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Chances are, you’re reading this on a camera. That’s a very odd sentence but in a sense, it’s probably [...]

A few months ago, the greater Los Angeles area received a dubious honor — for the sixth consecutive [...]

1) “The Big Squeeze” (Aeon, 10 minutes). The title in the HTML tag is better — “How a [...]

Imagine, for sake of discussion about something totally unrelated, a fence which stretched, end to end, [...]

More than 200 years ago, a New York City man named William Colgate made a living making and selling soap and [...]

The phrase “like finding a needle in a haystack” is a similie — sometimes, the thing we’re in [...]

1) “These Cultural Treasures Are Made of Plastic. Now They’re Falling Apart.” (New York Times, [...]

When it comes to fashion, what we choose to do is often impractical. For women, there are tons of examples. [...]

Every once in a while, a bird will poop on you. If it does, you’ll quickly learn two things. First, [...]

If you haven’t heard of Australian rock band AC/DC, you’re in for a treat — for more than [...]