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Rap music + sign language = awesome.
Holly Maniatty is a sign language interpreter. She has worked on-stage alongside the Wu-Tang Clan, Killer Mike, and the Beastie Boys. It’s quite a sight. | learn more
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Folding paper to the moon.
Can you guess how many times you would need to fold a paper in half before it’s thick enough to reach the moon? Remember from last week: humans are bad at non-linear thinking. | learn more
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Picking good pics of yourself is hard.
A new study from a trio of Australian universities shows that strangers are better than you at choosing your most flattering photos. | learn more
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How do I start an airline?
On Q&A site Quora, George Zaharoff details all of the plans that went into the airline he was to start in 2002. He includes amazingly detailed financial projections, vendor strategy, and more. | learn more
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You can’t multitask.
Okay, maybe you sort-of can if you’re among 3% of weirdos. But you’re probably not. | learn more
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Octopuses can edit their own genes.
Through a process called RNA editing, cephalopods are able to edit their genomes in 11,000 different places. | lean more
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In Tokyo you can rent a middle-aged Japanese man.
There’s a service where you can rent an Ossan (slang term for middle-aged man) to hang out with you by the hour. | learn more
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I have good new and bad news.
We may know this intuitively: adding in a spot of good news makes bad news easier to take. Researchers have studied this Silver Lining Effect over the years, helping us understand when that’s true and when it’s not. | learn more
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Queens of history love a good fight.
A study by researchers at the National Bureau of Economic Research set out to answer the question, “Are states led by women less prone to conflict than states led by men?” What they found was that between 1480 and 1913, Europe’s queens […]
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Millennials? How about snake people.
Someone made a Chrome browser extension that replaces every instance of the word millennial with snack people, and it’s pretty damn funny. | learn more