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Inside a Flexport 747.
Air freight containers are not the same as shipping containers. Ryan Peterson, founder of Flexport, is on a roll making cool content. ~ learn more
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2015-2020 F150 headlight bulb replacement.
I want to upgrade the bulbs for our truck, and a friend told me it is easy and I can just watch a youtube video to learn. I watched this video. I found this comment very relatable: “Video was great. […]
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Scientists find 1.5-million-year-old footprints of two different species of human ancestors at same spot.
“More than a million years ago, on a hot savanna teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake Turkana in Kenya, two completely different species of hominins may have passed each other as they scavenged for […]
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Is Enron back?
From the Houston Chronicle: “Twenty-three years after Enron declared bankruptcy, the infamous Houston-based energy company appears to be making a return. A group representing itself as Enron, which became the center of a corporate scandal Dec. 2, 2001, following revelations […]
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When words and actions diverge: USA edition.
“My argument is simple: people who say they want to see a return of American manufacturing don’t actually vote with their dollar. Let me show you…” This is funny/sad/funny. ~ learn more
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An electronic chessboard without turns.
Very impressive work! “Chess is boring… you spend literally half the time waiting for your opponent! There’s no way your internet addled brains could sustain such stimulation deficit, which is why I made this extremely over engineered electronic chess board […]
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The largest predation event ever observed in the ocean.
“As the capelin shoal formed a sort of ecological “hotspot,” the team observed individual cod begin to group together in response, forming a huge shoal of their own. The swarming cod overtook the capelin, quickly consuming over 10 million fish, […]
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1 dataset 100 visualizations.
You are not limited to the few charts that Excel recommends! This is really impressive. ~ learn more
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It’s hard to resign in Japan.
“He contacted the resignation agency Momuri, whose name translates to “I Can’t Take This Anymore.” For around ¥22,000, they handle the entire resignation process, contacting the boss on behalf of the client, negotiating with the company, and even recommending lawyers […]
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People are having less sex.
I didn’t want to believe it, but it may be true. About the study: “We used data from 14- to 49-year-old participants in the 2009 and 2018 waves of the National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior (NSSHB), a confidential […]