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A new IDF response to a Venice-winning film raises a sharp question: what do documentarians owe when sources stay truly anonymous?

Large language models grew out of linguistics — so why aren't linguists in the room where they're built?

Rockefeller cut kerosene prices by 90% — and the top 1% owned half of America. Both facts are true. So why can't we agree?

A rotating circle of plants in Argentina, a boiling river 400 miles from any volcano, and the founders who got voted off the board.

There's no single name for the pull toward transporter bridges, strange borders, and overlooked infrastructure. The vocabulary exists — it's just s...

Colgate never sold beef lasagna — but it did sell gassy soybeans. Harley made cologne. Bic made "For Her" pens. The stories are stranger than the l...

From a clown selling sugar cereal to a blue blob Atlanta couldn't name, we count down the mascots that should never have left the sketch.

Andrew Davenport studied speech sciences and performance art — then built Teletubbies on developmental theory, not gibberish.

A day of wiring a rental sparks three threads: skills that return, a guild older than its technology, and spaces you can't touch.

Wiring a plug but never welding metal — why hands-on skills have holes, and what a real DIY curriculum would cover.

Priest, general, defector, Roman pensioner — how one first-century author became the lens through which we see ancient Judaism.

Nearly four million Americans say they've been abducted. Not one has produced a lab-verifiable artifact. What's going on?

Excellent actors, spectacularly wrong roles — from Dick Van Dyke's cockney to Tom Hanks as a Wall Street snob. Ten mismatches, ranked.

Primer, Mulholland Drive, Synecdoche, Inland Empire — five acclaimed films where confusion is the craft, ranked by how hard they are to follow.

Armies built spy agencies first — half a century before Mossad. How military and civilian intelligence divide the work, and who enforces the line.

How Anna Delvey ran a four-year con on Word docs, AOL addresses, and a supermarket burner phone — and what Netflix got right.

Satellite imagery shows Iran rebuilding the Taleghan Two site at Parchin for the second time in 18 months — this time under a tarp.

From a Poozeum in Arizona to Tokyo's parasite museum, we explore the world's most oddly specific collections and the obsession behind them.

From the yellow traffic light to the geoid model behind GPS — ten inventors whose quiet work reshaped daily life, and why we forgot them.

Ten comedians who can't laugh, exploding rings, and a man who won a contest for 15 months — why Japan goes all in.