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This website is compiling a sourced list of ICE abuses in Minnesota....

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Photos of China’s Green Energy Transition

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Wikipedia turns 25 years old. (I can’t believe it’s only been around...

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At the Stone Skimming World Championships in Scotland (at an old slate...

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By All Measures. “Our scales are too imbalanced; we are unable to...

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Visualizations of the growing undersea network of submarine cables, 2013-2025....

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The Florentine Codex

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Many of us have “lost the future” during the radical uncertainty brought...

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From XKCD, some common sailing rigs, including the ketch, schooner, offset rig,...

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Bread Infographic

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“This should be the year you stop trying so hard to turn...

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Divers

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Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White...

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Olive Oil Sculptures

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I Was Kidnapped by Idiots. “Later, he tried the ‘good cop, bad...

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Jamelle Bouie: “The American public, then, is left not with a president...

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Stop complaining about paywalls existing. “These paywalls are attempts to make this...

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Donald Trump Is Waging War Against Human Conscience. “The lust for mud...

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Zoe Saldaña is now the highest-grossing actor of all time (bc of...

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Currently listening to this Thai house mix from Meltmode, played from a...

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Lunchtime

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North America kind of sucks at elevators. “Elevators cost nearly three times...

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How Will the Miracle Happen Today? “Kindness is like a breath. It...

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Montreal’s Ice Surfer

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Thoughtful lessons from a Google software engineer. “The punchline isn’t ‘never innovate.’...

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Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about this 2015 observation on Tumblr...

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The America That Could Be

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Astronomers have discovered an “almost-galaxy” called Cloud-9 (no, really), a failed galaxy...

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Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a...

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Discover the 100-Year-Old Self-Playing Violin, One of the Most Complex Music Players...

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“I feel stuck and sad and I don’t know what else to...

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An Optical Compass Inspired by Bee Vision

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Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection. “This page contains a collection of small...

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Out of the 1000 most-discussed books on Hacker News, it looks like...

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A Logistical Matter

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Train Wreck

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I loved watching this quick video recap of how Penguin designer Elisha...

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Using lidar, scientists discovered a 400-foot-long wall composed of “60 massive granite...

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words.zip is “an infinite collaborative word search where anyone can find and...

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There’s a shark called the cookiecutter shark because it leaves bite marks...

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Burn Harry Burn: Reckoning With My Harry Potter Fandom as a Trans...

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A soaring US vs a stagnant EU? “Europeans benefit from more leisure...

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Alexandra Petri: I Tried to Be the Government. It Did Not Go...

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What You’re Watching Isn’t What You’re Really Watching. “You think you’re watching...

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Abolish ICE

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An ICE agent murdered a woman in Minneapolis today. Mayor Jacob Frey...

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How Did We Map the World Before Satellites?

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WikiFlix is a streaming site for movies in the public domain, including...

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“South Korea imports more kimchi than it exports, and the gap has...

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A group of students at a New Mexico college (mostly) gave up...

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