Four Quick Links for Friday Afternoon

The 50 Best Movie and TV Show Twists of All Time. Knives Out, Citizen Kane, Infinity War, The Good Place, Empire Strikes Back, and more. [theringer.com]

Matt Webb does some quick math: if a NAND gate made of two transistors cost 8 cents in 1981, then building the chip for a single iPhone (containing 11.8 billion transistors) would cost $1.4 billion in today's dollars. [interconnected.org]

A recent study found a correlation between places with Black Lives Matter protests and decreased killings by police. "Many cities with larger and more frequent BLM protests experienced greater declines in police homicides." [scientificamerican.com]

HOVER BOAT [bbc.com]

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