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Warren Buffett Steps Down
- 0.71 · explainers · keep 0.10 · Warren Buffett retired at the age of 95
- 0.66 · explainers · keep 0.13 · Warren Buffett is considered one of the most successful investors in history
- 0.62 · curiosity · keep 0.43 · In 1965, Warren Buffett took over Berkshire Hathaway, a failing textile company
- 0.57 · explainers · keep 0.62 · Warren Buffett turned a struggling textile mill into Berkshire Hathaway
- 0.57 · explainers · keep 0.32 · Warren Buffett began investing at 11 years old
- 0.55 · explainers · keep 0.34 · Charlie Munger was Warren Buffett's right-hand man, serving as vice-chair at Berkshire Hathaway until his death in 2023.
- 0.54 · news-in-context · keep 0.18 · See Berkshire Hathaway's current market cap and cash on hand
- 0.53 · explainers · keep 0.52 · Warren Buffett's advice for middle-class investors includes "pay yourself first"
- 0.52 · news-in-context · keep 0.17 · In 2023 and the first half of 2024, Berkshire Hathaway bought back more than $12B of its own stock
- 0.52 · curiosity · keep 0.36 · Former Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett is among the world's most generous philanthropists, having given away more than $68B.
- 0.51 · curiosity · keep 0.47 · Warren Buffett plays about 12 hours of bridge a week with Bill Gates
- 0.51 · explainers · keep 0.23 · Track Warren Buffett’s real-time net worth
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President Donald Trump to ban CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from White House.
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.18 · Donald Trump redefined presidential communication in the social media age
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Pentagon releases sixth batch of UFO files, details secret military program.
- 0.55 · longform · keep 0.23 · Journalist Payne Lindsey examines reports on UFOs
- 0.52 · news-in-context · keep 0.66 · UFO sightings taken seriously by the US government
- 0.47 · experiences · keep 0.66 · A private repository of millions of FOIA-requested documents
- 0.45 · longform · keep 0.69 · Ridiculous documents released via the Freedom of Information Act
- 0.41 · longform · keep 0.52 · Listen to a podcast exploring reported UFO and alien sightings
- 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.15 · Spy balloons. UFOs. What else is up there?
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Russia begins voting in first wartime parliamentary elections.
- 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.06 · The first year of war in Ukraine, in photos
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.09 · After it was banned from Eurovision, Russia resurrected its Cold War-era version
- 0.41 · experiences · keep 0.15 · See the progress of the war in this interactive, visual timeline
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Three dead, several wounded in Philippine high school shooting.
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Philadelphia police and FBI investigate serial murders at "house of horrors."
- 0.44 · longform · keep 0.76 · See if your city hosts one of the most haunted places in the United States.
- 0.44 · longform · keep 0.59 · Searching for a hate crime's unknown victim
- 0.43 · longform · keep 0.26 · Investigating 'the city that kills women'
- 0.42 · longform · keep 0.13 · London pet detectives set out to prove a spate of cat killings is the work of a serial killer
- 0.41 · longform · keep 0.09 · True crime fans can derail lives with misguided accusations
- 0.41 · longform · keep 0.27 · Unraveling the Long Island serial killer case
- 0.41 · longform · keep 0.21 · When America's deadliest serial killer went undetected
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Tony- and Grammy-winning composer Duncan Sheik dies at age 56.
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Scientists discover a new "baby" planet.
- 0.49 · curiosity · keep 0.44 · Gaming out how our solar system might catch a new planet
- 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.13 · Ice found in another star system for the first time
- 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.74 · Hubble revealed that planet-forming disks are common around young stars
- 0.43 · experiences · keep 0.26 · Webb Telescope zooms in on Orion Nebula and finds planet pairs
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.42 · Asteroids were discovered by 18th-century planet hunters
- 0.42 · experiences · keep 0.35 · Explore a dashboard summarizing the list of confirmed exoplanets, cataloged by type and discovery method.
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.63 · The 45 planets astronomers think are most likely to host alien life
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.67 · One of the hottest known exoplanets seems to snow an active ingredient of sunscreen, titanium dioxide—but only on the dark side of the planet.
- 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.31 · Hot Jupiters are giant planets that orbit very close to their host star
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A 31-year-old moves in with a 77-year-old woman to save money; now they're friends who hike, watch "Jeopardy,"
- 0.49 · curiosity · keep 0.72 · Meet a 90-year-old who built his own hobbit-inspired house
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.43 · Helping support others in older age linked to longer life
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.58 · Two 100-year-old sisters share their tips for staying mentally sharp
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.56 · An 87-year-old widower goes viral for hand-delivering party invitations door to door that read "4 pm until the cops arrive"
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.44 · O’Keeffe’s relationship with a younger Juan Hamilton caused controversy
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Kauai man focuses on helping neighbors after a river swept away his home during Hurricane Lowell.
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Flower girl, age 2, falls asleep before the wedding, so her grandmother carries her down the aisle while her g
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.48 · Toddler delivers tear-jerking speech at her mom and dad's wedding
- 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.46 · A group of 88 kindergarteners creates heartfelt centerpieces defining what love is for their teacher's wedding
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Wildlife center rescues rare cave bat trapped in an Omaha office building hundreds of miles away from home.
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.85 · Bats have evolved to carry viruses without getting sick
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.72 · Bats are uniquely suited to act as reservoirs of viruses.
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.75 · The bats that live in and protect Portugal's libraries
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North Carolina mother surprises her young Red Sox fans with a day trip to Atlanta to watch their favorite team
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America's 27 most haunted hotels.
- 0.65 · longform · keep 0.76 · See if your city hosts one of the most haunted places in the United States.
- 0.64 · curiosity · keep 0.75 · America's most haunted restaurants
- 0.50 · curiosity · keep 0.76 · The coolest ghost towns in every US state
- 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.68 · Where to celebrate Halloween in the US
- 0.42 · experiences · keep 0.67 · America's most underrated places to visit
- 0.41 · experiences · keep 0.79 · Check out an interactive map of 250 American places worth visiting before you die.
- 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.78 · Check out the 50 weirdest roadside attractions in the US, from Alabama's Unclaimed Baggae Center to Wyoming's Elkhorn Arch.
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Your robot vacuum could be spying on you.
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Why are theater seats almost always red?
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.49 · Red is deeply symbolic in Chinese culture
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Over 1,700-year-old fragment of "The Odyssey" found in a library book.
- 0.57 · experiences · keep 0.37 · Explore an archive of scholarly writing about Homer and 'The Odyssey,' with archaeologists, historians, and literary critics unpacking the author and his masterwork.
- 0.52 · curiosity · keep 0.52 · Unraveling the charred remains of the only known library from antiquity
- 0.49 · curiosity · keep 0.29 · Homer's warrior tales, including 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey,' were loosely based on Mycenaean civilization.
- 0.48 · experiences · keep 0.69 · Explore a detailed map of Odysseus' fictional journey from 'The Odyssey.'
- 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.44 · The identity of the poet Homer remains a mystery, with some scholars arguing that he never really existed.
- 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.58 · Homer, the author of 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey,' was supposedly blind, if he existed at all.
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.42 · Translations of 'The Odyssey' can differ greatly, with translators often focusing on different aspects of its language.
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.84 · Elephant bones likely inspired the cyclops character that appears in 'The Odyssey.'
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.50 · Historians estimate that only 1% of shipwrecks have been discovered.
- 0.42 · experiences · keep 0.72 · Explore interactive maps from fictional journeys, including 'The Odyssey,' 'Moby-Dick,' and more.
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.41 · James Joyce's legendary epic novel 'Ulysses' is loosely based on Homer's 'Odyssey,' though the writer later said that conceit was mostly for marketing purposes.
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Have an Irish surname? Here's where it came from.
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.51 · What you can learn from your last name
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.52 · The Irish 'sláinte!' spread outside the country thanks to immigration
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Camera catches dog bringing toy to an intruder. (w/video)
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Germany may soon face a beer shortage. (w/video)
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.14 · Germany is pursuing its most significant military buildup since WWII.
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.16 · Craft beer is partially responsible for disrupting Budweiser's US market share
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... and why Oktoberfest is in September.
- 0.50 · curiosity · keep 0.48 · Oktoberfest has been canceled 26 times
- 0.50 · experiences · keep 0.49 · The Oktoberfest taste test
- 0.50 · curiosity · keep 0.43 · Oktoberfest's beer tents have specific themes
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How hurricanes made lizards evolve more quickly. (w/audio)
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.22 · Available data suggest that while hurricane frequency has not increased over the past century, average hurricane intensity has, a trend scientists attribute to rising air and ocean temperatures.
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.35 · Rapid intensification is the increase in a hurricane's sustained wind speed by at least 35 miles per hour within 24 hours, which can strengthen it by up to two categories.
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.64 · By absorbing 90% of the thermal energy trapped by greenhouse gases, oceans are providing increasingly more energy to power the rapid strengthening of hurricanes.
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.48 · Three examples of how humans are still evolving
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.22 · How does climate change impact hurricanes?
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.62 · Cold-blooded reptiles seek heat, and that behavior may help combat fungal infections
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.84 · Small elevation differences drastically protect homes in hurricanes
- 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.75 · Hurricanes can grow by replacing their eyewall
- 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.36 · Research suggests that hurricanes commonly form off the coast of northwest Africa because dust from the Sahel and Saharan regions creates precursor atmospheric disturbances.
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Americans are split on whether T-shirts are appropriate workplace attire.
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... and 24 new rules to succeed at the modern-day office.
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.60 · Modern workplaces were engineered for efficiency, not work-life balance
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World's chunkiest parrot is rebounding from near extinction.
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This hospital kitchen is run by a Michelin-starred chef. (w/video)
- 0.56 · longform · keep 0.74 · What it's like to stage in an award-winning kitchen
- 0.53 · curiosity · keep 0.84 · How Michelin-starred chefs cook steak
- 0.53 · curiosity · keep 0.52 · Chefs face intense pressure to maintain Michelin stars
- 0.50 · curiosity · keep 0.81 · Go inside the kitchen of Chicago's Ever, a Michelin Guide favorite that was featured on 'The Bear.'
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.83 · Michelin judges act as anonymous restaurant inspectors
- 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.34 · Some chefs relinquish their Michelin stars
- 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.51 · Thoughts from an anonymous Michelin inspector
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.22 · The Michelin Guide is the gold standard in fine dining
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.75 · Watch Anthony Bourdain's meal at El Bulli, which popularized molecular gastronomy
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.71 · The Michelin Guide, explained
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.62 · An interview with Colombia's first Michelin chef
- 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.83 · Go inside the kitchen of the Michelin-recognized, Bib Gourmand-winning Philadelphia cheesesteak shop, Dalessandro's.
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North America's best airports, ranked by travelers.
- 0.43 · experiences · keep 0.67 · America's most underrated places to visit
- 0.43 · experiences · keep 0.20 · National Geographic's list of best places to visit in 2023
- 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.48 · See a visual of the largest airlines in the US by market share.
- 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.64 · In 2024, US airports generated over $1B of revenue—partly due to overpriced airport food
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.78 · Ranking the best fast food in America
- 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.66 · Check out America's happiest places to live
- 0.40 · news-in-context · keep 0.52 · Ranking America's healthiest and unhealthiest cities
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President James Garfield dies from gunshot wounds (1881); British cultural icon and model Twiggy born (1949);
- 0.48 · curiosity · keep 0.38 · James Garfield's 79-day decline hooked America on news updates
- 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.61 · James Garfield, the first left-handed US president
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