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How to skip a year of work without anyone noticing
Half an hour before her weekly check-in, Leyla Kazim would spend 15 minutes “knocking up a page of something,” fire off a couple of emails, and deliver…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Apple patches bug that exposed deleted Signal messages
Signal’s disappearing messages weren’t fully disappearing.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Tor Browser’s “New Identity” button didn’t actually reset your fingerprint
Tor Browser has a “New Identity” button that’s supposed to give you a completely fresh start — like opening a brand-new browser with no memory of what…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Why America is deeply, uniformly unhappy
The happiness crash that started in 2020 didn’t spare any particular group.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Scientists finally cracked how bacteria’s spinning motor actually works
Mike Manson has spent 50 years at Texas A&M studying the bacterial flagellar motor — a molecular machine that spins hundreds of times per second…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Sony’s table tennis robot beat a pro player she couldn’t read
Mayuka Taira, a professional table tennis player, lost to a robot called Ace in December 2025 and described the experience: “it is very hard to predict…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Take a break from your phone with a KitKat wrapper that is also a Faraday cage
Nestle wants people to take a break with a KitKat and put their phones away.
 • Gail P Sherman
100-episode YouTube series demystifies the Asian grocery store
I have been trying to cook more lately, and a great resource I’ve found to help me level up my game is Sam Low’s series, “How to Shop at Your Local…
 • Jennifer Sandlin
Tom the Dancing Bug: Trump Reveals Plan to Turn All Schools into Ballrooms
Tom the Dancing Bug: News of the Times – Trump Reveals New Plan to Turn All Schools into Ballrooms
 • Ruben Bolling
Cartoonist Gemma Correll’s moving and funny book about her lifelong mental illness: Anxietyland
Popular and hilarious web cartoonist and illustrator Gemma Correll has just released a new graphic novel about her lifetime struggle with anxiety and…
 • Ruben Bolling
What happens when a deer smashes through a Funko Pop store?
A deer in Copperas Cove, Texas, recently made a bold retail decision: it entered a collectibles shop by going directly through the window.
 • Popkin
This 1980 Czech animation is circles all the way down
Do you ever feel like you’re spinning in circles trying to get ready in the morning?
 • Popkin
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