The weird challenges of de-extincting species: A woolly mammoth is going to be very hungry, and want 400 pounds of plants a day.
↩︎ The New Republic
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The mansion where Brideshead Revisited was written has sold—but the “Evelyn Waugh superfans” living there refuse to leave.
↩︎ The Guar…
According to a trend article (sourced by three people), lower-back tattoos are cool again.
↩︎ Yahoo! Life
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How many syllables in “World Cup?” An academic says definitely three.
↩︎ Language Log
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Restoring vintage pens offered respite from that abstraction, with the reward of a writing instrument I’d be able to use. I could cheaply buy pens neglected in someone’s drawer for decades and give them new li…
A year in the life of a person who pretended to be a computer pretending to be a person.
↩︎ The Guardian
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A men’s college basketball team recently only shot three-pointers for an entire game. They won 124-67.
↩︎ The Des Moines Register
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This predominant understanding of history is incorrect for three reasons: It places emphasis on the wrong events. It judges the relative importance of events incorrectly. It ultimately misunderstands which events had the …