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100 seconds in a metric minute. 

July 15, 2018

We once played a joke on a friend in high school by convincing him that metric minutes had 100 seconds. It turns out the joke is on us because it was once true. | learn more

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Bell Labs: Forcing geeks to socialize since 1941

July 11, 2018

The Global Hub is a sexy new building for the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. It sits next to Lake Michigan, and is heavy on dramatic views of both the Lake and Downtown Chicago. It’s designed to promote […]

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Hundreds of years of riverbed stuff. 

July 8, 2018

The City of Amsterdam drained sections of a canal for a new subway line and had a rare opportunity to recover centuries of lost objects from the riverbed. They recovered 700k and published high res photos of 20k. | learn more

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Nature Conservancy photo contest winners. 

July 1, 2018

These photos are awesome, so I’m including two in the newsletter! I encourage you to check out the rest. “The Nature Conservancy recently revealed the winning photographs from its massive global contest to find the most glorious images of nature across 5 […]

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Frank Abagnale gave an amazing talk at Google. 

June 24, 2018

The real-life person who inspired the Leonardo DiCaprio movie “Catch Me If You Can” is exactly as interesting as you might imagine. He told his story first-hand at Google, and luckily it was recorded and published for the rest of […]