Category: Bazaar News

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds gutenberg.org/ebooks/24518 Charles Mackay’s classic 1841 study of crowd psychology and mass delusions, covering financial bubbles, witch trials, alchemy,…

The Grate Cheese Robbery longreads.com/2026/05/28/the-cheese-theft-food-crime/ Organized crime has turned cheese into a surprising target, with artisanal cheddar and Parmigiano Reggiano especially vulnerable because they’re labor-intensive, high-value, and often…

Slow down, have fun, live well idler.co.uk The Idler is a magazine and academy about philosophy, literature, learning, retreats, and events, with online courses and a festival alongside…

Daisugi, the 600-Year-Old Japanese Technique of Growing Trees Out of Other Trees openculture.com/2020/10/daisugi.html Daisugi is a traditional Japanese forestry technique developed to produce long, straight cedar timber from…

What Ozempic Does to the Gut-Brain Axis psychologytoday.com/au/blog/mood-by-microbe/202606/what-ozempic-does-to-the-gut-brain-axis Recent research suggests GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic may influence mood by changing gut microbes rather than directly acting as antidepressants.…

A Writer’s Word Processor sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm Robert J. Sawyer argues that WordStar remains ideal for creative writing because of its home-row control-key commands, flexible block editing, and manuscript-like workflow.…

Reading, ignorance this-space.blogspot.com/2026/06/reading-ignorance.html A reflection on reading Proust’s The Guermantes Way in the new Oxford World’s Classics translation, and on how notes, context, and literary criticism can both…

The ‘papers, please’ era of the internet expression.fire.org/p/the-papers-please-era-of-the-internet Age verification is increasingly being used as a proxy for identity verification, with new rules in Australia, the UK, and…

Medical students are using a popular research tool to produce misleading studies science.org/content/article/medical-students-are-using-popular-research-tool-pump-out-misleading-studies Critics say TriNetX makes it easy to run quick analyses of electronic medical records, fueling…

Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution? thecollector.com/hessians-american-revolution/ The British hired more than 30,000 German auxiliary troops from several small states to bolster their forces in North…

Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world — cancelled lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/events/extreme-heat-improving-governance-and-strengthening-action-around-the-world/ Cancelled due to a red extreme heat warning from the UK Met Office. The event…

An Australian man has broken the world record for the loudest-ever shout. Source link

DisplayMate displaymate.com DisplayMate offers display calibration, test patterns, and evaluation tools for monitors, TVs, projectors, and mobile screens, along with consulting and lab testing for manufacturers. By @jamiex…

Elizabeth Gaskell and the Social Realism of Victorian Fiction thecollector.com/elizabeth-gaskell-social-realism/ Elizabeth Gaskell used social realism to challenge Victorian assumptions about class, poverty, and women’s lives. Drawing on her…

5 Art Exhibitions Worth Traveling for in Japan This Summer spoon-tamago.com/5-art-exhibitions-worth-traveling-for-in-japan-this-summer/ Five art exhibitions across Japan offer a good reason to travel beyond Tokyo this summer, from Tsubaki…

A love story pudding.cool/2026/06/love-story/ A data story about how Americans’ relationships changed before and during the pandemic, using Stanford survey responses from more than 1,000 people to explore…

Can Essays Still Be Written in Our Time? evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com/2026/06/can-essays-still-be-written-in-our-time.html Patrick Kurp reflects on Erwin Chargaff’s essays and Montaigne’s lasting influence, using Chargaff’s skeptical, wide-ranging prose to argue that…

Reinventing the Renaissance drb.ie/article/reinventing-the-renaissance/ A lively review of Ada Palmer’s Inventing the Renaissance, emphasizing her personal, public-facing style and her argument that the Renaissance is a changing historical…

Adopt A Comic, Redux leasticoulddo.com/adopt-a-comic-redux/ The site’s Adopt A Comic sponsorship system is back online in open beta, letting readers sponsor comics with a link or message. The…

Egyptian fraction multiplication blog.plover.com/math/egyptian-multiplication.html An explanation of the ancient Egyptian multiplication method, showing how repeated doubling and addition can replace multiplication tables, and how the same idea extends…