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Energy Ceasefire Ends
- 0.53 · news-in-context · keep 0.11 · Breaking down Europe's reliance on Russian energy (preinvasion)
- 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.07 · Ukraine's pro-Russian President halted an EU deal in 2013, leading to a mass protest movement
- 0.47 · news-in-context · keep 0.11 · Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began on Feb. 24, 2022
- 0.47 · news-in-context · keep 0.07 · Oil prices spiked when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022
- 0.47 · news-in-context · keep 0.06 · Russia's invasion of Ukraine has destabilized safety and oversight at Chernobyl
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.27 · Lessons from the 1973 energy crisis still echo in today’s geopolitical battles over oil
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.09 · The Minsk peace accords failed to end fighting in eastern Ukraine in the mid-2010s
- 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.29 · Protests in Ukraine from 2013 to 2014 set the stage for the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
- 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.10 · The Russia-Ukraine conflict is the largest ground war in Europe since World War II in terms of casualties, forces mobilized, and displacement of civilians.
- 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.07 · Pro-Russian separatists seized cities in eastern Ukraine in 2014
- 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.62 · Ukraine once had the third-largest nuclear arsenal—and gave them all up by 1996.
- 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.08 · The Russia-Ukraine war greatly affected the global food supply
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'You Can See Everything'
- 0.72 · longform · keep 0.64 · Watch the trailer for Nathan Fielder's documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, 'You Can See Everything.'
- 0.54 · longform · keep 0.52 · Elizabeth Holmes is among the many tech founders who famously dropped out of college, leading to a podcast series called 'The Dropout,' exploring her formation.
- 0.54 · 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.
- 0.48 · longform · keep 0.15 · Elizabeth Holmes has publicly spoken about the 'hell and torture' of prison since she began serving time.
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.15 · Elizabeth Holmes' partner Billy Evans has raised millions of dollars for a new biotech startup during Holmes' time in prison.
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.32 · The people behind the indie film studio A24
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.61 · Elizabeth Holmes imitated Apple founder Steve Jobs, even going so far as to dress like him, making his signature black turtleneck her uniform.
- 0.40 · longform · keep 0.71 · Listen to a comparison between former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes' real voice and her fake, deep one.
- 0.40 · longform · keep 0.58 · See the trailer for the 2017 HBO movie 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks' starring Oprah Winfrey, who plays the daughter of the Black woman whose cancer cells were taken without her knowledge or permission, and now underpin numerous scientific discoveries.
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Self-proclaimed "Mediocre Gardener" transforms her front lawn into a neighborhood attraction by planting a fai
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.58 · Chaos gardening involves scattering seeds without any planning
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.53 · The concept of the American front lawn was popularized by a 19th-century book that argued its maintenance was a neighborly obligation.
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.64 · Revisiting the ornamental hermit craze of the 1700s
- 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.66 · Adding garden beds with blooming plants to an existing lawn can support bees
- 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.67 · One roadside attraction invented modern mini-golf
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BBC's legal team accuses President Donald Trump of delaying testimony in his $10B defamation case against the
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Arizona State men's hockey coach Greg Powers exits program after August outdoor workout left player on life su
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College Football Playoff reportedly nears deal to expand to 24 teams, beginning with 2027 season; move would d
- 0.71 · explainers · keep 0.21 · The College Football Playoff expanded to 12 teams in 2024.
- 0.64 · explainers · keep 0.46 · The College Football Playoff included four teams each year from its inception in 2014 to 2023
- 0.56 · explainers · keep 0.58 · Frustrations with the Bowl Championship Series led to the creation of the College Football Playoff.
- 0.52 · explainers · keep 0.16 · A hoops expert on the likely March Madness expansion
- 0.50 · news-in-context · keep 0.21 · The 2026 FIFA World Cup will feature 48 teams, making it the largest field in World Cup history.
- 0.49 · curiosity · keep 0.61 · College football bowl games boast some of sports' most absurd names and sponsors.
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.36 · Selling beer during college football games was once taboo, but it's now commonplace for the country's biggest teams.
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.40 · The SEC is a powerhouse conference with 16 teams and a rich Southern football tradition
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.19 · The FCS is Division I’s second tier with its own playoff system
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.23 · As fantasy football grew more popular, the NFL began adapting
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.70 · College football bowl games boast some of sports' most absurd names
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.57 · 100 years of NFL history in under four minutes
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Researchers develop machine-learning model that doubles weather forecasting accuracy two to six weeks out, a c
- 0.58 · news-in-context · keep 0.42 · AI-powered models can provide low-cost, localized and accurate weather forecasting
- 0.45 · experiences · keep 0.64 · Explore and visualize AI-driven riverine and flash-flood forecasts across more than 150 countries to anticipate these natural disasters up to seven days in advance.
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.60 · Climatologists use past data and advanced models to forecast future climate trends
- 0.44 · experiences · keep 0.20 · Sets incorporating immersive mixed reality have transformed weather reporting
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.63 · Tornado chasers include scientists conducting field projects
- 0.43 · experiences · keep 0.73 · The weather time machine
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.79 · The NOAA has a specialized team of researchers that fly directly into hurricanes
- 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.59 · Emergency room evaluations may be improved with AI algorithms
- 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.68 · Chaos theory—informally known as the butterfly effect—is the reason why weather forecasts are presented with probabilities rather than certainties.
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Coral can fully recover from bleaching after brief contact with healthy coral clones, according to lab-control
- 0.63 · curiosity · keep 0.49 · Through coral IVF, researchers have collected coral eggs and sperm from healthy reefs, grown baby corals in lab pools, and then released them to help repopulate damaged or lost reefs.
- 0.60 · curiosity · keep 0.28 · Inside Australia's National Sea Simulator, scientists are cross-breeding coral species and using CRISPR to genetically engineer heat-resistant corals to withstand warming reefs worldwide.
- 0.59 · curiosity · keep 0.76 · Corals sacrifice their food source and expel colorful microorganisms to protect themselves during coral bleaching—a phenomenon that resembles an organism's immune system attacking itself.
- 0.55 · explainers · keep 0.43 · A simple infographic explaining how coral bleaching works
- 0.55 · explainers · keep 0.74 · Watch a time-lapse of staghorn coral polyps—a type of hard coral—over several weeks in an aquarium, slowly forming the foundational component of a coral reef.
- 0.54 · news-in-context · keep 0.11 · From 2023 to 2025, coral reefs experienced their fourth global bleaching event and the largest such event through 2025.
- 0.54 · curiosity · keep 0.76 · Artificial coral reefs have been 3D printed from nontoxic, biodegradable terracotta clay, which coral polyps have used as a foundation for rebuilding marine ecosystems.
- 0.52 · curiosity · keep 0.74 · Fish populations in the Great Barrier Reef have increased after installing waterproof speakers on the ocean floor that played recordings of sounds from healthy coral reefs.
- 0.51 · curiosity · keep 0.60 · Research has found that when their symbiotic algae are not producing oxygen via photosynthesis, corals twirl hairlike structures to circulate water and draw oxygen into their outer tissues.
- 0.50 · curiosity · keep 0.75 · Some corals absorb harmful ultraviolet radiation and re-emit it as visible light, thereby protecting symbiotic algae within their tissues and providing them with energy for photosynthesis.
- 0.50 · curiosity · keep 0.48 · Coral reefs get their colors from zooxanthellae—microorganisms that line corals' digestive tracts and provide them with sugars in exchange for a home within this protective tissue.
- 0.49 · curiosity · keep 0.56 · As immobile animals, corals and the organisms that live on them have evolved a suite of chemical compounds to prevent disease and ward off predators they cannot outrun.
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Archaeologists unearth remains of Neanderthal likely killed with a wooden spear roughly 75,000 years ago—the o
- 0.54 · curiosity · keep 0.29 · Neanderthal stereotypes fall flat in the face of evidence, advocates argue
- 0.53 · curiosity · keep 0.46 · Prehistoric hunter-gatherers performed amputations and appear to have provided post-op care, according to analysis of a recent fossil discovery from almost 31,000 years ago.
- 0.50 · longform · keep 0.46 · The archaeology of human sacrifice
- 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.75 · The messy story of humanity's genealogical past
- 0.50 · curiosity · keep 0.39 · New scientific tools, such as radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis, have transformed what we know about who built Stonehenge.
- 0.50 · curiosity · keep 0.59 · Why portraits of Neanderthals vary so drastically
- 0.49 · curiosity · keep 0.62 · How old are stone tools?
- 0.49 · curiosity · keep 0.23 · Homo sapiens may have migrated into Europe earlier than previously believed
- 0.49 · experiences · keep 0.63 · Here's how early humans lived
- 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.66 · Neanderthals 101
- 0.49 · curiosity · keep 0.63 · Neanderthals commonly had surfer's ear, a potential sign of extensive seafood collection
- 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.41 · The archaeological discovery that shifted scientists' understanding of human evolution
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US stock markets rally (S&P 500 +0.3%, Dow +1.1%, Nasdaq +0.1%) as the 10-year Treasury yield falls to 5.1%, t
- 0.51 · explainers · keep 0.65 · See how the S&P 500 performed throughout the first 100 days of each modern presidency.
- 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.32 · Investors collectively owned $28T in US Treasury securities as of 2025.
- 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.40 · A stock index is a group of companies clustered together, often providing a condensed snapshot of a market segment.
- 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.34 · Markets have always recovered and hit new highs following crashes
- 0.47 · news-in-context · keep 0.42 · Relive the biggest swings in the Dow's history
- 0.47 · news-in-context · keep 0.19 · Mutual funds in seven broad categories averaged a 13.1% annual return in 2023.
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.12 · The S&P 500, managed by the same company, is another major stock index
- 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.23 · The S&P 500 yields a roughly 10.5% average annual return
- 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.15 · The Dow remains a shorthand for America's economic health
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.14 · Read about the evolution of the S&P 500 and its recession recovery
- 0.45 · experiences · keep 0.34 · Visualizing decades of stock market performance
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.20 · Investors rely on the S&P 500 as a benchmark for the state of the economy
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Wholesale inflation rises 6.3% over the last 12 months through September, the biggest increase since December
- 0.51 · explainers · keep 0.45 · Prices can still feel high even if inflation is slowing
- 0.49 · 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
- 0.47 · 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
- 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.10 · President Trump's 2025 Tariffs added less inflationary pressure to the economy than expected in their first year
- 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.34 · US cities where inflation is rising the most
- 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.41 · An updated, comprehensive tracker of global inflation
- 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.13 · Wedding cost increases have outpaced inflation
- 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.58 · Mapping projected food inflation across the world in 2026
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.11 · Check the current Consumer Price Index
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.51 · The highest inflation ever recorded in US history was estimated at 30% in 1778, just after the Revolutionary War.
- 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.14 · Beyond oil, the Iran war has pushed up costs on fertilizer, prescriptions, and mortgages.
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.43 · Fast-food prices have increased more over the past 10 years than both full-service restaurants and inflation.
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SpaceX and Tesla shares fall 2.3% and 1.3%, respectively, amid reports Elon Musk's companies could merge in th
- 0.53 · explainers · keep 0.22 · Millions of Americans will be invested in SpaceX because of the fast-tracked process to list SpaceX on the NASDAQ 100, and, subsequently, the index funds that track it.
- 0.52 · 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.
- 0.51 · news-in-context · keep 0.09 · Tesla short sellers benefited from the company's poor performance in 2025
- 0.50 · news-in-context · keep 0.51 · See how SpaceX compares to history's other largest IPOs.
- 0.50 · news-in-context · keep 0.21 · See Bloomberg's continuously updated Billionaire Index
- 0.50 · news-in-context · keep 0.15 · X's brand health has sharply declined since Elon Musk's takeover
- 0.49 · curiosity · keep 0.56 · Elon Musk's $100M investment in SpaceX was lost to three failed rocket launches
- 0.48 · 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.
- 0.48 · experiences · keep 0.26 · Read a timeline of all of Elon Musk's business ventures, from the software company Zip2 in the 1990s to Musk's Twitter acquisition.
- 0.48 · curiosity · keep 0.20 · Overcoming industry skeptics, SpaceX provides low-cost, high-publicity spaceflights
- 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.31 · NASA and SpaceX combine public support and funding with private enterprise
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.26 · Elon Musk reshaped Twitter into X with bold moves and polarizing decisions
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Gunman kills at least three children and a teacher, wounds two others at elementary school in Bend, Oregon; 16
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Texas Senate candidate James Talarico (D) raises $64M in third quarter, his campaign says—the largest haul for
- 0.61 · news-in-context · keep 0.13 · House and Senate candidates had spent about $1.9B on the 2026 midterms as of August, according to USAFacts.
- 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.10 · Advertising spending for the 2026 midterm elections is projected to reach $11.6 billion, surpassing the record set during the 2024 presidential election.
- 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.28 · The ten largest individual donors gave more than $1.2B during the 2024 election cycle.
- 0.40 · news-in-context · keep 0.24 · Visualize the $14.7B spent by over 11,000 groups to influence the 2024 election cycle.
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Iranian-backed Houthi rebels strike Saudi-backed government's presidential palace in Aden, killing at least fi
- 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.12 · An interactive overview of the human toll of the Yemen conflict
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The science behind tolerable work meetings.
- 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.60 · Modern workplaces were engineered for efficiency, not work-life balance
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.80 · 'Slow productivity' as a humane approach to work
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See what's making strangers happy by catching a bird.
- 0.77 · experiences · keep 0.69 · Explore small gestures and moments that made strangers happy with this interactive bird-catching site.
- 0.58 · experiences · keep 0.71 · Spend a minute self-reflecting with this crowd-sourced interactive that pairs birds with moments of joy.
- 0.50 · experiences · keep 0.67 · Watch live cams of wild birds feeding
- 0.47 · experiences · keep 0.62 · A network of live bird song trackers
- 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.61 · Stunning shots of a singing red-winged blackbird
- 0.44 · experiences · keep 0.49 · Exploring bird skulls
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.65 · How birds are becoming research assistants
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.54 · Photobombing bird nabs best wedding photo of the year
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.65 · Meet the bowerbird, the bird world's greatest architect
- 0.40 · experiences · keep 0.62 · Visualizing where happiness comes from
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Barbie releases "Celine Dion" doll. (w/photo)
- 0.48 · curiosity · keep 0.23 · The history of the iconic Barbie doll
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.49 · Richard Hamilton's iconic pop art collage inspired the set of 'Barbie' (2023)
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Stranger goes viral for proactively sharing "divorce FAQ."
- 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.51 · More Americans are signing prenups today, motivated partly by divorced parents and pop culture's influence.
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.56 · An 87-year-old widower goes viral for hand-delivering party invitations door to door that read "4 pm until the cops arrive"
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.35 · Divorce reportedly existed in hunter-gatherer societies
- 0.40 · experiences · keep 0.73 · Peek into the love lives of thousands of strangers whom Stanford University researchers have been tracking since 2017 on this interactive page.
- 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.86 · Nevada's 'divorce ranches' once housed wealthy women who wanted to get divorced more quickly and easily, starting in the 1930s.
- 0.40 · news-in-context · keep 0.27 · US divorce laws differ depending on whether the couple lives in a community property state or an equitable distribution state.
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The rise of Delta's Biscoff cookies.
- 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.64 · Danish cookies became a treasured Lunar New Year gift, thanks to their unique tin container
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This agent deleted an entire TV season.
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Why does it say "YKK" on your zipper?
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Check out a runaway giant inflatable pumpkin. (w/video)
- 0.51 · experiences · keep 0.84 · Watch a time-lapse of the 120-day journey of a pumpkin seed growing into an adult fruit.
- 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.60 · One artist's horrifyingly ornate jack-o-lanterns
- 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.40 · The agricultural history of the pumpkin
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Fashion Week is out. "Dog Week" is in.
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.49 · Campaigning for the Westminster dog show can cost up to $6K
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