Changes in Searching with Google

Chance Townsend's article discusses how the familiar Google search box and result list has been replaced with spoken or typed paragraph search and AI generated answers with minimal or non-existent sourcing. By neither showing (nor compensating) the source(s) of the AI generated response, users shall have difficulty assessing the accuracy of information, and the work of authors and publishers shall not receive any credit for their work.

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Continental Drift

Aylin Woodward shows a map of a hidden eighth continent .

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Tipping Practices

Charlotte Hilton Anderson explains tipping practices in U.S. Hotels.

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Mariana Trench

Rida Nasir provides information about the Mariana Trench - the greatest depth found in the ocean.

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Hotel Key Cards

Aaron Rasmussen explains how hotel key cards work, and how best to secure them against misuse or malicious duplication.

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Why Five Fingers and Toes

Michael Coates explains why most creatures have five digits as fingers and toes.

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Underwater Brine Pools

Kaushik Patowary writes about underwater brine pools . Unless the hot brine and methane found in these pools is continually refreshed from the rocks below, the brine would dissapate and the unique environment would perish.

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Knots

Alan Grogono explains simple knots .

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Death Rate Rising for U.S. Millennials

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Andrew Stokes, and Jacob Bor wrote in an August 20, 2025 Slate article about the high mortality rates among U.S. millennials. The original article is paywalled, but a summary is available here.

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Polyphasic Sleep

Elana Spivack reviews the benefits and health perils of interrupted sleep .

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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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