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He took up competitive gaming after retiring. Then he retired again—with a championship.

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Education

A teacher gave 32 eighth graders an impossible math problem. One kid’s second guess says so much.

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Communication

A dark sense of humor doesn’t mean you’re gloomy. It actually reveals 3 surprising strengths.

Psychologists have flipped the script on how people see those with a dark sense of humor.

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Artist reimagines the Beatles’ ‘Don’t Let Me Down’ as a modern rock song and people are demanding a full album

Generations

A professor asked students where they saved their work. Some didn’t understand the question.

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Kids built taller spaghetti towers than business school grads by doing something adults forgot how to do

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Survey reveals 5 big reasons most non-drinkers keep their sobriety a secret from others

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Billy Corgan shocks ‘Breakfast Club’ star by explaining why the film perfectly captures Gen X pain

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Engineers straightened a Florida river. Bringing back its bends helped bring back its wildlife.

Evan Porter – 11/11/2026
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Science

Scotland’s 3 mysterious parallel hillside roads weren’t built by humans. Even Darwin was puzzled.

Tod Perry – 11/11/2026
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From food deserts to oral cancer, these high school students are designing solutions for the planet’s toughest challenges.

Sarah Watts – 9/11/2026
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Salvador Dalí used a peculiar nap trick to capture ideas. Scientists now think he was onto something.

Heather Wake – 11/11/2026

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A man went looking for a lost hammer. He found over 15,000 Roman coins instead.

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A man went looking for a lost hammer. He found over 15,000 Roman coins instead.

A favor for a friend became an extraordinary archaeological discovery. And the hammer made history, too.

Heather Wake – 11/11/26

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Culture

A photographer asked strangers to smile. The before-and-after portraits are stunning.

Jay Weinstein’s project shows how differently we can read the same face moments apart.

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Millennials are sharing how they used to get home before Uber, and it’s blowing young minds

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Communication

People expected to enjoy unfamiliar stories more. An experiment found the opposite.

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Study reveals the magic three-word phrase that will make people think you’re more likable and competent

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Life Hacks

The classic ‘two envelope problem’ riddle pits math against psychology

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Man walks home to his mom from the tip of South America. It took him 28 years.

Twenty-eight years, 31,000 miles, a frozen sea crossing, and two epic ocean swims later, he finally knocked on his mother’s door.

Adam Albright-Hanna – 11/11/26

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Life Hacks

People share 10 ‘random pieces of advice’ that legitimately changed their lives

Patrick Hamilton – 11/12/2026
Students next to their garden project at Coretta Scott King Young Women’s Leadership Academy in Atlanta

From food deserts to oral cancer, these high school students are designing solutions for the planet’s toughest challenges.

Sarah Watts – 9/11/2026

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