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bit.ly/2IjWGyz Four thousand years ago, the Babylonians invented multiplication. Last month, mathematicians perfected it. On March 18, two researchers described the fastest method ever discovered for multiplying two very large numbers. The paper marks the culmination of a long-running search…

bit.ly/2UtESr6 A few years back, The Washington Post illustrated every death in Game of Thrones. With the new season on the way, the death count is up and the graphics updated. Tags: deaths, Game of Thrones, Washington Post via bit.ly/2OYino2…

bit.ly/2GfoHVm There are a ton of places out there that claim to help you make money online, and Wealthy Affiliate is one of the most popular and most recommended training courses to learn affiliate marketing. But are people actually making…

bit.ly/2Pawrv3 As makers, we have a tendency to escalate our vision. Each project idea seems to get a little more complex, a little more grandiose in scale. Ben Uyeda of Homemade modern is no different. We’ve followed along for years…

bit.ly/2uWcwq3 Kitchn’s Delicious Links column highlights recipes we’re excited about from the bloggers we love. Follow along every weekday as we post our favorites. Pound cake gets its name because it’s made with a pound each of flour, sugar, and…

bit.ly/2uX5tNZ Seventy eight weird happenings are contained in this volume, from a demon strangling Devonian farmers in 1682 to a poltergeist terrorising a contemporary Chinese couple. With it the author Andrew Lang continues his mission to imbue the modern mind…

bit.ly/2UcIetH “Look,” the voice of Jordan Peterson says in a YouTube video. “If you had one shot, or one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted in one moment—Would you capture it? Or just let it slip?” It sounds like…

bit.ly/2Io2czc Iran‘s Islamic Revolutionary Guard is both revered and feared. The 125,000-strong elite force, comprised of army, navy and air units, answers directly to the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and controls major businesses in Iran as well. …

Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Excel 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For…

bit.ly/2UIcd0B At first glance you may be forgiven for thinking these images to have sprung from some hitherto unknown corner of the Cubist movement, but these remarkably prescient etchings are in fact the creation of an artist working a whole…

bit.ly/2U240QA Europe’s 2nd biggest gold mine could be about to make early investors rich. This story begins over 2,000 years ago when the Romans dug up $16.8 billion in gold in Romania… Using hammers and buckets. And now a…

bit.ly/2D3tY0A Our planet formed a little over 4.5 billion years ago, and if the most recent estimates are correct, it wasn’t long before life arose. Not much is known about how that happened because it’s maddeningly difficult to investigate. It’s…

bit.ly/2VxoaUh The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory comprises about a dozen small buildings nestled among pine trees in the Palisades, 15 miles north of Manhattan. On the second floor of the observatory’s geoscience building, the shelves lining Columbia University paleontologist Paul Olsen’s…

bit.ly/2G9E81y Hackers have been targeting journalists, and their organizations, for years. In 2012, The New York Times revealed that Chinese government hackers had broken into some of its systems and the email accounts of some of their reporters and editors.…

bit.ly/2UIcTmC NASA’s Curiosity rover just spied transits of both Martian moons across the face of the Sun — including one that happened after the Sun had set. Phobos, transiting across the face of the Sun on Sol 2,359 (Tuesday,…

bit.ly/2K9aCNn Duran is represented in his petition by the SPLC and Adelante Alabama Worker Center, an organization that defends the rights of immigrant workers. Duran was unlawfully arrested and detained on April 3, 2018, while covering a protest of Memphis law enforcement’s…

bit.ly/2CSvDWD Mabare, Rwanda – It was the first week of April 1994 and a month after the start of the long rainy season. The slopes of the mountains were lush green. The fields filled to the brim with bananas, maize…

ift.tt/2TUMaz1 Students light candles as they gather for a vigil to commemorate victims of the shooting on March 15th, outside the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 18, 2019. Photo: Vincent Yu/AP The two of us have been…

ift.tt/2FT81lc While Werner Lampert was living on an alpine pasture, he discovered that cows have an insatiable appetite for, among many things, poetry. Each morning, he’d clamber up a small hill to the pasture where his bovine neighbors were grazing.…