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For three decades, a retired postal worker in rural Vermont has been cataloging every odd public notice, defunct business card, and lost-pet flyer she can find. Now her collection is being digitized by the Smithsonian — and it's reshaping how historians understand small-town America.
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A new paper in Nature reveals the protein shield that lets these microscopic creatures survive radiation, boiling, and the vacuum of space — and what it might mean for human medicine.
In the remote hills of Sardinia, a village of 800 has kept a perfect civic record since 1623. We spent two weeks asking why — and what every other community might learn.
When a Boston software startup adopted a rescue beagle in 2019, they didn't expect him to become their highest-rated team member. Five years later, his performance review is read company-wide.
Stanford researchers trained a language model on every cartoon caption the magazine has published since 1985. The result is unsettling, charming, and raises real questions about machine creativity.
After 22 years in fine dining, she wanted to make a perfect croissant for $3. Her tiny roadside stand now has a six-hour wait. We talked to her about the math of joy.
From a specific bench in a London park to a particular Taco Bell in Arizona, our cartographer traced the real-world locations of 31 viral memes. The pattern is weirder than you'd expect.
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