interesting links roundup #23
reading #
- An amateur just solved a 60-year-old math problem—by asking AI
- As federal scientists faced turmoil, the Devils Hole pupfish reached a crisis point
- The best seat in town
- The Boy Who Heard Too Much
- A brief history of instant coffee
- The curious history of gummi worms
- How Bad Is Plagiarism, Really?
- How the Guillotine Got Axed
- How The Heck Does Shazam Work?
- Jonathan Swift’s Last Joke
- The Kept and the Killed
- Man Finds $1 Million Worth of Yu-Gi-Oh Cards in a Dumpster
- The map that keeps Burning Man honest
- My Quest to Solve Bitcoin’s Great Mystery
- Neanderthals ran ‘fat factories’ 125,000 years ago
- The Pain and Play of Divorce on Kids’ TV
- ‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds
- Proto-mammals laid eggs, paleontologists finally confirm
- Report on an Unidentified Space Station (short fiction by J.G. Ballard)
- Rotten Dot Com
- This metro stop is Ancient Rome’s new attraction
- Tristan da Cunha: The busiest place you’ve never seen
- The ‘unregistered Americans’: because of their parents, they do not exist
- We Actually Do Have To Talk About The Pitt Fandom
- Why Are People Injecting Themselves with Peptides?
- Why Spirit Airlines Failed While European Budget Carriers Thrive
- The wild Geese chase
- The 70-year-old retiree who became America’s worst counterfeiter
tools/reference #
- Calculator.net
- Charcuterie — A Visual Unicode Explorer
- The Death Generator
- noclip (works best on desktop)
- PowerToys: Utilities to customize Windows
- Reasons to be Cheerful
- Tabletopy