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Electric school buses are practically free now.
Well, after a bunch of government incentives, anyway. Breaking news: bus manufacturers couldn’t be happier. | learn more
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Have you heard of Ramanujan?
Here’s another impressive story of a talented youth, Srinivasa Ramanujan, who had produced groundbreaking new mathematical theorems by 16. “Though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and […]
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At the age of 17, Sam Zeloof built a microchip fabrication facility in his parents’ garage.
He wrote a blog post announcing the first integrated circuit he produced a few years ago. And last year he announced his second, with 200x more transistors. This is some seriously impressive stuff.
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How and why to be ladylike (for women with autism).
I feel a bit weird sharing this link, but hey, I think it is interesting. It’s written for an audience of women with autism, presumably a mild version. The author looks analytically at the social choices young women make, and […]
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Bad news for bottom 80% of men (by looks) on Tinder.
“It was determined that the bottom 80% of men (in terms of attractiveness) are competing for the bottom 22% of women and the top 78% of women are competing for the top 20% of men. The Gini coefficient for the […]
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Realtime income and wealth inequality data.
“Realtime Inequality provides the first timely statistics on how economic growth is distributed across groups. When new growth numbers come out each quarter, we show how each income and wealth group benefits.” A key criticism here is the methodology ignores […]
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Every song with over 1 billion Spotify streams.
“The Billions Club contains over 300 songs, with the majority being released in the 2010s. This is largely due to the fact that Spotify launched at the start of that decade.” | learn more
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How ‘goblin mode’ became Oxford’s word of the year.
“It’s mindlessly binge-watching television without worrying about the time. It’s eating snacks in bed without a care about leftover crumbs. And it’s wearing the same pair of pajamas all week while working from home. Welcome to “goblin mode.” | learn more
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The Bangladesh water machine.
“Published in Science, the study said that groundwater-fed irrigation had transformed much of Bangladesh’s single-crop, rain-watered floodplains into highly productive double-cropping and, in places, triple-cropping lands to make the country the world’s fourth highest producer of rice.” | learn more
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Bill Gates explains the internet to Dave Letterman in 1995.
He also tries to convince Dave to get a computer. | learn more