Articles by EndXA
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A History of Tug-of-War Fatalities (priceonomics.com)

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Titanic's unknown child is finally identified (2011) (nbcnews.com)

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The Sperm Whale's Deadly Call (2011) (smithsonianmag.com)

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AI is turning research into a scientific monoculture (nature.com)

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Medicine: Country Surgeon (1932) (time.com)

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Underarm Bowling Incident of 1981 (wikipedia.org)

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Cyclopean Masonry (dimensions.com)

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The Derelict (2015) (damninteresting.com)

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Micromouse (wikipedia.org)

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How do jewellers capture every last particle of gold dust? (2017) (ft.com)

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Disqualified (1954) (gutenberg.org)

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AT&T Employees Turned Process Gripes into $230M Saved (sloanreview.mit.edu)

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The Derelict (2015) (damninteresting.com)

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Micromort Calculator (rorystolzenberg.github.io)

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Elderly Japanese people are getting arrested on purpose (2018) (businessinsider.com)

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Why are there so few dead bugs on my windshield these days? (2022) (washingtonpost.com)

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Land Lines (chromeexperiments.com)

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Inmates Play Tabletop RPGs in Prisons Where Dice Are Contraband (2017) (vice.com)

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Dragomans: Tourist industry experts of the nineteenth century (2022) (reading.ac.uk)

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1960s Mouse Utopias Led to Grim Predictions for Future of Humanity (2015) (smithsonianmag.com)

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Crinkle Crankle Wall (wikipedia.org)

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Who's Afraid of Peer Review? (2013) (science.org)

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How do jewellers capture every last particle of gold dust? (2017) (ft.com)

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Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s (lowtechmagazine.com)

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1964: Beatlemania (theatlantic.com)

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Spot the Drowning Child (2015) (spotthedrowningchild.com)

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You've Been Sherlocked (2012) (economist.com)

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The State of Local News (northwestern.edu)

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Chronic loneliness may increase stroke risk among older adults (hsph.harvard.edu)

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There's a connection between ADHD and procrastination (solvingprocrastination.com)

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The Pentagon's Whiz Kids (1962) (time.com)

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Emergency rooms are not okay (yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com)

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The State of Statistics in 1990 (columbia.edu)

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Put the DVD logo in the corner (2023) (eieio.games)

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Early Photos of Y Combinator (2011) (archive.org)

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Guerrilla Public Service Redux (2017) (99percentinvisible.org)

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Lost vials of smallpox found in a lab store room (2014) (npr.org)

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Nim Chimpsky (wikipedia.org)

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UTF-8 History (2003) (cam.ac.uk)

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The Origin of Ambergris (2012) (uchicago.edu)

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Welcome to the Jungle (2014) (damninteresting.com)

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HitchBOT (wikipedia.org)

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The End of Comments (2018) (theatlantic.com)

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Beyond Toxic Positivity (adamgrant.substack.com)

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The Mind of a Mathemagician (2015) (smithsonianmag.com)

2

Why humpback whales protect other species from killer whales (2019) (readersdigest.co.uk)

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Bath Curse Tablets (wikipedia.org)

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Intrinsic Motivation (effectiviology.substack.com)

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Duplessis Orphans (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)

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Alice Evans, a Pioneer for Women in Microbiology (asm.org)

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The Mind of a Savant (2006) (scientificamerican.com)

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Study finds hybrid work benefits companies and employees (stanford.edu)

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Self Isolation in Tudor Times (hevercastle.co.uk)

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Toledo War (wikipedia.org)

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The Voyage of the Kon-Tiki Misled the World About Navigating the Pacific (smithsonianmag.com)

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The man who developed 40 vaccines (uchicago.edu)

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Do you need your appendix removed before you go? (antarctica.gov.au)

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The Clockmaker (2014) (damninteresting.com)

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Mapping Disease: John Snow and Cholera (rcseng.ac.uk)

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Babylonian Numerals (st-andrews.ac.uk)

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The design switch that revolutionized telephone communications (slate.com)

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The Dinosaur Bone Wars (2020) (jstor.org)

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Procrastination is linked to depression (solvingprocrastination.com)

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Slowest-moving drop caught on camera at last (2013) (nature.com)

2

Web Design in 4 Minutes (jgthms.com)

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Allan McDonald refused to approve Challenger launch, exposed cover-up (2021) (npr.org)

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Betamaxed (techopedia.com)

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The Mysteries of Crown Shyness (2018) (jstor.org)

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Little Alchemy 2 (littlealchemy2.com)

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The Mystery of "Mouthfeel" (2016) (upenn.edu)

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One Giant Leap for Brand Kind (2023) (theatlantic.com)

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Securing AI Frontier Models to Prevent Theft and Misuse (rand.org)

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Beyond velocity and acceleration: jerk, snap and higher derivatives (2016) (iop.org)

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Comma Gets a Cure (2000) (dialectsarchive.com)

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Algorithmic fitting of Japanese candy (candyjapan.com)

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Sandpond (sandpond.cool)

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Three Thrown over the Cuckoo's Nest (2013) (damninteresting.com)

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Quincunx (mathsisfun.com)

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A mysterious disease has been killing my family (2023) (washingtonpost.com)

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I'm Mr. Null (2015) (wired.com)

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Bematists [pdf] (auth.gr)

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The Accidental Poison That Founded the Modern FDA (2018) (theatlantic.com)

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The Vulture and the Little Girl (wikipedia.org)

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Self-compassion can reduce procrastination (solvingprocrastination.com)

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Pocket Litter (edwardwright.co.uk)

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Welcome Nugget (wikipedia.org)

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'05 Annual Performance Review: Albert Einstein (norvig.com)

3

Size Is the Enemy (2007) (codinghorror.com)

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A Day in the Coldest Village on Earth (2022) [video] (youtube.com)

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Ingroups and Outgroups (effectiviology.com)

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The Octopus: An Alien Among Us (2019) (lithub.com)

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The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street (wikipedia.org)

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A Postman Built a Surrealist Palace Out of Pebbles (artsy.net)

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'I Had a Funny Feeling in My Gut' (1999) (washingtonpost.com)

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The Freakishly Fast World of Robot Sumo (2018) [video] (youtube.com)

2

The Thanatron, Jack Kevorkian's Death Machine (2007) (wired.com)

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Pfostenschlitzmauer (wikipedia.org)

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Why it took a long time to build that tiny link preview on Wikipedia (2018) (wikimedia.org)

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Liechtenstein: No retaliation for Swiss 'invasion' (2007) (theguardian.com)

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John Swartzwelder, Sage of "The Simpsons" (2021) (newyorker.com)