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 ‘It feels like fresh air to my ears’: can brown noise really help you concentrate?
The Guardian · Emma Beddington
There’s a new buzz on TikTok – well, not a buzz exactly. It’s more of a hum, maybe waves crashing, a purring fan or steady, heavy rain. To me, it sounds…
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 The Race to Make a Vaccine for Breast Cancer
TIME · By Alice Park
When Karen Lynch was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 44, it was a shock, but not a complete surprise. “My family history is just riddled with…
 Facial Recognition May Help Save Fat Bears From Human Danger
The Daily Beast · Tony Ho Tran
The surveillance state has come for Winnie the Pooh. In case you didn’t know, it’s Fat Bear Week—the annual tournament that pits the brown bears of …
 Ranked: The World’s Most Surveilled Cities
visualcapitalist.com · Marcus Lu
This may come as a surprise, but it wasn’t until 2007 that the global urban population overtook the rural population. At that time, the two groups …
 Augustinus Bader Made Us Believe in a $280 Cream. How?
Allure · Brennan Kilbane
Where Bader Began Professor Bader was born in the farmlands outside of Munich and attended boarding school at a Benedictine monastery. His first love…
 The Afterlife Is in Our Heads
nautil.us · Kristen French
One Sunday evening in September, nearly 30 years ago, Xavier Melo, then 23, was driving home from his job as a private math tutor in Barcelona, …
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 What Makes a Champagne Vintage Great? Ask a Deep Learning Model
Wired UK · Tim Barber
In early 2021, Bollinger’s winemakers were able to get their first taste of La Grande Année 2014, a prestige fizz that had been aging in the …
 Sun-Maid Knows It’s a Villain on Halloween
thetakeout.com · Marnie Shure
As a food writer, you quickly learn that major food brands can be pretty skittish about opening up. From fast food chains to grocery aisle mainstays, …
 Did she or didn’t she? Breaking down the cheating allegation and $269K hand rocking the poker world
Yahoo! Sports · Jason Owens
Cheating scandals are en vogue. The competitive fishing world is outraged after two guys put lead weights in their fish. In chess, a 19-year-old …
 ‘The Evanescence is the Thing’: Five Writers on the Power of the Dance Floor
longreads.com · Cheri Lucas Rowlands
At the start of 2020, my daughter Emilia turned 18 months. This was an age that promised a series of new beginnings, including enrolling her in …
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