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Research Ship Encounters Giant Underwater Mountains Near Chile

Sat, 03/02/2024 - 08:50

In our top science stories this week: Writer Ed Cara looks back at the terrifying prion disease known as Mad Cow; researchers discover seamounts taller than the Burj Khalifa; and the journal that published a horrifying diagram of ‘rat dck’ explains what went wrong. —Rose Pastore

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Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: Goodbye Wordle, Hello HIPE

Mon, 02/26/2024 - 07:45

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Renowned puzzler Peter Winkler invented the addictive word game, HIPE, with some friends when they were juniors in high school. While it may not have become the overnight success of Wordle, the game did earn Winkler admission to Harvard.

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Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: Impossible Geography

Mon, 11/27/2023 - 07:45

Gizmodo

Here’s a mind-blowing geography fact: The northernmost part of Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the southernmost part of Brazil. Facts like this partly speak to truly unusual geographical features of Earth (like Brazil’s massive land area) but also to how warped our perception can be of our own home. We’ve…

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