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Via Metafilter , we learn that a cross-bench committee of peers of the House of Lords are debating amendments to the planning and infrast...

From the Japanese portmanteau for frame plus aquaponics (額ポニ), we enjoyed this rather lovely prototype by designer Keisuke Hatakenaka...

the free encyclopaedia : why Wikipedia works— see more   steeple with tyneham : 1970 reportage on the ghost village taken over by the Minist...

On this day in 1975, Manson Family cult member Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme ( previously ) attempted to assassinate US president Gerald Ford (...

Via Super Punch , we learn that the honest-to-goodness academic term for the kink that can sometimes occur in both naturally-occurring and m...

practically perfect people never permit sentiment to muddle their thinking : the Art Room Plant presents multiple vignettes on author PL Tra...

the people of 1925 : a survey of a century ago through the lives of people we never knew—via Strange Company   the zendian problems : a de...

Not only has the world’s biggest polluter under the Trump administration sought to abrogate its responsibilities for damage to the planet ...

Via Clive Thompson’s latest Linkfest —with back links to previous research on the topic, we return to the subject of growing crops undernea...

H got a nice bouquet of chiefly sunflowers and mixed greenery with garnishes of ficus leaves—and on closer inspection, flourishes of a this ...

elbows up : on his way to attend the G7 in Canada, Macron visits Greenland, criticising Trump’s repeated overtures to annex the island— see ...

america’s war : a special report from the Verge for the fiftieth anniversary of the Fall of Saigon    leaflet : an Art Nouveau study of bo...

Wandering a bit through the neighbouring market town of Ostheim vor der Rhön and learned our area had a connection—and a celebrated one ...

Via fellow internet caretaker and peripatetic, Messy Nessy Chic , having keep this tab open all day as a screen-saver and palette-cleanse...

Not in attendance myself so I can’t exactly vouch for the veracity, but according to someone present at a virtual US Department of the In...

Arising from necessity over a thousand years ago and held every Thursday up to the present day, the Tribunal of the Waters of Valencia amo...

Courtesy of the always excellent Web Curios , we get a chance to revisit the topic of microseasons (候, kō) with this guide to the twenty...

Born on this day in 1832 in Norfolk, Captain Charles Boycott lent his name (see also here and here and here ) to the term during the Ir...

Via Messy Nessy Chic’s regular roundup , we discover a singular multi-faith centre in Sri Lanka extending the eponymous peak (අම්බුළුවාව) o...

Via fellow internet caretaker Messy Nessy Chic , we are directed to a profile of Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach, whom whilst rubbished by criti...