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#1 · news-in-context Apr 20, 2023

The wildest cases of election fraud in US history

The USA has seen some crazy elections. Election fraud is vanishingly rare now, but here are the craziest cases of election fraud in U.S. history.

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#2 · 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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#3 · news-in-context Sep 10, 2026

View a timeline of Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank.

Israel has occupied the West Bank since its victory in the Six-Day War in 1967.

The International Court of Justice and the United Nations view the ongoing occupation as unlawful.
The official position of the Israeli government is that the West Bank is a disputed territory, rather than under occupation.
Over time, Israelis have increasingly settled on the territory, in both authorized settlements and makeshift outposts that are considered illegal under Israeli law.
In September 2026, 11 European nations and Canada sanctioned settlements in the West Bank, as they believe the expanding settlements undermine a potential peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians.

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#4 · explainers Oct 6, 2026

MLB pitchers were charged with benefiting from sports betting

In November 2025, two pitchers for the Cleveland Guardians were charged with coordinating with sports bettors to enrich themselves and others. In many instances, they shared the kinds of pitches they would throw at specific points in the game. Bettors then placed money on those actions.

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#5 · curiosity Jun 30, 2026

The company's success is often credited to cofounder Reed Hastings

Hastings advocates management philosophies like radical candor, agility, and a hands-off approach to high-performing employees. He stepped down as CEO in 2023 but remains Netflix's chairman.

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#6 · curiosity Feb 6, 2026

Dating app Bumble laid off roughly 30% of its staff in June 2025

Founder Whitney Wolfe Herd was criticized at the time for telling staff to "calm down" during a company-wide call informing staff of the layoffs. "I see a lot of freaking-out emojis, y'all need to calm down … everyone's going to have to be adults in dealing with this," she said on the call.

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#7 · experiences Dec 7, 2023

The best places to visit in 2024

Stargaze from moonscape deserts, or absorb high-design in a rising city. Peruse Conde Nast's annual look forward to travel destinations and dream up your next big trip.

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#8 · curiosity Jan 20, 2026

One writer suggests using the California roll to evaluate sushi restaurants

Christine Carone uses the logic of the Big Mac Index—a metric for evaluating purchasing power by comparing countries' Big Mac prices proposed by the Economist—for evaluating takeout sushi. Her recommendation is looking at the cost of a California roll, a relatively inexpensive, middle-of-the-road item for any American sushi spot. If it's too expensive, the restaurant isn't offering good value. But if it's too cheap, you should worry about the quality of the fish.

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#9 · curiosity Mar 20, 2026

Roosevelt left a White House dinner to fly over Washington with Amelia Earhart

In April 1933, Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart flew on a round trip from Washington to Baltimore in their evening gowns. Roosevelt, who had a long-standing interest in flying, had recently earned her student pilot's license.

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#10 · 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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#11 · explainers Aug 2, 2024

Netflix, explained

From offering an internet-based, mail-order Blockbuster alternative to its eventual status as a market leader in streaming entertainment, Netflix has led nearly every major paradigm shift in the television and movie business since its inception.

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#12 · curiosity May 29, 2026

Explore a breakdown of 18 influential Apple products

The launch of the MacBook Air in 2008 popularized the ultrabook category of laptops, while the iPad (2010) made large-screen mobile devices a technological norm. The iPhoneX (2017) introduced the notch, which has become a staple at the top of many smartphone displays.

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#13 · curiosity Apr 1, 2026

Watch Steve Jobs unveil the first iPhone in 2007

During his Macworld San Francisco 2007 keynote address, Jobs claimed Apple had reinvented the phone by integrating phone capabilities with internet access and music playback from its iPod product line. The multitouch display eliminated the need for a stylus or keyboard hardware typically found on other smartphones.

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#14 · experiences Jun 7, 2022

Evaluating the world’s 'smartest' cities

A ranking of "smart cities" analyzes cities by economical and technological aspects as well as quality of life, inclusiveness, and care to the environment.

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#15 · curiosity May 31, 2022

River dolphins manhandle an unlucky anaconda

The natural world around us is endlessly inspiring, and fascinating, and often very odd too: like when researchers snapped a photo of Bolivian river dolphins swimming around with a Beni anaconda snake in their mouths, for example.

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#16 · curiosity Oct 17, 2025

Vampire bats are the only mammal to feed exclusively on blood

Scientists believe their ancestors may have eaten parasites and insects off larger animals until vampire bats started feeding directly from those animals. Colonies work together to stay fed, as a vampire bat can die without just two days of eating.

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#17 · explainers Oct 23, 2023

Women's health research continues to be underfunded

Health conditions that affect women more than men get less research funding. This interactive collection of graphs details the gendered gap in health research funding.

Of the conditions that affect one sex more than another, those that create the...

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#18 · curiosity May 29, 2026

Watch Steve Jobs introduce the first iPad

Apple's cofounder debuted the first iPad in 2010, framing it as a third category of personal electronics between the laptop and the smartphone. Steve Jobs showed off how thin the device was (for the time) and explained how it was better than smartphones and laptops for browsing the web.

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#19 · curiosity May 29, 2026

Apple, the tech giant renowned for products like the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, started out in a garage in 1976.

The company was cofounded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, focusing on personal computing for creativity and enjoyment by ordinary consumers.

With the launch of the Macintosh in 1984, Apple set the standard for modern PCs with its graphical user interface. It then shifted the music industry into a song-download framework with the launch of the iPod in 2001.
Apple revolutionized the smartphone industry in 2007 with the iPhone, introducing an all-screen touch interface and smartphone apps.

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#20 · experiences Dec 13, 2024

Exploring bird skulls

Birds inspire us to fly—but what about bird skulls? This collection of various birds' preserved skulls offers a peculiar "bird's-eye" view. See the many surprising shapes of beaks and eyeholes, from mockingbirds to turkeys, in this fascinating visual collection.

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#21 · curiosity Mar 13, 2026

Mosquitoes drink a maximum of 0.01 milliliters of blood in a single meal.

That's roughly equal to a human drinking the contents of an entire bathtub.

Females, which are the only ones that drink blood, have a sensory nerve that signals when they're getting full, but if it's disabled, a mosquito would keep drinking until it bursts—a scientist conducted that experiment.

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#22 · curiosity Oct 1, 2026

Catching up with hobby icon Sy Berger

In 1952 baseball card company Topps printed two series of cards. The first series sold well, but the late-season series, numbered 311-407 and included Mickey Mantle, didn't. Read the first-hand account of how Topps couldn't' even give the late-season series cards away and dumped an estimated 500 cases into the Atlantic Ocean in 1959. Decades later, it created a scarcity that drove the price of that Mantle card to $12.6 million.

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#23 · explainers Apr 3, 2026

A stock index is a group of companies clustered together, often providing a condensed snapshot of a market segment.

The top three indexes in the US are the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500, and the Nasdaq Composite.

The S&P 500 and DJIA are bellwether indexes, meaning they're created with the top companies across the economy and provide a snapshot of those companies’ performances.
Indexes themselves can’t be invested in, but index funds, which recreate the companies listed in an index, provide investors with a way to track the broader market.

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#24 · 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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#25 · curiosity Apr 16, 2026

SpaceX was built to achieve Elon Musk's vision of making humans an interplanetary species.

Founded by Elon Musk in 2002, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is a Texas-based company that pioneered the development of reusable rockets.

Learning quickly from early Falcon rocket failures and clashes with vendors and safety regulators, the company has focused on reusability as a first step to reaching Mars.
It's also been backed by NASA funding to do so.

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#26 · 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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#27 · curiosity Jun 30, 2026

Pterosaurs were dinosaur cousins that ruled the skies

Giant flying lizards or massive leathery birds? Pterosaurs were neither. What they were were the first vertebrates to fly through the skies. This National Geographic video discusses the anatomical features that made their flight possible, how big these awesome creatures could get, and which species was named after a legendary vampire.

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#28 · curiosity Jan 27, 2026

The word 'vampire' appeared in the English-speaking world in the 1730s

However, earlier mentions of creatures with similar characteristics existed throughout Medieval Europe. For example, people often spoke of revenants—restless dead creatures who tormented the living. Historians believe these stories grew in popularity in part because of influence from the Catholic Church, which was emphasizing the idea of purgatory. These older revenant stories eventually influenced modern vampire folklore.

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#29 · explainers Feb 20, 2026

China had an inflation rate of -0.4% in August 2025

As opposed to other G20 countries that are largely struggling with high inflation rates, China is facing deflation. Sluggish growth in the country's once booming real estate market is just one glimpse into the consumer slowdown triggering deflation.

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#30 · curiosity May 29, 2026

Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 after initially attempting to purchase ballistic missiles in Europe and Russia, hoping to launch a rocket carrying a plant or animal to Mars to spark global interest in colonizing the planet, but found them too expensive.

The company simplified manufacturing and revolutionized space travel by focusing on in-house production and reusability.

SpaceX's orbital rocket is today 97% cheaper than those used by Russia in the 1960s.

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#31 · curiosity Mar 16, 2023

A brief history of drones

While accounts of military strategists using uncrewed hot air balloons for attacks and surveillance exist from the 19th century, the first use of drones as a modern concept began in World War I with a radio-controlled propeller craft. This online...

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#32 · experiences Jul 20, 2023

Stephen Wilkes' day-to-night panoramas

Renowned US photographer Stephen Wilkes creates distilled time-lapses of cityscapes and landscapes using a novel form: He takes roughly 1,500 images over 30 hours of the same shot, later layering them together to reveal the scene's shift from day to...

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#33 · curiosity Oct 6, 2026

Millions of years of evolution produced dinosaurs with bizarre features

This list of the 17 weirdest dinosaurs includes a cross between a parrot and a porcupine, a dinosaur whose arms each ended with one finger, a vampire dinosaur, a dinosaur with wings on its legs instead of its arms, and a Harry Potter-inspired "dragon king of Hogwarts."

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#34 · curiosity Sep 18, 2024

100 moments that shaped baseball history

Published in 2018 by baseball historian Jacob Kornhauser, this list examines the defining moments throughout more than a century of play on the field, from Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis purportedly throwing a no-hitter while on acid to Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier.

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#35 · explainers Jul 6, 2026

Construction of small, affordable starter homes has decreased 75% since the 1970s.

Only 9% of recent new construction is for starter homes, as the majority of new housing construction focuses on higher-end buyers.

That's partly due to factors including the increasing costs of land, labor, and resources.

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#36 · curiosity Feb 27, 2026

Buford the Pyrenees showered with gifts after rescuing 2-year-old boy lost in the desert

The young boy wandered away from his family home and ended up spending the night alone in the Arizona wilderness. A search party of more than 40 people and a helicopter participated in looking for the boy. A dog named Buford eventually found the child and led him back to a ranch, allowing him to soon be reunited with his family. Once the story broke, Buford started receiving an influx of toys and treats from strangers.

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#37 · curiosity Oct 13, 2021

Husky goes way off track at the Westminster Dog Show

Lobo the Siberian Husky lost an agility competition at the Westminster Dog Show in New York City, but won the hearts of the audience after getting off track.

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#38 · experiences Jan 8, 2023

Watch a traditional Aztec fire-serpent dance rooted in Mexica mythology

This video captures a performance of a Xicauhuatl—or fire-serpent—dance, rooted in Mexica beliefs that these serpents carried the sun across the sky. The performance highlights the fire serpent’s central role in Aztec ritual and storytelling.

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#39 · longform Jun 30, 2026

Inside a FIRE follower's money diary

This podcast episode details a few days inside the bank account of a woman in Australia who set out to retire by age 35.

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#40 · explainers Jan 20, 2026

One doctor argued vampires were based on a real disease

At a conference in 1985, Canadian biochemist David H. Dolphin posited that stories of vampires and werewolves had a real-world origin. He argued that porphyria could have caused sufferers to seek out blood, as well as experience light sensitivity and an aversion to garlic. More than one article in the 1990s discredited this take.

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#41 · explainers Aug 28, 2026

Watch Jon Stewart's unifying opening monologue during his first show back after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Nearly all entertainment and satire in American entertainment went dark for weeks after the attacks.

Jon Stewart's first Daily Show monologue on September 20, 2001, began without an intro, with Stewart speaking through tears about the tragedy.

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#42 · curiosity Feb 27, 2026

Teen rides stranded scared horse to safety—14 miles out of burning canyon

When wildfires tore through the Los Angeles area in 2025, resulting in one of the worst natural disasters on record, one 16-year-old equestrian named Kalyna Fedorowycz bravely rescued an animal. She saw a horse named Sovereignty in the evacuation zone of the still-raging Palisades Fire, and led and rode him for 14 miles to safety. Sovereignty was eventually reunited with his owner.

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#43 · curiosity Aug 10, 2026

Blockbuster was definitely the loser in its years-long battle with Netflix, but the conventional wisdom that the streaming giant killed the established video store chain is incorrect.

Blockbuster’s large debt load—and an activist shareholder who didn’t fully appreciate the threat Netflix posed—led the chain to squander its advantages.
Netflix shifted its emphasis from mail to the web as high-speed internet became pervasive, with the company beginning to stream content directly to subscribers in 2007.

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#44 · experiences Oct 15, 2026

Explore a worldwide ranking of smart cities

This interactive site evaluates residents' perceptions of the infrastructure and technologies available to them across 146 cities to produce a ranking based on a Smart City Index. Users can utilize the City Comparison feature to compare their city with others around the world.

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#45 · explainers Mar 12, 2026

Some educators argue society's obsession with colleges at the top of rankings has hurt the US higher education ecosystem

Why are "good colleges" often the ones that accept the fewest students? Speaker Cecilia Orphan argues that society's obsession with colleges that are often private, expensive, and that reject applicants with high frequency has done harm. Instead, she argues, we should focus on regional public universities that meet the needs of students in a cost-achievable manner.

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#46 · explainers May 7, 2026

An organizational breakdown of the National Science Foundation's directorates

Each is responsible for supporting a different discipline within science, engineering, and education, such as the Directorate for Biological Sciences, the Directorate for Engineering, and the Directorate for STEM Education. Formed in 2022, the Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships is the NSF's first new directorate in 30 years and is focused on growing industry and an equitable STEM workforce.

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#47 · 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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#48 · curiosity May 29, 2026

In 1984, Apple ran an award-winning Super Bowl commercial

Directed by Ridley Scott and a winner at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, the clip features a heroine flinging a sledgehammer at a Big Brother-style figure delivering a speech. As the screen shatters, a voiceover proclaims that Apple's release of the Macintosh will ensure, "1984 won't be like '1984.'"

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#49 · experiences Jun 26, 2023

The world's 10 best places to live

The Economist Intelligence Unit's Global Liveability Index ranked 173 cities based on stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure. The report shows an overall increase in livability scores compared to previous...

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#50 · news-in-context Oct 6, 2026

15 out of 25 major US cities have a lower cost of living than their nearby suburbs

These cities are Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Boston, San Francisco, Detroit, Minneapolis, Denver, Baltimore, St. Louis, Orlando, Charlotte, and San Antonio. This article details the cost of living in major US cities versus their nearby suburbs, according to data from 2023.

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#51 · explainers Apr 6, 2026

President Trump has changed decades-long norms for the DOJ during his second term

The Trump administration made changes to ethics oversight, instructed US attorneys to coordinate with the White House, dismissed cases, and overhauled the career hiring process in the Civil Rights division. The administration asserts these changes were justified and aimed to end what they claim as the weaponization of government.

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#52 · curiosity Jan 30, 2026

Apple's '1984' ad aired once during the game and permanently shaped their advertising

During Super Bowl XVIII, Apple aired its dystopian "1984" commercial once to a mass audience, introducing the Macintosh and positioning Apple as a challenger to IBM's dominance in personal computing.

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#53 · 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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#54 · experiences Oct 6, 2026

Thanks to digitized archives, shipwreck hunters can now do in a day the research that once took them at least a week or two.

Autonomous and remotely operated underwater vehicles now let explorers reach almost any depth in the ocean without risking human lives.

Searchers found Shackleton's Endurance in 2022, using sonar and an underwater robot while their ship's propellers kept nearby ice clear.
Many of the estimated 3 million vessels lost in the sea are expected to never be found.

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#55 · explainers Oct 6, 2026

Snakes move around by coordinating hundreds of muscles

These muscles connect to their vertebrae, and allow the creature to move in various unique ways. Snakes can slither, move in a straight line, swim, jump and even "fly."

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#56 · explainers May 12, 2026

By 2030, roughly 6% of the world's population will be in menopause

An estimated 25 million women pass through menopause annually, with a projected increase in the number of women in menopause in both lower-resource and higher-income populations in the years ahead, highlighting the social and economic value of focusing on menopause care.

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#57 · 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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#58 · 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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#59 · experiences Dec 19, 2025

Watch live cams of wild birds feeding

If you're curious to see what albatross, red-tailed hawks, and hummingbirds are up to this very minute, explore different live cams of them feeding. Occasionally, you'll catch a squirrel joining in on the meal.

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#60 · explainers Jul 8, 2026

Leap smears evenly distribute leap seconds, which were used to resynchronize clocks with Earth's rotation, over a 24-hour period.

This strategy was used by technology companies to help prevent errors such as database corruption and server crashes in systems that rely on time tracking and time intervals.

The need for leap seconds arises from minute, long-term irregularities in the Earth's rotation, such as slowdowns from the tidal forces on the Earth from the moon.

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