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29 2024 November

Short Form Video Is Back and It Might Actually Have Been a Great Idea After All

Four years ago, with much fanfare (and budget), a platform called Quibi emerged with the promise that people would watch short vertical episodic shows and...

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26 2024 November

The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Pretending You Care by Norm Feuti

As we head into a holiday season, the Black Friday deals are already getting published out there and you might be thinking about heading out...

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01 2024 October

The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: “Dead Wrong” by Dr. Geeta Nayyar

For every new video we see on social media about a miracle remedy, there’s a medical professional who is generally suffering in silence watching the...

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30 2024 September

Human Eyeballs, Fake Tongues and Freeze-Dried Butterflies: Inside the World’s Most Discomforting Restaurant

Alchemist restaurant in Copenhagen is the creation of famous Danish chef Rasmus Munk. Like many similarly exclusive Michelin-star worthy dining experiences, there’s a 10,000-person waiting...

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06 2024 September

Save the World. Eat More Lionfish and Green Crabs.

Lobster is considered a luxury food today, with high prices to prove it, but it wasn’t always this way. Lobster was once cheap and plentiful, and...

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08 2024 August

Four Entirely Predictable Olympic Stories That Happen Every Time

Anyone who follows the Olympics knows there are some media narratives that happen every four years and always turn out the same. There are myths and then...

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25 2024 July

This Journalist Tried to Make a New Friend in 30 Days and It Went … Badly

What if you set out to make a new friend and gave yourself 30 days to make it happen? That’s the intriguing challenge that forms...

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16 2024 July

The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Awoken by Katelyn Monroe Howes & The Sleepless by Victor Manibo

It’s the summer and when it comes to reading, for many people that means reading fiction … so this week I’m shifting my book recommendations...

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09 2024 July

The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: A Man of the World: My Life at National Geographic by Gilbert M. Grosvenor

The birthday of a nation is a perfect moment to celebrate heroes and the American hero I pick to honor on this 4th of July...

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04 2024 July

Neuralink May Create a Generation of Gamers with Superhuman Reflexes

Earlier this year Noland Arbaugh became the first patient to receive a brain-computer chip implanted by Elon Musk’s startup Neuralink after a diving accident left him paralyzed....

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