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Preparing for winter in Maine can be hard work, but a writer finds pleasure and satisfaction in learning the artful craft of constructing proper holzhausen to cure her firewood.
Slate | Laura Miller
A restoration of the renowned magic show Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants leads into an enthusiastic discussion of how to preserve, digitize, and restore archival footage hidden away on VHS.
Defector | Dan McQuade, David Roth, and Chris Person
A discovery off the coast of Finistère reveals a massive underwater stone wall, perhaps the foundation of local legend about a lost submerged city known as Ys.
Big Think | Frank Jacobs
Vengeful tax avoidance leads to a proliferation of urban snail farms and a story that gives new meaning to the term "shell company."
London Centric | Jim Waterson
It's a wee market for now, but new devices promise to monitor health from your toilet.
Wired | Adrienne So
Reporting from Whittier, Alaska, where the local American Samoan community is thrown into turmoil when a little-known provision barring automatic citizenship leads to arrests, prosecution, and the threat of imprisonment for voting and running for a local school board.
Bolts | Alex Burness
"Sometimes, history seems to be commenting on itself. That’s what it felt like when I learned that Renee Good was murdered roughly a mile away from the spot where, five and a half years earlier, Derek Chauvin choked George Floyd to death."
Public Comment | Ned Resnikoff
A now familiar dynamic playing out in Denmark: the ascendant populist right drives hostility to immigration into the political mainstream.
Noema | Helle Malmvig and Fabrizio Tassinari
Meanwhile, in South Korea: "The debate over the left-leaning Lee’s proposal to cover hair-loss treatments has parted the country down the middle."
The Wall Street Journal | Timothy W. Martin and Sooyoung Rhee
Never mind the kids. Adults are now worrying if their elder parents have a screen-time problem.
The Atlantic | Charlie Warzel
Looking back at the end of an era for libertarianism: "This is true of every intellectual movement, and acknowledging it isn't cynical, it's just honest about how communities actually form. People come for the ideas and stay for each other. When the gathering stops, you lose both."
Nur Baysal
Dan Wang's long annual letter explores China and the US, Silicon Valley culture, becoming an author, surviving the podcast circuit, reading Stendhal, and more.
Dan Wang
A review of a new book about Judy Garland takes a deep dive into her career, her relationship with MGM, and what set her apart from her contemporary performers.
London Review of Books | Bee Wilson
Since much of the best reading happens offline: the team at Lit Hub assembles an ambitious list of 314 books to look forward to in 2026, including at least one about seabirds.
Literary Hub
How a popular game among humans helped solve a mystery in the evolutionary biology of side-blotched lizards.
The New York Times | Carl Zimmer
Finally, don't snooze on this bird news: avians are adept at "unihemispheric slow wave sleep," aka sleeping with only one side of their brain at a time, a phenomenon that may help illuminate sleep disorders in humans.
Inverse | Jillian Mock
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