music Lorde's "Royals" cover sung in Old English Rob Beschizza

books 11th-century herbal remedy guide now digitized and online Andrea James

History New Zealand hill's 85-Letter name tells ancient love story through its landscape Popkin

mcdonalds Spicy McMuffins sound pretty good! Jason Weisberger

BBC threatens AI firm Perplexity over content scraping Rob Beschizza

Science "My one great mistake": Einstein's atomic bomb letter comes to auction, expected to fetch $150,000 Ellsworth Toohey

Science The delicious sizzling noise is your brain on ChatGPT Rob Beschizza

AI Big Mouth Billy Bass now talks back with AI Gail Sherman

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Erotic feminist graphic novel explores freedom in Dutch Golden Age Ellsworth Toohey

politics Record number of Americans seeking British citizenship Rob Beschizza

right to repair Is rebuilding an older laptop cost effective? Séamus Bellamy

folk music Folk Legend Martin Carthy wants to play in your living room Séamus Bellamy

Japan Steal $7, lose $84,000 Ellsworth Toohey

toilets Holy crap! Watch this plumber flush an entire chicken down fancy toilets Jennifer Sandlin

brazil Buying sunglasses in Brazil requires a degree in psychological bargaining tactics Ellsworth Toohey

fonts German Bold Italic: Kylie Minogue sang a song about being a typeface Rob Beschizza

Business US Patent Office to small businesses: "LOL have fun getting extorted by patent trolls" Ellsworth Toohey

Thief of gold palace toilet convicted in English court Rob Beschizza

Japan losing interest in electronic pocket dictionaries Rob Beschizza