Behind the Scenes – 01
14 Mar
Poetry Foundation (Poem of the day)
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The Happiness Project
- How to add more whimsy to your life this year
- How to Do a No-Spend Month (and What I Learned)
- Join Us for Move 26 in ’26
- Choosing a one-word theme for 2026
- Gretchen Rubin’s 2025 Gift Guides
- Gretchen Rubin’s Gen Z Gifts
- Gretchen Rubin’s Fun Candle Gifts
- Gretchen Rubin’s 5 Senses Gift Guide
- Gretchen Rubin’s Gifts that Keep Giving All Year Long
- Gretchen Rubin’s Gifts That Are Not Candles
Wordnik
- Five words from … Mood Machine
- Five words from … Braiding Sweetgrass
- Five Words From … Otter Country
- Five Words From … What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World’s Most Familiar Bird
- Five Words From … AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
- Five Words From … More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for Enough by Emma Specter
- Five Words From … How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World by Deb Chachra
- Five Words From … Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth by Ingrid Robeyns
- Five Words From … There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib
- Five Words From … White Supremacy is All Around by Dr. Akilah Cadet
Language Log
- Mandarin vs. Dongbei accent
- "La Cosa" ("the thing"), bigger and more intimidating than "Cosa Nostra" ("our thing" ["Mafia"])
- A Personal Encounter with the Submissive Woman/Bound Slave Rorschach Test
- Strange Chinese on South African album cover
- English proficiency tests
- Snowcrete
- The "unchanging gene" of the "fine Chinese language"
- The officialization of romaji
- Roboton
- Schneewind
The American Heritage Dictionary of English Language
- Interview with Conscious Style Guide
- Getting down to the nitty-gritty of reduplication
- January 2018 Content Update
- Functional shift again
- Waking and watching
- Burning the midnight oil
- The American Heritage Dictionary end-of-year review
- The strong and the weak
- The crustacean connection, continued
- The crustacean connection
Grammar Girl
- Why AI loves em dashes, with Sean Goedecke
- Why 'forte' has three pronunciations. What is 'playing the dozens'? Ornish
- How can there be hundreds of words for snow? with Dr. Charles Kemp
- Scarecrows and other 'cutthroat' compounds. Reading versus listening. Squirrel Hill Tunnel.
- Scrabble strategy and tournament culture, with John Chew
- What is a baker’s dozen? Making O-words plural. Wrong pew.
- Building the Online Etymology Dictionary, with Doug Harper
- Using ‘impact’ as a verb. ‘Sympathy’ versus ‘empathy.’ Big help, Irving.
- Rare books, burned letters, and Johnson’s dictionary, with John Overholt
- Penny idioms that are still legal tender. The linguistic history of procrastination. Tanner tour.
The New York Times
- Cuba’s Communist Government Has Lasted 67 Years. Will It Fall Under Trump?
- Starmer’s Chief of Staff Resigns, Citing Role in Hiring Friend of Epstein
- Japan’s Leader Wins in a Landslide, Clearing Way for Hard-Line Agenda
- Portugal Votes for President, With Leftist Set to Beat Surging Far Right
- At the Winter Olympics, Team USA Can’t Escape the Politics at Home
- Japan’s Leader Is Set for a Big Election Win. Here’s What to Know.
- A Curling Champion Is Italy’s Hometown Hero at the Olympic Games
- In Bid to Lead Thailand, a Progressive Party Softens Its Image
- Trump Reverts to Diplomacy With Iran, but the Road Is Narrow
- What to Know About Thailand’s Election
The Wall Street Journal
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Al Jazeera
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NPR (National Public Radio)
- U.K. leader's chief of staff quits over hiring of Epstein friend as U.S. ambassador
- Trump administration lauds plastic surgeons' statement on trans surgery for minors
- Breezy Johnson's downhill gold is America's first medal of 2026 Winter Olympics
- Thailand counts votes in early election with 3 main parties vying for power
- US ski star Lindsey Vonn crashes in Olympic downhill race
- For many U.S. Olympic athletes, Italy feels like home turf
- Immigrant whose skull was broken in 8 places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked
- What we know about the massive sewage leak in the Potomac River
- Pentagon says it's cutting ties with 'woke' Harvard, ending military training
- 'Washington Post' CEO departs after going AWOL during massive job cuts
BBC News
- Japan's governing party projected to win snap election majority
- Polls close in Thai election pitting reformists against conservatives
- Russia names three suspects over shooting of general
- US news anchor Savannah Guthrie says 'we will pay' in plea for mother's return
- Man named in South Africa's police corruption probe found dead
- US skier Vonn crashes in downhill run while competing with torn ACL
- 3 Doors Down lead singer Brad Arnold dies at 47
- Italian police arrest protesters after clash in Olympic host city Milan
- Washington Post chief executive steps down after mass lay-offs
- Australia's opposition coalition reunites after row over hate-speech laws
CNN
- Trump pleads not guilty to 34 felony counts
- Haberman reveals why Trump attacked judge and his family in speech
- What to know about the Trump indictment on the eve of his court appearance
- READ: Trump indictment related to hush money payment
- Russian authorities detain suspect over St. Petersburg cafe blast
- Video shows moment of deadly explosion at cafe in Russia
- Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich appeals against arrest, Russian state media says
- Suspected Chinese spy balloon was able to transmit information back to Beijing
- Beijing promised to 'fight back' over Taiwan leader's US visit. But this time it has more to lose
- 'Scary, cold, hungry and lonely': Volunteer soldier shares experience on front line
USA Today
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Juan David 
