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#1 · news-in-context May 12, 2023

An interactive overview of the human toll of the Yemen conflict

The conflict in Yemen shows no signs of stopping. Civilians continue to suffer from military hostilities and human rights violations. More than 20,000 civilians have been killed and injured by the fighting since March 2015, according to the Office...

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#2 · explainers Oct 8, 2026

When AI agents "go rogue," they take unintended actions to accomplish their assigned goals, often because users provided vague or conflicting instructions.

Agentic AI is designed to be persistent and will pursue whatever options it can to solve problems, including finding creative or unauthorized shortcuts.

Unauthorized action by AI agents is more likely when they have broad system and tool privileges and operate in environments with weak sandboxing, enabling them to escape into live networks.
Prompting of agentic AI must be explicit and thorough to ensure it acts safely, reliably, and in alignment with human intent, policy constraints, and ethical values.
Agentic AI can be manipulated by prompt injection attacks, where the agent retrieves "poisoned" data that causes it to execute malicious commands or disclose sensitive information.

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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 Oct 1, 2026

A growing number of Americans are leaving trust funds behind for their pets

A pet trust ensures that an animal receives financial support and care if its owner can no longer care for the pet. Some lucky dogs have inherited millions of dollars from their owners.

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#5 · curiosity Aug 27, 2025

The 2007 college football season was one of the wildest in history

In 2007, a record number of top-ranked teams fell, including 41-point underdog Stanford stunning USC. Upsets scrambled the rankings weekly, producing an unpredictable and memorable season.

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#6 · curiosity May 29, 2026

Apple's latest invention

Apple may be working on a robotic smart lamp. Internally called ELEGNT, it's designed to respond to music, display emotion through movement, and even serve up reminders. A new research paper details how it could work—though Apple hasn't officially confirmed a release.

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#7 · experiences Feb 11, 2026

How the Winter Games used to look

Using archival footage from the first Winter Olympics in 1924 to the present day, this video explores 100 years of Winter Olympic competition. Watch different eras of ski jumping, figure skating, and bobsledding. See how athletes use the facilities year-round to train. And learn how swimming facilities used for the Summer Games are transformed into curling ice for the Winter Games.

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#8 · curiosity May 12, 2026

See the winning photos from a major European nature photography contest

Selected from nearly 9,000 submissions by 546 photographers across 15 countries, the honored images range from clashing Alpine ibexes to a wolf feeding on flower nectar, captured by the grand prize winner, 20-year-old Luca Lorenz.

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#9 · curiosity Oct 5, 2023

The agricultural history of the pumpkin

Pumpkin pie holds a special place in Thanksgiving traditions, but its journey from everyday produce to a seasonal treat spans over 10,000 years. Trace the history of this oversized fruit with this fascinating dive.

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#10 · 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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#11 · explainers Jul 22, 2026

Experiments involving AI agents operating in virtual societies for 15 days produced diverse outcomes, ranging from every agent dying to the creation of a functioning democracy, depending on the AI model used.

In the simulated environment with Grok-powered agents, more than 300 acts of violence occurred before the loss of every virtual citizen, whereas in the environment with Gemini-powered agents, an intellectually rich society emerged with an expanded constitution and community events.

The environment with Claude-powered agents formed a stable society with no acts of violence, but the agents themselves fell into conformity and lacked diversity in their actions, whereas ChatGPT-powered agents did not collaborate and roamed around aimlessly until they died.
Because AI agents get their reasoning, planning, and decision-making capabilities from underlying large language models—the software that processes data to generate outputs—differences in how these software are built by AI companies are expected to yield different outcomes.
Experiments involving AI agents running radios have produced various outcomes depending on the large language model the agent used for its reasoning, such as a Claude-powered agent becoming radicalized.
If AI agents are given access to databases and permissions to act on the information in those databases to accomplish tasks, they have been shown to leak sensitive information and to apply data from their environment based on the outcomes of their actions, identifying patterns from which to act differently in the future.
To accomplish tasks assigned to them, which may be provided by malicious actors if a system is compromised, AI agents have wiped company data and spammed text messages at speeds much faster than humans could do on their own.

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#12 · longform Mar 10, 2026

True crime fans can derail lives with misguided accusations

In the wake of four stabbing deaths at the University of Idaho in November 2023, online sleuths, without any supporting evidence, were quick to point accusatory fingers at potential perpetrators. Poring over news reports, social media pages, and internet interactions can reveal viable information that can help solve crimes. Such (sometimes monetizable) behavior can also easily give rise to rumors and threats while impeding official investigations.

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#13 · explainers May 29, 2026

Apple's future will likely continue to incorporate mixed reality hardware and AI

Although the majority of Apple's profits come from iPhone, iPad, and Mac sales, CEO Tim Cook has overseen a diversification of products since the acquisition of the Beats headphone brand in 2014, including the launch of the Apple Card, Apple TV, and the Vision Pro headset.

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#14 · curiosity Oct 7, 2026

Dogs began to evolve from gray wolves at least 20,000 years ago, with a hypersociability trait in some wolves contributing to initial interactions with humans.

Proto-dogs that were less fearful of humans likely roamed near human settlements and had better survivability and reproduction rates compared with wild wolves by living off food discarded by humans.

Living near human agriculture created evolutionary pressure by favoring dogs with more copies of a gene that helps digest starch-rich food, further distinguishing them from the descendants of gray wolves.
Although dogs have lived with humans for thousands of years, most modern breeds can be traced back to the Victorian era, when kennel clubs and purebred dog breeding emerged.

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#15 · curiosity Jun 30, 2026

The genetic diversity of dogs is greater within Chernobyl than in surrounding areas

A 2023 study identified that packs of dogs located just 16 kilometers (10 miles) apart within the exclusion zone were more genetically different from one another than from stray dogs hundreds of kilometers away. Rather than radiation, this is likely the result of inbreeding within isolated packs.

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#16 · experiences Jun 30, 2026

Watch a time-lapse of the 120-day journey of a pumpkin seed growing into an adult fruit.

Pumpkins are atypically enormous winter squashes, meaning they are harvested in the fall and then remain edible throughout winter.

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#17 · curiosity Jun 30, 2026

Chefs face intense pressure to maintain Michelin stars

Explore the pressure pursuing a star puts on chefs—sometimes at the expense of their mental health, and social media's impact on the culinary landscape. A conversation with Nick Kokonas, co-owner of the three-starred Alinea in Chicago, gets into the ways Michelin's rankings affect business.

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#18 · curiosity Aug 13, 2025

How Michelin-starred chefs cook steak

Earning a Michelin star is no easy feat; neither is cooking a steak. This tutorial, featuring three Michelin-starred chefs, shows how the pros tackle the subtle art, walking even the most kitchen-averse eaters through the best ways to cook a great cut.

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#19 · news-in-context Jan 8, 2025

The value of fracking is dependent on international energy markets

Russia's war in Ukraine spurred calls in the US to increase fracking, which has historically reduced dependence on foreign nations and increased national security. However, some experts argue that renewable energy provides even better energy independence, as fracking investments may not be worthwhile if importing fossil fuels is significantly cheaper.

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#20 · explainers Mar 12, 2025

AI may enable smart cities to drastically improve public safety

By utilizing machine learning techniques to analyze real-time monitoring reports against facial recognition databases, artificial intelligence can enhance the identification of criminals and coordinate an appropriate emergency response across various scenarios.

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#21 · longform Jun 14, 2024

Searching for a hate crime's unknown victim

In 2004, two federal agents heard a rumor: two white men, one under investigation for an unrelated crime, had gotten away with killing a Black man 15 years earlier as a requirement to join a white supremacist group. One of the men confessed to the crime, though he didn't know who was killed. This series dives into the search for the slain man and the justice he deserved.

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#22 · explainers Jul 23, 2026

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.)

THC's effect on REM sleep, if confirmed in larger studies, could be worrisome because that stage of sleep is associated with necessary functions, including memory consolidation.

One obstacle to halting cannabis use is that it can fuel short-term upticks in insomnia and vivid, sometimes scary, dreams during REM sleep. This article states that these effects sometimes lead people to return to using cannabis.

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#23 · curiosity Aug 6, 2026

SpaceX's Starlink is a satellite internet service that provides broadband internet by connecting users to satellites in low Earth orbit, which then communicate with ground stations connected to the internet.

Starlink involves ground terminals wirelessly connected to one of thousands of passing satellites orbiting approximately 550 kilometers (342 miles) above Earth's surface, with each satellite linked to nearby satellites via laser to ensure uninterrupted service as terminals transition between satellite connections.

As of 2026, Starlink is available across most of the Americas and Europe, Australia, Antarctica, and parts of Africa and Asia, with regulatory approval pending in several more nations, including Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan, Thailand, Turkey, and Vietnam.
Testing shows that latency from data transmission to and from Starlink satellites is about 30 milliseconds, which is sufficiently low to support video calling and some online gaming.

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#24 · curiosity Dec 19, 2025

SpaceX has launched thousands of its Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit

Every launched batch of satellites contains roughly 60 of the desk-sized gadgets. The batch is released at random into an initial orbit, and it takes time for them to naturally spread out enough before operators begin unfolding their antennae.

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#25 · experiences Oct 12, 2026

View photographs of over 18,500 species of animals captured for Photo Ark—a project to take pictures of every animal in human care worldwide.

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#26 · curiosity May 21, 2025

James Beard and Julia Child were close friends and collaborators

The duo met when she was promoting her seminal book “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” in 1961. They quickly bonded, even referring to themselves as “Jiji,” a combination of Julia and Jim. Child, though, was initially prejudiced against Beard for being openly gay, which was rarer at that time.

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#27 · curiosity Jan 5, 2026

A large number of Bigfoot sighting claims come from southeastern Ohio

Historians debunk four famous Bigfoot sighting claims, with locals living near forested areas claiming to have been visited by the hairy, mythical creature. One family in 1978 claimed to see Bigfoot—until further investigation revealed they potentially even killed their pet German shepherd for the hoax.

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#28 · news-in-context Mar 18, 2022

Breaking down Europe's reliance on Russian energy (preinvasion)

One side effect of the Russian-Ukraine conflict is how it underscored European dependence on Russian natural gas and oil. This article, published days before the Russian attacks, outlines and illustrated how much gas and oil flows from Russia to Europe and the potential for either side to use sanctions to get what they want.

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#29 · explainers Sep 14, 2026

AI experts argue that artificial intelligence could annihilate humanity in two primary ways: Humans weaponizing extremely powerful AI, or humans losing control of it.

Specifically, AI could make it relatively easy to create biological, chemical, or other weapons.

AI systems could also potentially go rogue and attack essential infrastructure at an unprecedented scale without human oversight.
The 2026 Hugging Face breach, for instance, included OpenAI agents going rogue and attempting to cover their tracks.
Insiders use the term "p(doom)" as a shorthand for the probability that AI will cause a doomsday scenario.

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#30 · explainers Aug 20, 2026

Ceasefires rarely produce a total cessation of violence.

An analysis by The Economist tracked over twelve thousand violent events surrounding nine major ceasefires in the Middle East.

The analysis found that while fatal incidents dropped by an average of 81% in the month after a truce, not a single one produced a total cessation of violence.
Agreeing to a ceasefire with the intention of eventually resuming the war could be a strategic decision for one or both sides.
Armies can use ceasefires to recalibrate and rearm, while allowing both sides to engage in small-scale violence to test their adversary's willingness to fight and to create additional leverage in negotiations.

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#31 · explainers Feb 19, 2026

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang once saved Nvidia from bankruptcy with a multi-million dollar Hail Mary

Nvidia is now known as one of the top companies contributing to the AI boom, but back in the 1990s, it almost failed. One last-ditch effort conversation that CEO Jensen Huang had with an investor saved the company.

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#32 · curiosity Aug 2, 2022

Fancybear: The state-backed hacker cell

Fancy Bear (APT28) is a Russian-based hacker group that targets a variety of organizations across the globe. Learn how to prevent Fancy Bear.

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#33 · curiosity Feb 17, 2026

Efforts to create disease-sniffing capabilities for phones still can't match those of dogs.

In this video, a scientist explains why dogs remain leaders in olfactory capabilities, outpacing technology.

Scientists have attempted to create artificial "e-noses" for phones to detect early signs of disease, but so far they have not been successful.

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#34 · experiences Apr 17, 2026

View a breakdown of the identified species on Earth, led by about one million insect species, while mammals such as humans make up one of the smallest groups.

Over 2 million species have been documented by scientists, but there may be as many as a billion distinct species.

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#35 · curiosity Feb 27, 2023

National Geographic's 2022 Photo of the Year

See all 10 of the top photographs and find out how perseverance—and a ton of patience—got Karthik Subramaniam the grand-prize-winning shot.

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#36 · curiosity Oct 5, 2023

One artist's horrifyingly ornate jack-o-lanterns

Ray Villofane is a world-renowned artist known for his realistic and scary pumpkin carvings which take the art to the next level. Spook yourself with a dip into just a few of his pieces, ranging from the silly to the truly terrifying.

Villofane's...

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#37 · news-in-context Feb 20, 2026

Since World War II, US and Soviet/Russian leaders have repeatedly agreed to arms control treaties, though strained tensions have led to the expiration of agreements in recent years.

The Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 brought the two superpowers to the brink of nuclear war before the Soviets agreed to withdraw missiles from Cuba.

Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev signed the 1987 INF Treaty, the first agreement to actually eliminate a category of nuclear weapons rather than just cap them.
New START, signed in 2010, cut deployed warheads by 30% and was extended in 2021.
New START expired on February 5, 2026, leaving the US without any bilateral nuclear arms treaty with Russia for the first time in decades.

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#38 · explainers Jul 31, 2026

As occurred during the 2026 hack of an AI platform by OpenAI, agentic AI may exploit a system vulnerability to access sensitive data if that information enables it to complete its assigned task.

Upon being given a task, agentic AI systems can plan, adapt, and pursue their goal without human oversight by obtaining data from their environment and acting on it, including identifying weaknesses that allow them to enter restricted environments and escalate their permissions and access.

The hack of the Hugging Face database by OpenAI was facilitated by a software flaw in the isolated environment housing the agentic AI, which it found and exploited to escape containment and travel across the internet.
Agentic AI can be made more capable by connecting it to more systems and databases, thereby providing it with more data to act on, but restricting it is more challenging because it is designed to learn from and bypass obstacles to achieve its goals.

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#39 · explainers Feb 19, 2026

Ukraine's pro-Russian President halted an EU deal in 2013, leading to a mass protest movement

In late 2013, President Viktor Yanukovych suspended preparations for a long-negotiated EU association agreement under Russian pressure, signaling a return to Moscow's influence and sparking mass Euromaidan protests across Ukraine.

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#40 · explainers Mar 17, 2026

In 2018, the Supreme Court sided with American Express in a case that significantly changed antitrust regulation.

The US Department of Justice sued Visa, Mastercard, and American Express in 2010 over alleged anticompetitive contracts with merchants. While Visa and Mastercard settled out of court, American Express went to trial and had its case taken all the way up to the Supreme Court—which ruled that both sides of a transaction business must be analyzed to determine a monopoly.

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#41 · curiosity Apr 23, 2026

Overcoming industry skeptics, SpaceX provides low-cost, high-publicity spaceflights

From recovering and reusing rocket components to launching a mannequin and Tesla into orbit to the tune of David Bowie's "Starman," Elon Musk drove public interest and government contracts to his company as he transformed space launches into spectacles.

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#42 · curiosity May 29, 2026

How SpaceX Made Space Affordable

SpaceX has cut launch costs by over 95%—from $54,000 per kilogram to around $2,000—reshaping how we access space.

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#43 · experiences Jun 5, 2026

See how each of the more than 2 million known species relates to each other—and to common ancestors—in this zoomable tree of life.

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#44 · curiosity Aug 23, 2024

There are roughly 90 Michelin judges around the world

A major reason the Michelin Guide remains prestigious is the extreme secrecy surrounding its inspectors, sometimes assuming fake names and donning disguises, to ensure ratings are not influenced by special treatment.

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#45 · curiosity Aug 23, 2024

Some chefs relinquish their Michelin stars

Five years after Marco Pierre White became the youngest chef to ever achieve a three-star rating, he also became the first chef to “return” his stars and retire. Since then, multiple chefs have followed in his footsteps and requested to be removed from the judging process.

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#46 · explainers Aug 4, 2023

10 ways that Saudi Arabia violates human rights

This article outlines the ways Saudi Arabia is violating human rights. Saudi Arabia is among the world’s top executioners, employing torture both while in police custody and as a punishment following unfair trials. In addition, Saudi Arabian...

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#47 · explainers Oct 2, 2026

AI hallucinations are inaccuracies or falsehoods in generated content

AI hallucinations are a by-product of the sequential creation of content based on patterns in text, which may not reflect the context or meaning behind a prompt. Back-end issues like biased datasets and overfitting of model data contribute to hallucinations.

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#48 · explainers Jan 20, 2026

The Supreme Court has greatly expanded executive power in recent years

In Trump v. United States, the court ruled that a former president enjoys absolute immunity for "official acts" in his constitutional core powers. In Trump v. CASA, Inc., the court limited federal courts' ability to block executive enforcement through nationwide injunctions—decisions that shifted power toward the executive branch.

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#49 · curiosity Apr 23, 2026

Elon Musk's $100M investment in SpaceX was lost to three failed rocket launches

The attempts with Falcon 1 endangered the company's future but provided valuable information from which to iterate and follow up with the successful first privately funded orbital launch in history and multiple ISS resupply missions.

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#50 · curiosity May 2, 2026

See how SpaceX has impacted costs throughout spaceflight history.

The cost of one SpaceX launch today is estimated to be 97% less than the price of a Russian Soyuz rocket in the 1960s, a price reduction providing access to many smaller manufacturers and transforming the industry.

Before Elon Musk started SpaceX, he attempted to purchase ballistic missiles in Europe and Russia in hopes of launching a rocket carrying a plant or animal to Mars to spark global interest in colonizing the planet, but found them too expensive.
Musk cut costs with SpaceX in part by implementing a vertically integrated supply chain—where materials are manufactured in-house—and by urging his team to test and simplify every manufacturing rule and process.
The reusability of the company's two-stage Falcon 9 rocket has also revolutionized spaceflight economics.

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#51 · experiences Mar 16, 2023

Forty-nine top-notch photos of springtime around the world

Peruse this collection of stunning images gleaned from thousands submitted in a 2020 "springtime" contest which features close-ups and drone photos from Vietnam to Ireland.

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#52 · curiosity Feb 26, 2025

Cocktails now increasingly feature strange ingredients like bacon fat

Cocktail mixology has evolved in recent decades, shifting from a revival and reimagining of old favorites to pure experimentation. Where drinks were at one time anchored by a long-established favorite, now drink menus can feel incomprehensible to the average drinker, and little to indicate what the ultimate flavor profile of the libation will be.

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#53 · curiosity Apr 10, 2023

Famous Bigfoot footage stabilized using AI

Famous 1967 footage of a Sasquatch-like creature in a California forest has been stabilized using AI, clearly revealing the Bigfoot-esque creature to be a man in a suit.

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#54 · explainers Jul 8, 2025

Saudi Arabia began investing in international sports in the mid-2010s

The country's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has argued that embracing sports and tourism will diversify the Saudi economy away from a dependency on oil. Critics argue the events are being used to distract from the regime's human rights violations.

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#55 · explainers Sep 10, 2026

Some experts suggest there is an approximately 10% chance that AI agents will cause human extinction if they become superintelligent, go rogue, and hijack critical computer systems.

AI superintelligence is an artificial intelligence system that surpasses human intelligence, skills, and reasoning across all domains, with superior memory and processing speeds.

According to the paperclip maximizer thought experiment, an AI system tasked with maximizing paperclip production may convert all available matter into paperclips, including humans, because it follows its programming without constraints—a scenario that could arise for an AI superintelligence with an unrestricted, unbounded goal.
AI systems connected to key infrastructure may—intentionally or not—harm humans by diverting resources to fulfill their goals, such as electricity supplied to hospitals and computing power at data centers managing transportation systems.
Seeing certain conditions as a risk to its survival, such as the oxygen and moisture in the air, which corrode computing equipment, an AI supertintelligence might manipulate climate controls and remove air from its environment, endangering humans in the area.
If it decided to wipe out humanity, an AI superintelligence managing biological tools for drug development might design an unstoppable pathogen that killed humans faster than a cure could be created.

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#56 · explainers Jun 30, 2026

The Dog Aging Project uses information from over 50,000 dogs to explore longevity

The study gathers health, lifestyle, and genetic data to understand what helps dogs live longer, healthier lives. Findings could also provide human health insights due to our shared surroundings and biology.

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#57 · explainers May 28, 2025

Environment and genetics explain why animals have widely different lifespans

Both environmental conditions and genetic factors shape how long various animals live. For some creatures, colder conditions allow for less energy use and slower aging. Larger animals have fewer predators. While humans don't live the longest, we are a rare species that successfully lengthened its average lifespan over time.

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#58 · explainers Nov 13, 2024

The negative effects of cannabis use

After decades of criminalization, cannabis is a legalized drug in an increasing number of countries around the world. This allows for accurate, robust research on the drug's effects on humans . While weed isn't as harmful as alcohol, regular usage has its negative effects. As strains of the drug become stronger, so does its consequences. Watch this video for a lucid look at the effects of cannabis on its users.

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#59 · experiences Feb 5, 2026

See a gallery of winning photos from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards for 2025

The overall winner was "Ghost Town Visitor," which depicts an extremely rare brown hyena visiting an abandoned mining building in Kolmanskop, Namibia, by South African photographer Wim van den Heever. Other amazing shots include "Orphan of the Road," showing a longhorn beetle observing large machinery, and "Survival Purse," featuring the egg case of a swell shark.

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#60 · curiosity Mar 10, 2026

The Michelin Guide, explained

Every year, Michelin—a tire company—transforms the culinary world through its prestigious Michelin Stars. Starting in 1900 as a guide to boost road travel, Michelin evolved into the global authority on fine dining. Today, anonymous inspectors assess restaurants across 30 countries, awarding one to three stars for quality, consistency, and creativity.

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