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Therapy Gecko: The Internet’s Unofficial Therapist

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The colorful mating dance of the Tragopan pheasant. Having seen quite a...

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Tiny Flying Rainbows

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The Stanley Water Bottle Craze, Explained

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Looking forward to this one: my pal Nicola Twilley’s book is coming...

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Which One Wins? LeBron’s Brain or His Body?

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Numberphile: “A Sudoku Secret to Blow Your Mind”

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Electric Car Owners Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather. The struggle is...

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Inspired by an Oppenheimer screening, NY Times congressional correspondent Catie Edmondson chased...

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The Last Repair Shop

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What If The Bear, But a Commercial for Coke?

If the vibe of this commercial for the Coca-Cola Company seems familiar, perhaps it’s because Christopher Storer direc

Watch the Synchronized Dance of a 6-Planet System. A star has been...

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AI can do your homework. Now what? “This presents a major challenge...

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100 Layer Lasagna

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The Ferris Bueller Finale With Music From Inception

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Platformer, the tech news site, is leaving Substack. “We’ve seen this movie...

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The SUPERs

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Anil Dash: “The NYT is now just Facebook. The platform dictates narrative...

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AI Robot Bests Marble Maze Game

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Whoa, take a look at the Carice TC2, a tiny Porsche-inspired EV...

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Robotic “moving sidewalk” shoes — what could possibly go wrong? Like an...

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Lucasfilm is doing a Mando movie: The Mandalorian & Grogu. It’ll be...

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Massive Military Spending “A Theft From Those Who Hunger”

In 1953, shortly after taking office and Joseph Stalin’s death, President Dwight Eisenhower gave a speech to the Americ

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The Verge looks at the symbiotic relationship between Google and the SEO...

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The Perils and Pleasures of Bartending in Antarctica. “The freezer was a...

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An Octopus vs an Underwater Maze

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Learn How to Dance Like David Byrne (From Byrne Himself)

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Rolling Stone picks The 150 Greatest Science Fiction Movies of All Time....

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13-Year-Old Becomes First to Beat NES Tetris

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Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They...

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