A shopping mall in Shenzhen has started installing bathroom stall doors that turn transparent if they detect cigarette smoke. Usually, the glass is opaque. Frosted. The kind you stop noticing the moment the door closes. But if someone lights up inside the stall, a sensor triggers and the glass clears….
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They Found a Seven-Limbed Octopus on a Scottish Beach
A large octopus washed up on a beach in Scotland this week. Pale. Heavy. Motionless. Arms splayed in different directions, like the instructions got lost halfway through. Seven of them. Not torn. Not injured. Just seven. The photos show it lying there quietly, as if the ocean set it down…
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The Leaving America Trend Works Best When Nobody Actually Moves
The Leaving America Trend Was Inevitable I was reading that New Yorker piece on people trying to slip out of the country — passports, paperwork, the whole bureaucratic obstacle course — and it hit me: the leaving America trend isn’t a phenomenon anymore. It’s content. A fully developed genre. The…
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The Glass-Walled Room You Can “Take” — If You Don’t Mind Being Public Art
THE STORY STARTS WITH PEOPLE-WATCHING There’s this moment you get while people-watching — maybe waiting for coffee, maybe in a train station — where you realize everyone has a completely different idea of what “normal behavior” is. Someone’s arguing on speakerphone, someone else is filming a TikTok like gravity doesn’t…
AI
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Why Antarctica Is Suddenly the Hottest Mystery in Science
The weird stories never announce themselves. They just stroll in, flick the lights twice, and act like Antarctica is the logical place for answers. The ANITA saga fits right in — a cosmic prank hiding under a few miles of ice, radio static, and scientists giving that tight-lipped “everything’s normal”…
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Liquor Store Break-In Ends With One Passed-Out Raccoon and a Lot of Questions
There’s drunk, and then there’s “broke into a locked Virginia liquor store and passed out in the bathroom” drunk. And that’s exactly what one raccoon managed to pull off in Ashland, reminding all of us that nature has absolutely no respect for closing hours or inventory management. The store was…
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The Daredevil Who Rode a Unicycle While Carrying Seven Bowling Balls
There’s a certain personality you meet in the wide-open states — the ones with too much sky, too much quiet, and way too much room for ideas that should’ve died on the launchpad. You find them in Wyoming, Montana, the Dakotas, Washington, Oregon. Folks who grew up around space, real…
Family
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The Thanksgiving Lions Game That Broke My Family in 1980
Listen To The Article Thanksgiving is already the busiest, most patience-testing travel week of the year. Airports are bursting, freeways are clogged, and somewhere out there a poor TSA agent is explaining — again — that gravy counts as a liquid. Chaos everywhere. But nothing, and I mean nothing, compares…
Holidays
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How I Learned Thanksgiving Eve Is America’s Big Drinking Night (the Hard Way)
Nobody ever warned me about the night before Thanksgiving. Not the way they warn you about New Year’s Eve or St. Patrick’s Day. There was no nickname, no folklore, no “pace yourself, kid.” Back then, I had no idea Thanksgiving Eve was America’s biggest drinking night — “Blackout Wednesday,” as…
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Holiday Travel Chaos Hits New High With Mile-High Meltdown
Thanksgiving week is already the busiest, most patience-draining travel stretch of the year. People are packed into airports like they’re waiting for free Beyoncé tickets. Lines everywhere. Tension everywhere. Delays everywhere. And that’s before you factor in the one person who decides to turn a routine inconvenience into a Broadway…