Always good to save money and cut down on energy usage.
12 inexpensive ways to save energy at home
How to save on energy costs without a major home renovation.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Always good to save money and cut down on energy usage.
These book dedications are so very different, but all interesting. 💙📚 #booksky
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A running treasury of good book dedications
(Community project)
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November 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
These book dedications are so very different, but all interesting. 💙📚 #booksky
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How lovely. You can also read the story in Spanish. #butterflies #pollinators
“Scientists used tiny new sensors to follow the insects on journeys that take thousands of miles to their winter colonies in Mexico.”
“Scientists used tiny new sensors to follow the insects on journeys that take thousands of miles to their winter colonies in Mexico.”
We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
How lovely. You can also read the story in Spanish. #butterflies #pollinators
“Scientists used tiny new sensors to follow the insects on journeys that take thousands of miles to their winter colonies in Mexico.”
“Scientists used tiny new sensors to follow the insects on journeys that take thousands of miles to their winter colonies in Mexico.”
This is always fun to peruse #booksky
Books We Love is back with a brand new batch of hand-picked titles. Mix and match tags like “Book Club Ideas” and “Eye-Opening Reads.” Find 380+ new 2025 reads, and stick around to browse more than 4,000 books from the last 13 years.
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This is always fun to peruse #booksky
I can’t remember if I’ve shared this before, but here’s an interesting story on a cookbook with recipes from gravestones in cemeteries. 💙📚 #booksky #cooking
Have You Heard of Gravestone Recipes? This Cookbook Brings 40 of Them Back to Life
Rosie Grant's first cookbook, 'To Die For: A Cookbook of Gravestone Recipes' features 40 gravestone recipes from cemeteries across the United States. Each recipe is inscribed on or associated with tom...
www.foodandwine.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I completely forgot about this movie. I am totally rewatching it on my next sick day. Yes, I said rewatching. #movies #musicals
Tom Cruise's Riskiest Movie Choice Was Also His Biggest Flop
Some will win, some will lose!
www.pajiba.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Another plus to doing cross-stitch and, presumably, other yarn and textile crafts. #aging #crafts #embroidery
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Column | Cross-stitch comes with extraordinary benefits and a history of protest
Needlework can soothe the brain, heal the psyche and keep you from texting your ex.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Another plus to doing cross-stitch and, presumably, other yarn and textile crafts. #aging #crafts #embroidery
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This looks amazing, and I wish I could go. I listened to “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” so much. #music #opera #smashingpumpkins
‘Mellon Collie’ with a mezzo-soprano: How the Smashing Pumpkins’ ’90s rock album became an opera
New York composer and conductor James Lowe worked closely with Smashing Pumpkins front man Billy Corgan to adapt the 30-year-old album for a show that’s more Mozart than rock.
www.wbez.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
This looks amazing, and I wish I could go. I listened to “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” so much. #music #opera #smashingpumpkins
Found this 2-year-old story and really enjoyed learning more about the work and love that goes into literary translation — if you’re lucky and you have a good translator. 💙📚 #booksky
The Art of Translation (Gift Article)
See how a translator carries a book from one language to another, line by line.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Found this 2-year-old story and really enjoyed learning more about the work and love that goes into literary translation — if you’re lucky and you have a good translator. 💙📚 #booksky
So ready for some cinematic distraction. Looking forward to “Merrily We Roll Along” and the latest Knives Out. #movies
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The 20 most anticipated movies of the holiday season
The final weeks of the year bring Oscar contenders, horror flicks, animated sequels and more. Here’s what to watch and where to watch them.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
So ready for some cinematic distraction. Looking forward to “Merrily We Roll Along” and the latest Knives Out. #movies
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What a gorgeous, colorful garden in South Africa. #gardening
www.houseandgarden.co.uk/gallery/durn...
www.houseandgarden.co.uk/gallery/durn...
An unusual lochside garden in the Highlands, filled with vibrant South African plants
Though set on a loch in the Highlands, this unusual garden contains an abundance of colourful plants from South Africa, all thriving under the watchful eye of its horticulturist owners
www.houseandgarden.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
What a gorgeous, colorful garden in South Africa. #gardening
www.houseandgarden.co.uk/gallery/durn...
www.houseandgarden.co.uk/gallery/durn...
Book covers in the U.S. versus U.K. It’s interesting to see how the same book is marketed in different countries that speak the same language. 💙📚 #booksky
Who Has Better Book Covers, the US or the UK? - Electric Literature
The results from this year’s book cover battle are in
electricliterature.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Book covers in the U.S. versus U.K. It’s interesting to see how the same book is marketed in different countries that speak the same language. 💙📚 #booksky
A fun take on educating us about how 50 plants and animals protect us from disease and disaster. #science #climate #pollinators
“scientists are only beginning to uncover just how much the vanishing of species — as a result of ... human interference — matters for the future of humanity”
“scientists are only beginning to uncover just how much the vanishing of species — as a result of ... human interference — matters for the future of humanity”
50 species that save us
Explore the ways animals and plants protect human health and what’s at stake when species are endangered.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
A fun take on educating us about how 50 plants and animals protect us from disease and disaster. #science #climate #pollinators
“scientists are only beginning to uncover just how much the vanishing of species — as a result of ... human interference — matters for the future of humanity”
“scientists are only beginning to uncover just how much the vanishing of species — as a result of ... human interference — matters for the future of humanity”
A lovely story about using fashion to support gay rams. #fashion #animals #wool
“The gay sheep get discarded, get forgotten, are seen as not valuable,” Mr. Pineiro said. “But through them ... a German sheep farmer and a Los Angeles designer, got connected and together created something beautiful.”
“The gay sheep get discarded, get forgotten, are seen as not valuable,” Mr. Pineiro said. “But through them ... a German sheep farmer and a Los Angeles designer, got connected and together created something beautiful.”
These Sheep Have a Statement to Make
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I hadn’t heard of forest bathing. Interesting read on its health effects — it may help fight infection and protect against dementia. #nature #healthcare #aging
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Column | Why Harvard doctors are seeking out this natural remedy for themselves
I was skeptical of forest bathing. But then I tried it alongside eight Harvard doctors who looked to this practice with ancient roots to address modern ills.
wapo.st
November 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I hadn’t heard of forest bathing. Interesting read on its health effects — it may help fight infection and protect against dementia. #nature #healthcare #aging
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Parents everywhere: We have lived through this battle many, many times. Sometimes, we must bar the entry of Sisyphean rocks.
Del found a very normal sized stick and is going to make it my problem when I don't let her bring it inside.
November 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Parents everywhere: We have lived through this battle many, many times. Sometimes, we must bar the entry of Sisyphean rocks.
Reposted by Melissa Ngo
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
The 2025 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Even though I have not read all of my books, I bought more books: The never-ending story.
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Even though I have not read all of my books, I bought more books: The never-ending story.
I loved the first novella. The world-building was woven in well with the mystery — it didn’t feel short or underdone. Plus, I appreciated the loving nod to textile arts. Go get “Murder by Memory” before this one comes out.
The second Dorothy Gentleman novella is out in March, but you can pre-order now! NOBODY’S BABY is a sapphic sci-fi mystery kicked off with one bone-chilling sentence: A wild baby appears!
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Nobody's Baby
Becky Chambers meets Miss Marple in the second entry of this cozy sci-fi mystery series, helmed by a formidable no-nonsense auntie of a detective.Welcome to ...
us.macmillan.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I loved the first novella. The world-building was woven in well with the mystery — it didn’t feel short or underdone. Plus, I appreciated the loving nod to textile arts. Go get “Murder by Memory” before this one comes out.
