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Canada Halts MAID Expansion
- 0.57 · news-in-context · keep 0.23 · See which US states allow medical aid in dying and where legislation is pending.
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.11 · Australian psychiatrists already prescribe psilocybin and MDMA for depression and PTSD
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.12 · Australia legalized 3-parent IVF in 2022
- 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.24 · Managing an employee with a terminal illness
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Math Meets AI
- 0.53 · explainers · keep 0.26 · Sam Altman has said that OpenAI's mission is to 'ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity' by making its products open to all users.
- 0.52 · news-in-context · keep 0.11 · OpenAI helped kick-start an AI arms race in Silicon Valley
- 0.49 · news-in-context · keep 0.59 · View a timeline of AI deployments from 2017 to 2025
- 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.26 · Scientists increasingly can't predict what AI will do
- 0.49 · news-in-context · keep 0.43 · 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.
- 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.63 · Anthropic's interpretability team discusses how AI models' thinking mimics biology
- 0.48 · experiences · keep 0.17 · Anthropic's Frontier Red Team assesses the dangers of its AI tools through 'evals'—safety tests that probe models to disclose sensitive information.
- 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.35 · Research suggests using AI for schoolwork may harm critical thinking skills
- 0.48 · news-in-context · keep 0.23 · In 2023, OpenAI spent $520 million on ChatGPT
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.11 · 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.
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.62 · OpenAI initially focused on novelty projects, like training AI bots to win video games, before becoming known for its AI chatbot ChatGPT.
- 0.47 · news-in-context · keep 0.07 · Google Search incorporated AI Overviews in 2024 to fight back competitors
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Pike Speaks
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Michael Jordan establishes $10M scholarship for social work students in honor of his mother.
- 0.50 · curiosity · keep 0.50 · Michael Jordan's mother persuaded him to meet with Nike instead of Adidas
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.11 · Teen who walked 6 miles to graduation receives college scholarship on the spot
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Actress Eva Marie Saint, known for roles in "On the Waterfront" and "North by Northwest," dies at age 102
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Disney+ will stream the Super Bowl and two "Monday Night Football" regular-season games this season
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.22 · The Super Bowl is the National Football League's championship game
- 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.60 · The NFL is so successful because it is perfectly suited for television
- 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.23 · As fantasy football grew more popular, the NFL began adapting
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.73 · Hear how the Super Bowl went from a risky experiment to America's unofficial holiday
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.35 · The Super Bowl is televised in over 180 countries in nearly 25 languages
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.36 · Sports media have also embraced sports betting
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.72 · The NFL makes most of its money through media licensing deals
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.42 · Pepsi dominates the list of the highest-rated Super Bowl commercials in history
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.59 · Watch a comprehensive history of the Super Bowl
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.36 · Fantasy sports have turned fans into 'second screen' consumers
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.47 · 17 cities have hosted a Super Bowl, with Miami and New Orleans tied for the most
- 0.40 · news-in-context · keep 0.18 · US consumers spent $670M on snack food during Super Bowl week in 2024
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Aerosmith announces two comeback shows in Los Angeles, featuring Run-DMC, Heart, Billy Idol, Slash, and more g
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.69 · Long before Coachella, Steve Wozniak attempted a similarly-minded festival
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.15 · Live Aid featured 16 hours of live music across two continents
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Scientists develop ultra-accurate nuclear clock that keeps time by measuring energy shifts inside the nucleus
- 0.62 · explainers · keep 0.53 · While atomic clocks measure time using the movement of electrons between energy levels, nuclear clocks track energy shifts within atomic nuclei to achieve greater accuracy.
- 0.62 · curiosity · keep 0.71 · The extreme precision of atomic clocks highlights gravitational time dilation
- 0.57 · explainers · keep 0.79 · Why atoms are used to keep track of time and define the meaning of a second
- 0.55 · explainers · keep 0.46 · How atomic clocks have been used to measure the universe's fundamental constants
- 0.50 · curiosity · keep 0.19 · Rather than measuring the rising and falling of the sun or pendulum swings, optical clocks track the passage of time using the vibrations of atoms.
- 0.48 · curiosity · keep 0.21 · Since 1967, a second has been defined as how long it takes an electron to transition between two energy levels of a cesium-133 atom 9,192,631,770 times.
- 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.44 · Build atomic nuclei to explore their instability and resulting radioactive decay
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.47 · Although they rely on radioactive elements to operate, everyday technologies such as electronic exit signs, some wristwatches, and smoke detectors are not dangerous, unless they are damaged and their radioactive material is inhaled or swallowed.
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.25 · Before 1932, when particle accelerators were first used for nuclear research, scientists relied on naturally radioactive substances to advance their understanding of the atomic nucleus.
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.22 · Delays in the decay of unstable particles provide evidence for time dilation
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.54 · Scientists can determine the age of rocks, fossils, and other ancient samples by measuring how many radioactive atoms in the sample have decayed, a process that occurs at precise, well-known rates.
- 0.44 · experiences · keep 0.35 · Calibrate to the U.S. government's official clock, synchronized to the atomic standard
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Autonomous navigation system enables uncrewed aerial vehicles to avoid unpredictable, moving objects, with pot
- 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.52 · Self-driving car companies like Waymo use LiDAR technology for navigation, which constructs 3D maps of a car's surroundings by emitting light pulses in all directions.
- 0.47 · experiences · keep 0.41 · Thanks to digitized archives, shipwreck hunters can now do in a day the research that once took them at least a week or two.
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.73 · The Society of Automotive Engineers sorts self-driving technology into six levels
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.71 · Since 2019, a free-floating robotic system named Astrobee has helped astronauts with routine tasks on the International Space Station.
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.19 · Self-driving cars may upend transit before cities can build it
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.75 · How medical robots could cure cancer
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.29 · As of 2025, self-driving cars continue to be unavailable to consumers
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.44 · Future self-driving cars may communicate across a closed wireless infrastructure
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.24 · The promise and peril of AI in agriculture
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.44 · Self-driving vehicles have the potential to cut ride costs by 40-50% and eliminate thousands of road deaths
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.20 · Explore the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's guide to automated cars
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.77 · Swarms of mechanical bees may one day support natural pollination
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Orangutan mothers seek out opportunities for their young to play with similarly aged apes, despite being the m
- 0.55 · curiosity · keep 0.66 · Researchers have found that various monkeys have pet-like relationships with other species.
- 0.50 · curiosity · keep 0.63 · Across the animal kingdom, parenting can include adults carrying their young, providing their bodies for sustenance, searching for food and shelter for their children, and separating siblings who may eat one another.
- 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.60 · Grieving primate mothers will carry dead infant for long after death—and others will comfort her
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.46 · Alongside Dian Fossey and Birutė Galdikas, Jane Goodall was known as one of the Trimates—three women tasked by paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey to study primates.
- 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.82 · Baby monkeys chose a soft, warm doll over a wire one with food
- 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.70 · Watch 'Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees,' the television special that popularized Jane Goodall and documented her expedition to study chimpanzees in their natural habitat.
- 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.55 · Old Thom, the rare solitary orca
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.90 · Watch David Attenborough's unexpected interaction with a family of gorillas on 'Life on Earth'
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.59 · Why humans evolved single-child pregnancies
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.37 · Chimpanzees are dying from human colds
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.61 · After learning that Jane Goodall witnessed chimpanzees using tools, Louis Leakey stated, 'Now we must redefine tool, redefine man, or accept chimpanzees as human.'
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US stock markets fall (S&P 500 -0.2%, Dow -0.7%, Nasdaq -0.2%) as 10-year and 30-year Treasury yields peak at
- 0.51 · explainers · keep 0.34 · Markets have always recovered and hit new highs following crashes
- 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.32 · Investors collectively owned $28T in US Treasury securities as of 2025.
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.65 · See how the S&P 500 performed throughout the first 100 days of each modern presidency.
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.40 · A stock index is a group of companies clustered together, often providing a condensed snapshot of a market segment.
- 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.08 · In 2023, the US money supply fell at its fastest rate since the 1930s
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.48 · Bond yields are the returns investors earn from a bond's interest—and they're a key economic barometer.
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.18 · Some argue that the rising US national debt has become more important in recent months.
- 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.30 · In late 2025, the top 10 companies in the S&P 500 made up more than 40% of the index's total value
- 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.42 · Relive the biggest swings in the Dow's history
- 0.44 · experiences · keep 0.34 · Visualizing decades of stock market performance
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.22 · Interest rates have historically been an indicator of the US economy's overall health.
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.14 · Read about the evolution of the S&P 500 and its recession recovery
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Federal Reserve's September meeting minutes signal another quarter-point interest rate increase may be necessa
- 0.56 · explainers · keep 0.22 · Interest rates have historically been an indicator of the US economy's overall health.
- 0.52 · explainers · keep 0.24 · The Federal Reserve targets 2% inflation
- 0.51 · explainers · keep 0.61 · Raising interest rates can help control inflation.
- 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.40 · The Fed can use quantitative easing to stimulate growth once it has lowered the federal funds rate as far as it can go
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.17 · US inflation can generally be split into to two periods—before and after the Federal Reserve
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.35 · The Federal Reserve's decisions can impact your money
- 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.24 · The CME FedWatch Tool predicts the likelihood of future rate changes
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.35 · In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the Fed began a program of quantitative easing
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.15 · 'Floating rate' loans periodically adjust their interest rates in accordance with economic conditions
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.42 · Central bank independence is correlated with lower inflation on average
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.34 · The Federal Reserve can set interest rates below zero
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.14 · The Federal Open Market Committee is a 12-member voting body that sits within the Fed
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US consumers predict inflation will hit 3.9% over the next year, marking the highest 12-month outlook recorded
- 0.53 · news-in-context · keep 0.10 · President Trump's 2025 Tariffs added less inflationary pressure to the economy than expected in their first year
- 0.49 · news-in-context · keep 0.10 · In President Trump's first year of his second term, inflation fell from 3% year-over-year in January 2025 to 2.7% in December
- 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.51 · The highest inflation ever recorded in US history was estimated at 30% in 1778, just after the Revolutionary War.
- 0.48 · news-in-context · keep 0.24 · Roughly 75% of Americans report feeling okay financially
- 0.48 · news-in-context · keep 0.58 · Mapping projected food inflation across the world in 2026
- 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.14 · Inflation is a monetary phenomenon in which consumers see a broad rise in the prices of goods and services across the economy over time
- 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.24 · The Federal Reserve targets 2% inflation
- 0.48 · news-in-context · keep 0.13 · Wedding cost increases have outpaced inflation
- 0.47 · news-in-context · keep 0.55 · Enter your ZIP code to see its median income, median home value, and how affordable a typical home is there.
- 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.41 · An updated, comprehensive tracker of global inflation
- 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.45 · Prices can still feel high even if inflation is slowing
- 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.34 · US cities where inflation is rising the most
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France suspends police use of stun grenades after a 15-year-old loses his hand during student-led protests
- 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.07 · In 2025, Gen Z-led protests swept across Indonesia, Madagascar, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Peru, the Philippines, and Timor-Leste.
- 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.41 · In 1910, riots swept Champagne over unfairness in the winemaking industry
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Syria is reportedly weighing a request by Saudi Arabia to join in the war against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.59 · The Middle East's cold war, explained
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Houthi strikes on Saudi airports reportedly kill three people
- 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.12 · An interactive overview of the human toll of the Yemen conflict
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FBI officials say they have arrested an 18-year-old ISIS supporter who purchased an AK-47 from undercover agen
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The finalists are in for the 2026 National Book Awards.
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.45 · In 2012, the Pulitzer board chose not to award a prize for literature
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.68 · When the reclusive Thomas Pynchon won the National Book Award, he sent a stand-up comedian to receive the honor
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.12 · The evolving categories of the Pulitzer mirror the state of contemporary journalism
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.36 · 2025's Nature Photographer of the Year winners
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The best (and worst) US cities to drive in, ranked.
- 0.50 · news-in-context · keep 0.52 · Ranking America's healthiest and unhealthiest cities
- 0.47 · experiences · keep 0.56 · Evaluating the world’s 'smartest' cities
- 0.47 · news-in-context · keep 0.66 · Check out America's happiest places to live
- 0.46 · experiences · keep 0.67 · America's most underrated places to visit
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.78 · Ranking the best fast food in America
- 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.75 · The best beach in every US state
- 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.69 · The 10 best US states to retire in, ranked
- 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.62 · America's happiest cities in 2023
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.59 · See where Americans spend the most on gas
- 0.42 · experiences · keep 0.55 · The world's 10 best places to live
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.51 · States with the highest (and lowest) tax rates
- 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.71 · The best sushi restaurants in the US
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Meet the ghosts haunting 20 places across America.
- 0.65 · longform · keep 0.76 · See if your city hosts one of the most haunted places in the United States.
- 0.61 · curiosity · keep 0.75 · America's most haunted restaurants
- 0.59 · curiosity · keep 0.76 · The coolest ghost towns in every US state
- 0.55 · news-in-context · keep 0.44 · The ghost-hunting industry helps maintain historical buildings
- 0.52 · experiences · keep 0.79 · Check out an interactive map of 250 American places worth visiting before you die.
- 0.51 · news-in-context · keep 0.68 · Where to celebrate Halloween in the US
- 0.48 · longform · keep 0.60 · Ghost stories across cultures often trace back to traumatic events
- 0.48 · experiences · keep 0.67 · America's most underrated places to visit
- 0.48 · 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.
- 0.48 · longform · keep 0.42 · Ghost hunting in the 19th century
- 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.73 · 'Ghost towns' are rarely known for ghost sightings
- 0.47 · experiences · keep 0.81 · Visit these offbeat attractions in each US state
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Frequent travelers ranked the world’s best hotels.
- 0.44 · experiences · keep 0.69 · Read a list of one digital nomad's favorite remote work locations.
- 0.44 · experiences · keep 0.66 · The best places to visit in 2024
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Oregon Trail-inspired game turns job hunting into a survival test.
- 0.44 · experiences · keep 0.65 · Run your own social media Trust & Safety team with this eye-opening game
- 0.42 · experiences · keep 0.67 · Get your hands dirty in this archaeology video game that's actually about archaeology
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.79 · The sports competition developed on the Alaskan tundra
- 0.41 · experiences · keep 0.67 · Play the role of a student as you try to navigate college and remain debt-free.
- 0.41 · experiences · keep 0.75 · Reexamine the Thanksgiving story through this interactive game
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Longevity expert says people who reach 100 have three drinks in common.
- 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.58 · Two 100-year-old sisters share their tips for staying mentally sharp
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.51 · Blue zones are regions with unusually high numbers of centenarians
- 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.66 · Super-agers: seniors 80 and above with the memory ability of people in their 50s
- 0.46 · longform · keep 0.61 · Watch the trailer for journalist Dan Buettner's popular Netflix documentary series 'Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones,' which focuses on longevity insights from populations around the world.
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.50 · Super agers do not possess the health and cognitive skills of people decades younger because they possess genes for longevity.
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.33 · Most self-reported claims of exceptional longevity are exaggerated, but read how demographers verify age claims and why some of the original blue zone demographers say blue zone regions are real and worth studying.
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.22 · One biologist is leading the blue zone criticisms—both questioning the original recordkeeping for these purported longevity-prone locations and pointing to recent research showing declining numbers of healthy seniors in several official blue zone regions.
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.26 · The eight habits that could add up to 24 years to your life
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.29 · The quest to find natural ways to extend lifespan
- 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.32 · Gen Z is drinking less alcohol than older generations.
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Watch orphaned kittens take a field trip to an aquarium.
- 0.43 · experiences · keep 0.80 · Watch how wild animals are projected into a mall
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Reese’s warns its pumpkins don’t come carved.
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.60 · One artist's horrifyingly ornate jack-o-lanterns
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The world’s heaviest insect is back—and it weighs more than a mouse.
- 0.49 · curiosity · keep 0.68 · Relative to its size, the world's strongest animal is the dung beetle, which can lift over 1,100 times its body weight, though the African bush elephant can lift the most weight among animals.
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.53 · Bug-bitten and bedeviled: a delightful dive into the bedbug
- 0.43 · experiences · keep 0.48 · Visual deep dive into the collapse of insects
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.86 · Why scientists are making robot insects
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American politician John Hancock dies (1793); Great Chicago Fire begins, killing about 300 people and destroyi
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.50 · President Bush threw the first pitch at the World Series in New York City less than two months after 9/11.
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.13 · Experience 9/11, the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil, as it happened.
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