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A visit to Boonville, California, for 96-point pinot noir and quite possibly the ideal canine companion, a descendant of the McNab shepherd. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/s...

Unexpected dining destinations: the sixth-worst McDonald's in America, as covered by @washingtonian.com: washingtonian.com/2026/10/19/s...

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From @samirashackle.bsky.social in @theguardian.com, a fascinating look at the teams defusing the World War II bombs that still turn up in England, a common enough occurrence that it can happen twice in one day. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

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From @dkthomp.bsky.social, a roundup of possible explanations for the "great disinvitation," the stark decline in Americans hosting social events in their homes. www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-...

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From @esthermavis.bsky.social in @thedialmag.bsky.social, lessons from Belgium, Ireland, and ancient Greece on doing politics without politicians. www.thedial.world/articles/new...

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Roaming reindeer, vagrant birds, and much more in this week's Tidings. seabird.kit.com/posts/tiding...

A very important investigation. www.thestar.com/business/why...

A very worthwhile bird link: an appreciation of the Hudsonian godwit, a small bird with a remarkable ability to migrate up and down the Earth. “They look diminutive, fragile, and delicate. But they’re these high-performance Ferrari machines.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

How an outwardly successful chain of Montessori preschools ended up losing more than $400 million and left parents scrambling to find replacements for its shuttered facilities. [Gift link.] www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/b...

"If New York City has 8 million stories, Toronto has just as many—but they’re all about some crazy raccoon." A new book about urban wildlife excerpted in @thewalrus.ca. thewalrus.ca/raccoons-tor...

"If New York City has 8 million stories, Toronto has just as many—but they’re all about some crazy raccoon." A new book about urban wildlife excerpted in @thewalrus.ca. thewalrus.ca/raccoons-tor...

From @wcurtis.bsky.social, a visit to the tiny Canadian island Campobello, where Trump's trade war has killed a family-owned nanobrewery. thelongbar.substack.com/p/the-worlds...

An abundance of creatures and Canada in this week's Tidings newsletter. seabird.kit.com/posts/tiding...

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From @orionmagazine.bsky.social, as we begin glimpsing signs of fall in the Pacific Northwest, check out these excerpts from a new illustrated guide to the wilds of Cascadia by Emily Poole. orionmagazine.org/article/casc...

From @huckmag.com: Enthusiasts of "locksport" are divided over questions like whether it's OK to stream yourself picking locks actually in use by strangers. www.huckmag.com/article/the-...

From @janetbufton.ca: "Canadians have decided, it seems, that we won’t go quietly. The trade war has morphed, in some ways, into an information war." capx.co/canada-is-fi...

From @cjciaramella.bsky.social in @reason.com, looking back on more than 200 years of changing American prisons, from Eastern State Penitentiary to Little Scandinavia. reason.com/2026/09/08/t...

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From @fionaharvey.bsky.social in @theguardian.com, how induction cooking is winning over professional chefs: quieter, cooler, less polluting, and easier to clean than a gas range. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

From @willoremus.com in the @theatlantic.com, "When people let a chatbot do their writing—even if they’re guiding and carefully reviewing its work—they might not realize that it’s doing some of their thinking too." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

New Tidings out today! Stories about payphones, Hilbert spaces, sea beans, and much more. seabird.kit.com/posts/tiding...

From @whattastesgood.bsky.social at @vinepair.com, it's the newest officially recognized category of American whiskey, but it's not yet flying off American liquor shelves. vinepair.com/articles/dis...

From @eurcorrespond.bsky.social, an introduction to a fantastic fruit, the northern European cloudberry. europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/ode-to-...

It's Tidings Friday! Catch up on this week's collection of recommended reads from the Seabird community. seabird.kit.com/posts/tiding...

From @macleans.bsky.social, five Americans explain why they left the United States under Trump for a better life in Canada. macleans.ca/society/the-...

From @burness.bsky.social and @pascalsabino.bsky.social in @boltsmag.org: A useful Q&A on the Trump administration's attempts to restrict voting by mail. boltsmag.org/mail-voting-...

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From @dezeen.com, one way to hide from AI: wearing an extremely loud polo shirt. www.dezeen.com/2026/08/25/d...

It's Tidings Friday! Catch up on this week's collection of recommended reads from the Seabird community. seabird.kit.com/posts/tiding...

From Coffee Decoded: On the science of what it means for coffee to be truly fresh. sca.coffee/sca-news/cof...

From @noemamag.com: A neurosurgeon on what makers of driverless cars can learn from medicine to realize the technology's lifesaving potential. www.noemamag.com/why-we-deman...

From @mnolangray.bsky.social: More than you thought you needed to know about anchor tenant contracts as a root cause of dying shopping malls. mnolangray.substack.com/p/why-are-de...

Each week our newsletter features at least one link to a story about birds. This time: @inkfish.bsky.social on what seemingly amiable crows might be thinking about us. www.audubon.org/magazine/are...

From @bgrueskin.bsky.social in @columjournreview.bsky.social: A professor of journalism uses his sabbatical to spend a few months back in the newsroom. www.cjr.org/first_person...

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From @equatormag.bsky.social, a thoughtful piece on The Gods Must Be Crazy, the improbably successful (and controversial) South African film that made a star of N!xau ǂToma. www.equator.org/articles/the...

From @scientificdiscovery.dev at @worksinprogress.bsky.social: On the remarkable progress of modern medicine and how to fix the bottlenecks that prevent it from advancing even further. worksinprogress.co/issue/future...

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From @longreads.com: A new book considers the history of the newspaper obituary. longreads.com/2026/08/11/o...

When will you be able to adopt a fully domesticated raccoon as a pet? Alas, perhaps never. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

From @asherelbein.bsky.social in @texashighways.bsky.social, a charmingly illustrated guide to some of the creatures and critters one may encounter on an adventure through Texas. texashighways.com/outdoors/the...

It's Tidings time! Check out this week's sampling of links shared by the Seabird community. seabird.kit.com/posts/tiding...