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NearbyWiki.
NearbyWiki. “Wikipedia places nearby” is a map that shows you interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia. ~ learn more
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NearbyWiki.
NearbyWiki. “Wikipedia places nearby” is a map that shows you interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia. ~ learn more
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RecipeTables.
RecipeTables. “A prep-table notation invented by Michael Chu at Cooking for Engineers: ingredients down the left, each step a merged cell spanning exactly what it combines. The whole recipe reads in one look — no scrolling back and forth between […]
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Beard transplant review.
Beard transplant review. “The procedure cost around $10,000, which is obviously a lot of money. But for me, it was worth every cent.” One guy explains how a beard transplant changed the way he’s viewed (or at least the way […]
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Mario meets Pareto.
Mario meets Pareto. “Between you and me, if you want to win, never allow Koopa to sit in your kart!” The article uses Mario Kart 8 to explain the Pareto frontier: filter out builds that are strictly worse on every […]
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The one specimen that counts.
The one specimen that counts. “A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism that is the one that was used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described.” It is the anchor for a species […]
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The oldest buildings on every continent.
The oldest buildings on every continent. “These seven human-made structures are currently considered to be the earliest on each continent.” A tight tour from 1899 huts in Antarctica to Göbekli Tepe around 9500 BCE, with the reminder that better dating […]
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The men spending $1,000 a day in pursuit of big bass.
The men spending $1,000 a day in pursuit of big bass. “There’s a fine line between passion and obsession. In the world of stalking largemouth bass, that line comes in at the ten-pound mark on a scale. For most anglers, […]
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A love story in survey data.
A love story in survey data. “The data for this story is from How Couples Meet and Stay Together, which surveyed Americans in 2017, 2020, and 2022.” The Pudding turns a Stanford dataset into an interactive look at how relationships […]
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Prescriptions every 30 seconds.
Prescriptions every 30 seconds. “Clinicians who worked for the start-up signed prescriptions for Adderall, a leading treatment for A.D.H.D., every 30 seconds, according to the Justice Department.” Two Done Global executives were sentenced after prosecutors said the company pushed stimulants, […]