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Athletics Spending Spree
- 0.53 · news-in-context · keep 0.29 · College football generates over $13B annually—but many programs run at a loss.
- 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.77 · NFL stadiums are designed to maximize profit, not number of seats
- 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.13 · New rules introduced in 2021 let college athletes profit from their name, image, and likeness.
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.12 · Inside one credit union’s big NFL bet
- 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.36 · Selling beer during college football games was once taboo, but it's now commonplace for the country's biggest teams.
- 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.31 · The average cost of college has doubled in the 21st century
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.75 · See some of college football's most iconic gameday traditions.
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.25 · College football weekends deliver major economic boosts to local communities
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.18 · 'NIL' in college sports refers to 'name, image, and likeness'
- 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.63 · The most expensive private schools in the US
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.39 · University endowments are primarily funded through charitable donations from alumni, philanthropists, or foundations.
- 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.26 · The most expensive Super Bowl ad cost $26M
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G7 leaders agree to release up to 100 million barrels of diesel and crude oil.
- 0.47 · news-in-context · keep 0.17 · In 2016 OPEC and 10 major producers—including Russia—launched OPEC+
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.62 · View the 45 gallons of refined products created from each 42-gallon barrel of crude oil
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.77 · See where the 100 million barrels of crude oil the world consumes daily end up.
- 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.74 · The US stores hundreds of millions of oil barrels in caves along the Texas-Louisiana coast
- 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.15 · The US shipped nearly 4 billion barrels of oil abroad in 2024
- 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.15 · The US exported more crude oil and petroleum products than it imported in 2025
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US hiring slows and unemployment rises ahead of November midterms.
- 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.55 · Explore why layoffs are the biggest driver behind unemployment in the US with this interactive.
- 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.06 · The monthly US employment report is eagerly anticipated by Wall Street and has significant impacts on markets.
- 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.10 · The US Bureau of Labor Statistics releases a monthly 'jobs report' that tracks the unemployment rate, the number of Americans currently on payroll, and more.
- 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.20 · Over 1.9 million Americans—more than a quarter of those unemployed—have been classified as 'long-term' unemployed in a given month in 2026, meaning they've been out of work for at least 27 weeks.
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.27 · Experts recommend preparing your finances accordingly if you're expecting to be laid off soon, taking actions such as looking into the cost of replacing employer-sponsored benefits like healthcare.
- 0.40 · news-in-context · keep 0.13 · The clearest sign of a recession is a steady increase in job losses and high unemployment.
- 0.40 · news-in-context · keep 0.10 · Trump's H-1B fee hike could reshape US industries and global talent flows
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Congo's Ebola outbreak death toll surpasses 4,000 as unrest mounts.
- 0.62 · explainers · keep 0.11 · Ebola virus, with an average fatality rate above 50%, has been responsible for at least 250 confirmed deaths during the 2026 outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.
- 0.55 · explainers · keep 0.22 · Three Ebola species are responsible for most large outbreaks of the disease, yet the only approved Ebola vaccine is known to work against just one of them.
- 0.53 · explainers · keep 0.07 · The 2026 Ebola outbreak is hampered by the lack of a vaccine against the relevant species of the virus, heightening the need for rapid tests to aid in disease control.
- 0.51 · longform · keep 0.38 · See how Ebola tore through Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia in 2014-2016.
- 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.42 · There have been close to 40 Ebola outbreaks since 1976
- 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.14 · Ebola species have historically been named after where they were discovered, stigmatizing residents who live there, including Bundibugyo, in Uganda.
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.41 · See the evolution of Ebola vaccine and treatment development.
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.34 · Watch what the Ebola virus does inside our cells and organs in order to spread and survive.
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.05 · The 2026 Ebola outbreak in the DRC is spurring new Ebola vaccine development for the Bundibugyo species.
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.23 · Cultural norms about how to handle the bodies of loved ones in communities in West Africa have hampered Ebola responses.
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.14 · Marburg virus, related to Ebola, is also extremely deadly, and has no available vaccine.
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.65 · Ebola infects and disables immune cells, triggering a cascade of events that leads to small blood clots throughout the body, weakening blood vessels and interrupting blood flow to key organs.
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Student protests in France close over 400 schools, lead to around 2,000 arrests.
- 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.42 · Check out information on the over 1,000 protests across the globe since 2017.
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.07 · In 2025, Gen Z-led protests swept across Indonesia, Madagascar, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Peru, the Philippines, and Timor-Leste.
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Tony Romo leaves CBS Sports as NFL analyst following OWI arrest.
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Feathered dinosaur fossil sheds light on the evolution of flight.
- 0.61 · curiosity · keep 0.60 · The ancestors of ostriches and emus could fly
- 0.57 · explainers · keep 0.78 · Air sacs and lightweight bones helped some dinosaurs grow to enormous sizes
- 0.52 · curiosity · keep 0.53 · Uncovering the evolution of history's largest dinosaurs
- 0.51 · curiosity · keep 0.85 · Pterosaurs were dinosaur cousins that ruled the skies
- 0.51 · curiosity · keep 0.61 · Huge tyrannosaur wore a fuzzy coat
- 0.51 · curiosity · keep 0.55 · Mammals thrived under the feet of dinosaurs
- 0.50 · curiosity · keep 0.62 · T. rex didn't stomp, it walked on tiptoes like a bird
- 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.85 · Spinosaurus had the weirdest dinosaur tail of all time
- 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.57 · Fossils from the Carboniferous period show that insects reached their largest size about 300 million years ago, long thought possible due to higher atmospheric oxygen concentrations.
- 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.66 · Why have birds never become as large as a T. rex?
- 0.46 · experiences · keep 0.80 · How paleos dig up dinosaurs
- 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.52 · Dinosaurs ranged from the size of chickens to multistory buildings, with one of the largest, Argentinosaurus, spanning about 39 meters (128 feet) and weighing more than a Boeing 737.
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Man, 93, donates homemade baseball bats and rolling pins to charity auction.
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Entrepreneur who lost his voice to cancer creates noninvasive device to help others like him speak with emotio
- 0.50 · curiosity · keep 0.60 · How Stephen Hawking's voice became iconic
- 0.49 · longform · keep 0.58 · The journalist who let AI speak with his voice
- 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.35 · See how a novel neurological procedure that employs artificial intelligence restored a woman's speech almost 20 years after a stroke.
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.50 · Meet the investor running his life with AI
- 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.85 · An expert recreates the voice of a 3,000-year-old mummy
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.16 · Brain implants are restoring movement and communication in early human trials
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.63 · The speech software's origins at MIT led to Hawking's trademark voice being American
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.48 · An ear doctor with hearing loss seeks to help those with hearing loss enjoy music
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.37 · Tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson's mission to live forever
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.38 · As Anthropic's CEO, Dario Amodei's vision for AI has been inspired by the loss of his father to an illness that was made 95% curable four years after his passing.
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.57 · An essay exploring how living day-to-day with a brain implant helps restore a sense of identity
- 0.41 · longform · keep 0.59 · Turning a profit with terminal illness
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Two helicopter pilots loop around and fly low to wave to an infatuated 3-year-old.
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.19 · Veteran pilot guides 21-year-old pilot through emergency landing
- 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.44 · The Wrights were inspired by a toy helicopter as kids
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Detroit educator purchases vacant, deteriorating school building with plans to transform it into a state-of-th
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.52 · One filmmaker turned an abandoned high school into a film studio
- 0.42 · longform · keep 0.32 · Abandoned Detroit: the decline of America's car mecca
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.25 · Charter schools are publicly funded schools that are not run by public school districts.
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Record-low 31% of Americans say college is very important.
- 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.22 · Americans think being informed is a priority for voting, but don't prioritize reading the news.
- 0.47 · news-in-context · keep 0.37 · The Atlantic proclaimed that 'The End of Reading is Here,' which might be alarmist but is based on significant data.
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.73 · Some educators argue society's obsession with colleges at the top of rankings has hurt the US higher education ecosystem
- 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.49 · 40% of Americans didn't read a book in 2025, with 19% of adults responsible for 82% of the country's book reading.
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.25 · 33% of Americans say they don't know very much about what the Fed does
- 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.31 · 40% of Americans polled by Pew Research Center felt pessimistic about marriage
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.42 · Is college worth it?
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.24 · Roughly 75% of Americans report feeling okay financially
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.48 · Hear why one author thinks college rankings may be irrelevant
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.41 · 30% of Americans make New Year's resolutions
- 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.17 · 43% of Americans don't have savings to pay for a $1K emergency
- 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.44 · The university system has an enrollment problem
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Which state has the most generous tippers?
- 0.58 · news-in-context · keep 0.83 · Visualize tipping norms around the world with this map that reveals the US tips more service providers and leaves larger amounts than anywhere else globally.
- 0.58 · explainers · keep 0.23 · Tipped workers in '$2.13 states' experience an estimated 18.5% poverty rates
- 0.48 · news-in-context · keep 0.36 · Thirty-one states received more money from the federal government than they sent in FY 2024.
- 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.51 · 19th-century Americans discovered tipping in Europe
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.45 · Women tend to tip more often than men
- 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.25 · 72% of Americans say tipping is now expected in more places than it was 5 years ago
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.49 · Americans spend an average of nearly $500 per year on tipping at restaurants and bars
- 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.25 · Nearly 9 in 10 Americans were annoyed by tipping as of 2025.
- 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.64 · Based on the number of patents, venture capital investment, and research and development spending per capita in 2025, America's most innovative states are California, Massachusetts, and Delaware.
- 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.54 · The most taxed states in America
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.66 · The best restaurant tasting experiences in every state
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.53 · In the 1920s, Prohibition helped cement tipping norms in the US
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How NFL players got caught up in an alleged Ponzi scheme.
- 0.54 · explainers · keep 0.15 · After Bernie Madoff's nearly $65B Ponzi scheme was exposed, the Securities and Exchange Commission was widely criticized for being inattentive and overly lax for not having caught the fraud earlier.
- 0.51 · longform · keep 0.11 · After an estimated $8B in customer funds were lost through a cryptocurrency scheme likened to a Ponzi scheme, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
- 0.50 · longform · keep 0.07 · A 2024 cheating scandal cast doubt on the industry
- 0.48 · longform · keep 0.06 · A 2025 NBA scandal exposes athlete participation in sports betting
- 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.42 · The namesake of the Ponzi Scheme, Charles Ponzi made an estimated $15M from running a fake international arbitrage scheme in the 1920s.
- 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.13 · Following the NFL's concussion settlement, numerous victims were denied payouts.
- 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.51 · Even athletes aren't immune to the sports-betting craze
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.25 · Some allege the NFL has shifted gameplay toward fantasy
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.17 · CTE is a major threat to NFL players
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.10 · Sports leagues have attempted to prevent athletes from betting
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.66 · The biggest controversies of the NFL
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.75 · Fantasy football is now a $10B industry
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Six ways to be more persuasive. (w/video)
- 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.74 · How to win a negotiation
- 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.48 · Five factors that can influence your likability include asking questions, being present, vulnerability, similarity, and people's preconceived notions.
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.69 · How to resolve conflict with words, from speaking coach Jefferson Fisher
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.62 · There's a college course teaching influencing 101
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.74 · One hundred ways to improve your life without really trying
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.42 · Marketers often use psychological tactics to sway consumer action
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Robots plunge to a fiery death, thanks to Arnold Schwarzenegger. (w/video)
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See some of the best looks from Paris Fashion Week.
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.74 · Met Gala fashion over the decades
- 0.41 · experiences · keep 0.45 · View a gallery of 3D printed clothing
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Can you draw country borders from memory? (w/game)
- 0.43 · experiences · keep 0.81 · Your brain can't reliably recall colors—test your skills here
- 0.43 · experiences · keep 0.69 · Test your knowledge of major historical events with an interactive map game
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.77 · In 1914, the Financial Times asked readers to redraw Europe for cash prizes
- 0.41 · experiences · keep 0.70 · Test your gerrymandering skills with this interactive game.
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Ranking the nation's top pumpkin-producing states.
- 0.48 · curiosity · keep 0.40 · The agricultural history of the pumpkin
- 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.48 · See every US state's top import partner as of 2024, with Mexico, Canada, and China being the top trade partners for 42 states.
- 0.44 · experiences · keep 0.84 · Watch a time-lapse of the 120-day journey of a pumpkin seed growing into an adult fruit.
- 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.64 · Based on the number of patents, venture capital investment, and research and development spending per capita in 2025, America's most innovative states are California, Massachusetts, and Delaware.
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.58 · Utah is the 'greenest' state to die in—determined by burial emissions and green options
- 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.25 · The world's top agriculture-producing countries
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Blind taste test reveals the best boxed mac and cheese. (w/video)
- 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.10 · Woman sues Kraft over mac and cheese instructions
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Bronx Zoo debuts a rare snow leopard cub.
- 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.13 · See photos of rare spotless giraffe born at zoo
- 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.53 · See the world's first-known photo of a wild white Iberian lynx
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Would you quit sleeping if a drug eliminated the need?
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.70 · What sleep is for and why you can’t live without it
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.35 · Emerging research suggests that cannabis, used by about 9% of American adults as a sleep aid, may suppress rapid eye movement and lead to worse quality sleep and fewer remembered dreams. (Paywall may apply.)
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.67 · The brain will attempt to rest itself in periods of chronic sleep deprivation
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Why do only certain leaves turn red? (w/audio)
- 0.55 · curiosity · keep 0.46 · Leaves have orange and yellow pigments year-round, but they are masked until the fall, when shorter days reduce the production of chlorophyll, a green pigment.
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.52 · Many trees lose their leaves in the fall to conserve resources for future blooming rather than spending them on keeping leaves alive in the wind and cold of winter.
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.74 · Developing a red pigment that is vivid, durable, and nontoxic is challenging because its necessary absorption of other, high-energy colors would cause it to degrade.
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How often should you wash sheets and towels?
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