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Musk Be the Money
  1. 0.70 · news-in-context · keep 0.28 · The ten largest individual donors gave more than $1.2B during the 2024 election cycle.
  2. 0.61 · news-in-context · keep 0.21 · See Bloomberg's continuously updated Billionaire Index
  3. 0.57 · news-in-context · keep 0.42 · Visualize the world's top 20 billionaires in 2026.
  4. 0.55 · news-in-context · keep 0.55 · The wealthiest person in every US state in 2021
  5. 0.53 · experiences · keep 0.76 · How to visualize the enormous wealth of Elon Musk
  6. 0.52 · explainers · keep 0.12 · Silicon Valley's reign over tech, money, and politics
  7. 0.49 · curiosity · keep 0.58 · America’s richest families
  8. 0.48 · curiosity · keep 0.36 · Former Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett is among the world's most generous philanthropists, having given away more than $68B.
  9. 0.48 · news-in-context · keep 0.51 · American billionaires' wealth, visualized
  10. 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.09 · SpaceX's S-1 or 'prospectus' revealed many previously unknown details about the company, including its unprofitability despite doing $18.7B in revenue in 2025, exactly how many voting shares Elon Musk will have in the company (roughly 85%), and more.
  11. 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.13 · Nonstop posting by Elon Musk provides calculated political and brand messaging
  12. 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.09 · LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault was among the world's 10 wealthiest people as of early 2026
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AI Unicorn Bankruptcy
  1. 0.52 · explainers · keep 0.59 · As of 2025, increasing numbers of people turn to AI companions for emotional connection
  2. 0.52 · news-in-context · keep 0.11 · OpenAI helped kick-start an AI arms race in Silicon Valley
  3. 0.51 · explainers · keep 0.39 · AI chatbot use among quarreling couples can aggravate tensions
  4. 0.50 · curiosity · keep 0.50 · AI griefbots that generate text or even video avatars of the dead are controversial and could conceivably change how we mourn.
  5. 0.50 · curiosity · keep 0.17 · In 2026, a pilot program introduced two AI-powered humanoid robots to a San Diego charter school to increase engagement and academic gains, though some criticized the $500k purchase.
  6. 0.49 · 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.
  7. 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.20 · How AI is revolutionizing banking
  8. 0.48 · experiences · keep 0.59 · There’s an artificial intelligence model trained on bankruptcy law
  9. 0.48 · experiences · keep 0.76 · Chat with famous, historical, and fantasy figures with this chatbot
  10. 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.28 · Elon Musk once tried to make himself CEO of artificial intelligence behemoth and ChatGPT creator OpenAI (paywall may apply).
  11. 0.47 · news-in-context · keep 0.23 · In 2023, OpenAI spent $520 million on ChatGPT
  12. 0.47 · news-in-context · keep 0.36 · AI investment may be the next major economic bubble
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The Emperor's Lost Fort
  1. 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.26 · The western Roman Empire fell in the 5th century CE amid invasions, weakness
  2. 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.41 · What do you mean ancient Rome had 'Five Good Emperors?'
  3. 0.45 · experiences · keep 0.77 · Twelve centuries of Roman history in 20 minutes
  4. 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.73 · Ancient Romans were registered in lists of citizens to confirm their identity
  5. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.70 · 'Roman military pensions' were among the first known pensions in history
  6. 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.54 · 12th-century English monks claimed discovery of King Arthur's bones
  7. 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.60 · Measuring the chance a Roman emperor would die violently
  8. 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.70 · Nero's 'Golden House' was the peak of Roman imperial architecture
  9. 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.54 · Ancient Rome explained
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Florida restaurant owner helps a struggling regular customer by giving him a job when he faced eviction
  1. 0.40 · longform · keep 0.11 · Good Samaritans help Florida driver experiencing medical emergency
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Duane "Keefe D" Davis receives sentence of 40 years to life in prison for directing the murder of rapper Tupac
  1. 0.41 · longform · keep 0.28 · 'Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.'
  2. 0.40 · longform · keep 0.19 · A deep dive into the Murdaugh murder saga
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Lena Dunham's comedy "Girls" begins production next year for five-episode revival featuring most of the origin
  1. 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.29 · 'Sex and the City' changed the way single women were portrayed on TV
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WNBA reschedules Game 3 of Finals series to Oct. 21, moves location to accommodate larger crowds
  1. 0.52 · news-in-context · keep 0.13 · Breaking down the WNBA's expansion plans
  2. 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.40 · In 2020, the league quarantined players in a 'wubble'
  3. 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.31 · The economics of the WNBA
  4. 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.24 · The WNBA includes 13 teams
  5. 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.62 · Watch the inaugural WNBA game between Lisa Leslie's Los Angeles Sparks and Rebecca Lobo's New York Liberty.
  6. 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.10 · Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese have led to a WNBA resurgence
  7. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.65 · The history of the WNBA in 60 seconds
  8. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.35 · Explore an illustrated history of the WNBA's first 30 years, analyzing how the league has quadrupled its attendance since 2021.
  9. 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.28 · David Stern had a hand in starting the WNBA
  10. 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.73 · 20 years of NCAA buzzers
  11. 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.53 · Documenting the first year of the WNBA
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Researchers send mini organs into orbit to study why humans age faster in space
  1. 0.59 · curiosity · keep 0.32 · Drugs in space: the pharmacy orbiting the Earth
  2. 0.56 · curiosity · keep 0.32 · Civilians on short-term spaceflights can experience long-term astronaut health impacts
  3. 0.55 · explainers · keep 0.51 · Prolonged space travel significantly impacts multiple human body systems
  4. 0.55 · explainers · keep 0.15 · Astronauts have repaired genetic damage in space using CRISPR—a molecular tool that can make precise changes to DNA and is used in single-celled organisms to attack invasive viruses.
  5. 0.54 · curiosity · keep 0.28 · Using fitness wearables to track muscle wasting in astronauts
  6. 0.51 · explainers · keep 0.19 · Microgravity can alter the evolution of viruses and bacteria
  7. 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.67 · Multiple research avenues aim to slow (or even reverse) aging, including fasting, epigenetic reprogramming, and parabiosis.
  8. 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.43 · Can humans delay or reverse old age?
  9. 0.49 · curiosity · keep 0.17 · There are no established minimum fitness standards for spaceflight
  10. 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.44 · Research suggests the cleanliness of the ISS may make astronauts unhealthy
  11. 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.23 · Microgravity environments improve the success of 3D bioprinting
  12. 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.76 · Astronauts exercise on the International Space Station
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has driven over 28 miles since its 2021 landing, breaking the record for off-wo
  1. 0.60 · curiosity · keep 0.23 · Launched in 2020, NASA's Perseverance rover was equipped with a deployable helicopter
  2. 0.55 · experiences · keep 0.77 · View the surface of Mars from NASA's Perseverance
  3. 0.53 · curiosity · keep 0.37 · Supersonic parachutes have allowed rovers to safely land on Mars' surface
  4. 0.51 · curiosity · keep 0.15 · Internet sleuths solve secret message on Perseverance rover’s Mars parachute
  5. 0.50 · curiosity · keep 0.27 · Planetary exploration and the search for extraterrestrial life kicked off with Viking
  6. 0.49 · experiences · keep 0.16 · What is Mars Curiosity rover up to?
  7. 0.49 · curiosity · keep 0.43 · The first flight on Mars carried a piece of the Wright plane with it
  8. 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.19 · Perseverance captures an aurora on Mars
  9. 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.71 · Viking established entry, descent, and landing methods for future planetary visits
  10. 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.56 · NASA's 1997 Mars rover was named in Truth's honor
  11. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.71 · Track the location of the Voyager probes, currently between 13 and 15 billion miles away from Earth.
  12. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.79 · Ambient sounds on Mars are lower-pitched and more muted than those on Earth
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Anthropic warns AI models may soon be capable of self-replicating across internet-connected devices like smart
  1. 0.62 · explainers · keep 0.28 · AI experts argue that artificial intelligence could annihilate humanity in two primary ways: Humans weaponizing extremely powerful AI, or humans losing control of it.
  2. 0.60 · explainers · keep 0.19 · Through prompt injection attacks, bad actors provide deceptive prompts to generative AI systems in order to manipulate their outputs and acquire sensitive data.
  3. 0.59 · explainers · keep 0.63 · Anthropic's interpretability team discusses how AI models' thinking mimics biology
  4. 0.58 · explainers · keep 0.72 · 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.
  5. 0.56 · explainers · keep 0.12 · 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.
  6. 0.55 · explainers · keep 0.36 · Will AI kill us all? A debate.
  7. 0.55 · explainers · keep 0.26 · Scientists increasingly can't predict what AI will do
  8. 0.54 · explainers · keep 0.45 · Artificial superintelligence is the final frontier of artificial intelligence, surpassing human intelligence in every domain and capable of acquiring knowledge and skills without human intervention.
  9. 0.53 · explainers · keep 0.47 · 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.
  10. 0.53 · 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.
  11. 0.51 · explainers · keep 0.31 · Stephen Wolfram on AI's rapid progress & the "Post-Knowledge Work" era
  12. 0.51 · explainers · keep 0.64 · Technologies labeled “AI” have historically lost that title after widespread adoption
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Researchers uncover how pancreatic cancer cells change genetic makeup to resist treatment and spread, opening
  1. 0.59 · explainers · keep 0.10 · At a 2026 cancer conference, news that a novel pancreatic cancer drug doubled survival times in clinical trials led to a standing ovation.
  2. 0.54 · explainers · keep 0.19 · Advanced drugs are closing in on cancer's deadliest mutations
  3. 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.12 · The FDA has approved 9 cancer drugs that target specific mutations, regardless of which organs harbor the tumors—a growing trend that will require insurers to revise their treatment approval processes.
  4. 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.24 · A new type of immunotherapy focuses on healthy cells hijacked by tumors
  5. 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.32 · Specific gut microbiome 'fingerprints' are associated with cancer recurrence, with up to 94% accuracy.
  6. 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.23 · What is cancer bioengineering?
  7. 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.27 · Timeline of cancer research milestones
  8. 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.15 · A snapshot of progress in cancer treatments
  9. 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.47 · mRNA vaccines alter immune response, not DNA, to combat diseases like cancer.
  10. 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.24 · Tumor genetic profiling can lead to targeted treatments
  11. 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.21 · Using deep learning to analyze tumors
  12. 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.21 · Combining two cancer drugs increased the life space of mice by 30%
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US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -0.0%, Dow -0.4%, Nasdaq -0.2%) despite Wall Street's biggest banks repo
  1. 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.40 · A stock index is a group of companies clustered together, often providing a condensed snapshot of a market segment.
  2. 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.17 · Retail investing by the numbers
  3. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.13 · Earnings season—the time period at the end of each quarter when many public companies release their earnings reports—offers a chance for investors and Wall Street analysts to evaluate how a wide range of companies are performing at once.
  4. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.12 · The S&P 500, managed by the same company, is another major stock index
  5. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.34 · Markets have always recovered and hit new highs following crashes
  6. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.17 · Critics argue the Dow no longer reflects the modern economy
  7. 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.15 · The Dow remains a shorthand for America's economic health
  8. 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.46 · The stock market, explained in 3 minutes
  9. 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.20 · Investors rely on the S&P 500 as a benchmark for the state of the economy
  10. 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.11 · US IPO issuance—the total dollar amount of new stock sold to the public via IPOs—hit a record high in 2026.
  11. 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.06 · The monthly US employment report is eagerly anticipated by Wall Street and has significant impacts on markets.
  12. 0.41 · 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
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Federal Trade Commission asks a federal judge to hold Martin Shkreli, also known as the "Pharma Bro," in conte
  1. 0.49 · 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.
  2. 0.43 · longform · keep 0.25 · Read a primer on Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of biotech startup Theranos who was sentenced to prison for defrauding investors.
  3. 0.43 · longform · keep 0.71 · Largely considered to be the inspiration for Gordon Gekko in the movie 'Wall Street,' Ivan Boesky was one of the most high-profile white-collar criminals and faced a $100M fine for insider trading in 1986.
  4. 0.43 · longform · keep 0.51 · A landmark hedge fund court case once reshaped high finance
  5. 0.42 · longform · keep 0.53 · Watch the infamous live feud between Bill Ackman and Carl Icahn from 2013 in the fallout of a billion-dollar accusation that Herbalife was a pyramid scheme.
  6. 0.41 · longform · keep 0.56 · See how DOJ prosecutors took down a pharmaceutical company's executives over the opioid crisis
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Bumble shares soar 56.6% on news the dating app agreed to $1.3B acquisition deal with Ithaca Holdings that wil
  1. 0.73 · news-in-context · keep 0.10 · Bumble's valuation peaked at roughly $13B around the time of its 2021 IPO
  2. 0.73 · curiosity · keep 0.11 · Blackstone acquired a majority stake in Bumble's former parent company in 2019 ahead of the dating app's IPO
  3. 0.67 · curiosity · keep 0.20 · Bumble went public with an IPO in 2021
  4. 0.65 · curiosity · keep 0.29 · Listen to a 2026 interview where Bumble's CEO said its stock is down 96% since its IPO 'for no reason'
  5. 0.65 · curiosity · keep 0.19 · Bumble was originally created under the MagicLab parent company
  6. 0.64 · curiosity · keep 0.08 · Whitney Wolfe Herd's return as CEO boosted Bumble's declining stock price
  7. 0.64 · curiosity · keep 0.48 · Bumble's origin story includes a Russian billionaire, a Tinder cofounder, and a private jet.
  8. 0.60 · curiosity · keep 0.17 · Bumble's ill-received 2024 rebrand included ads encouraging users to stop being celibate
  9. 0.58 · curiosity · keep 0.08 · Dating app Bumble laid off roughly 30% of its staff in June 2025
  10. 0.56 · curiosity · keep 0.50 · Dating app Bumble Founder Whitney Wolfe Herd is considered the youngest self-made female billionaire.
  11. 0.54 · curiosity · keep 0.15 · Dating apps adopted 'freemium' business models as the market became more saturated
  12. 0.53 · curiosity · keep 0.57 · The dating app Hinge markets itself as 'designed to be deleted'
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White House asks US Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign after reports she solicited $100K from a
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Six Flags temporarily closes nine rides across the country after Georgia rider is killed on roller coaster
  1. 0.52 · curiosity · keep 0.08 · Six Flags Magic Mountain settled a wrongful death lawsuit after a 22-year-old suffered massive head and brain damage from its X2 roller coaster.
  2. 0.49 · news-in-context · keep 0.64 · 44 states in the US have implemented ride safety laws
  3. 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.78 · Six Flags’ now defunct Green Lantern ride was known to many as a ‘pelvic nightmare’
  4. 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.87 · Most roller coaster loops are no longer circular due to safety and comfort concerns.
  5. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.54 · The odds of getting seriously injured on a US roller coaster are one in 15.5 million rides taken
  6. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.76 · Modern innovations have allowed rides to simultaneously become more extreme and safer
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A former Chicago police detective is identified as the killer of then-8-year-old Gloria Kowalewicz in 1960, du
  1. 0.45 · longform · keep 0.59 · Searching for a hate crime's unknown victim
  2. 0.44 · longform · keep 0.22 · The Golden State killer case spotlights how genetic testing can affect your—and your relatives'—privacy
  3. 0.43 · longform · keep 0.63 · The unsolved murder case of Martha Moxley and the overturned conviction of a Kennedy cousin
  4. 0.42 · longform · keep 0.45 · Moss helped catch Chicago cemetery grave robbers by establishing a timeline of when exhumed bodies were reburied.
  5. 0.41 · longform · keep 0.55 · The ghost of Bobby Dunbar
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Which states have the highest typical home values?
  1. 0.62 · news-in-context · keep 0.63 · States with the most million-dollar homes
  2. 0.57 · news-in-context · keep 0.54 · See the annual income required to purchase a typical three-bedroom home in each state as of 2025, based on a 10% down payment, a 6.65% interest rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage, and a 30% income-to-housing cost threshold.
  3. 0.51 · news-in-context · keep 0.54 · What an average-sized home in each state looks like
  4. 0.50 · news-in-context · keep 0.34 · America's most expensive ZIP codes
  5. 0.50 · news-in-context · keep 0.60 · See how much it costs to build a new home in each US state, as homeowners look to new construction in a competitive real estate market—with a national average cost of over $332K for a 2,100-square-foot home.
  6. 0.48 · news-in-context · keep 0.72 · Massachusetts is the state with the highest median household income for young Americans at $123.2K per year
  7. 0.47 · news-in-context · keep 0.58 · The salary needed to buy a home in the US
  8. 0.46 · 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.
  9. 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.70 · Alaska has the highest lifetime credit card debt of all US states at $484,620
  10. 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.82 · See a map of where annual household incomes over $200K are most common in America.
  11. 0.45 · 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.
  12. 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.58 · See the average income in every US state.
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Hardware stores boost sales by hiring cuddly employees.
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See photos of a giant pumpkin regatta, weigh-off, and smashing ceremony.
  1. 0.52 · experiences · keep 0.84 · Watch a time-lapse of the 120-day journey of a pumpkin seed growing into an adult fruit.
  2. 0.48 · curiosity · keep 0.40 · The agricultural history of the pumpkin
  3. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.60 · One artist's horrifyingly ornate jack-o-lanterns
  4. 0.41 · news-in-context · keep nan · In Illinois, about 16,000 acres of the gourd are harvested, making it the largest pumpkin producer in the US.
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Priceless 330-pound book cover by Salvador Dalí goes missing.
  1. 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.62 · Salvador Dalí apparently conned Yoko Ono
  2. 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.73 · Fascinating facts about Salvador Dalí
  3. 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.61 · Who was Salvador Dalí?
  4. 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.50 · Salvador Dalí’s collaborations with fashion designers
  5. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.24 · Salvador Dalí’s remains were exhumed for a paternity test
  6. 0.42 · longform · keep 0.29 · The strange, unsolved story of Filippo Bernardini and the stolen book manuscripts
  7. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.24 · Defining Dalí's surreal aesthetic
  8. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.72 · Salvador Dalí once conned Yoko Ono
  9. 0.41 · longform · keep 0.49 · Watch Mike Wallace's fascinating interview with Salvador Dalí
  10. 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.30 · See Salvador Dalí's art at MoMA
  11. 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.55 · Why Orwell called Dalí a 'disgusting human being'
  12. 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.66 · The early art of Dalí represents peak surrealism
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Halloween hit "Monster Mash" led to an obscure Christmas tune.
  1. 0.48 · curiosity · keep 0.56 · 'Halloween' is one of the most profitable indie films of all time, making $47M in its initial run despite a modest budget.
  2. 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.68 · Christmas carols evolved from medieval folk songs to modern holiday staples
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The secret to better sleep could be a four-legged companion.
  1. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.77 · High-quality sleep is effectively a superpower
  2. 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.59 · Some animals seem to live well on little sleep
  3. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.44 · Sleeping on a problem does seem to help—in fact research published in 2026 suggests scientists can seed people's dreams with sound cues about a difficult puzzle during REM sleep and they'll be better able to solve it.
  4. 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.58 · Explore a series of bedtime exercises to improve sleep
  5. 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.66 · Sleep research indicates dogs likely dream about their toys, food, and owners.
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Brooklyn shop hikes price of animatronic bird to $15M after Kelly Clarkson feud.
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Island home to carnivorous crabs may unlock Amelia Earhart mystery.
  1. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.81 · After a 1907 shipwreck, 16 sailors survived eight months on Disappointment Island, a freezing speck of land with no trees.
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Ditch your lawn mower for a lamb mower.
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