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The Nugget Casino Resort, as it’s now known, opened in 1955 in Sparks, Nevada, a suburb of Reno. [...]

Crossword puzzles are, at least in theory, pretty simple. There’s a grid with some blank spaces in which [...]

Major League Baseball got underway over the last few days, with all 30 teams playing their first (fake) games [...]

1) “Baby Blue Blood Drive” (Radiolab, 58 minutes, August 2018). This is a podcast episode about [...]

Pictured above is the USS Oriskany, an American aircraft carrier. In the image above, this huge warship was [...]

1) “The Most Dangerous Book in the World” (Mental Floss, 11 minutes, January 2019). The subhead: [...]

Stephen Hawking, pictured above left, was considered one of the world’s smartest people during his [...]

If you look in your wallet right now, hopefully, you’ll see some money in there. If you’re an American, [...]

Prices fluctuate but recently, the price of an ounce of gold has hovered around $1,250. And while there are [...]

1) “Meet the Safecracker of Last Resort” (The Atlantic, 15 minutes, December 2018). The subhead: [...]