interesting links roundup #23
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reading
An amateur just solved a 60-year-old math problem—by asking AI
As federal scientists faced turmoil, the Devils Hole pupfish reached a crisis point
The best seat in town
The Boy Who Heard Too Much
A brief history of instant coffee
The curious history of gummi worms
How Bad Is Plagiarism, Really?
How the Guillotine Got Axed
How The Heck Does Shazam Work?
Jonathan Swift’s Last Joke
The Kept and the Killed
Man Finds $1 Million Worth of Yu-Gi-Oh Cards in a Dumpster
The map that keeps Burning Man honest
My Quest to Solve Bitcoin’s Great Mystery
Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago
The Pain and Play of Divorce on Kids’ TV
‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds
Proto-mammals laid eggs, paleontologists finally confirm
Report on an Unidentified Space Station (short fiction by J.G. Ballard)
Rotten Dot Com
This metro stop is Ancient Rome's new attraction
Tristan da Cunha: The busiest place you've never seen
The ‘unregistered Americans’: because of their parents, they do not exist
We Actually Do Have To Talk About The Pitt Fandom
Why Are People Injecting Themselves with Peptides?
Why Spirit Airlines Failed While European Budget Carriers Thrive
The wild Geese chase
The 70-year-old retiree who became America's worst counterfeiter
tools/reference
Calculator.net
Charcuterie — A Visual Unicode Explorer
The Death Generator
noclip (works best on desktop)
PowerToys: Utilities to customize Windows
Reasons to be Cheerful
Tabletopy
other
Digital Museum of Plugs and Sockets
Haunted Paper Toys
Radiolab: The Punchline
A Ternary Plot of Citrus
Wikipedia: Category:Songs about dancing
Wikipedia: The Final Experiment (expedition)
Wikipedia: Hormesis
Wikipedia: Other World Kingdom











