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Conservationists are planting giant sequoia trees in Detroit. “We’re planting the forest...

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The Tragedy of Prevention: No One Knows When They Don’t Die

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Meet the New American Refugees Fleeing Across State Lines for Safety. They...

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Where is the courage and morality of our political leaders? “Corruption and...

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Pipelinefunk Gon’ Give It to You

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PBS executives forced the makers of an Art Spiegelman documentary to cut...

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Use of semicolons by UK authors has dropped by nearly half over...

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Donald Trump is waging war on the future; he’s attempting to destroy...

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I’m Not Going There Anymore. Tony Wheeler (co-founder of Lonely Planet) lists...

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Plantations Burning Down To The Ground Is A Good Thing. A former...

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A history of Earth’s supercontinents and their impact on evolution. “Tectonic activities...

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An Open Letter to Clarence Thomas by Elie Mystal. “You have put...

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The Onion’s Bestseller List for June 2025, including I Need Money by...

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“[This website] is a repurposed smartphone running on solar power. It’s a...

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The winners of the 2025 Milky Way Photographer of the Year awards....

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Interesting thing about contextual fame: to the surprise of bookstores, Craig Mod...

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Supercut of Every Time Norm Enters the Bar on Cheers

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Fortnite is back on iOS in the US after a 5-year battle...

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Every TV News Report On the Economy

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Some advice from Old Man Kottke: if you need readers, get some...

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“When does a kid become an adult?” Boy oh boy, this question...

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Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don’t Exist....

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Magnus Carlsen played a game of freestyle chess against 143,000 people (who...

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Biking Is Therapy

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White House officials wanted to put federal workers ‘in trauma.’ It’s working....

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I Didn’t Know You Could Make Interactive YouTube Videos

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What the Comfort Class Doesn’t Get. “Nearly every aspect of society has...

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Fairy Pools is an excerpt from Patricia Lockwood’s upcoming novel, Will There...

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NYC Restaurant Interior or Black & White Drawing?

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The Unbreaking team is starting to publish “clear and rigorously cited explanations...

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Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew With Duct Tape, Dies...

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NASA engineers fixed some thrusters on Voyager 1 from 15 billion miles...

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Justice Sotomayor’s Message to Lawyers: Stand Up, Fight and Win. “Those on...

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Fastest Rubik’s Cube Solve Ever

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“The bird in Charlie’s Angels is, I believe, the wrongest bird in...

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Yes, the Media’s Biden Coverage Was Flawed. But Its Reporting on Trump...

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Colin Jost & Michael Che give each other jokes to tell on...

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Netflix has picked up Sesame Street after HBO/Max/HBO Max/LOL Max cancelled their...

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Congratulations to Amazon on Its Partnership With the Saudi Prince Who Murdered...

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Some Recent Tweaks (and Post Faving!)

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The Internet Phone Book is “an annual publication for exploring the vast...

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I Like Good Art and I Cannot Lie

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A series of videos by Toby Hendy where she explains the PhD...

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The Good Luck Fish

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George Orwell’s 11 rules for a nice cup of tea. “I maintain...

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Photos of the Inside of a Particle Accelerator

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International students studying in the US were asked about the chilling effects...

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High-School Runner Rips GOP State Rep. for Anti-Trans Comments

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Octavia Butler’s Advice on Writing. “Write, every day, whether you like it...

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A Roundup of Things Wearing Other Things

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