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Universe size comparison.
Watch this video. It’ll be 3 minutes you won’t regret. Write back to me and let me know how long it took before the feeling of awe set in. ~ see video
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How to “wire” a photo in 1937.
A nine minute video explaining the technology that allowed newspapers to publish and distribute photos nearly real-time. ~ learn more
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A $1 billion donation to make medical school tuition-free.
This seems admirable! “The 93-year-old widow of a Wall Street financier has donated $1 billion to a Bronx medical school, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, with instructions that the gift be used to cover tuition for all students going […]
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Ink drama gripping the fountain pen community.
“A manufacturer reintroduced Dark Lilac, a limited-edition ink, to great fanfare. The only problem? The color had changed.” ~ learn more
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Find everything humans know about…
This is a very cool new tool that takes any topic and creates a branching hierarchy of related concepts that serves as a very quick primer. It is especially great because for many of the topics it’ll include images that […]
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Cousins are dwindling in Canada.
“Cousins take up an interesting space in many family dynamics — not quite siblings, not quite friends. Some people may grow up alongside their cousins and have a deep bond and others may rarely see them or speak to them […]
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Air Canada tried to disown its chatbot.
“According to Air Canada, Moffatt never should have trusted the chatbot and the airline should not be liable for the chatbot’s misleading information because Air Canada essentially argued that “the chatbot is a separate legal entity that is responsible for […]
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A 20-question IQ test proxy?
“The General Social Survey includes a WORDSUM vocabulary test component that is often used as a proxy measure for IQ. Want to see how well you can do? Try these 20 questions!” It’s basically a hundred year old test with […]
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Chernobyl’s mutant wolves have developed cancer resistance?
“The researchers discovered that Chernobyl wolves are exposed to upwards of 11.28 millirem of radiation every day for their entire lives – which is more than six times the legal safety limit for a human. Dr Love found the wolves […]
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The euthanasia coaster.
Umm… “The Euthanasia Coaster is the name given to a hypothetical steel roller coaster designed with the sole purpose of killing its passengers: a euthanasia device.” ~ learn more