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I want to start off by saying I don’t know much about soccer or as I think most of the rest of the world calls it football. But with the World Cup back in the United States I thought this would be a nice opportunity to talk about my time...
This is worse than a game of whack-a-mole. – Judge Katherine Failla Ashley Madison (#571) Is this an Ashley Madison for gay men? …Goose [is] a [new] dating and friendship app for gay men with the slogan “for the boys,” which allows users...
Launched in late 2025, Prakrit Ojha's War Atlas is an interactive map that visualizes more than 8,500 historical battles. Spanning from 1500 BC to the present day, it offers an immersive, guided tour through the history of human...
[Soviet pseudoscientist Trofim Denisovich] Lysenko’s supposed innovation … was based on a disproven idea in evolutionary biology called Lamarckian inheritance. French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and his followers thought that things...
Artificial intelligence speeds up and intensifies financial crises and makes them harder to resolve. We need AI to meet the stability challenges posed by AI, only to find it is least reliable when needed the most. That problem is...
For many middle-aged women, Cacharel was a cultural phenomenon; their fragrances were offered as assuredly successful gifts to young women en masse. And they used to be really good too! photo borrowed via Fetherstone Vintage blog...
Un uccellino saltella dall'ombra di un ombrellone all'ombra di un altro, in cerca di quelle poche briciole che i bambini sono soliti lasciarsi dietro dopo le merende. Strappo un pezzetto dal cracker che sto mangiando, glielo lancio ma è...
Translated from Czech into English by Alex Zucker. This book isn't out yet, but will be in September 2026. I received a digital ARC for it (thanks!). This novel follows a female author right after a recent book release. She’s ageing past...
I loved CHiPs when I was little, even had CHiPs pyjamas. This theme is much more way out than I remember. Crime-funk going wildly cosmic. Check it out.
In the summer of 1951, a bus driver named Harvey Clark tried to move his wife and two kids into a rented apartment in Cicero, Illinois. He never spent a single night there. Instead, for the better part of a week, thousands of his new...
What caught my eye this week. Weekend Reading – featuring the week’s best money and investing articles from around the web – can be read by any logged-in Monevator member. Alternatively please subscribe to our free email newsletter to...
There are very few things that man needs: to love, to be happy, to eat; and then he dies. Yet there are over six thousand languages spoken in the world — why do there need to be so many in order to make such simple desires understood?...
My writing elsewhere ▷ It’s very difficult right now for a new Computer Science graduate to get their first job. I have some advice for them, from my experience. Read Advice to new grads: take any job you can get in the industry Best of...
One thing that always amazes me when watching crowd funding previews is how good the games already look despite being way before production even starts and often a year or more before the final product lands on our door steps. Where do...
Plant Obsession