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MGM launches “Work from Vegas” program
“The owner of Las Vegas’ Bellagio and ARIA resorts is offering big discounts and more services to draw in guests who need a break from home.” | learn more
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How long does food in a freezer stay frozen when the power goes out?
One engineer was determined to find out. “I ran various experiments with the freezer empty and full, logging internal temperature, external wall temperature and power consumption every 30 seconds.” | learn more
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CIA shoe lacing
“Tutorial for C.I.A. Lacing shoes, in which straight segments are interpersed with one or more visible crossovers at different positions as a form of covert signalling.” Thanks to this, I’m now walking around side-eyeing everyone’s allbirds. | learn more
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Who’s having the best rap career after 40?
“The 40 rap elder statespeople we’ve selected and ranked — whittled down from a pool of 100 candidates — represent every corner of the culture, from the forever-respected lyrical technicians to those currently running up streaming numbers.” | learn more
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A fungus is out to kill our bananas
The world’s favorite banana until the 1960s, the Gros Michel, was quite different from our bananas today. It lost its dominance due to a fungus. That blew my mind. Now our Cavendish banana is under a similar threat. | learn more
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The math of card shuffling
“Here’s a question: how many times do you have to riffle a deck of cards before it is completely shuffled?” | learn more
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Passports for purchase
Hello, Caribbean islands! “Super-rich families are buying multiple citizenships to prepare for the next lockdown. Here’s how citizenship-by-investment programs (CIPs) work and why they’re getting more popular.” | learn more
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Gene names vs Microsoft Excel
Excel wins! “Scientists have renamed 27 human genes to stop Microsoft Excel misreading them as dates.” | learn more
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Emoji use in the new normal
“😂 Face with Tears of Joy remains the most used emoji on Twitter” and “🥺 Pleading Face is experiencing surging popularity.” Emojipedia analyzed over 68 million tweets across 2018-2020. | learn more
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How to outrun a dinosaur
“If, through some scientific malfunction, you found yourself transported 70 million years into the past, you might be safer from certain hungry reptiles than you think.” I found this link in Explore & Observe, a cool email newsletter about modern day […]