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Analyzing my text messages with my ex-boyfriend.
“We began dating in the summer of 2015 and broke up in the spring of 2016.” Teresa Ibarra ran a variety of data analyses on roughly 83,000 messages. ~ learn more
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Beach umbrellas injure thousands a year.
“Data from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) indicates that more than 31,000 people were treated in hospitals for umbrella-related injuries between 2008 and 2017.” ~ learn more
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ProPublica exposes nonprofit group for fundraising right into their own pockets.
You might think this is insane and illegal, yet they do it with visible disclosures like: “When you make a contribution, we want you to know that a minimum of 90 cents of every dollar will be dedicated to covering […]
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Successful finance guy buys his way into a pro soccer club in Portugal.
The subhead of this WSJ article can’t resist disclosing that he (Courtney Reum) is Paris Hilton’s brother-in-law, overshadowing his professional accomplishments. ~ learn more
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Purple gorilla story.
My kids asked me for a scary but not too scary story. The internet delivered this. ~ learn more
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Dead reckoning.
“In navigation, dead reckoning is the process of calculating the current position of a moving object by using a previously determined position, or fix, and incorporating estimates of speed, heading (or direction or course), and elapsed time.” ~ learn more
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Dealership sells car out from under woman who brought it in for repairs.
It feels like there’s more to the story here, but it’s certainly a weird occurrence. ~ learn more
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Nordic prisons not better at rehabilitation?
This author comes in hot: “It’s a well-documented fact that a small number of repeat-offending criminals are responsible for a large share of all crime. The primary reason why prisons effectively reduce crime is exactly because they prevent the crimes […]
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How researchers cracked an 11-year-old password to a $3 million crypto wallet.
A lesson in never giving up! Also a reminder that computers don’t do random very well. ~ learn more