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de minimis : new US tariff confusion has many European shipping companies suspending deliveries to the United States— see previously   o ...

At the end of last month, one of the few remaining telegraph stations in China prepared to shut down , thousands traveled to Hangzhou in fa...

Via Web Curios , we appreciated learning about the pervasive packets of silica gel we’ve mostly encountered inside bags of doggy tr...

subwoof : opening of Star Trek: The Next Generation but with the theme coming from the ship   sudoku : unsolvable sliding fourteen-fifteen ...

Amid the US announcing an additional ten percent tariff on all Chinese imports—to which China has responded in kind—the American postal se...

On this day in 1925, the retailer which had previously focused exclusively on mail-order sales, opened its first brick-and-mortar departme...

Though sad to learn of the artist’s passing earlier this month, we very much appreciated learning of the extensive repertoire of Anna Ba...

Having a bit of a preoccupation with the discipline of diplomatics , we enjoyed going through this collection of missives from Letters of N...

Via the excellent podcast presented by Josie Long on adventures in found sounds Short Cuts (show segment embedded with selected readings at...

who is this imposter : AI ruins classic, static reaction memes with animation   🥖 : the bygone baguette boxes of French Polynesia—via Mess...

green mountain state : Vermont’s Climate Superfund Act, a first, makes oil companies fiscally responsible for the damage caused by emissi...

nicht abgeholtes gepäck : the main station in Freiburg has a mystery vending machine where one can buy unclaimed items left in delivery loc...

🚫 : the origins of the circle-and-slash prohibition symbol, its adoption as an ISO standard coinciding with 1984’s Ghost Busters   retu...

On this day in 1989, US vice-president James Danforth Quayle dispatched some thirty-thousand auto-pen (a machines usually reserved for autho...

bennu : scientist reveal recovered sample of primordial dust from an asteroid ( see previously ) may help us better understand the formation...

Established on this day in 2001 as a merger of the congresses of five individual trade unions—with a membership of around two million wor...

for love of the glove : a revival of the unauthorised musical biography about the King of Pop   frogmorton house : a tiny home built for ...

konekon no rakugaki : an imaginative 1957 cartoon from the studios that would become Toei Animation   the riddle of today : Nelson Riddl...

Celebrated as a national holiday, on this day in 1917 the Finnish Declaration of Independence was adopted by the country’s parliament ...

Established on this day in 1922 as a dominion of the British Empire (equivalent to the status of Canada) one year to the day after the...