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Games Scrandle turns stadium food into a daily taste test Grant St. Clair

Games Letting video game NPCs place Amazon orders for you is not a good idea Grant St. Clair

Technology Meta patented a wearable that listens all day to guess your feelings Ellsworth Toohey

politics Turn's out RFK's carnivore diet is unhealthy. Who would have guessed? Grant St. Clair

Science Liquid water may be two different structures constantly swapping back and forth Ellsworth Toohey

anxiety Propranolol doesn't kill public speaking dread — it just stops your body from becoming a shaky mess Ellsworth Toohey

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Science How Claude Shannon used his wife as a language model in 1950 Ellsworth Toohey

solar power Utah City spends $400,000 on stainless-steel slides in the desert Jason Weisberger

Technology The YouTube channel with 77,000 videos of red and blue rectangles Ellsworth Toohey

christian nationalism 180 religions dropped from Pentagon's approved list of faiths Séamus Bellamy

Technology A company accidentally spent $500 million on Claude in one month Ellsworth Toohey

Entertainment Disney World's "Carousel of Progress" now to include progress Ruben Bolling

trump Where is the Board of Peace's aid cash for Gaza? Séamus Bellamy

marine biology Workers opened a whale in 1937 and found something inside that still doesn't have a name Ellsworth Toohey

animals Baby aardvarks look like tiny aliens Popkin

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politics The Norwegian Dawn cruise ship flunks health inspection Jennifer Sandlin