17 Out-of-Place Artifacts That Suggest High-Tech Civilizations Existed Thousands—or Millions—of Years Ago

https://www.theepochtimes.com/bright/17-out-of-place-artifacts-that-suggest-high-tech-civilizations-existed-thousands-or-millions-of-years-ago-4809944

Airport Hasn’t Lost a Bag In 30 Years since its Opening in 1994—Here’s How

https://www.ganjingworld.com/news/1hm55a1hp9a432dUsFuiCJEio1771c/airport-hasnt-lost-a-bag-in-30-years-since-its-opening-in-1994heres-how

The World Bank set out to transform health care for the poor in Africa. It drove patients deeper into poverty.

https://www.icij.org/investigations/2025/07/the-world-bank-set-out-to-transform-health-care-for-the-poor-in-africa-it-drove-patients-deeper-into-poverty/

That Dropped Call With Customer Service? It Was on Purpose: Endless wait times and excessive procedural fuss—it’s all part of a tactic called “sludge.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/customer-service-sludge/683340/

10 concrete steps towards eradicating sexual violence against women: Patterns across 285 studies point towards 10 interventions that can work together to help prevent violence against women

https://www.deseret.com/indepth/2025/06/22/reducing-sexual-violence-against-women/

The Strength You Gain by Not Taking Offense: We all face uncivil behavior or insulting comments at times, but you can choose how to react.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/art-self-control-provocation/683205/

Surveillance pricing: How your data determines what you pay

https://protonvpn.com/blog/surviellance-pricing

The Great Egg Heist: 280,000 eggs disappeared from America’s top producer. Then came a ransom note.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2025/eggs-prices-gouging-cal-maine-investigation/

What is the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, the U.S. bunker-busting bomb?: Iran’s hardened, underground nuclear sites are impervious to most conventional weapons — except perhaps the U.S.-made 30,000-pound, deep-penetrating bomb.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/17/massive-ordnance-penetrator-iran-bunker-buster/

AI Obituary Pirates Are Exploiting Our Grief: I Tracked One Down to Find Out Why After the death of my sister, I was pulled into the troubling world of AI-written obituaries. This is what I learned about grief, scams and the people behind the words.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/features/ai-obituary-pirates-are-exploiting-our-grief-i-tracked-one-down-to-find-out-why/#ftag=CAD590a51e

A PTSD Therapy ‘Seemed Too Good to Be True’: What if overcoming trauma can be painless?

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/06/ptsd-trauma-veterans-treatment-rtm/683003/

Their son joined ISIS. Then they learned he had kids in a Syrian detention camp

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/27/nx-s1-5106845/isis-syria-terrorism-detention-camps

The Era of DEI for Conservatives Has Begun: In an effort to attract more right-leaning faculty, some elite universities are borrowing tactics long used to promote racial diversity.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/conservative-professors-dei-initiatives/682944/

The Utopian Promises and Novelty Cheese of a Discount Grocery Store

https://tastecooking.com/the-utopian-promises-and-novelty-cheese-of-a-discount-grocery-store/

From Messiaen to Radiohead: How great music uses prime numbers

https://bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/from-messiaen-to-radiohead-how-great-music-uses-prime-numbers/

How to Disappear: Inside the world of extreme-privacy consultants, who, for the right fee, will make you and your personal information very hard to find

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/extreme-personal-data-privacy-protection/682867/

A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths: If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/darvo-sociopath-gaslighting/682372/

Kennedy Is Right About the Chemicals in Our Food

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/opinion/kennedy-ultraprocessed-food-dyes.html

The Price of Remission

https://www.propublica.org/article/revlimid-price-cancer-celgene-drugs-fda-multiple-myeloma

North Korea Stole Your Job: For years, North Korea has been secretly placing young IT workers inside Western companies. With AI, their schemes are now more devious—and effective—than ever.

https://www.wired.com/story/north-korea-stole-your-tech-job-ai-interviews/ 

B.A. for $6K: BYU-Pathway pioneers three-year degree for four-figure price tag

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/30/ba-6k-byu-pathway-pioneers-three-year-degree-four-figure-price-tag/ 

End of 10

https://endof10.org/

The "End of 10" project wants to save aging PCs with Linux instead of Windows 11: As Windows 10 support ends, 240 million PCs face obsolescence

https://www.techspot.com/news/107819-end-10-project-wants-save-aging-pcs-linux.html 

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/openai-chatgpt-ai-cheating-education-college-students-school.html

How losing all my free time forced me to rethink productivity: Unconsidered productivity might leave you moving efficiently in the entirely wrong direction.

https://bigthink.com/smart-skills/how-running-out-of-free-time-made-me-rethink-productivity-entirely/

The great conclave secret: What do would-be popes eat?

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250430-the-secrets-of-feeding-the-papal-conclave

How to Check if a Car is Stolen (for Free): Use these free ways to check if a vehicle has been stolen before you make a purchase

https://www.iseecars.com/articles/how-to-check-if-a-car-is-stolen-for-free

Do twins become allergic to the same things?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250425-do-twins-become-allergic-to-the-same-things

The People Making Millions off Listerine Royalties: A little-known provision in a 100-year-old contract opened up the door for private investors to mint money from mouthwash sales.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-people-making-millions-off-listerine-royalties

The record-breaking tunnel being built from Denmark to Germany

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy70y2x3xj6o

7 Shocking Facts About Drinking Water Cold Vs. Room Temperature: Read on for more facts about cold versus room temperature water, according to experts.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/7-shocking-facts-about-drinking-water-cold-vs-room-temperature

There’s no such thing as ‘background music.’ Here’s how your playlist affects your brain: These methods can help you to use music to hack your productivity goals.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91318766/music-productivity-heres-how-playlist-affects-brain

It’s not just the religious conservative schools wondering now if they need to forgo federal funding

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2025/04/18/liberal-and-conservative-campuses-question-federal-funding/

Notre Dame professor: BYU-Pathway Worldwide may become Latter-day Saints’ ‘biggest gift to the world’

https://www.deseret.com/faith/2025/04/11/byu-pathway-worldwide-latter-day-saints-gift-to-the-world/

Why You Almost Never See a Clock at the Mall

 https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-you-almost-never-see-a-clock-at-the-mall

The Happiness Trinity: Why it’s so hard to answer the question “What makes us happiest?”

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-happiness-trinity

Columbia University’s Anti-Semitism Problem: If the bullying of Jewish students had happened to any other group, the institution would be appalled.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/columbia-antisemitism-israel-palestine-trump/682054/

I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats: I once believed university was a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated

https://thewalrus.ca/i-used-to-teach-students-now-i-catch-chatgpt-cheats/ 

Can You Think Yourself Young? Research shows that a positive attitude to ageing can lead to a longer, healthier life, while negative beliefs can have hugely detrimental effects.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/can-you-think-yourself-young

Five Surprising Ways Exercise Changes Your Brain: Moving your body is one of the most beneficial things you can do for your mind.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/five-surprising-ways-exercise-changes-your-brain

What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing

https://www.propublica.org/article/zolgensma-sma-novartis-drug-prices-gene-therapy-avexis

How Progressives Froze the American Dream: The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/03/american-geographic-social-mobility/681439/

Is it a crime to be in the country illegally? We answer your questions

https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/02/05/uncertain-immigration-status-distinctions/

Colossal squid: The eerie ambassador from the abyss

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250130-colossal-squid-the-eerie-ambassador-from-the-abyss

Time to Delete? The Most Invasive Apps List Includes Some of Your Favorites

https://www.pcmag.com/articles/time-to-delete-the-most-invasive-apps-list-includes-some-of-your-favorites

Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research

https://www.llrx.com/2025/01/fake-papers-are-contaminating-the-worlds-scientific-literature-fueling-a-corrupt-industry-and-slowing-legitimate-lifesaving-medical-research/

In a first, scientists find microplastics are building up deep in our brains: A new study shows that microplastics have crossed the blood-brain barrier -- and that their numbers are rising.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/02/03/microplastics-human-brain-increase/

How wildlife survives after wildfires

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250128-how-wildlife-survives-after-wildfires

The Benefit of Doing Things You’re Bad At: To learn a difficult new skill means risking failure—but it’s also a path to greater happiness.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/to-succeed-fail-better/681492/

The Devastating Legacy of Lies in Alzheimer’s Science

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/opinion/alzheimers-fraud-cure.html

Church says Texas town not standing by settlement reached for the McKinney Texas Temple: The town of Fairview and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints negotiated a smaller temple in November. The agreement may be unraveling and the church may seek legal remedy

https://www.deseret.com/faith/2025/01/27/church-fairview-town-mckinney-texas-temple-rluipa/

Why some experts believe there’s a society-wide ‘serious crisis of attention’ today: An entire industry is buying and selling our attention every day — filling content feeds ‘with so much garbage that even the good stuff can’t get through.’

https://www.deseret.com/indepth/2025/01/18/the-attention-crisis/

Fluoride in water: A research roundup and reporting tip sheet

https://journalistsresource.org/home/fluoride-research-roundup/

The Anti-Social Century: Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/american-loneliness-personality-politics/681091/

The Egg: A story of extraction, exploitation and opportunity

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-fertility-egg-trade/

Why Is the American Diet So Deadly? A scientist tried to discredit the theory that ultra-processed foods are killing us. Instead, he overturned his own understanding of obesity.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/13/why-is-the-american-diet-so-deadly

Seriously, What Are You Supposed to Do With Old Clothes?: There are no good solutions to the problems of closet clean-out.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/seriously-what-are-you-supposed-to-do-with-old-clothes

What to know about a controversial new study on fluoride and IQ: The study is likely to further inflame politicized debates over water fluoridation

 https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/06/fluoride-iq-jama-pediatrics-critiques-meta-analysis/

The business of voluntourism: do western do-gooders actually do harm? A holiday helping out in an orphanage can be a rewarding experience. But voluntourism supports a system that is breaking up families

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/sep/13/the-business-of-voluntourism-do-western-do-gooders-actually-do-harm

The Most Common Last Name in Every Country

https://www.netcredit.com/blog/most-common-name-country/

How to Shake Off a Super Rude Interaction With a Stranger: It’s not just you: People are definitely getting more aggro.

https://www.self.com/story/how-to-shake-off-rude-interaction-with-stranger

How to Quiet Your Inner Critic Negative self-talk can do a number on your mental health.: So we asked a few experts to share their strategies to rewire your internal monologue.

https://www.gq.com/story/how-to-quiet-your-inner-critic

My shelter cat heist: How "Adopt, Don't Shop" almost became my villain origin story: A 16-month quest to bring home two cats only ended with chicanery. Turns out I'm not alone in encountering barriers

 https://www.salon.com/2024/12/06/cat-adoption-adopt-dont-shop/

The Rage and Glee That Followed a C.E.O.’s Killing Should Ring All Alarms

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/opinion/united-health-care-ceo-shooting.html

The Great Grocery Squeeze: How a federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/food-deserts-robinson-patman/680765/

14 Subtle Ways Having A Toxic Parent Affects You As An Adult: Certain traits that come out in adulthood can be signs that your parents were toxic as a kid.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/14-subtle-ways-having-a-toxic-parent-affects-you-as-an-adult

A Science Breakthrough Too Good to Be True? It Probably Isn’t: The more exciting, transformative, and revolutionary a science result appears, especially coming out of nowhere, the more likely it is to be dead wrong. So, approach science headlines with a healthy amount of skepticism and patience

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-science-breakthrough-too-good-to-be-true-it-probably-isnt/

Have You Fallen for the Myth of ‘I Can’t Draw’? Do It Anyway—and Reap the Rewards: The hurdles people face when it comes to learning to draw and how they can be overcome.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/have-you-fallen-for-the-myth-of-i-can-t-draw-do-it-anyway-and-reap-the-rewards

These are the most fulfilling jobs in America: When we looked at new data on which jobs give you the most pride or satisfaction, or serve the community best, one job took the top spot in every category.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/11/22/most-fulfilling-jobs-america-may-not-be-ones-you-expect/

The Invisible Man: We see right through the unshowered soul living in a car by the beach, or by the Walmart, or by the side of the road. But he’s there, and he used to be somebody. He still is. A firsthand account of homelessness in America.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a62875397/homelessness-in-america/ 

Underrated ways to change the world How to get a good heart unstuck

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/underrated-ways-to-change-the-world

Nutrition Science’s Most Preposterous Result: Studies show a mysterious health benefit to ice cream. Scientists don’t want to talk about it.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/05/ice-cream-bad-for-you-health-study/673487/

Your Armpits Are Trying to Tell You Something: The best time to apply antiperspirant is right before bed. Seriously.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/11/antiperspirant-deodorant-night/680710/

How the Ivy League Broke America: The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/12/meritocracy-college-admissions-social-economic-segregation/680392/

The weeds are winning: As the climate changes, genetic engineering will be essential for growing food. But is it creating a race of superweeds?

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/10/1105034/weeds-climate-change-genetic-engineering-superweeds-food/