Vote as Officials Move Against ‘Anti-China’ Elements ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
The Best Latin Music on Bandcamp, November 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
The Best Methods for Making Whipped Cream, Explained ( Serious Eats ) |
Dog bandanas ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Do we know whether the first civilizations such as Egypt and Sumer were aware that they were the very first of their kind? Would there have been a cultural understanding of what recent pre-civilizational history was like, in the same way we think about recent history like the medieval period today? ( AskHistorians ) |
Lemurian Labs, which aims to develop hardware-agnostic portability software for AI workloads, raised a $28M Series A co-led by Pebblebed Ventures and Hexagon (Sally Ward-Foxton/EE Times) ( Techmeme ) |
Main Street Autonomy ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Charles Hayward x Dälek – HAYWARDxDÄLEK ( The Quietus ) |
Mansaf (Palestinian Spiced Lamb With Rice and Yogurt Sauce) ( Serious Eats ) |
Did anyone actually win the First World War? ( AskHistorians ) |
Austria Forms Panel to Study Its Rights to Famed Florentine Diamond ( NYT > Arts ) |
Nigerian Beef Stew ( Serious Eats ) |
A Princely Ploy: Inside the Ruse of a French-Armenian Scammer ( The Public Domain Review ) |
‘Jay Kelly’ Review: All His Memories Are Movies ( NYT > Arts ) |
Baking Steels vs. Stones: Which One Should You Buy? ( Serious Eats ) |
George Orwell’s Six Rules for Writing Clear and Tight Prose ( Open Culture ) |
Jimmy Kimmel Thanks Trump for Google Superstardom in 2025 ( NYT > Arts ) |
MAHA Activists Urge Trump to Fire Lee Zeldin at the E.P.A. ( NYT > Science ) |
Is Chicago really still the "third city" in the U.S.? Perhaps for not much longer? ( Geography ) |
Putting the U in quantum ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
How Batteries Got Cheaper and Made the Electric Grid More Reliable ( NYT > Technology ) |
Some Reddit moderators say a surge of AI slop on the site is eroding its authenticity and could lead to a feedback loop of AI models training on AI content (Kat Tenbarge/Wired) ( Techmeme ) |
Red River Dialect, “Basic Country Mustard” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Daring Fireball: Bad Dye Job ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Vote for the MeFiCoFo Board of Directors here ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
How cities can keep their cool ( Nature ) |
Tracking Trump's Higher-Ed Agenda ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
Q&A weekly thread - November 17, 2025 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
New T-Shirts (Now in 100% Organic Cotton) and New Mugs in Our Shop! ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The Breville Pizzaiolo Oven Makes Great Neapolitan Pizza—And It’s 20% Off This Week ( Serious Eats ) |
We Tested 8 Countertop Ice Makers—Three Stood Out ( Serious Eats ) |
‘A Christmas Carol’ Review: A Gentle Interpretation of a Classic ( NYT > Arts ) |
Architecture of the neutrophil compartment ( Nature ) |
The End of the World as We (Didn’t) Know It: Now and Then #5 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
I knew Europe was a bit farther north but this blows my mind. Rome is farther north than NYC and Italy would go well into Canada ( Geography ) |
Q&A weekly thread - November 10, 2025 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
China has invented a whole new way to do innovation ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Building mentally healthy cities with neuroscience ( Nature ) |
The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle ( The Public Domain Review ) |
A writing pact ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Chinese smartphone makers are promoting apps to help users switch from iOS in a race for market share, as Apple struggles to roll out AI features in China (Financial Times) ( Techmeme ) |
Things to do this week in Durham (December 1-7) ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Video of V3cam being destroyed by lava fountain ( MetaFilter ) |
Ireland, Spain, and Others Withdraw from Eurovision as Israel Granted 2026 Entry ( Pitchfork ) |
ChatGPT head says screenshots of ChatGPT ads are "either not real or not ads"; OpenAI's research chief says "anything that feels like an ad" is now turned off (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder) ( Techmeme ) |
Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia and the Ostrich in Ancient and Modern Times (1926) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Shack Sauce ( Serious Eats ) |
The Drift of Things: David Goodman Croly’s Glimpses of the Future (1888) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Want This Hearing Aid? Well, Who Do You Know? ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Frank Gehry's most iconic work - in pictures ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Netflix to Buy Warner Bros in $83 Billion Deal ( NYT > Technology ) |
Fresh - The Terminal Text Editor ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Feather Tickler: Tiny Cryptic #8 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Music for Many Holidays ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
How Stablecoins Can Help Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Order in which cancer-driving mutations occur affects the chance of tumour development ( Nature ) |
A Collection of Old English Customs, and Curious Bequests and Charities (1842) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Hexatic phase in covalent two-dimensional silver iodide ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Scientists Are Measuring Ocean Currents in Hopes of Charting AMOC’s Future ( NYT > Science ) |
Dhrystone ( Hacker News ) |
Overnight Parking Downtown ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
“The Great Enigma of Our Times”: Henry George’s Poverty and Progress (1881 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Bandcamp Fridays Return in 2026 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Rebecca Heineman, Transgender Video Game Pioneer, Dies at 62 ( NYT > Technology ) |
Rafael Anton Irisarri Announces new Album ( The Quietus ) |
Palestinian Food 101: Recipes to Get You Started ( Serious Eats ) |
Losh Kebabs (Armenian Grilled Meat Patties) ( Serious Eats ) |
Happy (American) Thanksgiving from Dusted to all who are celebrating. As usual, we will be off the… ( dusted ) |
In Ephrat Asherie’s ‘Shadow Cities,’ Club Dance Meets Latin Jazz ( NYT > Arts ) |
Gustatory Wisdom: Bruegel the Elder’s Twelve Proverbs (1558) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
In Brazil’s Answer to Hollywood, Dreams and Drought Share the Stage ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Old Tricks: Tiny Cryptic #9 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
ChatGPT turns 3 ( Rest of World - ) |
This Is the Story of How the Democrats Blew It on Gaza ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Our Favorite Recipes of 2022 ( Serious Eats ) |
All of the Tools You Need to Make Really Great Baguettes at Home ( Serious Eats ) |
Puntarelle Alla Romana (Puntarelle Salad With Anchovy and Garlic Dressing) ( Serious Eats ) |
What is Sumac? ( Serious Eats ) |
Computational design of metallohydrolases ( Nature ) |
PHYS.Org: "Natural language found more complex than it strictly needs to be—and for good reason" ( Linguistics ) |
Fans Are Obsessed With This Celebrity Couple. They Star in ‘Zootopia.’ ( NYT > Arts ) |
Meta Weighs Cuts to Its Metaverse Unit ( NYT > Technology ) |
Instinct Test / Herding dog training? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Is there any historical evidence for patents accelerating innovation? ( AskHistorians ) |
Is It Worth Buying a Refurbished Vitamix or KitchenAid? ( Serious Eats ) |
Malloreddus Alla Campidanese (Sardinian Ridged Pasta With Saffron and Pork Ragù) ( Serious Eats ) |
State of AI | OpenRouter ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Hartman's ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
A profile of Byron Cook, a VP at Amazon who is leading the company's effort to reduce AI hallucinations with a feature called Automated Reasoning Checks (John Pavlus/Fast Company) ( Techmeme ) |
Flowers of Fealty: Wilhelm Dilich’s Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Phoebe Judge (podcaster) in Durham ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image ( Hacker News ) |
In Science Journals ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
‘Endless Cookie’ Review: An Animated Family History ( NYT > Arts ) |
United States Antarctic Program Field Manual (2024) [pdf] ( Hacker News ) |
The Gnostic Gospels: An Introduction to the Forbidden Teachings of Jesus ( Open Culture ) |
Homestyle Bibimbap ( Serious Eats ) |
Stampeding Turtles Might Have Made Fossil Tracks in Italian Cliffs ( NYT > Science ) |
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide | GBH ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Building optimistic UI in Rails (and learn custom elements) | Rails Designer ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Before the (very incorrect) claims that they cause autism and 1998 Wakefield paper that popularized them, what did anti-vaccine beliefs/claims look like and how were they kept from getting into the most powerful government health organizations around the world (such as in the U.S. specifically)? ( AskHistorians ) |
He carries shelter dogs around the city in a backpack to help get them adopted ( National ) |
Is Breville’s New Joule Air Fryer Toaster Oven Worth Buying? ( Serious Eats ) |
Short Fiction about Academic Tech ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
» Typewriter Plotters ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Ka'ak al Quds (Jerusalem Sesame Bread) ( Serious Eats ) |
Hello everyone! The word is out – I am writing a book! ( McMansion Hell ) |
The prehistory of generative grammar and Chomsky’s debt to Emil Post ( Linguistics ) |
Why We Think Baratza Grinders Are worth the Money (Including Two That Are on Sale) ( Serious Eats ) |
In the Huddersfield workhouse scandal how much is "four shillings" of sin of beef? ( AskHistorians ) |
Modelling late gastrulation in stem cell-derived monkey embryo models ( Nature ) |
Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive ( The Public Domain Review ) |
tunnl.gg | The easiest way to expose localhost to the internet ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Dashing Through a Season of Holiday Movies ( NYT > Arts ) |
“That’s Why We Become Witches”: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (1926) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Show HN: MTXT – Music Text Format | Hacker News ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Author Correction: Video‐rate tunable colour electronic paper with human resolution ( Nature ) |
Don't Click Here ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
De La Soul – Cabin in the Sky ( The Quietus ) |
Nikolai Agnivtsev’s Little Screw (1925) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
I Let Reddit Choose My Wedding Dress — and They Got It Right ( NYT > Technology ) |
OpenAI in difficoltà: spese gigantesche e Google in rimonta ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Pete Hegseth Is Seriously Testing Trump’s ‘No Scalps’ Rule ( The Atlantic ) |
Amazon’s dynamic pricing is causing chaos for school budgets | The Verge ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
U.S. gains in AI race as Gulf nations ditch China for chips ( Rest of World - ) |
We Tested 12 Flatware Sets to Find the Best Ones for Everyday Use ( Serious Eats ) |
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends ( NYT > Technology ) |
Harvard researcher Dr. Tiffany Hogan explains how speech and language shape literacy — fascinating interview ( Linguistics ) |
Can You Stop Beans From Making You Fart? We Put 17 Methods to the Test ( Serious Eats ) |
We Tested 13 Wine Decanters and Came Away with 2 Favorites ( Serious Eats ) |
What Is It Like to Be a Bass? Fish-Eye View Photography (1919–22) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
MJ Noble, “Songs From My Castle Tower” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Here Are the 25 Best Dancefloor Bangers of the 21st Century So Far… ( The Quietus ) |
Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind’s Katzensymphonie (1868) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Too Computerised? Too Cold?: 1999 A.D. (1967) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Wet Leg Share Surreal “Pokemon” Video: Watch ( Pitchfork ) |
simulacra for bootlickers ( McMansion Hell ) |
Ivan Aivazovsky’s Miniature Seascapes (ca. 1887) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Any advice for career and school? ( Geography ) |
Did the Ceausescu's starve their people or not? ( AskHistorians ) |
Joel Cusumano — Waxworld (Dandy Boy) ( dusted ) |
Q&A weekly thread - December 01, 2025 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
When Musk joined Trump, countries rolled out the red carpet for Starlink ( Rest of World - ) |
Molecular basis of DNA cross-linking by bacteria ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
DOE boost for AI, fusion could squeeze basic research ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Centering disabled perspectives in technology ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Most Technical Problems Are Really People Problems ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Home ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
10 Cake Flour Recipes to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth ( Serious Eats ) |
Drinking water is at risk during warfare — better protections are needed ( Nature ) |
Motif: create patterns, see them repeat ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Persuading voters using human–artificial intelligence dialogues ( Nature ) |
Con Heir: Tiny Cryptic #4 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Lessons from two failed promotions... and what changed after ZIRP ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Retraction Note: The economic commitment of climate change ( Nature ) |
The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Excelsior Sciences, which aims to use AI and robots for small-molecule drug discovery and development, raised a $70M Series A from Khosla Ventures and others (Aayushi Pratap/Chemical & ...) ( Techmeme ) |
Paged Out! ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
An Immersive, ASMR-Style Look at Japanese Woodblock Printing ( Open Culture ) |
Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago (1928) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Saving the Pint: How a CO2 Shortage is Changing Beer Brewing ( Serious Eats ) |
The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, November 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
How Stablecoins Can Help Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions ( NYT > Technology ) |
Off-the-beaten track majors at Irish and UK universities? ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
We Tested 13 Carbon Steel Pans—Three Stood Out ( Serious Eats ) |
Paul Kiparsky on Pāṇini | History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences ( Linguistics ) |
World-Class Online Privacy ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
This is the world’s largest spider web — November’s best science images ( Nature ) |
For anyone who wishes Season 4 of Stranger things had ended differently ( MetaFilter ) |
Talking Heads’ David Byrne Performs a Tiny Desk Concert ( Open Culture ) |
The Best Albums of 2025: Essential Releases ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Most Precious Person(s) by Prim_the_Amazing ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Correlates of HIV-1 control after combination immunotherapy ( Nature ) |
Why Does Czechia Own this Stretch of Rail in the small town of Vlárka Brumov? ( Geography ) |
Anyone in the Southpoint area have some spare firewood? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Everything I've learned about homeowner's insurance, natural disasters, and recovery aid in 2025 ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Paradoxical Cities and the Availability Heuristic: How Being Known For Everything, Can Make it Seem Like You're Known for Nothing. ( Geography ) |
Sheet Pans Aren't Cookie Sheets: A Baking Sheet Explainer ( Serious Eats ) |
The Theory That Endangers the Humanities ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
The Area 51 of New England ( NYT > Arts ) |
Trump Returns to Gasoline as Fuel of Choice for Cars, Gutting Biden’s Climate Policy ( NYT > Science ) |
The Shell of a Dying Star ( The Atlantic ) |
The Illustrated Version of “Alice’s Restaurant”: Watch Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture Classic ( Open Culture ) |
Pat Thomas — HIKMAH (Tao Forms) ( dusted ) |
Cell wall patterning regulates plant stem cell dynamics ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
“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 ) |
The 30 Best Pop Albums of 2025 ( Pitchfork ) |
Research Preview: "A Descriptive Study of Factors Affecting English (L2) Pronunciation” ( Linguistics ) |
Lord Spikeheart, Decius, Mohammad Syfkhan & more for Acid Horse 26! ( The Quietus ) |
Xiu Xiu Cover Daniel Johnston, Glorilla, Robyn, and More on New Album ( Pitchfork ) |
Paws for Thought: Tiny Cryptic #2 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Archive/Convert your Typepad Blog ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
“Relaxations for the Impotent”: Ben Hecht’s Fantazius Mallare and the Contradictions of American Smut ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Live at Third Man Records ( Pitchfork ) |
Rachel Bobbitt — Swimming Towards Sand (Fantasy) ( dusted ) |
How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans’ Faith in Immigration ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Designing the Sublime: Boullée and Ledoux’s Architectural Revolution ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Reality Iced: Robert J. Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s Peruvian Art in the School (1926) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
If you're in Antarctica, and in need of phone accessories & repair, this is your place! ( Geography ) |
Resonant Computing Manifesto ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Alan.app ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Five Horror Movies to Stream Now ( NYT > Arts ) |
HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023) ( Hacker News ) |
Why Do Filmmakers Call The Battle of Algiers the Greatest War Movie Ever?: Watch It Free Online ( Open Culture ) |
How to Make Homemade Vanilla Extract ( Serious Eats ) |
Simular, which is building AI agents for Mac and Windows PCs, raised a $21.5M Series A led by Felicis; Simular has released its 1.0 version for macOS (Julie Bort/TechCrunch) ( Techmeme ) |
pullup to busan 4 morE hypEr summEr it’s gonna be a fuckin moviE EP ( Pitchfork ) |
Mudpots and Fumaroles: Lithographs of Yellowstone’s Thermal Springs (1883) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Sharks and Rays Gain Sweeping Protections from Wildlife Trade ( NYT > Science ) |
Give a gift of History with the AskHistorians 2025 Holiday Book Recommendation Thread! ( AskHistorians ) |
Biocatalytic, asymmetric radical hydrogenation of unactivated alkenes ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Best Albums of 2025 ( NYT > Arts ) |
The specificity and structure of DNA cross-linking by the gut bacterial genotoxin colibactin ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
52 things I learned in 2025. This year I stopped being a consultant… | by Tom Whitwell | Dec, 2025 | Medium ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Voices From the Lake ( Pitchfork ) |
The Indian Ocean disaster is a climate tragedy — and needs more attention ( Nature ) |
Dentsu Creative 2026 Trends Report ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Inner Ear: The Best Central and Eastern European Music of 2025 ( The Quietus ) |
Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Vet for reactive pit?? ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Home | web.dev ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The Vaccine Guardrails Are Gone ( The Atlantic ) |
Master of Claude de France’s Book of Flower Studies (ca. 1510–1515) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Political persuasion by artificial intelligence ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
11 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week ( NYT > Arts ) |
Strings Attached: Helen Haiman Joseph’s A Book of Marionettes (1920) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Darleane C. Hoffman obituary: chemist who expanded the periodic table ( Nature ) |
Nespresso vs. Keurig: Which Coffee Maker is Better? ( Serious Eats ) |
The Best Music of 2025, According to Pitchfork Readers ( Pitchfork ) |
Tides are weirder than you think – Signore Galilei ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The 4 Year Rule For Retirement Spending - A Wealth of Common Sense ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
pglite ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The Microflora Danica atlas of Danish environmental microbiomes ( Nature ) |
Science e-Books - NASA Science ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Abandoned antiviral shows promise against dengue ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Trojan Pig: Tiny Cryptic #11 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Various Artists — Imaginational Anthem Vol. XIV: Ireland (Tompkins Square) ( dusted ) |
Fran Sans Essay — Emily Sneddon ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Is this that? The Nitty-Gritty on Reduplication: So Good, You Have to Say it Twice. - JSTOR Daily ( Linguistics ) |
A stoichiometrically conserved homologous series with infinite structural diversity ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
EU fines X $140 million for violating landmark digital service rules | The Verge ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The Big Apple Circus Returns to New York With Its Show-Stealing Dogs ( NYT > Arts ) |
The 12 Days of Christmas Cookies ( Serious Eats ) |
Gut testing in. Triangle ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
‘The Chronology of Water’ Review: Saved by the Pen ( NYT > Arts ) |
Practical alternative to explosive reaction will improve lab safety ( Nature ) |
The Spinn Coffee Maker Is One of the Only Automated Brewers We Like ( Serious Eats ) |
Where did the depiction of younger children wearing propeller hats and holding giant rainbow lollipops come from in American TV media? ( AskHistorians ) |
Council Sets Decorum Rules, Debates Dark-Sky Lighting, Considers Future of 505 W. Chapel Hill ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
FEMA Won’t Reinstate Suspended Workers Who Signed Letter Criticizing Trump ( NYT > Science ) |
Why are there barely any developed tropical countries? ( Geography ) |
A Forensic Artist Brings the Protagonist of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “The School of Night” to Life ( NYT > Arts ) |
The Mad Men Streaming Debacle Is a Strange Cautionary Tale ( The Atlantic ) |
Erik Bulatov, Russian Painter Who Undermined Soviet Propaganda, Dies at 92 ( NYT > Arts ) |
Writing a good CLAUDE.md | HumanLayer Blog ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
14 Last-Minute, Food-Related Valentine’s Day Gifts ( Serious Eats ) |
ode to a faux grecian urn ( McMansion Hell ) |
Building with Cursor (public) ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
"President Trump uses unconventional diplomacy" ( MetaFilter ) |
‘Functional cure’ for HIV comes closer to reality ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Bonus McMansion Hell: Ye Olde Barrington ( McMansion Hell ) |
PermitFlow, which develops AI-powered workflow software for construction permitting, raised a $54M Series B led by Accel, a source says at a ~$500M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes) ( Techmeme ) |
Rob Zolkos - Ruby on Rails Software Developer ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Cohesin drives chromatin scanning during the RAD51-mediated homology search ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Jennifer Packer: Art at the Cosmic Edges of Longing ( NYT > Arts ) |
In WW2, why did Italy collapse into civil war when invaded, deposing the Fascists, whereas Germany stood mostly unified until defeat? ( AskHistorians ) |
His Group Made World-Class Measurements of Atomic Elements ( NYT > Technology ) |
H-1B to Plan B: India’s top tech talent looks beyond the U.S. ( Rest of World - ) |
We Reviewed The Vitamix Immersion Blender (And It Was Almost Silly Powerful) ( Serious Eats ) |
Geothermal networks let cities warm and cool as one ( Nature ) |
Messed up assembling a lamp; help me fix it. ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
Are these two trenches a result of the sea level being lower during the ice age? ( Geography ) |
Whole-genome landscapes of 1,364 breast cancers ( Nature ) |
U.S. health care is broken — and it’s getting worse : NPR ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
‘Merrily We Roll Along’ Review: It’s a Hit (Reprise) ( NYT > Arts ) |
Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust | corrode Rust Consulting ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
A ceasefire in name only ( MetaFilter ) |
The 1% Guild ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Elijah Minnelli – Clams As A Main Meal ( The Quietus ) |
The Father of Rhythm Guitarists ( The Atlantic ) |
House Fire ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
8086 Microcode Browser - Small things retro ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Caroline True Obsesses Over Compilations So You Don’t Have To ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Recreating the lost SDK for a 42-year-old operating system: VisiCorp Visi On ( Hacker News ) |
Touching the Elephant - TPUs | Consider the Bulldog ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Aluminium is crucial to vaccines — and safe. Why are US advisers debating it? ( Nature ) |
Wooden skyscrapers point the way to more sustainable cities ( Nature ) |
Jamie xx Remixes Robyn’s “Dopamine”: Listen ( Pitchfork ) |
Italian dialects and language contact. Theory, typology, data. An introduction. Wild, Negrinelli, Breimaier, Cristelli, Loporcaro & Paciaroni. (2025). ( Linguistics ) |
Trump Expected to Significantly Weaken Fuel Economy Rules ( NYT > Science ) |
The Origin of Hegseth’s Anti-Beard Obsession ( The Atlantic ) |
Hutchins over the fence snaps ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Producing alternative proteins for vegans is not as easy as you think ( MetaFilter ) |
The Best Kitchen Shoes, According to the Serious Eats Team ( Serious Eats ) |
Trump’s Security Strategy Is Incoherent Babble ( The Atlantic ) |
We Reviewed 11 Bento Boxes to Find One We’d Pack Lunch In ( Serious Eats ) |
Guided by Voices — Thick Rich and Delicious (GBV Inc.) ( dusted ) |
Perl's decline was cultural ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
What to Know About Netflix’s $83 Billion Deal for Warner Bros. Discovery ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Quarks in ‘exotic’ quartets prefer to stick together ( Nature ) |
AI chatbots can persuade voters to change their minds ( Nature ) |
Aarktica — Ecstatic Lightsongs (HanaqPacha) ( dusted ) |
China starts a food fight over Western EV tariffs ( Rest of World - ) |
Our Favorite Features of 2022 ( Serious Eats ) |
Frank Gehry, Titan of Architecture, Is Dead at 96 ( NYT > Arts ) |
How the “Marvelization” of Cinema Accelerates the Decline of Filmmaking ( Open Culture ) |
Video-call glitches trigger uncanniness and harm consequential life outcomes ( Nature ) |
Digital asset treasuries, one of the hottest trends in public markets in H1 2025, saw a dramatic reversal in H2; SharpLink stock has fallen 86% from its peak (Monique Mulima/Bloomberg) ( Techmeme ) |
‘100 Nights of Hero’ Review: A Feminist Fairy Tale ( NYT > Arts ) |
The Best Hip-Hop on Bandcamp, November 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Deals With Trump Will Haunt Universities ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
Autechre Announce 2026 European Tour ( Pitchfork ) |
we’ve found it folks: mcmansion heaven ( McMansion Hell ) |
The Best Albums of 2025: Day 1, A–L ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Brian Eno, Neneh Cherry and More to Collaborate on New Palestine Charity Single ( The Quietus ) |
What Is Generative UI? ( Hacker News ) |
GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches ( Hacker News ) |
New MeFiCoFo board elected ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Editorial Expression of Concern: Cytokinesis failure generating tetraploids promotes tumorigenesis in p53-null cells ( Nature ) |
Metformin (Glucophage) may have made me smarter. ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Built environment disparities are amplified during extreme weather recovery ( Nature ) |
Oblast: A better Blasto game for the Commodore 64 ( Hacker News ) |
Don’t downplay problems of bullying and harassment in academia ( Nature ) |
Frank Gehry’s Buildings Sound as Marvelous as They Look ( NYT > Arts ) |
Bulk superconductivity up to 96 K in pressurized nickelate single crystals ( Nature ) |
Steve Cropper: 9 Essential Songs ( NYT > Arts ) |
Even in space, telescopes can’t escape photobombers ( Nature ) |
When a Murder Hornet Becomes a Tasty Meal ( NYT > Science ) |
Coffee linked to slower biological ageing among those with severe mental illness ( Hacker News ) |
In Honduras, Some Voters Were Swayed by Trump, Others Angered ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Wtf does this say? ( Geography ) |
Free Ski Passes/Free Japan Flights/Posture-fixing Shirt ( Cool Tools ) |
National Guardsman shot in D.C. ‘slowly healing,’ West Virginia governor says ( National ) |
Bitcoin’s Predicted Sky-High Prices Have Not Panned Out ( NYT > Technology ) |
Computational enzyme design by catalytic motif scaffolding ( Nature ) |
Trump’s NASA Pick Poised to Win Senate Vote After Do-Over Hearing ( NYT > Science ) |
Improved solvent systems for commercially viable perovskite photovoltaic modules ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Freezing fog advisory for Durham until 9am 12/7 ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Zebra-Llama – Towards efficient hybrid models ( Hacker News ) |
Environmentally Friendly Coffee ( NYT > Science ) |
The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, November 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Through the Magnifying Glass: The Cheese Mites (1903) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Interview with Dr. Conchúr Ó Giollagáin: “Minority languages need to strengthen their strongholds, the areas where they are truly spoken” ( Linguistics ) |
Best Jazz Albums of 2025 ( NYT > Arts ) |
McMansion Hell urges all New Yorkers to Rank Zohran Mamdani #1 for Mayor of NYC ( McMansion Hell ) |
Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting ( The Public Domain Review ) |
How did the USA become the third most populous nation when it’s a relatively new country? ( AskHistorians ) |
I get that we don’t know who Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were. But were their gospels always given those names? Are they just names like Bob or Charles or do the names have some significance? ( AskHistorians ) |
Ease the EU postdoc job market with better routes to innovation ( Nature ) |
Discovering the indieweb with calm tech ( Hacker News ) |
The Tape Label Report, November 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season - 2025 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Unexplained & Unusual ( Cool Tools ) |
Luke Howard’s Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Zig-a-zig-ah: Tiny Cryptic #6 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Listen to Water From Your Eyes’ New It’s Beautiful EP ( Pitchfork ) |
Why A Small Fine Mesh Strainer Is Incredibly Versatile ( Serious Eats ) |
Cracking chemistry with quantum simulations ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Cohesin guides homology search during DNA repair using loops and sister chromatid linkages ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Francis Ford Coppola’s F.P. Journe Sells for $11 Million at Auction ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
New York City election endorsements (ballot proposals and judges) ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Search for light sterile neutrinos with two neutrino beams at MicroBooNE ( Nature ) |
miniphone ultra (mpu) case - olive green – elrow industries ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Hamilton O. Smith, Who Made a Biotech Breakthrough, Is Dead at 94 ( NYT > Science ) |
Why One Man Is Fighting for Our Right to Control Our Garage Door Openers - The New York Times ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Tepache (Mexican Fermented Pineapple Drink) ( Serious Eats ) |
Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
How to Make Kombucha ( Serious Eats ) |
Hollywood Doesn’t Want Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Pre- and postantibiotic epoch: The historical spread of antimicrobial resistance ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Frank Gehry, who stretched architecture’s boundaries, dies at 96 ( National ) |
Author Correction: Seismic detection of a 600-km solid inner core in Mars ( Nature ) |
The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Perpetual Movement: Francis Picabia’s 391 Review (1917–1924) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Netflix Deal for Warner Bros. Adds New Twist to Rivalry With HBO ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
“I Am Making the World My Confessor”: Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte ( The Public Domain Review ) |
“Quaint Dessert Dishes” in American Homes and Gardens (1911) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Inside the Bird-Flu Vaccine Trial for Monk Seals ( NYT > Science ) |
At the National Archives, a Deep Dive Into the American Story ( NYT > Arts ) |
Dancing Babies and Toddlers Are Teaching the Pros a Thing or Two ( NYT > Arts ) |
Frinkiac ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Climate Shift Upends Atlantic Seaweed: One Massive Patch Grows as Another Vanishes ( NYT > Science ) |
‘We Are Looking at a Massive Crisis’ ( The Atlantic ) |
LCD Soundsystem Announce 2026 Chicago Shows ( Pitchfork ) |
Agent Cupcake: The Unicorn Spy ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Apps for China Travel/Airline Stopovers/Unlimited Budget Flights ( Cool Tools ) |
Once Upon a Time... in Shropshire ( Pitchfork ) |
Chè Chuối (Vietnamese Banana, Tapioca, and Coconut Milk Dessert) ( Serious Eats ) |
Author Correction: Cleavage of RIPK1 by caspase-8 is crucial for limiting apoptosis and necroptosis ( Nature ) |
College Students Choosing A.I. Majors Over Computer Science ( NYT > Technology ) |
Hegseth Skirts Questions About Releasing Video of Sept. 2 Boat Attack ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Von Pea & The Other Guys, “Putcha Weight On It” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
The Unlikely Friendship of Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla ( Open Culture ) |
How "German" was the Holy Roman Empire? If I were a non-German inhabitant, would I experience a sort of otherness when travelling through the empire? ( AskHistorians ) |
How does having a lot of coastal neighbors affect a country? Could a country become effectively “landlocked” if it had a lot of neighboring countries blocking/contesting its maritime borders? ( Geography ) |
Principles of Slack Maximalism ( Hacker News ) |
China accounts for more than half of leading output in the applied sciences ( Nature ) |
Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
‘WTO/99’ Review: The ‘Battle in Seattle’ as Seen by the Participants ( NYT > Arts ) |
Dark Night / Ciro’s Nightclub of the Stars ( Cool Tools ) |
Wadada Leo Smith & Sylvie Courvoisier—Angel Falls (Intakt) ( dusted ) |
With elections following deadly fire, Hong Kong moves to stifle dissent ( World ) |
Code execution with MCP: building more efficient AI agents Anthropic ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Efo Riro (Nigerian Stewed Greens) ( Serious Eats ) |
Could President Trump Bring Japan’s Tiny Cars to America? Not So Fast. ( NYT > Science ) |
‘Fackham Hall’ Review: Keep Calm and Chuckle On ( NYT > Arts ) |
One hundred years of quantum mechanics ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Challenges and opportunities for quantum information hardware ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Book Review: Best Holiday Coffee-Table Books ( NYT > Arts ) |
Touching the Elephant – TPUs | Hacker News ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
His Group Made World-Class Measurements of Atomic Elements ( NYT > Science ) |
A Look at What Lives Where Deep Sea Mining Would Happen ( NYT > Science ) |
Guy Cogeval, Boundary-Pushing Museum Director, Dies at 70 ( NYT > Arts ) |
Should You Be Storing Coffee in a Coffee Canister? ( Serious Eats ) |
e-Books - NASA ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Please take care of your pets when it's cold ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
For He’s a Jolly Bad Fellow: Now and Then #1 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Why do Employers care about Geography Master’s Degrees for Urban Planning/Coastal Planning professions? ( Geography ) |
daninet/mtxt: a human-writable text format for musical notes, timing, and expression. ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The Trump Lawyer Scandal Is About Something Much Deeper Than Legal Technicalities ( The Atlantic ) |
The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, November 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
We Tested 8 Mini Whisks And Came Away with Three Favorites ( Serious Eats ) |
Gilded Fish: Illustrations from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
In Other Journals ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
So What's Going to Happen to Product Management Anyway? ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
FYI, this post is now available for all to read! ( McMansion Hell ) |
Simplicity of a Database, but the Speed of a Cache: OLAP Caches for DuckDB - MotherDuck Blog ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
12 Freezer-Friendly Soups for a Warm Meal Whenever You Want It ( Serious Eats ) |
Low Culture Podcast: John & Luke Reflect on 2025 ( The Quietus ) |
The United Nations Ocean Decade: A catalyst for international collaboration enhancing ocean monitoring and data ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Jabo's Annual Halloween Cartoon 2025 ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Moin Moin (Nigerian Steamed Bean Cake) ( Serious Eats ) |
Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
“Glitter” ( Pitchfork ) |
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, November 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
10 Usability Heuristics & AI Principles based on Jakob Nielsen's research ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
It’s No Dodo, But This Newly Discovered Bird Could Share the Same Fate ( NYT > Science ) |
The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, November 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
How Do Air Fryers Work? ( Serious Eats ) |
Flow Control: a progammer's text editor ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
We Reviewed the Challenger Fermentation Mat and Recommend It for Sourdough Bakers ( Serious Eats ) |
When Chatbots Break Our Minds ( The Atlantic ) |
Book Review: ‘Television,’ by Lauren Rothery ( NYT > Arts ) |
Park with a high narrow valley for hiking in the Hudson Valley of NY ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
Growing cities face mounting challenges ( Nature ) |
As Palestinians yearn for a leader, top candidate remains behind bars ( World ) |
Best TV Shows of 2025 ( NYT > Arts ) |
أحمد [Ahmed], “سماع [Sama’a] (Audition)” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Jane Remover Drops Surprise New ♡ EP: Listen ( Pitchfork ) |
Prostitute Sign to Mute, Announce 2026 European Tour ( Pitchfork ) |
The levers of political persuasion with conversational artificial intelligence ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Perl's decline was cultural ( Hacker News ) |
Cultural origins of the "Starvation Specter" visual trope in 1940s American Animation: Why was hunger depicted as a tetric figure like this? ( AskHistorians ) |
Mississippi and Missouri are the 1st and 2nd rivers of the US, which river will you consider the third? (Ohio, Columbia, Snake, Colorado or Rio Grande?) ( Geography ) |
India's digital transformation has exposed citizens to scams like "digital arrests", where victims are coerced into transferring funds under false accusations (Bloomberg) ( Techmeme ) |
We Got Claude to Fine-Tune an Open Source LLM ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
China is setting the pace in the EV race, and the West can’t keep up ( Rest of World - ) |
Late Night Thinks the War on Drugs Has Gone a Bit Off the Rails ( NYT > Arts ) |
We Reviewed 3 Cast Iron Bread Ovens and Recommend All of Them ( Serious Eats ) |
The Apple Airpods 4 with ANC are at their lowest price | The Verge ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Super-flat ASTs ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Sources: Apple's chip chief Johny Srouji told Tim Cook that he is seriously considering leaving soon; some execs floated elevating him to the CTO role (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) ( Techmeme ) |
Satellite megaconstellations will threaten space-based astronomy ( Nature ) |
Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura ( The Public Domain Review ) |
After Trump’s MRI Claim, His Doctor’s Memo Offers Little Clarity ( NYT > Science ) |
By the Horns ( The Atlantic ) |
TSC tunes progenitor balance and upper-layer neuron generation in neocortex ( Nature ) |
Croquembouche ( Serious Eats ) |
Bublé for a Day, but He Can’t Sing and There’s Little Resemblance ( NYT > Arts ) |
AMA with Indiana University Computational Linguistics ( Linguistics ) |
Unclouded ( Pitchfork ) |
Top 25 News Photos of 2025 ( The Atlantic ) |
Still no sign of hypothetical sterile-neutrino particle ( Nature ) |
Fancy(ish) restaurants for graduation ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Short Answers to Simple Questions | December 03, 2025 ( AskHistorians ) |
19 Sides to Go With Wings ( Serious Eats ) |
Inside RFK Jr.’s Methodical Quest to Shake Up America’s Vaccine System ( NYT > Science ) |
George Baxter’s Print of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (ca. 1854) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
The UAE’s AI strategy winds through Silicon Valley ( Rest of World - ) |
The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Public Patience with Tech Giants Is Running Out | Hacker News ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Watch Winsor McCay’s The Sinking of the Lusitania, the First Major Animated Propaganda Film (1918) ( Open Culture ) |
No More Worlds to Conquer - The Fence ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Columnfortably Numb: The Best Psych Rock of 2025 ( The Quietus ) |
Cheese Foam Tea ( Serious Eats ) |
In the Penal Colony: Now and Then #3 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
How a Food Dehydrator Can Help You Reduce Food Waste ( Serious Eats ) |
glam metal modern but also your contractor is going to jail dawg ( McMansion Hell ) |
Feeling Through Art / Revealing read / Airport rides ( Cool Tools ) |
Why an Offset Spatula Is the Tool I Can’t Bake Without ( Serious Eats ) |
Today’s Atlantic Trivia: Blame It on the Bile ( The Atlantic ) |
Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’ | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
‘Happy Holidays’ Review: Fissures in a Palestinian Family ( NYT > Arts ) |
The Emperor’s New Clothes: Fashion, Politics, and Identity in Mughal South Asia ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Our Winning Milk Frother Is Finally Back in Stock—And It's On Sale ( Serious Eats ) |
What ‘Hamnet’ Lost (and Gained) on the Way From Page to Screen ( NYT > Arts ) |
Fantazius’ Folly: Tiny Cryptic #1 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
All of the Gear You Need to Make Your Own Gingerbread House ( Serious Eats ) |
Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters ( Hacker News ) |
Cattlemass — Alpha 1128 (Seeing Red) ( dusted ) |
Hélène Barbier, “Panorama” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Rage Bait Is a Brilliant Word of the Year ( The Atlantic ) |
Retro Recomendo: Holiday Gifts ( Cool Tools ) |
AI is saving time and money in research — but at what cost? ( Nature ) |
The hidden Kenyan workers training China’s AI models ( Rest of World - ) |
How to Approach Even the Hardest Family Discussions ( The Atlantic ) |
Dust, Volume 11, Number 11 ( dusted ) |
Who tf is Doug Wilson? ( MetaFilter ) |
Sterile Neutrino Prediction Muddled by Latest Experiments ( NYT > Science ) |
The Quietus Albums of the Year 2025 (In Association with Norman Records) ( The Quietus ) |
How to Roast Butternut Squash ( Serious Eats ) |
Charles Butler’s The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 edition) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Mathematics Without Numbers (1959) ( Hacker News ) |
Database esposto di startup AI: oltre 1 milione di immagini nude, possibili abusi su minori ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
What are some historical sites that are much more visited than people think? ( Geography ) |
Honing Versus Sharpening a Knife: What's the Difference? ( Serious Eats ) |
Transparent Leadership Beats Servant Leadership ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Putin Lives by a Code Trump Doesn’t Understand ( The Atlantic ) |
Advancing Microsoft 365: New capabilities and pricing update | Microsoft 365 Blog ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Hepatitis B vaccine guidance set to be rolled back for US babies: what the science says ( Nature ) |
Under Construction: Tiny Cryptic #10 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Breaking the Celestial Ceiling: Now and Then #4 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Reissue of the Week: CELESTE’s Morte(s) Née(s) ( The Quietus ) |
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says he might rename the company 'Agentforce' | Business Insider ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Kibrom Birhane – Lisané Bahir ( The Quietus ) |
OMSCS Open Courseware ( Hacker News ) |
Author Correction: Activity of caspase-8 determines plasticity between cell death pathways ( Nature ) |
Back of the House: Meet Our 2022 Contributors ( Serious Eats ) |
Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to LLMs. ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Satellite swarms set to photobomb more than 95% of some telescopes’ images ( Nature ) |
Self-host and scale web apps without Kubernetes complexity | Uncloud ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, November 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
DeepSeek’s self-correcting AI model aces tough maths proofs ( Nature ) |
AI finds signs of life in ancient rocks ( Nature ) |
Paul Kidney Experience, “PAUL KIDNEY JAPANESE EXPERIENCE” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Introducing Anthropic Interviewer Anthropic ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Most technical problems are people problems | Hacker News ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
“gg” ( Pitchfork ) |
AI chatbots can sway voters with remarkable ease — is it time to worry? ( Nature ) |
Are 4-Year College Costs Scaring Students Off? Maybe Not, a New Study Finds ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
on neuschwanstein castle (part 1) ( McMansion Hell ) |
What If Our Ancestors Didn’t Feel Anything Like We Do? ( The Atlantic ) |
Mapped disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle to see if the myth holds up ( Geography ) |
We Tested 14 Popular Vegetable Peelers to Find the Best Ones ( Serious Eats ) |
17 Quick Dinner Recipes in 20 Minutes or Less ( Serious Eats ) |
Kitchen Gear and Tools We Think You Should Have Two (Or More) Of ( Serious Eats ) |
URGENT FOSTERS NEEDED FOR 1 WEEK (APS of Durham, 12/06) ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 2’ Review: The Robots Are Malfunctioning (Again) ( NYT > Arts ) |
Decay of driver mutations shapes the landscape of intestinal transformation ( Nature ) |
Q&A weekly thread - November 24, 2025 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
Essential Releases, November 14, 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
How to Improve Your Attention Span: Daniel Pink’s Strategies for the Digital Age ( Open Culture ) |
The time has come to declare war on AI ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Cities are embracing nature for flood defence ( Nature ) |
Self-hosting my photos with Immich - Michael Stapelberg ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
I wasted so much money on AA batteries because I missed this tiny detail ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The Immortal Remains ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
What even is "literate programming"? ( Hacker News ) |
TSOFA - The Simple, Offline Flashcard App ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Siriusmo – Buletten & Blumen ( The Quietus ) |
‘Spartacus: House of Ashur’ Resurrects a Cult Franchise ( NYT > Arts ) |
Zellig Harris, Noam Chomsky and the verbal auxiliary ( Linguistics ) |
Resynthesizing "Invention in D Minor" from Switched-On Bach ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
And Stay Out ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Former N.C. Governor Roy Cooper files paperwork to run for U.S. Senate ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Europeans, South Americans, east Asians, Do you wish if your country was more arid? (With reasonable agriculture and water sources) ( Geography ) |
A technical deep dive into Amazon's Trainium3 accelerator, including its server SKUs' specifications, silicon design, power budget, and bill of materials (SemiAnalysis) ( Techmeme ) |
Accelerating science with AI ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Towns lag behind the switch to standard time ( Nature ) |
The Best Albums of 2025: Day 2, M–Z ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Beta Will Sell Motors to Another Electric Aircraft Company ( NYT > Technology ) |
Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography ( The Public Domain Review ) |
China’s National Security Office in Hong Kong Summons Foreign Journalists ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
A Vegetarian's Christmas Eve Pig Roast ( Serious Eats ) |
Using LLMs at Oxide ( Hacker News ) |
Is the Instant Pot Duo Crisp Ultimate Lid a Good Air Fryer? ( Serious Eats ) |
What is this porcelain cup? ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
We Tested the Anova Precision Chamber Vacuum Sealer ( Serious Eats ) |
Listed: Jessica Moss ( dusted ) |
Trump Campaigned on Affordability. Now He’s Calling the Idea a ‘Con Job.’ ( The Atlantic ) |
Memes reveal threats to graduate-student mental health ( Nature ) |
Cities aren’t built for women — it’s time to change that ( Nature ) |
Lomi Composter Review: Here’s Whether It’s Worth It (or Not) ( Serious Eats ) |
Can Germany stop extremism by banning a far-right party? Some want to try. ( World ) |
With ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 2’ and ‘I Love L.A.,’ Josh Hutcherson Is Back ( NYT > Arts ) |
Balmuda: Our Review of the Pretty, Steam-Powered Toaster ( Serious Eats ) |
Experimental vaccine prevents deadly allergic reactions in mice ( Nature ) |
What did it take to be an approved conscientious objector during the Vietnam War? ( AskHistorians ) |
13 Make-Ahead Desserts for the Holidays ( Serious Eats ) |
Forward ( Pitchfork ) |
LEVEL DEVIL - Play Online for Free! | Poki ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Getting rid of vintage ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
20 Holiday Romance Movies to Stream Now: ‘Love Actually,’ ‘Serendipity’ and More ( NYT > Arts ) |
Kara-Lis Coverdale – Changes In Air ( The Quietus ) |
Steve Cropper, Revered Guitarist of Booker T. & the M.G.’s, Dies at 84 ( Pitchfork ) |
Solving the Home Care Quandary ( NYT > Science ) |
What is the US' fourth most major metro? NOT JUST BASED ON POPULATION but factoring influence and importance ( Geography ) |
Erratum for the Research Article “Homogenized chlorine distribution for >27% power conversion efficiency in perovskite solar cells” by Z. Xiong et al. ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
A land fight pits a sacred Apache tradition against a copper mine ( National ) |
Is there any validity to the criticism of relying on stories from refugees that the people who flee revolutions are generally from the “oppressor” class? ( AskHistorians ) |
Danny Brown Is Proud of His New Beats and Gym Physique ( NYT > Arts ) |
Music Made With Non-Instruments ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
States step up to democratize AI-tailored computers ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
The distinction between "knowledge of" and "knowledge how" ( MetaFilter ) |
The Magical Spectrum: Bianca Scout & Cajm Interviewed ( The Quietus ) |
Inside the Alvin Ailey Gala: Ciara, the Red Carpet and a Madonna Dance Party ( NYT > Arts ) |
The NPU in your phone keeps improving—why isn’t that making AI better? - Ars Technica ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
New York Times Sues A.I. Start-Up Perplexity Over Use of Copyrighted Work ( NYT > Technology ) |
Former deep-cover Russian spy leads Moscow campaign to co-opt Indian tech ( World ) |
After 1945, what happened to the Chinese warlords after the Japanese surrender? ( AskHistorians ) |
The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude ( Hacker News ) |
The Best Punk on Bandcamp, November 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Moral foundations and language ideologies: how different moral concerns predict endorsement of linguistic diversity, prescriptivism, and purism ( Linguistics ) |
Hammersmith Bridge - by Nick Maini - Suburban Mantuan ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Animal Costumes from the 1862 Fairytale Ball of the Jung-München Artist’s Association ( The Public Domain Review ) |
German Market ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
21 Recipes to Make With Your Newly Gifted Gear ( Serious Eats ) |
Mixed Berry Trifle ( Serious Eats ) |
Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
How to Pack for Any Trip / Infuse: Oil, Spirit, Water ( Cool Tools ) |
Hong Kong Man Arrested After Posting Online About Deadly Fire ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video] ( Hacker News ) |
I gave a lecture about my Egyptian furniture replicas ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
California Discourages Wild Mushroom Foraging After Fatal Outbreak ( NYT > Science ) |
‘Adversarial poetry’ tricks AI chatbots into divulging harmful content | The Verge ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
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The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley ( NYT > Technology ) |
Kidney Recipient Dies After Transplant From Organ Donor Who Had Rabies ( NYT > Science ) |
Semiseparated biphasic bicontinuous dielectric elastomer for high-performance artificial muscle ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
A specialized use of Claude code tool. ( MetaFilter ) |
Jeremy O. Harris Is Arrested in Japan on Suspicion of Smuggling Drugs ( NYT > Arts ) |
Q&A weekly thread - November 03, 2025 - post all questions here! ( Linguistics ) |
Indie Pop’s Big Year Out ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Studying Science in an Anti-Scientific Time ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
Xiu Xiu Announce New Covers Album ( The Quietus ) |
Prostitute Sign to Mute for Worldwide Release of Debut Album ( The Quietus ) |
You Should Write An Agent · The Fly Blog ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The Married Scientists Torn Apart by a Covid Bioweapon Theory ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Warburg’s Werewolf: An Anamnesis ( The Public Domain Review ) |
8 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Melody’s Echo Chamber, Redveil, and More ( Pitchfork ) |
We Tested 7 Pasta Makers to Find the Best Ones for Rolling and Cutting Dough ( Serious Eats ) |
Dawn of quantum simulators ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Spice World: A Look Inside the Serious Eats Team's Spice Cabinets ( Serious Eats ) |
Z2 – Lithographically fabricated IC in a garage fab ( Hacker News ) |
The Oldest Known Depiction of Human Sexuality: The Turin Papyrus (Circa 1150 B.C.E.) ( Open Culture ) |
Areas first discovered by Europeans/US? ( Geography ) |
Suck on This, Squarehead: A Guide to Foetus ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Moor Mother, Wooden Elephant, Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, Dirk Kaftan – Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes ( The Quietus ) |
What's the Point of Learning Functional Programming? - Daniel Beskin's Blog ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Silicon Valley Builds Amazon and Gmail Copycats to Train A.I. Agents ( NYT > Technology ) |
namesake mcmansion ( McMansion Hell ) |
The Old, Old, Very Old Man: Thomas Parr and the Longevity Trade ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Are "Identity Defense" services worthwhile? ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
The Grading Scandal That Should Worry Higher Ed ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
Explain this cat art please ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
How Has Congestion Pricing Changed Your Year? ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Francis Ford Coppola’s F.P. Journe Sells for $11 Million at Auction ( NYT > Arts ) |
Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer - Lalit Maganti ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
2025 App Store Award Winners Revealed - MacStories ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
The Married Scientists Torn Apart by a Covid Bioweapon Theory ( NYT > Science ) |
About my last few months. ( McMansion Hell ) |
Democrats press for expanding inquiry into Caribbean boat strike ( World ) |
What did butcher and fishmongers use to package the meat they sell before paraffin wax/plastic paper packaging became ubiquitous ? ( AskHistorians ) |
The Pittsburgh Symphony Plays How an Orchestra Should Sound ( NYT > Arts ) |
Saving Japan's exceptionally rare 'snow monsters' ( Hacker News ) |
A Popeless Situation: Now and Then #2 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
We Tested the Ankarsrum Stand Mixer for Months to Find Out if It’s Worth Buying ( Serious Eats ) |
My car charger can boil water really fast [video] ( Hacker News ) |
EU Hits Elon Musk’s X With $140 Million Fine ( NYT > Technology ) |
2007-core nostalgia extravaganza ( McMansion Hell ) |
‘Little Trouble Girls’ Review: Teenage Infatuation ( NYT > Arts ) |
Library Agency Reinstates Grants Canceled by Trump Administration ( NYT > Arts ) |
A bothy among the stars ( Nature ) |
A tale of two forms of cohesin in DNA repair ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
x.com ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes ( Nature ) |
‘La Grazia’ Review: Paolo Sorrentino’s Portrait of Waning Power ( NYT > Arts ) |
Book recs with certain specs ( Ask MetaFilter ) |
Aphex Twin Uploads Two New Songs to SoundCloud ( The Quietus ) |
A place-based assessment of biodiversity intactness in sub-Saharan Africa ( Nature ) |
Daniel Lopatin Details New Marty Supreme Soundtrack Album ( Pitchfork ) |
Beware of boys in tight pants ( MetaFilter ) |
Meet the tech leaders bringing Syria into the digital age ( Rest of World - ) |
Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
4 Takeaways From The Times’s Reporting on Biden’s Immigration Record ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
Trump urges a new vaccine schedule. Here’s what other countries do. ( World ) |
Colorful Stars of All Ages ( The Atlantic ) |
Calunga, a lesser known language from Brazil: ( Linguistics ) |
Sharp Pins — Balloon Balloon Balloon (K / Perennial) ( dusted ) |
This University Was Struggling. Now It’s Engineering an Enrollment Turnaround. ( The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice ) |
You just know there's going to be food puns ( MetaFilter ) |
Dot Battle - a Javascript Physics Toy ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
Zamrock Before Zamrock: A Guide to the Early Sounds of Zambia’s Copperbelt ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss’ Retrofuturism ( The Public Domain Review ) |
A look at Phreeli, a privacy-focused phone carrier that lets users sign up with only a ZIP code and uses an encryption system based on "zero-knowledge proofs" (Andy Greenberg/Wired) ( Techmeme ) |
The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, November 2025 ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
This Nebraska Prison Rehabilitated Inmates. Until ICE Paid to Fill It With Immigrants. ( NYT > Top Stories ) |
onlyrecipe ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Alfred G. Mayer’s On the Color and Color-Patterns of Moths and Butterflies (1897) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Various Artists, “Ghana Special: Highlife” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
Photobombing satellites could ruin the night sky for space telescopes ( Nature ) |
Boxing Clever: Tiny Cryptic #5 ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Sustained HIV-1 remission after heterozygous CCR5Δ32 stem cell transplantation ( Nature ) |
Constraints on lepton number violation with the 2 tonne · year CUORE dataset ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Micro-Lending ( Cool Tools ) |
SVG Filters - Clickjacking 2.0 Ʊ lyra's epic blog ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Experimental treatments target the brain’s ‘plumbing’ ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
‘Rosemead’ Review: A Mother and Her Troubled Son ( NYT > Arts ) |
Alternatives to animal research are not inherently more ethical ( Nature ) |
Stacked Diffs with `git rebase --onto` ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
DJ Lag, “Southside Mixtape” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet - Ars Technica ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
A vision of chromosome organization ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Viral RNA blocks circularization to evade host codon usage control ( Nature ) |
Trump warns of European ‘civilizational erasure’ in realigned national security strategy ( World ) |
Geography of College Sports ( Geography ) |
Paramaribo and the Plantation: Gerrit Schouten’s Dioramas of Suriname (1810–30) ( The Public Domain Review ) |
‘Fire amoeba’ survives in hotter conditions than any other complex cell ( Nature ) |
We Tested 8 Mandolines to Find Ones That Could Slice with Ease ( Serious Eats ) |
PDR's Halloween Reader ( The Public Domain Review ) |
“You Think Me a Bold Cheat”: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess ( The Public Domain Review ) |
Parking at Duke hospital ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
Smart irrigation needs smart policies in Iran ( AAAS: Science: Table of Contents ) |
Vindicating the role of ideophones as a typological feature of Basque. Ibarretxe-Antuñano (2023) ( Linguistics ) |
Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop ( Hacker News ) |
Burning Death — S/T (Caligari) ( dusted ) |
What are these weirdly straight lines cutting though the wilderness of Nightingdale Island? ( Geography ) |
Rosalía Announces Massive 2026 Tour ( Pitchfork ) |
The Bug vs Ghost Dubs, “Implosion” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
‘Anyone hired a student before?’ How a group of novice lab leaders are supporting each other ( Nature ) |
Jessica Williams, “Blue Abstraction: Prepared Piano Project 1985–1987” ( Bandcamp Updates ) |
🧊❄️ is back in Durham making arrests ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, “wonderful” rooms!“ ( McMansion Hell ) |
Food Processor vs. Blender: What's the Difference? ( Serious Eats ) |
Vote here ( MetaFilter Projects ) |
We Tested 12 Garlic Presses—Two Smashed the Competition ( Serious Eats ) |
Bonus Post: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a treatise ( McMansion Hell ) |
new jersey “19th century” “eclecticism” ( McMansion Hell ) |
What Is ‘Masking,’ and Is It Harmful? ( NYT > Science ) |
Fizzy ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai’s health is declining as verdict nears, family says ( World ) |
CD8+ T cell stemness precedes post-intervention control of HIV viremia ( Nature ) |
Bi-Weekly 'Anything Goes' Thread - aka Moving/Buy/Sell/Trade/Rent/Lease/Eat/Jobs ( The Official Subreddit of Durham, NC ) |
To grow, we must forget… but now AI remembers everything ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Rewire Reveals First Acts Playing 2026 Edition ( The Quietus ) |
Minimal Todo List and Monthly Task Planner Online | PrintCalendar.top ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
Sri Lankan Cyclone Ditwah Fundraiser in London this Sunday ( The Quietus ) |
Why One Man Is Fighting for Our Right to Control Our Garage Door Openers ( NYT > Technology ) |
Ruby Vroom ( Pitchfork ) |
Chinese businesses are transforming Mexico City’s poshest neighborhood ( Rest of World - ) |
Accurate predictions on small data with a tabular foundation model | Nature ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
FinFam - Collaborative Financial Planning ( Pinboard (popular bookmarks) ) |
We Reviewed Anyday Cookware: Are the Microwavable Dishes Worthwhile? ( Serious Eats ) |
pre-recession, post-taste ( McMansion Hell ) |
Seefeel — Pure, Impure (Stranded) ( dusted ) |
Debate Your Favorite Books of the Year ( The Atlantic ) |
On the comparative method, internal reconstruction, and other analytical tools for the reconstruction of the evolution of the Basque language: An assessment -Hualde 2020 ( Linguistics ) |