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• [OC] The wealth gap widens 8x between age 25 and 65
  At age 65–74, the top 10% of US households have $3,005,220 in net worth and the bottom 10% have $4,896. The gap doesn't grow proportionally with age. It widens almost 8x from $379K (under 35) to $3M (65–74). submitted by /u/Global-Tho…
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• [OC] I made an interactive map of how close houses are to roads (using OpenStreetMap)
  I built a small website that shows the distance between house walls and the nearest road, using OSM data. Data-processing (Rust + python): I read building and road data from .osm.pbf files For each building wall vertex, I compute the distance…
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• [OC] US Home Prices: 15 Cities Race from $150K → $1.1M (2000–2026)
  Full video: https://youtu.be/S-BuPMKLhuE 📊 Data & Methodology: • 2000–2016: S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Index via FRED (fred.stlouisfed.org) back-calculated to real dollar values by anchoring each city to its 2016 Realtor.com m…
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• [OC] Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – International presidential trips (2003–2006, 2007–2010, 2023–present)
  This map shows the international travel pattern of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva across his three terms in office. Lines connect Brazil (home base) to each visited city and do not represent actual flight routes. Each destination is mapped individu…
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• [OC] 3D map of France showing number of cheek kisses when greeting, by department
  The surface colour/texture denotes the number of kisses bestowed by a plurality of residents in each department—from one to four—and the height is the percentage of that plurality. Modelled in TinkerCad, printed on an A1, data from http://c…
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• [OC] Half of U.S Workers Now Use AI
  submitted by /u/gith630 [link] [comments]
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• Libraries were transforming. Then COVID hit. [OC]
  submitted by /u/rhiever [link] [comments]
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• [OC] Share of Crude Oil Exports Going to Each Country’s Top Customer (2024 — UN Comtrade)
  submitted by /u/Expensive-Aerie-2479 [link] [comments]
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• [OC] Earthquakes in the Last 24 Hours — World, US, Chile, Japan, Indonesia, and Greece (USGS & EMSC Data)
  submitted by /u/NegotiationOk7535 [link] [comments]
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• [OC] A generative data driven story of visitors of, and usage of, the first week of an online game checklist tool
  I built a small system that turns raw site analytics into a living story. It started as a personal checklist tool, but once it went public, I wanted to understand how people actually used it without digging through dashboards or static charts.…
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• Flood Fill H3 Hexagons on Drive Time [OC]
  Visual from an article I wrote on how to use H3 hexagons for network design in last mile operations. It shows all the places you can reach within 2 hours on a typical day from the center, overlayed over Manchester UK. Article: https://medium.c…
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• [OC] Liberal Party of Canada Seat Changes since 2025 General Election
  Tool: Datawrapper Source: CBC News, Our Commons submitted by /u/MongooseDear8727 [link] [comments]
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• [OC] Tōhoku Region (Japan): M≥5.5 Earthquakes Show Elevated Activity in 2025 (USGS Data)
  This visualization shows the annual number of earthquakes with magnitude ≥5.5 in the Tōhoku region (northeastern Japan) from 2012 to 2025, along with the analyzed area and the location of recent major events. In 2025, the region recorded th…
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• [OC] Immunization coverage by year in South American countries 💉
  submitted by /u/dataviz-ar [link] [comments]
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• Seasonality of daily CO₂ emissions generated by the global aviation sector, 2019-2025 [OC]
  In continuation to yesterday's post (link here), I look at the seasonality of global aviation CO₂ emissions during each year between 2019 and 2025. Strong seasonal summer peaks gradually re-emerged during the post-pandemic recovery. These pea…
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• [OC] A topological map of research activity in Soil and Agriculture over the last 2 years.
  Map of the most active areas of research in Soil and Agriculture. The peaks represent the density of research output in those regions over the last 2 years. How it was made: Paper titles and abstracts were clustered by contextual similarity us…
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• [OC] The US companies with the most warehouse space - Using the Manhattan Island for scale comparison
  submitted by /u/VeridionData [link] [comments]
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• How Efficient are Animals and Vehicles? [OC]
  Steve Job's favorite graph was one that showed how efficient bicycles are. He called the computer the bicycle for the mind. That graph was made by Wilson in 1973 so i decided to update it. R Package ggplot2 code and all the data which comes fr…
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• [OC] Where Billionaires Study (2026): Top Universities, Countries, and Degrees Behind $13.58T in Wealth
  Original dataset of 3,184 billionaires (Forbes 2026). I mapped university, country, and field of study for 78.91% of them to uncover patterns in wealth creation. The infographic highlights concentration (45.38% from top 100 universities), domin…
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• [OC] Media Trust At Record Low, But Age Gap Varies.
  submitted by /u/najumobi [link] [comments]
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• Protein Bars Mapped by Protein vs. Calories (901 bars, By Protein Type) [OC]
  Data Dataset: 900 protein bars compiled from product labels and manufacturer websites (it took way too long to compile...) Metrics: protein (grams), calories, and ingredient lists Visualization: built in Python using Plotly, exported to HTML Protei…
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• [OC] Visualizing 365 Days of California Lottery Variance: Identifying "Dead Zones" via Positional Digit Decay
  [OC] Forensic Analysis of CA Daily 3 Variance Data Source: Scraped from the California Lottery Public API (JSON) via Python. Tools Used: ETL/Data Cleaning: Python (Pandas/Requests) Mathematical Analysis: First-order Markov Chain Transition Mode…
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• Daily CO₂ emissions generated by the global aviation sector, 2019-2025 [OC]
  Global aviation CO₂ emissions reached a new record high in 2025, averaging 3.9 MtCO₂ per day. After the dramatic collapse in 2020, international aviation has largely recovered. However, the pace of growth is now clearly slowing as the post…
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• Kyoto's Cherry Blossoms Bloom Earlier in Warmer Weather [OC]
  https://data.tablepage.ai/d/kyoto-cherry-blossom-bloom-dates-and-spring-temperatures-812-2026 submitted by /u/aspiringtroublemaker [link] [comments]
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• [Topic][Open] Open Discussion Thread — Anybody can post a general visualization question or start a fresh discussion!
  Anybody can post a question related to data visualization or discussion in the monthly topical threads. Meta questions are fine too, but if you want a more direct line to the mods, click here If you have a general question you need answered, or a dis…
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The Mary Sue

• newOhio man does scan-and-go at Sam’s Club. Then he checks his bank account: ‘Chase Bank, do better’
  
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• new10 Greatest Non-binary Characters in Film and TV History
  Enby excellence, all around.
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• new‘My worst homeowner nightmare’: Texas woman looks in her backyard. Then she sees where her neighbor planted bamboo 

  
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• newWoman grabs $10 grab bag from Goodwill, realizing she scored. Then the cashier steps in after realizing what she scanned: ‘We always send these off’ 
  
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• newTucker Carlson, Alex Jones, and More MAGA Grifters Are Apologizing for Supporting Trump. Too Little, Too Late
  
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• newCarnival Cruise can’t dock at Bahamas due to weather. Then a passenger crashes out—and another steps in: ‘We were supposed to go horseback riding’
  
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• newSinners Rejoice! Your Favorite Singing Angels and Demons Will Be Around A While Longer
  
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• Florida woman goes to Home Depot. Then she finds something unusual in the plants section: ‘he found the stash’
  
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• Florida woman and bride-to-be books wedding venue tour at Four Seasons. Then a front desk worker kicks her out
  
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• ‘People do this all the time and I don’t blame them’: Man uses his Kohl’s credit card at checkout. Then he pulls an UNO Reverse
  
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• 10 Movies Remakes That Were Better Than The Original
  The exceptions to the bad remake rule.
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• ‘He definitely ate your food’: Atlanta customer orders GrubHub. Then the driver asks her to break the rules
  
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• ‘We’re all standing outside’: Texas woman shows up to Costco at 9:57am—and quickly gets humbled. Now all the executive Costco members are mocking her
  
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• Couple hosts gender reveal party. The man’s reaction to having a boy has people begging her to leave him: ‘She doesn’t know’
  
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• Husband cooks wife her first postpartum meal. Then she sees the kitchen—and realizes the gesture wasn’t that thoughtful after all: ‘Leave him’
  
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• Nashville woman crashes out over her ‘favorite’ part of ordering groceries online, especially if it’s a man shopping for her: ‘Feels kinda intimate’
  
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• ‘Helped rebuild Sleepy Joe Biden’s depleted Navy’: Trump is all praise for ousted Navy chief even as Pentagon admits his leadership was a disaster
  
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• Trump fired the DOJ official set to testify on Epstein files. Now the inspector general wants answers before the next cover-up
  
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• ‘I have all the time in the world’: Trump sneers at Iran as he flips the hourglass on their navy
  
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• Louisiana’s week of bloodshed continues as gunfire erupts in Baton Rouge mall, sending families scrambling for cover
  
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Neatorama

• newBring Your Sword to Vote in This Swiss Town
  Citizens attend the Landsgemeinde, a traditional public vote in Appenzell, Switzerland, where historically the only proof of citizenship required for men to vote was the display of a sword or Swiss military sidearm.One of Switzerland’s oldest forms…
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• newDinosaur-Shaped Tiramisu
  There's a dinosaur-themed cafe in Suwon, a city south of Soeul. Threads user @strayhyuniee visited and took photos. One dessert on sale is attracting a lot of attention on the Internet: a tiramisu dish shaped like the head of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. So…
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• The Werewolf Who Was On God's Side
  The classic werewolf of the Middles Ages was either a vicious, murderous person or a real beast that killed people, and in the popular mind became a shapeshifter who was both. They had to be in league with the devil! But the case of Thiess of Kaltenb…
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• The Role of Dopamine May Lead to a Breakthrough in Alzheimer's Disease
  Research into Alzheimer's disease has focused on toxic proteins like amyloid-beta and tau, because that's what scientists have found when examining brains of patients after death. It's much more difficult to study patient's brains as the disease prog…
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• Doing Your Business Before the Modern Flush Toilet Came About
  Everything you encounter in your daily life has a history, but there are some kinds of history that they just skip over in school history classes. For example, what did people do before modern toilets were invented? In my neck of the woods, they used…
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• These Are Lumberjack Sandals
  This photo dating from 1955 shows special slip-on sandals that loggers wore to protect mess hall floors during meal breaks. Lumberjack boots had spikes on the bottom, thus imperiling indoor surfaces.-via Things from the PastPhoto: Potlatch Lumber Com…
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• Shakespeare's Missing Skull, and the Possible Story Behind It
  Ten years ago, we linked a story about Shakespeare's grave. A TV production used ground-penetrating radar to get an image of the Bard's remains, and concluded that the skull was missing. Since then, historians have looked back to a 1879 account of wh…
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• Hot Air Balloon Accidentally Lands in Backyard
  Hunter and Jenna Perrin were in their home in Temecula--a city south of Los Angeles--when they received an automatic notification from their security camera system. This was followed by a knock on the door. NBC 4 News reports that a hot air balloon w…
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• A LEGO Exoskeleton for a Kitten in Need
  Squid was born with a deformity in his back legs. He lucked out when he came into the care of Drs. Lauren and Daniel Anthony, married veterinarians in Frisco, Texas. They took the kitten in and made splints of different kinds to keep his legs straigh…
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• The Evolution of Double-Stacking Airline Passengers Has Abandoned Its Initial Goal
  One way for airlines to reduce costs and maximize profits is to reconfigure seating to pack the largest number of passengers possible into a plane. That's how they got so small and uncomfortable. Alejandro Núñez Vicente has been working on this ide…
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• The River That Breaks Rules and Then Disappears
  Rivers are the water paths that rain and snow follow from higher elevations to lower elevations until they reach the ocean. Sometimes they end in a lake or another river, but gravity ensures that water flows to a lower level, like sea level. The Colo…
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• A Major Maple Syrup Case in Quebec Offends Canada's National Pride
  Canadians take maple syrup seriously. To be legally labeled as maple syrup, the product has to be 100% maple syrup. Otherwise, it is called table syrup. And no one in Canada takes maple syrup more seriously than Quebec. So it was a major scandal when…
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• Ranking All of Shakespeare's 35 Plays
  Michael Billington, a theater critic for The Guardian, ranks from worst to best all of the plays of William Shakespeare. He identifies 35 of them, but scholars dispute that number, raising higher or lower due to the Bard's collaboration with author w…
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• A Quest to Try Every Cuisine in the World, All in One City
  Two guys who go by the name Taste Buds came up with the most enjoyable (to produce) YouTube series imaginable. They embarked on a quest to try the food of every country in the world, without leaving New York City! They pick countries pretty much at r…
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• That Time the Americans Saved Tojo's Life
  If you know anything about General Hideki Tojo, it's that he commanded the Japanese military during World War II. He rose through the ranks to become commander of the army, and also served as Japan's prime minister from October 1941 to July 1944. Toj…
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Longform

• Longform Podcast #585: John Jeremiah Sullivan
  John Jeremiah Sullivan is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and has written for Harper's, The New Yorker, and GQ. He is the author of Pulphead and the forthcoming The Prime Minister of Paradise: The True Story of a Lost American Hi…
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• Longform Podcast #584: Ta-Nehisi Coates
  Ta-Nehisi Coates is an author and journalist. His next book is The Message.“I don’t think we have the luxury as journalists of avoiding things because people might say bad things about us. I don’t even think we have the luxury of avoiding thi…
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• Longform Podcast #583: Jay Caspian Kang
  Jay Caspian Kang is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a co-host of Time to Say Goodbye.“At some point, you have to kick it out the door, and it’s never finished to the degree that you would finish a magazine piece. But it, in some ways, is m…
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• Longform Podcast #582: Joseph Cox
  Joseph Cox is a cybersecurity journalist and co-founder of 404 Media. His new book is Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever.“In the not too distant future, I will be a very old man, and maybe I won't be able to…
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• Longform Podcast #581: Tavi Gevinson
  Tavi Gevinson is a writer, actor, and the founder of Rookie. Her new zine is Fan Fiction.“Stories are unstable, and memory is unstable, and identity is unstable. All of these things that I've tried to make permanent in writing, they're actually un…
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• Longform Podcast #580: Rachel Khong
  Rachel Khong is a journalist and author whose latest novel is Real Americans.“It's about the ways in which we miss each other as human beings and can't fully communicate what it is like to be ourselves. … And I think that's what makes it so int…
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• Longform Podcast #579: Kelsey McKinney
  Kelsey McKinney is a features writer and co-owner at Defector.com. She hosts the podcast Normal Gossip and is the author of the upcoming book You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip.“I was always very interested in how you stra…
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• Longform Podcast #578: Lissa Soep
  Lissa Soep is an audio producer, editor and author whose latest book is Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End.“I am so keenly aware of how much my own voice is a product of editing relationships and co-pro…
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• Longform Podcast #577: PJ Vogt
  PJ Vogt is the host of Search Engine.“One of our tests editorially is if we think we’ve got something good, but we haven’t started reporting or recording on it, I’ll just try asking the question at dinner and stuff. If it derails conversatio…
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• Longform Podcast #576: Lindsay Peoples
  Lindsay Peoples is the editor-in-chief of The Cut.“You see so many incredible people make one mistake and lose their job or they speak out about something and then the next day something blows up. And so I do think that I often feel like I have t…
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• Polk Award Winners: Jason Motlagh
  Jason Motlagh, a journalist and filmmaker, is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and the founder of Blackbeard Films. He won the Polk's Sydney Schanberg Prize for “This Will End in Blood and Ashes,” an account of the collapse of order in Hait…
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• Polk Award Winners: Brian Howey
  Brian Howey is a freelance journalist who won the Polk Award for Justice Reporting after exposing a deceptive police tactic widely used in California. He began the project, which was eventually published by the Los Angeles Times and Reveal, as a grad…
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• Polk Award Winners: Meribah Knight
  Meribah Knight is a reporter with Nashville Public Radio. She won the Polk Award for Podcasting for “The Kids of Rutherford County,” produced with ProPublica and Serial, which revealed a shocking approach to juvenile discipline in one Tennessee c…
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• Polk Award Winners: Jesse Coburn
  Jesse Coburn is an investigative reporter at Streetsblog. He won the Polk Award for Local Reporting for "Ghost Tags," his series on the black market for temporary license plates.“You can imagine this having never become a problem, because it’s…
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• Polk Award Winners: Amel Guettatfi and Julia Steers
  Amel Guettatfi and Julia Steers won this year's George Polk Award for Television Reporting for “Inside Wagner,” their Vice News investigation of Russian mercenaries on the Ukraine front and in the Central African Republic. “One of the best ta…
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• Longform Podcast #575: Megan Kimble
  Megan Kimble is the former executive editor of The Texas Observer and has written for The New York Times, Texas Monthly, and The Guardian. Her new book is City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s Highways.“I have neve…
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• Longform Podcast #574: Zach Harris
  Zach Harris is a journalist whose latest article for Rolling Stone is "Meet the Gen Z Hothead Burning Up Pro Bowling."“I'm not like a staff writer who has … status and access. But if I come up with something fun that you've never heard of that…
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• Longform Podcast #573: Rozina Ali
  Rozina Ali is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the winner of the 2023 National Magazine Award for Reporting. Her latest article is “Raised in the West Bank, Shot in Vermont.”“I think it’s very, very important to spea…
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• Longform Podcast #572: Derek Thompson
  Derek Thompson is a staff writer for The Atlantic and host of the podcast Plain English.“I am an inveterate dilettante. I lose interest in subjects all the time. Because what I find interesting about my job is the invitation to solve mysteries. A…
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• Longform Podcast #571: Tessa Hulls
  Tessa Hulls is a writer and artist whose work has appeared in The Rumpus, The Washington Post, and The Capitol Hill Times. Her new book, a graphic memoir, is Feeding Ghosts.“This project is the thing I have spent my entire life running from. I wa…
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Awkward Geeks

Mentalfloss

• newQuiz: Can You Guess the ‘90s Movie From Its Soundtrack or Score?
  How well do you know your '90s movie soundtracks and scores? Some are much easier to figure out than others on this quiz we have for you.
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• newThe Only Two Songs Ringo Starr Wrote for The Beatles
  Did you know the band's drummer wrote these iconic Beatles' tunes?
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• newDid Julius Caesar Say "Et Tu, Brute?" Before He Died? (The Real Story)
  The line the Roman dictator actually uttered has been overshadowed by a far more famous quote.
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• newThe Most Productive Countries in the World, Ranked
  Discover which countries generate the most economic output per hour worked, ranked by GDP per hour. See how productivity compares across OECD economies.
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• new7 Little-Known Presidential Firsts That Flew Under the Radar
  Many of these presidential firsts never made the history books.
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• newTeacher Salaries Across the World, Ranked
  A new data analysis reveals huge disparities in teacher salaries across the globe.
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• newAn Oral History of the "Sweet Child O' Mine" Intro Riff
  No, it wasn't a warm-up exercise. Here's the truth about how Slash came up with the "Sweet Child O' Mine" riff, in his own words.
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• new5 of the Coldest Places People Actually Live
  From Antarctic research stations to remote Siberian towns, these places redefine the meaning of cold.
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• Quiz: Can You Match the Legendary Actor to Their First Role?
  You know their big roles, but how well do you know their first roles? This isn't just about movies, but about small TV roles, too.
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• 8 School Lunch Foods That Ruled the Cafeteria in the 2000s
  Take a nostalgic bite out of the cafeteria favorites that defined 2000s school lunches.
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• Prove Your Trivia Expertise With Ken Jennings’s Kennections #201
  All five answers to the questions below have something in common. Can you figure it out?
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• 7 Worst Discontinued Fast Food Items We Can't Believe Were Sold
  From Taco Bell’s Waffle Taco to McDonald’s McSpaghetti, these discontinued fast food items were once sold in major chains—and we still can’t believe they existed.
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• Dolly Parton's Favorite (and Least Favorite) Dolly Parton Songs
  From "I'll Oil Wells Love You" to "Coat of Many Colors," Dolly Parton has some strong opinions about some songs in her vast discography.
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• The Most Polite Countries in the World, Ranked
  See which nation is known for the most respectful public behavior in the world.
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• Quiz: Can You Match the Lyric to the '70s Hit Song It's From?
  How well do you know your Bee Gees, Eagles, and Fleetwood Mac trivia? Find out with this quiz.
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• The Best Trivia Questions For Kids to Test Their Knowledge
  Family game night just got a whole lot more educational with these 100 trivia questions for kids.
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• Pirates Didn’t Make Captives Walk the Plank (The Real Punishments Were Much Worse)
  Historians say the reality of pirate punishment was far more brutal than the popular myth suggests.
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• Quiz: How Quickly Can You Name These Alliterative World Capitals?
  How well do you know world capitals? Take on this alliterative challenge and race against time to score big.
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• The Medieval Mystery of a City That Danced Itself to Death
  In 1518, residents of Strasbourg began dancing uncontrollably for days until they passed away.
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• 5 of the Best Brunch Spots in America, According to Guy Fieri
  From dulce de leche pancake balls to fried chicken and waffles, these spots serve up brunches that even Guy Fieri can't refuse.
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• Meet Billy the Hippo: The Strangest Presidential Pet You’ve Never Heard Of
  This president also had a black bear, two lion cubs, and a raccoon named Rebecca.
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• 5 European Cities Everyone Is Visiting Instead Of Dubrovnik
  Skip the crowds in Dubrovnik and discover five stunning European cities offering medieval old towns, coastal views, and fewer tourists—from Montenegro to Albania and beyond.
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• Did Marie-Antoinette Shout ''Let Them Eat Cake" During the French Revolution? (The Real Story)
  History remembers her for a phrase that is pure fiction.
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• Shakespeare’s Lost London Home Was Hidden for 400 Years in Plain Sight
  Historians say the newly discovered location changes what we know about Shakespeare’s final years.
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• Songs From 2016 You Didn't Realize Turn 10 This Year
  From Rihanna's "Love on the Brain" to Billie Eilish's "Six Feet Under," all these songs came out a full decade ago.
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• Quiz: Can You Name the 10 Smallest States in Under 2 Minutes?
  Two minutes. 10 states. Go!
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• 5 Books About Mary Bennet, the Sidelined Sister in 'Pride and Prejudice'
  Mary Bennet rarely takes center stage in 'Pride and Prejudice'—but these five books reimagine the quiet sister with romance, mystery, and fresh perspective.
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• 5 Best Donut Shops in North America, According to Guy Fieri
  From maple-glazed creations to over-the-top filled pastries, these are five of the best donut shops in North America according to Guy Fieri.
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• 7 Things Everyone Can Do to Help Fight Climate Change
  This Earth Day, learn more about how to protect our planet—and the people who live on it.
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• Why Do Phone Cameras Flip Images?
  Ever notice your phone camera flips selfies? Here’s why images appear mirrored, how front-facing cameras work, and what’s really happening behind the scenes.
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