Earthquake Video

Jesse Kearse analyzes a video recording of a March 2025 earthquake which occured in Myanmar. A concealed fault is revealed in seconds in this video.

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Savants

Darold A. Treffert provides examples of some people were sudden geniuses in a specialization such as math or music.

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Inflation

Megan Cerullo explains why tariffs have been slow to ignite inflation .

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Success at Passing the Torch

Zack Beauchamp speculates that conservatives are better at training young people for success in media and politics.

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Toilet Seats and Disease

Sofia Quaglia answers whether toilets are significant in spreading disease.

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Weaponized Incompetence

Callie Ahlgrim explains the term " weaponized incompetence ", which describes a technique where a person declines to accept shared responsibilities.

This term is usually used to describe manipulative stubborness. However, sometimes this behavior can be fostered by a very "competent" person who sharply criticizes every effort of the "incompetent" individual. The result is that the "competent" person is percieved as domineering, and the passive "incompetent" gives up trying. Ahlgrim suggests communication and training tips that can motivate and emable willing individuals to fulfill mutually agreed responsibilities.

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Sacred Garments

Clara Hulet explains minor changes in the sacred garments Mormon women wear, freeing them to wear more contemporary clothing.

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Data Centers Consume Huge Amounts of Electricity and Water

Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins notes that consumer electric rates have typically jumped 30% since 2020 due to the cost of powering data centers for AI applications.

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UnitedHealth Data Breach

Amber Bouman reports on a data breach which could impact about 190 million UnitedHealth subscribers in the U.S. In another article Bouman reports that a Google database has been hacked, with Gmail users facing phishing attacks as a result.

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To-Do Lists

Lila Maclellan suggests shrinking a daily to-do list to one item , called the "Hunter Method" by Aytekin Tank.

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Ocean Currents

NASA has developed a map Earth's ocean currents .

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Cognitive Decline

Alice Park reviews behaviors associated with delaying cognitive decline .

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