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What a great idea for a book: Cookbooking: A Fan’s...

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“ The principal aim of President Trump’s second...

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Weird Al Yankovic’s Tiny Desk Concert

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Anil Dash built a standalone Touch ID sensor to use...

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Analysts Warn U.S. Economy Becoming Overly Dependent On...

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When you take screenshots of posts in iOS social apps...

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“All our neighbors worked for those firms —...

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Long past time to quit X . “Those who continue to...

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This is a wild story: The Scientist Who Lived with...

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“Scientists have found that people are being...

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Ring of Fire in the Sky

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How to make a good Star Wars movie for once ....

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And also a trailer for season 2 of Star Wars: Ahsoka ....

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Trailer for VisionQuest , the third leg of the...

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In Bourgogne, they’ve been recording grape date harvests...

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Post-pandemic vaccination rates of US kindergarteners...

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Whoa, Columbia House (12 cassettes for 1¢) is finally...

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The area known as Tornado Alley continues to shift...

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“ Sand temperatures above 29°C now produce 95–99%...

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A.J. Jacobs recently interviewed “the Papa Bear of...

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Unwinding the Great Tech Power Grab . “If tech seeks to...

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We live in a world of ordinary abundance & luxuries...

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Ozu in Color (Every Frame a Painting)

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Two new episodes of Ric Burns’ 1999 documentary...

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Yale study : “A single-payer universal health care...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom on AOC’s presumed presidential...

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Open Thread for August 2026

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NOAA: Contiguous US Breaks Its Record for Hottest Month...

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The Moral Unseriousness of Centrist & Conservative Pundits

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A recently unearthed conversation with Anthony Bourdain...

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Supersonic Trebuchet

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Craig Mod wrote about his recent adventures using LLMs:...

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“Draw any shape and hear it as a drum.”...

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G.P.S. and the Lost Art of Getting Lost . “G.P.S....

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Some of the most storied problems in mathematics, those...

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The Art of the Copyist

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Here’s how Rocky’s musical language from the Project...

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I’m Done Using AI . “It made me lazy. It made me...

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Why weren’t bicycles invented sooner? “Why...

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Death Cab for Cutie’s Tiny Desk Concert

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Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting...

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A Collection of Eclipse Glasses (1793-2019)

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Stories that the authors of the Bible borrowed from...

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“Widely regarded as the most complicated board...

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New vocabulary term: “soft secession” .

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Good sentence : “The market’s most lavish...

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“ Your brain is a gambling addict that bets on...

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I’ve felt this for years (blogs have global context):...

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“An Absolute Climate Catastrophe”

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“ Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million...

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