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Thank you Los Angeles for the sport of Sperm Racing?
Thank you Los Angeles for the sport of Sperm Racing? You can go straight to the event video. Or check out the site. ~ learn more
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Parallel Parking Championship.
Parallel Parking Championship. “It’s weird, kind of stupid, and everyone ends up having a really good time,” says Dan Leber, founder of the Pittsburgh Parallel Parking Championship. This quirky contest blends sport and silliness, attracting skilled drivers and spectators to […]
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Airlines are running out of flight numbers.
Airlines are running out of flight numbers. “American Airlines, Delta, and United are running out of flight numbers, and nobody knows what to do about it.” ~ learn more
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How a turf war between lizards in Florida impacts mosquitoes and maybe human health.
How a turf war between lizards in Florida impacts mosquitoes and maybe human health. Brown anoles are fighting a silent battle in Florida, but “may unwittingly be helping humans by absorbing the mosquito bites, and decreasing the transmission of serious […]
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Rap falls off the Billboard Top 40.
Rap falls off the Billboard Top 40. “Rap has officially dipped out of the top 40 songs on the Billboard charts for the first time in 35 years.” The combination of Billboard’s new rules and the genre’s declining market share […]
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Ride to the stratosphere.
Ride to the stratosphere. “Welcome to the space elevator, the only elevator that goes to space.” Along the way, you’ll learn about everything from towering cumulonimbus clouds to the death-defying records of high-altitude birds and planes. ~ learn more
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The lottery-fication of finance.
The lottery-fication of finance. “The breakout finance products of the past decade converge around a single design: a highly engineered lottery.” From sports betting to zero day options, this piece unravels how financial products offer lottery-like thrills with small bets […]
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Feeding the LLM bots.
Feeding the LLM bots. “These aren’t the indexing bots of old, but scrapers collecting data to train LLMs.” They ignore traditional defenses like robots.txt and can disguise themselves to bypass IP bans. So this clever webmaster found a way to […]
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Detective wiki.
Detective wiki. “Who is Detective Wiki? You are. Look for clues, solve mysteries, and learn from your mistakes. Show us what that brain can do.” This game is, at first, painful for my ego as I get lots of answers […]
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Judgment scores for behavioral, infectious, and chronic diseases.
Judgment scores for behavioral, infectious, and chronic diseases. “Some diseases are seen as afflicting good people and some bad/immoral. Here’s how it varies by disease type.” ~ learn more