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How farmers in Earth’s least developed country grew 200 million trees.
This is the story of trees coming back to Niger after they were cleared to make way for orderly crops. It didn’t come about with a new planting initiative. Instead, the people stopped pulling out stumps and let them grow […]
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Demonstrating the weight of air.
A ruler, a newspaper, and a very excited teacher. | learn more
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Bladder surgery to avoid bathroom breaks on the drive to the Hamptons.
There’s no way this is real, right? “Dr. David Shusterman, a New York City urologist who’s been advertising the procedures with the tagline “Race to the Hamptons, not to the bathroom.” | learn more
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Ten ways congress lets billionaires avoid taxes on an epic scale.
This is ProPublica so they forget to mention that the tax code enables this behavior, so if we don’t like it, we should take it up with congress. “After a year of reporting on the tax machinations of the ultrawealthy, […]
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We tracked what happens after TikTok songs go viral.
This was an excellent video based on “A data investigation into how TikTok is shaping the music industry, in collaboration with The Pudding.” | learn more
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World’s largest cruise ship headed straight from shipyard to junkyard.
“In a bleak financial and maritime saga, the nearly-completed mega cruise ship Global Dream II will never take to the high seas, and instead will be scrapped — because its builder ran out of cash, and no one wants to […]
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The origin: why Porsche announced an SUV in 1998.
A history lesson! “At the company, the Cayenne was quickly accepted. But the Porsche clubs were less enthusiastic. There were some strong headwinds,..“ | learn more
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The anxiety of influencers.
Writing for Harper’s Magazine, Barrett Swanson spent a few days in a Los Angeles mansion for TIkTok influencers called Clubhouse For the Boys. “Also known as content houses or TikTok mansions, collab houses are grotesquely lavish abodes where teens and […]