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This city does not exist.
Imagine a webpage that uses AI to invent an entirely new satellite map every time you hit refresh. Reminiscent of this word does not exist from late 2021. | learn more
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Some kind of loophole.
“Its tiny train slowly bumps back and forth, going approximately nowhere. And it’s now at the center of a massive court battle between its operators and the U.S. federal government.” | learn more
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Why are so many writers in Brooklyn, and is it a problem?
“The problem isn’t that writing generates status, but rather that this status is grossly out of proportion to the wages they are earning in the market. Amongst other problems, this selects for people who value status over wages (often because […]
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Eat dessert with your favorite president.
Did you know Abe Lincoln’s favorite dessert was lemon custard pie? FDR loved blueberry pudding cake. Check out 10 presidential dessert favorites with ingredients and dietitian commentary. | learn more
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The rare gift of seeing extra colors.
I’m a bit colorblind, so am especially interested to learn about this set of people with extra color perception. “Research on colorblindness has led to a new understanding of tetrachromacy, an inherited ability to perceive subtle shades.” | learn more
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Offspring of Italy’s last king sue state in battle to reclaim crown jewels.
“King Umberto II descendants take legal action over treasure kept in Bank of Italy deposit box for 76 years.” | learn more
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Nicolas Cage blew $150 million on a dinosaur skull, pygmy heads and 2 European castles.
“Despite his financial ruin, Cage doesn’t regret all of his purchases. “You have good investments and bad investments,” he says. “The good investments came from personal interest and my honest enjoyment of the history.” | learn more
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An octopus breeding program proposal.
“Octopuses are surprisingly intelligent, and reproduce at 1 year old. If we’d started a breeding program 50 years ago, we probably could’ve gotten them smarter than dolphins by now. A disappointing failure of the long-term mad science ecosystem.” | learn more
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Teen sentenced to prison for plotting terror attach in Minecraft.
Russia… “Two of the three teens were cleared of charges because they cooperated with authorities, but Nikita Uvarov, age 16, was sentenced to five years in prison by a Siberian military court for “training for terrorist activities,” rights lawyer Pavel […]
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US vs UK English words.
What words do Americans know that the English don’t? And vice versa! | learn more