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Science Two twisty doughnut shapes solve a 150-year-old geometry puzzle Ellsworth Toohey

politics The EU's infamous "curved banana law" is both real and completely misunderstood Ellsworth Toohey

Games Minecraft but the world is spherical Rob Beschizza

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giants How the world's only dwarf-giant grew from 4'10" to 7'8" Mark Frauenfelder

Space William Shatner: Actually, going to space was a huge bummer David Pescovitz

History Benjamin Lay was the best radical vegan Quaker hunchback abolitionist of the 1700s Thom Dunn

pizza "Cyberslice" walked so delivery apps could run Annie Rauwerda

medicine UK man is first person to break his penis vertically David Pescovitz

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makers Revisiting Make:'s weekly Math Monday column Gareth Branwyn

mistakes Flat-earther Mike Hughes dies in rocket stunt filmed by "Science" Channel Rob Beschizza

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football Trippy film flashes 2,000 aerial shots of football fields in three minutes Andrea James

art Check out these massive curving structures of millimeters-thick strips Andrea James