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Open Culture
Hear the Long-Lost Chants of English Monks, Revived for the First Time in 500 Years Listening to music, especially live music, can be a religious experience. These days, most of us say...
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Listening to music, especially live music, can be a religious experience. These days, most of us say that figuratively, but for medieval monks, it was the literal truth. Every aspect of life in a monastery was meant to get you that much closer to God, but especially the times...
diamond geezer
TfL FoI requests in August 2025 30 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in August 2025 1) There are approximately 2,620 trips per...
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30 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in August 2025 1) There are approximately 2,620 trips per weekday on route 310. Of these 59% are made exclusively on the section between Finsbury Park and Golders Green, 26% are made exclusively on the section between Stamford Hill and...
Maps Mania
GeoGuesser - Hosted by an AI
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Impossible Not to Be Entertained' “In those days when Bedlam was open to the cruel curiosity of holyday ramblers, I have been a...
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“In those days when Bedlam was open to the cruel curiosity of holyday ramblers, I have been a visitor there. Though a boy, I was not altogether insensible of the misery of the poor captives, nor destitute of feeling for them.”  The English poet William Cowper, a veteran of...
Global Inequality...
Trump: Neoliberal agenda pursued by direct means Forget for the moment the fuss between Trump and the Fed that is going on now.
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SatPost by Trung...
How Costco Won In Japan Costco had to re-think its real estate, merchandising and warehouse design to succeed in Japan,...
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Costco had to re-think its real estate, merchandising and warehouse design to succeed in Japan, which is now its largest market outside of North America.
One Useful Thing
Mass Intelligence From GPT-5 to nano banana: everyone is getting access to powerful AI
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Build In Public...
No one will save you (except maybe AI employees) 👀 Featured: Exclusive interview with Marblism founder Ulric Musset on brutal startup truths and how AI...
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Featured: Exclusive interview with Marblism founder Ulric Musset on brutal startup truths and how AI can help you gain $5m leverage
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: The capitalism of fools (28 Aug 2025) Today's links The capitalism of fools: Trump's mirror-world New Deal. Hey look at this: Delights to...
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Today's links The capitalism of fools: Trump's mirror-world New Deal. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: IBM's fabric design; Nixon Cthulu; Surveillance capitalism is capitalism, with surveillance; Dismaland ad; Outdoor ed vs TB; Mathematicians' fave...
Classical Wisdom
Why Egypt? Why Now? The very best way to discover the Nile
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TheCollector
What Is the Book of Joel About? The Book of Joel is one of the most enigmatic books in the Bible. The Bible mentions neither Joel...
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The Book of Joel is one of the most enigmatic books in the Bible. The Bible mentions neither Joel nor his father anywhere except for Peter’s quote from Joel 2:28-32. Like most Minor Prophets, he addressed themes like judgment, repentance, and restoration. He repeatedly referred...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Petals Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I read that it's sometimes called Italian Man...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I read that it's sometimes called Italian Man Orchid, which is an insult or compliment, depending on whether you're talking absolute size or size relative to the rest of the petal. Today's News:
Both Are True
how to make money on the internet - guest post former girlboss Tarzan Kay tells all
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TheCollector
The Epic Battle of a Small Island Against Two Hellenistic Generals Following Alexander the Great’s death in 323 BCE, his former generals and governors fought for...
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Following Alexander the Great’s death in 323 BCE, his former generals and governors fought for control of his empire. Almost two decades later, the Antigonid family, headed by Antigonus Monophthalmus and his son Demetrius, had just declared themselves kings and looked best placed...
Quanta Magazine
The Sudden Surges That Forge Evolutionary Trees An updated evolutionary model shows that living systems evolve in a split-and-hit-the-gas dynamic,...
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An updated evolutionary model shows that living systems evolve in a split-and-hit-the-gas dynamic, where new lineages appear in sudden bursts rather than during a long marathon of gradual changes. The post The Sudden Surges That Forge Evolutionary Trees first appeared...
nanoscale views
25 years of Nano Letters Back in the dawn of the 21st century, the American Chemical Society founded a new journal, Nano...
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Back in the dawn of the 21st century, the American Chemical Society founded a new journal, Nano Letters, to feature letters-length papers about nanoscience and nanotechnology.  This was coincident with the launch of the National Nanotechnology Initiative, and it was back before...
This Space
Reading, forgetting In an in-between time in which nothing begins or ends, in which blank patience takes the place of...
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In an in-between time in which nothing begins or ends, in which blank patience takes the place of activity, I picked two books from my shelves stubbornly remote from utility, lacking the intimacy of possession, and a third in which I had never read a key section. The first was...
Retail Design Blog
Sundra Hill by Studio One Eighty Sundra Hill is a modern natural deodorant brand designed by Studio One Eighty. Inspired by...
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Sundra Hill is a modern natural deodorant brand designed by Studio One Eighty. Inspired by ingredients that range from fruits...
IEEE Spectrum
The First Inkjet Printer Was a Medical Device Millions of people worldwide have reason to be thankful that Swedish engineer Rune Elmqvist decided...
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Millions of people worldwide have reason to be thankful that Swedish engineer Rune Elmqvist decided not to practice medicine. Although qualified as a doctor, he chose to invent medical equipment instead. In 1949, while working at Elema-Schonander (later Siemens-Elema), in...
TheCollector
North Sentinel Island, Home to One of the Last Uncontacted Tribes Situated in the Andaman Islands chain between India and Myanmar, this small island has a fearsome...
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Situated in the Andaman Islands chain between India and Myanmar, this small island has a fearsome reputation, made so by its inhabitants, who have proven more than willing to take up arms against any intruder.   Owing to the inhospitable nature of the locals, not much is known of...
The Elysian
Office Hours An experimental salon.
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Construction Physics
Ford and the Birth of the Model T Ford’s status as a large-volume car producer began with the predecessor to the Model T: the Model N,...
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Ford’s status as a large-volume car producer began with the predecessor to the Model T: the Model N, a four-cylinder, two-seater car initially priced at $500. At the time, the average car in the US cost more than $2,000, and it seemed nearly unimaginable that a car with the...
Retail Design Blog
2100 Pennsylvania Avenue Amenity Suite by OTJ Architects OTJ Architects’ 2100 Pennsylvania Avenue Amenity Suite in Washington DC transforms a challenging...
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OTJ Architects’ 2100 Pennsylvania Avenue Amenity Suite in Washington DC transforms a challenging space into a vibrant communal hub, marrying...
Londonist
London Food Quiz: 11 Fiendish Questions From The QI Elves At Lunchbox Envy Ingredients include 436,800 sandwiches and 250,000 eggs.
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TheCollector
The Most Important Phoenician Cities The Phoenicians, renowned for their trading and maritime skills, originated in what’s modern...
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The Phoenicians, renowned for their trading and maritime skills, originated in what’s modern Lebanon. They called themselves Canaanites, related to similar peoples in the region. The term Phoenician derived from the Greek word “phoinix” meaning purple, referencing the famous...
Rest of World -...
Chinese EV makers are cashing in on Western luxury knockoffs As the mainland’s electric-vehicle industry expands globally, design mimicry is reshaping...
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Flashbak
No One Does Rain Like Felix-Hilaire Buhot Felix-Hilaire Buhot (July 9, 1847 – April 26, 1898) was a French painter and illustrator who was...
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Felix-Hilaire Buhot (July 9, 1847 – April 26, 1898) was a French painter and illustrator who was particularly adept at making aquatint, engraving, roulette and drypoint images of people in the rain. He also did lots of snow, mist and fog. But he remains arguably the best rain...
The Works in...
How to become President of China with Dan Wang Episode five of the Works in Progress podcast is about why China outbuilds America
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Seth's Blog
For people who don’t care that much If someone snuck into my closet and switched out one brand of sneakers for a similar model from...
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If someone snuck into my closet and switched out one brand of sneakers for a similar model from another company, it wouldn’t bother me much. Popular cars like the Camry, the Civic and the Elantra don’t have raving fans the way the Mini or the Rivian do. Go to the rental car...
Retail Design Blog
YOU WANNA shop-in-shop by Sinitsa Buro Women’s fashion brand YOU WANNA resonates well with a young on-trend demographic, and already...
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Women’s fashion brand YOU WANNA resonates well with a young on-trend demographic, and already operates six standalone stores across Moscow....
Open Culture
1,000+ Artworks by Vincent Van Gogh Digitized & Put Online by Dutch Museums It gets dark before dinner now in my part of the world, a recipe for seasonal depression. Vincent...
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It gets dark before dinner now in my part of the world, a recipe for seasonal depression. Vincent van Gogh wrote about such low feelings with deep insight. “One feels as if one were lying bound hand and foot at the bottom of a deep dark well, utterly helpless.” Yet, when he...
diamond geezer
Carrington Square 45 45 Squared 30) CARRINGTON SQUARE, HA3 Borough of Harrow, 40m×15m We've got to do this one so...
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45 45 Squared 30) CARRINGTON SQUARE, HA3 Borough of Harrow, 40m×15m We've got to do this one so let's get it over and done with. only two squares in Harrow. One is private within the luxury gated enclave at Bentley Priory and the other is in Harrow Weald. So Carrington Square it...
Yale E360
How the Next Pandemic Could Emerge from an Aardvark Burrow Animals of all kinds mix and mingle in underground burrows, offering troubling opportunities for...
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Animals of all kinds mix and mingle in underground burrows, offering troubling opportunities for diseases to jump species. Read more on E360 →
Open Culture
The 1830s Device That Created the First Animations: The Phenakistiscope The image just above is an animated GIF, a format by now older than most people on the internet....
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The image just above is an animated GIF, a format by now older than most people on the internet. Those of us who were surfing the World Wide Web in its earliest years will remember all those little digging, jackhammering roadworkers who flanked the permanent announcements that...
Retail Design Blog
North Macedonia Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale Revisits the Brutalist Architecture of... The Republic of North Macedonia Pavilion at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale is dedicated to...
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Maps Mania
Play GeoGuessr Against an AI
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TheCollector
A Brief History of the First Nations of the Canadian Plains Long before the arrival of British traders, explorers, and surveyors, the First Nations of the...
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Long before the arrival of British traders, explorers, and surveyors, the First Nations of the Canadian Plains developed rich and complex cultures, deeply connected to the rhythms of their lands and the seasonal migrations of bison herds. The Blackfoot, for instance, were skilled...
diamond geezer
Headphones on TfL launched a new campaign this week encouraging passengers to wear headphones on public transport...
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TfL launched a new campaign this week encouraging passengers to wear headphones on public transport when watching/listening to content or making calls. "Be considerate towards others" is the message, given that the majority of people find loud music and two-sided calls a right...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Death of Discourse' As a boy I was often told I spoke too loudly. It makes sense, as I came from a family of yellers....
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As a boy I was often told I spoke too loudly. It makes sense, as I came from a family of yellers. It’s an annoying habit, usually inappropriate, one I associate with self-centeredness. I made a conscious effort to lower the volume, a rare instance of successfully stifling an...
The Honest Broker
Are Critics Too Soft? The New Yorker asks if we need more slash-and-burn writing
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The American Scholar
Immaculate Innings At the ballpark on a summer night in Baltimore The post Immaculate Innings appeared first on The...
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At the ballpark on a summer night in Baltimore The post Immaculate Innings appeared first on The American Scholar.
The American Scholar
The Great American Travel Book The book that helped revive a genre, leading to an all-too-brief heyday The post The Great American...
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The book that helped revive a genre, leading to an all-too-brief heyday The post The Great American Travel Book appeared first on The American Scholar.
Computer Ads from...
ArtSci MagiCalc The Visual Difference. See for yourself.
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Wuthering...
a fantastic universe where the presence of man was not foreseen - Maurice Herzog's Annapurna: First... Books that generate other books, books that are first in the line, interest me.  Despite...
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Books that generate other books, books that are first in the line, interest me.  Despite little interest in mountaineering, I read Annapurna: First Conquest of an 8000-meter Peak (1951, tr. Nea Morin and Janet Adam Smith) by Maurice Herzog, the subject of the book well summarized...
Tony Finch's blog
strongly typed? What does it mean when someone writes that a programming language is “strongly typed”? I’ve known...
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What does it mean when someone writes that a programming language is “strongly typed”? I’ve known for many years that “strongly typed” is a poorly-defined term. Recently I was prompted on Lobsters to explain why it’s hard to understand what someone means when they use the...
Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.08.28 - A Few Words New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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Handprinted - Blog
Monotype on Fabric using Screen Printing Inks The satisfyingly fuzzy printed lines of a monotype are usually reserved for prints on paper....
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The satisfyingly fuzzy printed lines of a monotype are usually reserved for prints on paper. However, using the method below you can create prints onto fabric with the same texture and line quality, making fast and spontaneous fabric designs to sew up into bags, quilts, or...
Citation Needed
Issue 91 – GDP on the blockchain The regulator set to take on primary crypto oversight is down to a single Commissioner, and new...
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The regulator set to take on primary crypto oversight is down to a single Commissioner, and new pro-crypto PACs focus on installing more Republicans in the midterms
Computer Things
Logical Duals in Software Engineering (Last week's newsletter took too long and I'm way behind on Logic for Programmers revisions so short...
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(Last week's newsletter took too long and I'm way behind on Logic for Programmers revisions so short one this time.1) In classical logic, two operators F/G are duals if F(x) = !G(!x). Three examples: x || y is the same as !(!x && !y). <>P ("P is possibly true") is the same as...
Machine Learning for...
ML for SWEs 65: The AI bubble is popping and why that's a good thing The future of the industry and how to get the most out of your AI coding assistant
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