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100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025. The big end-of-year lists mostly...

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Keene, NH has been replacing their stop-lighted intersections with roundabouts, resulting in...

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Why Is Everyone Running In Rom-Coms?

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I Was Stabbed in the Back With a Real Knife While Performing...

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On next-gen GLP-1 drugs. “A mere decade ago, obesity drugs powerful enough...

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A short video that explains *a lot* about the modern world &...

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This Is Always Interesting: “52 Things I Learned In 2025”

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Photographing the Microscopic: Winners of Nikon Small World 2025. “Overall Winner: A...

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Adding to an “overwhelming body of evidence”, a recent study showed that...

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The Atlantic hurricane season has come to a close and Google’s DeepMind...

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Q: “Want to Feel Old?” A: “Yes.”

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Macaulay Culkin Watches Home Alone With His Kids Who Don’t Realize He’s Kevin

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Rebecca Solnit: A Year on From Trump’s Victory, Resistance Is Everywhere. “There...

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Atul Gawande of Harvard’s School of Public Health: The Trump regime’s destruction...

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A long profile of comics legend Alan Moore. “For the first time...

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I’m still working on the KDO gift guide for this year. In...

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“Australia is on course to meet a target of eliminating cervical cancer...

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What Are You Thankful For?

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All of the Rivers

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“Art is valuable precisely because it is not easy to create. We...

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If Quantum Computing Is Solving “Impossible” Questions, How Do We Know They’re...

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Thoughts and Prayers

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In a London increasingly dominated by rideshare services, some drivers are still...

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21st-Century Culture Has Hit a Wall. “We — creators and audiences alike...

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My Recent Media Diet, the Japan Edition

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Chindōgu: The Japanese Art of “Unuseless” Inventions

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My Car Is Becoming a Brick. “Cars used to be entirely mechanical...

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To Explore Violence Against Women, She Drugs Herself Onstage. “It’s an attempt...

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What’s the difference between an artist and a creator? “An artist is...

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Does Harrison Ford Know His Lines?

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Small Japanese Pickup Truck Shows Bigger is Definitely Not Better. “Kei trucks...

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America’s Polarization Has Become the World’s Side Hustle. “Social media monetization programs...

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Requiem for Early Blogging. “I still look for people with early blogger...

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The Surprising Benefits of Giving Up. A recent meta-analysis reveals that “adjusting...

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A thread of “feel good” YouTube channels to watch. E.g.: “CinemaTherapy. Two...

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Poetic Textural Landscapes by Lee Hyun-Joung

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Lots to like about Variety’s list of 100 Best Comedy Movies of...

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How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein...

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What’s All the Fuss About Pluribus?

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“The Little Movie That Couldn’t”: ‘Mallrats’ Turns 30. I can’t remember if...

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“Today, the only naked bodies that many Americans will likely ever see...

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Meet the Aphantasics, Those Who Can’t See Mental Images

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Activists are role-playing ICE raids in games like Fortnite & GTA to...

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The World Lost the Climate Gamble. Now It Faces a Dangerous New...

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The Bad UX World Cup 2025. “Build a date picker with bad...

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A Bright Light Has Gone Out

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My Pace

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Stigler’s law of eponymy: “No scientific discovery is named after its original...

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The Librarians

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NASA’s Perseverance rover scooped up a rock that might prove there was...

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