“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
“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 […]
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
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
“King Umberto II descendants take legal action over treasure kept in Bank of Italy deposit box for 76 years.” | learn more
“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
“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
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 […]
What words do Americans know that the English don’t? And vice versa! | learn more
The last universal common ancestor (LUCA) is the most recent common ancestor of all current life on Earth. “While there is no specific fossil evidence of LUCA, it can be studied by comparing the genomes of all modern organisms, its […]