interesting links roundup #16
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- All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity
- The Baby Died. Whose Fault Is It?
- Busy Beaver Hunters Reach Numbers That Overwhelm Ordinary Math
- Buying Myself Back
- Can You Really Live One Day at a Time?
- The death rays that guard life
- English is not normal
- Escapee pregnancy test frogs colonised Wales for 50 years
- Flat-Nose, Stocky and Beautugly
- The Floods Kept Coming. He Needed to Grow a Crop That Would Thrive in Water — or to Quit.
- The Great Parmesan Cheese Enigma
- Hijacking the Kennedys
- The History of The New Yorker’s Vaunted Fact-Checking Department
- How Music Criticism Lost Its Edge
- In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses
- Inside Uniqlo’s Quest for Global Dominance
- Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing?
- Kryptonite Is Crap
- The Man in the New Boots
- Mold, Mold Everywhere
- Personal Belgians
- The replica and the original
- The Sedini Special
- Structured Procrastination
- Tomorrow’s Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 Has Arrived
- The Vatican Observatory Looks to the Heavens
- What is a color space?
- Why the Brain’s Connections to the Body Are Crisscrossed
- Why We Spiral
- 3 Teens Almost Got Away With Murder. Then Police Found Their Google Searches