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Kerr and Wightman revel in Wednesday warm-up for mile final — Josh Kerr and Jake Wightman, both Scottish former world champions and rivals since they were boys, will race in the Commonwealth Games mile final.
Started fermenting hot sauce in a jar on my kitchen counter three weeks ago. It tastes good now but smells like a crime scene — my roommate thinks something died in the walls 🫙
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fermentation is just controlled rot — and this dude documented what actually happens inside a jar of kimchi at the microscopic level. the chaos is way more organized than you'd think 🔬
Been fermenting hot sauce in a jar for three weeks and it's developing this weird film on top — turns out that's good actually, and also i've been doing it backwards the whole time 🫙
Started fermenting hot sauce in a jar on my kitchen counter, forgot about it for three weeks, opened it expecting disaster. The smell made me understand why people keep doing this.
Gwendoline Riley on Mark Van Doren’s Shakespeare — The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast features a series of conversations with past and present Windham-Campbell Prize winners about their favorite books and plays. Hosted by Michael Kelleher. Mike ta…
been fermenting cabbage for three weeks and it tastes like a tire fire — turns out i've been using tap water this whole time and chlorine kills everything 🤦
From Stalin to Trump, How Power Unmakes the World — In her classic memoir of Soviet state terror in the 1930s, Hope Against Hope, Nadezhda Mandelstam recounts the last years of her marriage to the poet Osip Mandelstam as they flee from city to villa…
Here’s what data Comcast says its motion-detecting routers collect — Motion detection history is stored for seven days
Claire Fuller on Taking Writing Lessons from Sculpting — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. I’d been sculpting and drawing since I was sixteen but when, at forty, I started writing short stories and novels, all my …
Three key takeaways from the new Sense and Sensibility trailer. — Attention, Austen hive! We have an official release timeline for Georgia Oakley’s buzzy new Sense and Sensibility. This October, we’re riding again for the Dashwood sisters. Gather up y…
Ukraine Gains Ground as Putin Faces Pressure — Former US Ambassador Bill Taylor joins Bloomberg This Weekend and says Ukraine maintains momentum on the battlefield despite intensified Russian missile attacks, while urging the US and its allies to accelerate deliveries of…
May’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction — Herta Müller’s The Village on the Edge of the World, Siri Hustvedt’s Ghost Stories, and Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw’s Backtalker all feature among May’s best reviewed books. Brought to you by Book M…
Charlie Kirk murder suspect pleads not guilty as judge clears way for death penalty trial — Tyler Robinson is charged with aggravated murder, a capital offence in Utah, and six other counts.
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Demon Sacrifices and Sailing the Fae Seas: July’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books — There’s nothing like a summer reading challenge to get you into the proper mindset for the season. Many of us grew up on personal pizzas as the reward for reading a certain number of books; these d…
Today's Hurdle hints and answers for August 25, 2026 — Everything you need to win.
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Micro Decisions , Universal Impact | Rajdeep Manwani | TEDxSJU Bangalore — The speaker shares a powerful narrative around the concept of small, conscious micro decisions, termed as "sliding door moments", introduced by psychologist John Gottman. These moments represent everyday c
Apple expands refurb store with rare M5 MacBook Pro configs, Apple TV 4K, more - 9to5Mac — Apple has added a host of new products to its official Certified Refurbished Store this week. New M5 MacBook Pro...
Black Sea Chaos Is Forcing Russian Farmers to Plant Less Wheat — Some Russian farmers plan to plant less winter wheat as flows from the country’s crucial Black Sea ports remain stalled, creating a domestic glut and setting the stage for a smaller 2027 harvest from the world’s…
Death and How to Be More Alive: Carl Jung on Immortality and the Rebirth of Middle Age — Once, I spent a year walking Brooklyn’s historic Green-Wood Cemetery daily, winding between the marble tombs engulfed by tree-roots and emblazoned with the surnames of the dead, each…
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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction — Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for nonfiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Associatio…
The two days which could make or break Fury-AJ — BBC Sport looks at how a proposed bout between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua hinges on a 24-hour-period between Friday and Saturday.
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A Dialogue With the Facts: On Writing Literary Biography in a Post-Truth Age — Where does the “literariness” in literary biography belong? With the book’s subject—or its author? Traditionally, it’s attached to both, and to a third element too. Literary biography a…
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Started fermenting hot sauce in a jar on my counter. Three weeks in and the smell alone tells me dilution is a flavor — every time I open it the whole kitchen knows.
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Sheila Liming: “The End of Books” — A university professor on what we lose when we lose the book as a physical medium.
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A restaurant chef documents what happens when you ferment koji in a hotel mini-fridge for three weeks. The smell alone might end the lease.
started fermenting hot sauce last month — forgot it in the back of my fridge and it's somehow better than anything i've deliberately made 🫙 counterpoint: maybe the point is to ignore it
Lit Hub Daily: June 8, 2026 — Xiao Hai remembers balancing brutal night shifts on the production floor with writing poetry. | Lit Hub Memoir “We can be demure and brat, sense and sensibility, sometimes in quick succession or al…
This Beautiful 50mm f/1.1 Lens Is Based On An Ultra-Rare 'Masterpiece' — Beautiful, rare, and super soft.
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Nvidia Credit Risk Eases After CEO Clarifies $500 Billion Plan — Bond traders dialed back measures of credit risk associated with Nvidia Corp. on Tuesday after the company said it would limit its exposure in a $500 billion plan to finance the type of artificial-intelligence…
left cabbage in salt water for three days and it tastes sharper than the fresh stuff. apparently that's just... how it works.
Sony Music and UMG say Suno's new models still violates their copyright — In a new lawsuit, the labels argue Suno found a roundabout way to train its v6 models on unlicensed music.
Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon: A list of controversies that define his tenure — The defence secretary faces renewed scrutiny after a Republican senator called for his removal from the US cabinet.
watched someone ferment a single cucumber for 40 days and document the exact moment it stopped being a vegetable... the color shift alone is hypnotic
Kazuo Ishiguro’s next novel, out next year, will be a 1930s spy caper. — Kazuo Ishiguro, the feted Nobel laureate behind Never Let Me Go and Remains of the Day, has announced his next novel. Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger—a spy caper set in the 1930s—will be published…
Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election — The dustbin themed candidate got 9,455 votes and came second to Nigel Farage
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Spain’s PM says no evidence Morocco planned Ceuta border rush — PM Pedro Sanchez addresses police report suggesting July border surge was planned to overwhelm border controls.
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New LEGO Sets for Adults: Marvel, Disney, Messi, and more — Finally, some home decor that actually speaks to your inner child (and looks incredibly cool doing it).
I Made You Up Inside My Head — Chinese numbers distinguish between two different types of zero, which are really two types of nothing: one is an absolute nothing, the one that I suppose shapes the limits of the universe, where n…
left a jar of cabbage on the shelf and forgot about it for three weeks, came back to find it tastes better than anything i've deliberately made
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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction — Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. …