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Brazil Election, Starlink Returns, and the Science of Smiling

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Lula Wins in Brazil
  1. 0.69 · news-in-context · keep nan · Brazilians reelected President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Oct. 25, 2026, even though most say they are dissatisfied with how their democracy is working.
  2. 0.56 · news-in-context · keep 0.06 · Amazon deforestation down by a third in 2023
  3. 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.14 · Impact of Brazil's politics on the Amazon rainforest
  4. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.33 · Brazil's military dictatorship led to bossa nova's decline
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Church Abuse Settlement
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Starlink Slowdown Standoff
  1. 0.55 · curiosity · keep 0.45 · 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.
  2. 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.41 · Tech giants like SpaceX and Meta are increasingly behaving like sovereign powers
  3. 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.36 · SpaceX has launched thousands of its Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit
  4. 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.55 · By 2028, a space trash-avoiding maneuver is expected to occur every 18 seconds
  5. 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.13 · Nonstop posting by Elon Musk provides calculated political and brand messaging
  6. 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.40 · Starbase is SpaceX's testing ground for their most powerful rocket, Starship
  7. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.11 · The rise of the malicious use of drones
  8. 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.47 · 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.
  9. 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.11 · Treating X like a product instead of a public space obscures deeper issues
  10. 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.19 · SpaceX was built to achieve Elon Musk's vision of making humans an interplanetary species.
  11. 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.25 · View the docket of future SpaceX launches
  12. 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.35 · Metal wreckage found in a Canadian farm turned out to be SpaceX spacecraft debris
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Young men help an 86-year-old man finish welding a 62-foot steel boat he's been working on since 1987.
  1. 0.49 · curiosity · keep 0.72 · Meet a 90-year-old who built his own hobbit-inspired house
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Milwaukee Brewers score five unanswered runs in Game 2 of the World Series, lead Tampa Bay 2-0
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UCF beats No. 2 BYU in double overtime; only three college football teams (No. 1 Miami, No. 6 Utah, No. 7 UCLA
  1. 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.70 · The 2007 college football season was one of the wildest in history
  2. 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.70 · College football bowl games boast some of sports' most absurd names
  3. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.61 · Five years after UMBC, Fairleigh Dickinson defeated Purdue to become the second-ever 16-seed to beat a 1 seed.
  4. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.56 · UMBC became the first 16-seed to ever beat a 1-seed, pulling off the biggest upset in March Madness history
  5. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.61 · College football bowl games boast some of sports' most absurd names and sponsors.
  6. 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.60 · Texas beat USC in the 2006 Rose Bowl to win the national championship
  7. 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.28 · Relive the best moments from March Madness 2025
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Meghan Markle's estranged father under investigation in the Philippines for possession of child sexual abuse m
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"Clayface" takes top spot at the weekend box office, pulling in $24M in North America; the origin story of a B
  1. 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.57 · Many critically panned cult classics did well at the box office
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Block unveils Dessa, an AI-powered conversation model trained on nothing but human conversations; company says
  1. 0.54 · explainers · keep 0.63 · Anthropic's interpretability team discusses how AI models' thinking mimics biology
  2. 0.53 · explainers · keep 0.59 · Transformer architecture was the breakthrough that made AI chatbots possible
  3. 0.52 · explainers · keep 0.44 · Computer systems create artificial voices by stitching together phonemes—individual sounds that make up speech, such as 't,' 'long a,' and 'k' to say 'take.'
  4. 0.52 · longform · keep 0.58 · The journalist who let AI speak with his voice
  5. 0.51 · explainers · keep 0.50 · AI gained mainstream attention with tools like IBM Watson and Apple’s Siri
  6. 0.51 · curiosity · keep 0.59 · Teaching a robot to laugh
  7. 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.76 · 'Context rot' explains why AI conversations degrade the longer they run
  8. 0.50 · news-in-context · keep 0.27 · Decoding the hype around AI
  9. 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.35 · See how a novel neurological procedure that employs artificial intelligence restored a woman's speech almost 20 years after a stroke.
  10. 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.21 · Transformer architecture can recognize and predict patterns in language
  11. 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.26 · Scientists increasingly can't predict what AI will do
  12. 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.37 · How ChatGPT learns to read
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Study suggests mother bats respond to the high-pitched isolation calls of their own individual pups, similar t
  1. 0.50 · curiosity · keep 0.73 · Bats map their surroundings using echolocation, in which the organism's brain interprets and analyzes high-pitched sounds that it emits and are reflected by surrounding objects.
  2. 0.49 · curiosity · keep 0.63 · Some animals possess sensitive hearing to help pinpoint prey and map the world
  3. 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.76 · Listen to what a forest in the Jurassic Period may have sounded like with this reconstructed soundscape, which was created by analyzing the fossilized wings of 165 million-year-old insects.
  4. 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.43 · Some animals may anchor their brain cells to specific landmarks to determine direction
  5. 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.61 · Noise pollution from humans and technology alters animal behavior
  6. 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.76 · Some animals may speak because of duplicated connections in the brain
  7. 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.63 · Across the animal kingdom, parenting can include adults carrying their young, providing their bodies for sustenance, searching for food and shelter for their children, and separating siblings who may eat one another.
  8. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.56 · Using mosquitoes to vaccinate bats could curb the spread of deadly diseases.
  9. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.79 · Nine different studies exploring animals' relationship to music
  10. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.85 · Bats have evolved to carry viruses without getting sick
  11. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.63 · Some North American bats can glow in the dark
  12. 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.66 · Humans are wired to pick up on each other's emotion, making laughter contagious
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OpenAI resumes frontier model training but disconnects from live internet, citing risks given past agents' rog
  1. 0.58 · 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 0.54 · explainers · keep 0.26 · Sam Altman has said that OpenAI's mission is to 'ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity' by making its products open to all users.
  4. 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.
  5. 0.52 · explainers · keep 0.11 · Sam Altman has said that OpenAI released version 3.5 of ChatGPT early as a public service to allow the public to adjust to the new tool before rolling out ChatGPT-4.
  6. 0.52 · explainers · keep 0.35 · When AI agents "go rogue," they take unintended actions to accomplish their assigned goals, often because users provided vague or conflicting instructions.
  7. 0.49 · news-in-context · keep 0.11 · OpenAI helped kick-start an AI arms race in Silicon Valley
  8. 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.26 · Scientists increasingly can't predict what AI will do
  9. 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.28 · Unlike the models made by large AI companies, open-weight models can have their safeguards removed or weakened, a process that has become increasingly easy and may expose users to harmful information.
  10. 0.48 · curiosity · keep 0.49 · The history of Anthropic began with a break from OpenAI over safety concerns.
  11. 0.47 · 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.
  12. 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.24 · The philosophy of effective altruism was at the heart of Sam Altman's (ultimately temporary) firing from OpenAI, some experts suggest.
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US stock markets close down (S&P 500 -0.5%, Dow -1.2%, Nasdaq -0.2%) as oil prices stay near five-month high
  1. 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.40 · A stock index is a group of companies clustered together, often providing a condensed snapshot of a market segment.
  2. 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.65 · See how the S&P 500 performed throughout the first 100 days of each modern presidency.
  3. 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.12 · The S&P 500, managed by the same company, is another major stock index
  4. 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.20 · Investors rely on the S&P 500 as a benchmark for the state of the economy
  5. 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.14 · Beyond oil, the Iran war has pushed up costs on fertilizer, prescriptions, and mortgages.
  6. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.15 · The Dow remains a shorthand for America's economic health
  7. 0.43 · 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
  8. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.18 · Oil markets are seeing higher costs and lower prices amid tech breakthroughs
  9. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.14 · Read about the evolution of the S&P 500 and its recession recovery
  10. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.61 · Why does the stock market matter?
  11. 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.42 · Relive the biggest swings in the Dow's history
  12. 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.46 · The stock market, explained in 3 minutes
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Audi will build first US factory in Georgia, President Donald Trump announces; $4.2B plant to produce 200,000
  1. 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.09 · Auto and consumer goods companies absorbed billions in costs due to President Trump's 2025 tariffs.
  2. 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.12 · After being the country's largest automaker by sales volume for nearly 100 years, Toyota surpassed General Motors as the top automobile manufacturer in the US—representing a shift in the American economy that once heavily depended on domestic manufacturing.
  3. 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.66 · Take a drone tour of a Tesla factory
  4. 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.16 · California startup Rivian has attracted disillusioned Tesla owners
  5. 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.42 · By designing a $35,000 car, Tesla sought to bring EVs into the mainstream
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Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates steady this week, analysts say, in final meeting before nex
  1. 0.56 · explainers · keep 0.22 · Interest rates have historically been an indicator of the US economy's overall health.
  2. 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.35 · The Federal Reserve's decisions can impact your money
  3. 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.24 · The CME FedWatch Tool predicts the likelihood of future rate changes
  4. 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.14 · The Federal Open Market Committee is a 12-member voting body that sits within the Fed
  5. 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.16 · Periodically, the Federal Open Market Committee decides whether to raise, hold, or lower the federal funds rate
  6. 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.29 · The Fed operates within the open market as a competitive bidder of interest rates
  7. 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.24 · The Federal Reserve targets 2% inflation
  8. 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.11 · The two-day marathon meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee follow a logical process of information sharing
  9. 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.20 · The Federal Reserve didn't institute an official no comment period before meetings until 2011
  10. 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.66 · No institution wields more power in US finance than the Federal Reserve, the central bank of the US—but opinion polls indicate that most Americans don't know what it does.
  11. 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.61 · Raising interest rates can help control inflation.
  12. 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.25 · 33% of Americans say they don't know very much about what the Fed does
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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado returns from exile; President Donald Trump does not indicate
  1. 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.23 · Hear the reasoning behind Trump's resurrection of the Monroe Doctrine in 2025.
  2. 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.19 · Explore the fraught relations between the United States and Cuba since 1959
  3. 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.06 · President Trump invoked the Monroe Doctrine in 2025, announcing a new 'Trump Corollary'
  4. 0.41 · longform · keep 0.67 · Hear about the US role in the Cuban Revolution—and the blowback it caused
  5. 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.13 · The United States has had a tumultuous relationship with Cuba since its 1959 revolution, highlighted by a nuclear crisis and a decades-long trade embargo.
  6. 0.40 · longform · keep 0.12 · A podcast about Honduras' narco-Presidente
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Shooting near Florida A&M University's football stadium wounds at least 12 people, including six children; fig
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France arrests more than 1,000 people amid confrontations between demonstrators and authorities in several cit
  1. 0.49 · explainers · keep nan · French students blockaded schools to demand repairs and more teachers, just as France's borrowing costs hit a 24-year high.
  2. 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.42 · Check out information on the over 1,000 protests across the globe since 2017.
  3. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.41 · In 1910, riots swept Champagne over unfairness in the winemaking industry
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Scientists discover how to make ancient Rome's color-changing glass.
  1. 0.57 · curiosity · keep 0.45 · When did people start making and using glass?
  2. 0.49 · curiosity · keep 0.55 · Ancient Romans helped develop modern cheese production techniques
  3. 0.48 · curiosity · keep 0.76 · Structures from Ancient Rome have endured for millennia because tiny pieces of lime in Roman concrete enabled it to self-heal and prevent cracks from spreading when exposed to water.
  4. 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.68 · Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures were likely colorful, not white
  5. 0.45 · experiences · keep 0.84 · Fascinating 3D animation shows how Romans built roads
  6. 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.63 · Wood that changed the color of water was the earliest recorded example of fluorescence
  7. 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.85 · How a modern 'beer archaeologist' crafts ancient ales
  8. 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.76 · Britain's bottle innovation saved Champagne
  9. 0.43 · experiences · keep 0.86 · Visualize ancient Rome in 3D with this aerial view
  10. 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.31 · Scientists create contact lenses that give you infrared vision
  11. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.34 · The ancient engineers inspiring modern building practices
  12. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.65 · The ancient Romans invented the first known artificial sweetener—it involved lead. (Paywall may apply.)
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Ranking the US' and Canada's most walkable cities. (w/map)
  1. 0.53 · news-in-context · keep 0.52 · Ranking America's healthiest and unhealthiest cities
  2. 0.48 · experiences · keep 0.55 · Explore a worldwide ranking of smart cities
  3. 0.47 · experiences · keep 0.56 · Evaluating the world’s 'smartest' cities
  4. 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.62 · America's happiest cities in 2023
  5. 0.43 · experiences · keep 0.73 · Guess US city populations via bracket-style game
  6. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.63 · Toronto's downtown has 18 miles of underground pedestrian tunnels
  7. 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.66 · Check out America's happiest places to live
  8. 0.42 · experiences · keep 0.55 · The world's 10 best places to live
  9. 0.42 · experiences · keep 0.25 · What its like to live in the world’s ‘smartest cities’
  10. 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.75 · See a list of the best beer cities in America, including mainstays, like Asheville, North Carolina, and Portland, Oregon, as well as less-mentioned enclaves, like Minneapolis and Richmond, Virginia.
  11. 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.79 · The 15-minute city lets residents meet their daily needs within 15 minutes on foot
  12. 0.40 · experiences · keep 0.79 · Check out an interactive map of 250 American places worth visiting before you die.
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This optical illusion causes motion-induced blindness.
  1. 0.78 · experiences · keep nan · This mind-bending optical illusion creates motion-induced blindness—stare at the middle dot and the others disappear.
  2. 0.58 · experiences · keep 0.81 · The science of optical illusions
  3. 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.65 · Vertigo is a mismatch of information between the eyes and the ears
  4. 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.78 · Vertigo may be reduced by retraining your brain with visual fixation
  5. 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.22 · Relative motion between a source and an observer shifts the color of observed light
  6. 0.44 · experiences · keep 0.74 · See this first-person virtual reality view of vertigo
  7. 0.42 · experiences · keep 0.58 · Watch some effects of special relativity become increasingly more apparent in 'A Slower Speed of Light,' a video game prototype from the MIT Game Lab.
  8. 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.32 · A spaceship traveling near the speed of light would experience relativistic aberration—its field of view will seemingly narrow into the direction of travel.
  9. 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.43 · Using brain implants to restore vision
  10. 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.81 · One theory claims the retinae of SAD patients may fail to adjust to less light in winter
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See where you fall in household net worth.
  1. 0.54 · explainers · keep 0.34 · Learn how to calculate your net worth
  2. 0.53 · news-in-context · keep 0.59 · Who owns America's wealth?
  3. 0.51 · news-in-context · keep 0.23 · The mean net worth for an American household is now $1M
  4. 0.50 · news-in-context · keep 0.68 · Calculate whether or not you're in the American middle class
  5. 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.65 · Use a 'Where should this money live?' calculator to see where to store your extra cash.
  6. 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.60 · How life looks different with a $75K household income versus $150K
  7. 0.47 · news-in-context · keep 0.53 · Visualizing the world's wealth in 2019
  8. 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.78 · Visualize America's worsening wealth inequality, with 1% of the population holding almost a third of the nation's wealth.
  9. 0.45 · experiences · keep 0.66 · Use this tool to calculate the dollar value of your parental mental load, from meal planning to coordinating after-school care, then see resources that help generate solutions.
  10. 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.55 · GoBankingRates evaluated whether the middle class can afford the American Dream
  11. 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.47 · The average US household carries $105,056 in total debt
  12. 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.26 · Inside the lives of HENRYs
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Sketch fictional suspects from witness clues (interactive).
  1. 0.42 · longform · keep 0.09 · True crime fans can derail lives with misguided accusations
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This year's trending Halloween costumes.
  1. 0.52 · news-in-context · keep 0.29 · Halloween spending is expected to reach $13.5B in the United States in 2026.
  2. 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.57 · Check out Variety's picks for the best cosplay of Comic-Con 2024
  3. 0.40 · news-in-context · keep 0.68 · Where to celebrate Halloween in the US
  4. 0.40 · news-in-context · keep 0.37 · Here's how much money Americans spend on Halloween
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Four Greek comedies with modern lessons.
  1. 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.31 · Aristophanes was put on trial for his satire
  2. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.30 · Aristotle's 'Poetics': a breakdown for the overwhelmed student
  3. 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.51 · There are three main types of satire: Horatian, Juvenalian, and Menippean
  4. 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.73 · How Monty Python shaped modern comedy
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Why dead bodies move and make noises.
  1. 0.57 · explainers · keep 0.47 · A deep dive into how a body decomposes
  2. 0.43 · curiosity · keep 0.56 · Cadaver dogs are helping archaeologists uncover decaying history
  3. 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.67 · The human body relaxes upon death, including the bowel and bladder, expelling urine and feces
  4. 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.13 · Watch this 2021 video demonstrating a full brain death examination
  5. 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.32 · Brain activity sometimes goes into overdrive around the point of death according to researchers' recent analysis of patients' brains before and after they were taken off their ventilators.
  6. 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.81 · Phantom limbs aren't just limited to limbs—there are phantom breasts, teeth, and more, and these sensations are often painful.
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Let's put a smile on that face.
  1. 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.57 · Understanding 'YouTube Face,' the platform's pervasive thumbnail style
  2. 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.54 · Forcing a smile can actually make you feel slightly better, though it won't cure depression.
  3. 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.71 · The adorable happiness of animals, in photos
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