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#1 · news-in-context May 29, 2026

OpenAI helped kick-start an AI arms race in Silicon Valley

Led by CEO Sam Altman, OpenAI's mission is to "ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity" by making its products open to all users. In 2023, the $86B company behind the chatbot ChatGPT consisted of a for-profit arm under its nonprofit governing board.

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#2 · explainers Mar 17, 2026

A merger between OpenAI and Anthropic was reportedly proposed after Sam Altman's firing to keep OpenAI safety-oriented amid the internal turmoil.

OpenAI's board of directors reportedly reached out to Anthropic's CEO, Dario Amodei, about the possibility of taking over the role left by Altman in 2023.

Amodei declined to take over as OpenAI's CEO and to a merger of the two AI startups.
Anthropic was started in 2021 when, wanting to be more safety-oriented and better understand how models make decisions, siblings Daniela and Dario Amodei left OpenAI to co-found the company alongside a few other former employees.
As a public benefit corporation, Anthropic has promoted the responsible development of AI for the long-term good of humanity.

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#3 · experiences Mar 17, 2026

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team assesses the dangers of its AI tools through 'evals'—safety tests that probe models to disclose sensitive information.

A team of about 15 researchers deliberately attempts to breach the safeguards in Claude to determine whether the large language model can be used to commit cyberattacks, develop biological weapons, or enable other harmful behavior.

Unlike many other red teams, Anthropic shares its findings and how it resolved them publicly to help build transparency and credibility.
The team has also worked with government agencies, including a collaboration with the US Department of Energy to determine whether the model would reveal nuclear information.

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#4 · explainers Sep 3, 2024

A 1948 Supreme Court ruling realigned the film industry

1948's landmark United States v. Paramount Pictures found that the "Big Five" studios violated antitrust laws, effectively ending the reign of the vertically integrated system and the golden age of Hollywood.

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#5 · curiosity Oct 25, 2021

Bellagio hotel sells Picasso artwork

Eleven Picasso paintings and other works that helped turn Las Vegas into an unlikely destination for art were sold at auction for more than $100 million.

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#6 · curiosity Feb 11, 2026

The Mona Lisa's celebrity status and repeated restorations have obscured what made the painting so revolutionary for its time

Da Vinci's artistic technique, known as sfumato, or "gone up in smoke." The style lends his works a soft and atmospheric aesthetic

Frequent restorations have contributed to the loss of fine details, but researchers and historians have used advanced imaging techniques like infrared and X-rays to reveal lost details
The painting was stolen in 1911—an event widely credited with amplifying its popularity with the general public and making it one of the most well-known artworks in the world
The thief was a Louvre handyman who simply took the painting and tucked it under his overcoat and walked out of the museum
The celebrity of the Mona Lisa has overshadowed how it exemplifies Da Vinci's mastery, including the positioning of her body and the design of her eyes. The style was revolutionary at the beginning of the 16th century
Finally, while it's estimated the painting would go for $1B at auction, the Mona Lisa is owned by the public via French law and is legally unsellable.

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#7 · experiences Jun 26, 2023

The world's 10 best places to live

The Economist Intelligence Unit's Global Liveability Index ranked 173 cities based on stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure. The report shows an overall increase in livability scores compared to previous...

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#8 · curiosity Oct 25, 2024

The Forbes Midas List is an annual ranking of the world's top 100 venture capitalists

To qualify, investors are ranked by portfolio companies that have gone public or been acquired for at least $200M in the past five years, or that have at least doubled their private valuation to $400M or more over the same period.

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#9 · curiosity May 27, 2026

Stars appear to twinkle because turbulence in the motion of molecules in Earth's atmosphere causes light to bend and wiggle rapidly on its way to the surface—a phenomenon called scintillation.

In Earth's atmosphere, scintillation varies with different wavelengths of light, which is why some telescopes are placed in space to get clearer images while others are ground-based.

Just as the air near certain surfaces, such as a concrete building or asphalt on a hot day, distorts light more severely, scintillation can vary in different parts of the sky based on changing temperatures and densities in different directions of the atmosphere.
Scintillation is generally more significant the more atmosphere starlight has to pass through on its way to the surface.

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#10 · news-in-context May 29, 2026

Google Search incorporated AI Overviews in 2024 to fight back competitors

Analysts believe that generative AI tools—not antitrust rulings—are Google's biggest threat because they draw users away from traditional search and potential ad revenue. AI partnerships, like the one between Apple and OpenAI, may further reduce Google's market share.

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#11 · explainers May 8, 2026

Sam Altman has said that OpenAI released version 3.5 of ChatGPT early as a public service to allow the public to adjust to the new tool before rolling out ChatGPT-4.

Since then, Altman and his colleagues have called for oversight and regulation to address fears of misuse and AI-enabled pathogens.

OpenAI initially began as a nonprofit.
The company later created a capped-profit arm in 2019, and eventually restructured as a public benefit corporation.

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#12 · explainers Mar 17, 2026

Why bananas are in trouble

The average American eats over 25 pounds of bananas every year, but we won't for long if a deadly soil fungus continues to spread. Learn what scientists are doing to save the popular fruit.

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#13 · explainers Jul 1, 2025

Picasso is the bestselling painter of all time

Picasso’s artistic legacy remains lucrative 50 years after his death. His output was immense, and several individual works have sold at auction for over $100M. Those sales were not only jaw-dropping but also historic, leading to Picasso’s place as the top-grossing artist of all time.

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#14 · curiosity Dec 13, 2023

Evolution doesn't want you to see these animals

Invisibility is an oft-coveted superpower that many creatures throughout the animal kingdom have evolved to mimic through transparent camouflage. This article explores the science of this seemingly magical ability.

The two critical ingredients in...

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#15 · curiosity Mar 31, 2026

Xylitol, a sugar alcohol, is sometimes added to foods at 1,000 times the level seen naturally in foods.

This article covers the latest research in sugar alcohols and heart health, and includes that some work indicates that after consuming sugar alcohols erythritol or xylitol people are at an elevated risk of developing blood clots, which can cause heart attacks and strokes.

Both substances occur in low levels naturally in fruits and vegetables and are also produced by the human body, but as sweeteners in foods they are present at exponentially higher levels.

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#16 · experiences Apr 15, 2026

Create your own constellations in the stars

Based on real maps of the skies, connect stars to form your own constellations. Explore already existing constellations while you do so.

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#17 · curiosity Aug 10, 2023

How royal panic led to Europe's deadliest witch hunts

This article delves into the witch "panics" and hunts that roiled across Scotland between 1590 and 1662. The witch hunts in Scotland were unusually deadly, with the country having five times the average European execution rate per capita. Their...

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#18 · curiosity Dec 29, 2022

The 2012 Maya-predicted apocalypse didn't really stem from the ancient Mayans

On Dec. 20, 2012, fears of a Mayan-predicted apocalypse gripped Earth, causing panic in some parts of the world, including the stockpiling of vodka in Russia. In this podcast, Maya expert David Stuart—who helped translate some of the relevant Mayan texts—debunks the notion, arguing the Mayan calendar's end marked a cycle, not doomsday.

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#19 · news-in-context Aug 6, 2026

See a web of circular investments among major AI industry players like Nvidia and OpenAI, as many top AI companies provide significant investments to one another.

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#20 · explainers Jan 15, 2026

AI is transforming the marketing and advertising industries

Many marketers argue that AI is useful in an ad agency setting. Others attribute the significant layoffs the industry has faced in recent years, at least in part, to AI. Agency leaders and big tech firms alike have supported experimenting with artificial intelligence's capacity to create content once reserved for agency creatives.

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#21 · explainers Jan 2, 2026

Before precise gene-editing tools like CRISPR, humans had been controlling the evolution of crops for millennia by selectively breeding them for specific traits.

Although the process is random and slow, selectively breeding parent plants with desired traits, such as greater pest resistance and larger fruit, can produce offspring with combinations of these traits.

Through mutation breeding, crops are exposed to a radioactive chemical that induces more random genetic mutations, which may bring about desired traits, while less desired ones are bred out.
As of 2024, CRISPR has been used to create plants with higher yields and greater resistance to climate challenges, as well as foods without allergens and with greater nutritional value.

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#22 · explainers Nov 13, 2022

Advanced drugs are closing in on cancer's deadliest mutations

The protein KRAS, mutated in many cancers, was deemed ‘undruggable’. Now scientists are hoping to save lives with a batch of new compounds that target it.

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#23 · curiosity Jul 25, 2025

Citadel founder Ken Griffin has a $1.5B property portfolio

Take a look inside Griffin's real estate portfolio, from a $1B home in Palm Beach to his New York City penthouse on Billionaire's Row.

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#24 · curiosity May 20, 2026

Andrew Carnegie donated $56M to build 2,509 public libraries worldwide

Carnegie, who left school at 12 and credited borrowed books for his self-education, began funding libraries in 1881. Of the 2,509 libraries built, 1,681 were in the United States. He required each community to maintain the library as a condition of his gift.

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#25 · experiences Sep 12, 2023

An inventory of ancient trees in the United Kingdom

The world is filled with trees that are hundreds—if not thousands—of years old, and the UK's Woodland Trust believes each one deserves the same protections great cathedrals and castles receive. This active database invites users to peruse...

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#26 · curiosity Feb 21, 2025

The top 100 companies in Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley has pumped out some of the biggest companies in the world, including Apple, Meta, and Google. Thousands of companies operate in the area, ranging from valuations in the trillions to startups only worth thousands.

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#27 · curiosity Aug 10, 2023

How Scotland's war on witchcraft started

This 31-minute podcast episode details the beginning of Scotland's witch hunts and their relation to King James VI and I. Between 1589 and 1590, Princess Anne of Denmark set sail for Scotland, where she planned to marry James, the king of Scots in line for the English throne. Storms plague Anne's journey, and Anne's homeland finds the storms suspicious, putting supposed witches on trial for the inclement and threatening weather.

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#28 · news-in-context Mar 17, 2026

View a timeline of AI deployments from 2017 to 2025

The development of transformer architecture and the release of GPTs across AI labs led to rapid changes in LLM scale and power. Companies like OpenAI, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Anthropic have invested billions of dollars to develop reliable, versatile models.

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#29 · explainers Mar 17, 2026

How Anthropic's experimental corporate structure incentivizes safe AI development

As Anthropic is a public benefit corporation, its board is tasked with making sure that AI tools are developed to help people and society thrive. Members of its Long Term Benefit Trust hold no equity in the company, but make up a majority of the board and can act to maintain Anthropic's public benefit purpose.

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#30 · explainers Jan 27, 2026

Genetic engineering has accelerated millennia of altering various crops' genes

Although farmers have long cross-bred crops to obtain plants with specific colors, sizes, and other characteristics, these processes took significant time. Today, genetic modification in agriculture involves scientists altering an organism's DNA for various purposes, including enhancing pathogen resistance, removing allergens, and delaying spoilage.

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#31 · explainers Sep 11, 2024

Pop culture sometimes changes the way people invest

After the "Barbie" movie premiered, the number of investors in Barbie parent company Mattel's stock grew more than six times larger on the investment platform Public, according to the platform's recent report. Other cultural trends have affected which stocks investors choose as well.

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#32 · curiosity May 31, 2022

River dolphins manhandle an unlucky anaconda

The natural world around us is endlessly inspiring, and fascinating, and often very odd too: like when researchers snapped a photo of Bolivian river dolphins swimming around with a Beni anaconda snake in their mouths, for example.

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#33 · curiosity Jun 26, 2026

From glands beneath their skin, hippos produce their own sunscreen in the form of a fluid containing hipposudoric and norhipposudoric acids, which absorb sunlight in the ultraviolet and visible range.

The chemical pigments, which are red and orange, respectively, and were once thought to be blood and reside in a mucus-like mixture that dries and hardens on hippos' skin, helping it withstand the many hours the land mammals spend submerged.

Hipposudoric acid, which is hundreds of times more acidic than vinegar, has been shown to act as an antibiotic by inhibiting bacterial growth.

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#34 · experiences Jun 7, 2022

Evaluating the world’s 'smartest' cities

A ranking of "smart cities" analyzes cities by economical and technological aspects as well as quality of life, inclusiveness, and care to the environment.

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#35 · curiosity Jan 16, 2026

Englishmen in the 17th century mixed their blood into wine to show devotion

In order to demonstrate their love for a woman, some young Englishmen would stab themselves in the arm and mix the blood into their wine. They'd then toast the object of their affection and drink to their honor.

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#36 · curiosity Dec 22, 2025

The Year 2038 problem is the next potential computer time rollover bug

Many older systems store time as a signed 32-bit integer counting seconds since Jan. 1, 1970. That counter maxes out on Jan. 19, 2038—overflowing into negative time and sending clocks back to 1901, potentially crashing any older software that depends on accurate dates.

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#37 · news-in-context Mar 17, 2026

The Anthropic Economic Index shows AI adoption is highest in computer science roles.

The analysis of millions of anonymized conversations on Claude aims to reveal how AI is being integrated into real-world tasks across the labor market.

As of November 2025, 52% of conversations were classified as involving enhancing existing work products, while 45% involved using Claude for automation.
Anthropic is an artificial intelligence company and the developer of Claude, a set of large language models powering the company's AI chatbot of the same name.

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#38 · explainers May 8, 2026

Listen to Palantir CEO Alex Karp's outlook for how AI will change the economy.

Palantir was an early leader in developing and implementing AI into its technology and is often seen as a pioneer in innovation efforts.

When asked about the potential risks of AI (like the threat many say it poses to so-called "knowledge workers"), Karp has said that specialized knowledge or skills will inevitably become more valuable.

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#39 · explainers Sep 30, 2026

In addition to the cross-breeding techniques humans have used for thousands of years, organisms with novel genetic makeups can be produced by inserting DNA from other species.

Because the mix of genes through cross-breeding techniques is random, achieving a desired outcome, such as a tomato that is both large and tasty, can take years of trial and error.

Through gene editing, scientists can target specific genes for removal or addition to an organism's genome using tools like CRISPR, providing greater control over its traits.
While gene editing typically operates within a species own genome, gene modification is broader and may include incorporating DNA from other species into the target organism, producing a genetically modified organism.
Through cisgenesis, genes from the same species or from a closely related species with which it could naturally breed are inserted into an organism to create a GMO.
Genetic modification can make organisms more tolerant of extreme conditions, though it may also produce adverse effects, such as increased susceptibility to certain diseases, which researchers actively monitor for.

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#40 · explainers Sep 10, 2026

Food stamps were revived as a JFK pilot as one of his first actions upon taking office in 1961, but the program had its largest expansion under President Richard Nixon in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

President John F. Kennedy (D) was influenced by the extreme poverty he witnessed on the campaign trail in West Virginia during the 1960 presidential campaign.

Under Nixon (R), the food stamp program grew from 3 million recipients in 1969 to 15 million by 1974.
Nixon's support of food stamps came at a time when America became increasingly aware of extreme poverty in America due to the 1968 CBS documentary "Hunger in America," which showed images of starving children, and also the well-publicized campaigns to raise awareness of poverty from Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
Nixon told Congress in a May 1969 speech that he intended to "put an end to hunger in America for all time" and he called the country's continued hunger and malnutrition issues "embarrassing and intolerable."

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#41 · curiosity Jan 20, 2026

Banksy once sold his highly valued artwork on the street for $60

The notorious (and anonymous) street artist has a history of sending up the art world's pretensions. In 2013, he sold his artwork, valued at approximately $20K per piece, for $60 on a New York street. Some unassuming, but apparently aesthetically discerning, patrons took home world-renowned work that day at a steep discount.

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#42 · curiosity Sep 3, 2026

When a museum closes, it may need to sell or auction assets to pay off its debts, which can result in the breakup of valuable collections and the relocation of pieces to successor institutions and private collectors.

When a museum closes, its board must determine who owns the pieces in its collection, as they may be on loan or subject to restrictions, such as a prohibition on sale, particularly if the original owner has since died.

After the closure of the Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science in 2010, over 3,200 pieces were auctioned or sold directly, with the museum's board of trustees having to balance paying creditors with the interests of various parties, such as a local tribe that purchased a set of Native American baskets.
After the Higgins Armory Museum closed in 2013, the Worcester Art Museum was able to take on only a portion of the original collection, along with a $7.5M "dowry" to help cover the cost of creating the necessary gallery of arms and armor.
In 2014, the Corcoran Gallery of Art donated many of its works to the National Gallery of Art and George Washington University took over the gallery's art school, breaking apart components of what was then Washington DC's oldest private art museum.

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#43 · experiences Aug 28, 2025

Explore the Earth at night from space

See the planet in all its luminosity with this NightEarth app, an interactive spherical globe showing real satellite imagery of Earth. Toggle between views of real-time clouds, aurora borealis activity, and more.

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#44 · curiosity Dec 22, 2025

Time magazine ran a cover story titled 'The End of the World as We Know it?' in January 1999

In January 1999, Time published a dramatic Y2K cover with apocalyptic imagery and dire headlines. The portrayal likely exacerbated public fear and magnified the crisis in the popular imagination, turning a technical issue into a cultural panic.

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#45 · curiosity Jan 26, 2026

Some online users believe gravity will 'switch off' for 7 seconds in August 2026

Conspiracy theorists believe NASA is preparing for the gravity blackout under a classified operation called "Project Anchor." They speculate that the purpose of the secret project is to test whether Earth can survive such an event. NASA has rejected the claim. Considering the physics of a gravity blackout, the outcome would likely be chaotic but not total destruction.

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#46 · news-in-context May 29, 2026

Fair use may shield AI companies from potential copyright violations

AI models are trained on enormous datasets built from content scraped from websites across the internet. Copyright law includes a four-factor test to determine whether copies of content fall under fair use, but the law's enforcement has been inconsistent.

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#47 · explainers May 29, 2026

The philosophy of effective altruism was at the heart of Sam Altman's (ultimately temporary) firing from OpenAI, some experts suggest.

While a full accounting for his firing was never disclosed, observers partly attribute it to the conflict between the nonprofit board's idealist goals (reportedly rooted in effective altruism philosophy) and Altman's vision for artificial general intelligence.

OpenAI was originally created as a nonprofit to develop artificial general intelligence for humanity's benefit.
Skyrocketing computing costs made adherence to this belief difficult, as new influences, such as external investors, were introduced to accelerate growth with reduced safety.

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#48 · curiosity Jun 30, 2026

Here's why you've never eaten a banana seed

Hank loves bananas and is worried about their future, so he did some investigating and wrote this four-minute episode of SciShow to share some kind of scary banana truths with us.

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#49 · explainers Sep 3, 2024

The 1948 Supreme Court ruling was overturned in 2020

In 2020, US District Court Judge Analisa Torres overturned the 1948 Supreme Court ruling that broke up the studio system—effectively allowing the film industry to become vertically integrated once again—with companies like Amazon and Disney taking advantage of the relaxed regulations.

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#50 · curiosity Oct 1, 2026

Georgia O'Keeffe was the most expensive female artist of all time from 2014 to 2025

She earned the title posthumously with the $44.4M sale of 1932's "Jimson Weed/White Flower No.1." Frida Kahlo took the title back in November 2025 for the sale of "El sueño (La cama)" for $54.6M.

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#51 · curiosity Feb 13, 2026

Peruse a running sale of collectible checks

The George H. Labarre galleries hold regular auctions of collectible checks, along with other numismatic items (such as coins, paper money, and so on). See the antiquated iconography on old checks from railroads, regional banks, and businesses.

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#52 · experiences Apr 2, 2026

Explore Earth's atmosphere and what its layers contain in this interactive adventure

In this interactive, users can move from Earth's surface up through its atmosphere, exploring the natural phenomena found in each layer, including atmospheric rivers, auroras, and meteor showers. Artificial structures such as weather balloons and the International Space Station can also be found on the adventure.

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#53 · curiosity Dec 18, 2023

The 16th-century astrologer Nostradamus' predictions for 2024

Nostradamus has been credited with predicting several major historical events over the years, but what does he think is in store for 2024? Read up on what his mysterious 1555 book, The Propheties, hints at for the upcoming year.

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#54 · news-in-context May 29, 2026

DeepSeek is a Chinese AI startup that rattled US competitors when it made an AI model much faster and cheaper than they did

DeepSeek unveiled an AI model in 2025 that it said was made in two months for roughly $6M. For context, OpenAI has suggested it took over $100M to make its AI model GPT-4. The news rattled the stocks of American tech companies, including leading chipmaker Nvidia.

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#55 · explainers Aug 26, 2022

The promise and peril of AI in agriculture

Robots. Drones. Artificial Intelligence. All three are touted as potential saviors for farmers, and are already being deployed on large farms, where they assist with such tasks as managing crops, milking cows, and helping farmers make decisions about their land. But agricultural AI could have disastrous, unintended consequences.

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#56 · explainers Jan 30, 2026

Scientists may have discovered why gene-edited pig kidneys are rejected in humans

In November 2025, researchers studying how a brain-dead donor's body responded to the transplantation of a genetically engineered pig kidney, published that they've identified immune system reactions that may explain why these pig organs get rejected. What's more, they were able to reverse the rejections with an already available drug combination and the kidney functioned well. They also pinpointed a way to detect a potential rejection up to five days sooner.

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#57 · explainers Nov 7, 2024

Behind the fascinating disguising mechanism of camouflage

Camouflage—nature's master game of hide-and-seek—is more complex than simply how things look. The disguising process required millions of years of evolution that have programmed how our brains take shortcuts. Watch this video to see examples of camouflage and understand how we process it.

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#58 · curiosity Feb 24, 2026

Gummy vitamins have candy-level sugar—and that sweetness is linked to overdoses

A typical gummy vitamin contains about the same amount of sugar in a single serving as one Sour Patch candy. It's linked to the increase in pediatric overdoses for products including multivitamins and melatonin. Gummy formulations also degrade quickly, so they often include much higher levels of the product in each serving than the label advertises—boosting overdose risks due to this unchecked variability.

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#59 · curiosity Feb 11, 2026

Former Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett is among the world's most generous philanthropists, having given away more than $68B.

That's about 32% of Buffett's total net wealth.

Jeff Bezos' ex-wife, Mackenzie Scott, is also famously generous, having given away almost half of the $30B she received in her divorce from the Amazon founder.
Mark Zuckerberg has also donated a significant amount of money in his lifetime—more than $6B.

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#60 · experiences Jun 18, 2026

Explore an interactive forecast of the future of the universe, from the return of Halley's Comet to the last light in the cosmos.

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