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This Week
| Title | Views |
|---|---|
| Earth's Magnetic Shield Is Collapsing in One Spot, and It's Getting Worse (Science & Nature) | 19 |
| The Volcano That Kills You After It Stops Erupting (Death & Disaster) | 16 |
| The Days You're Most Likely to Die Are Not Random—And It's Not Monday (Death & Disaster) | 16 |
| Brian May's PhD: When a Rock God's Day Job Was Actual Astrophysics (Celebrity Oddities) | 12 |
| Chickpeas Beat Black Beans at Lowering Cholesterol—And Nobody Knows Why (Food & Drink) | 15 |
| Red Wood Ants Can Ferment Yogurt—And They Taste Surprisingly Good (Food & Drink) | 13 |
| Before the Oscar, Christopher Walken Tamed Lions (Celebrity Oddities) | 15 |
| The Composer Who Never Learned to Read Music (Celebrity Oddities) | 14 |
| Your Heart Hates Mondays More Than You Do (Death & Disaster) | 13 |
| You've Been Worrying About the Wrong Contact (Gross Science) | 17 |
| Your Body Ages in Sudden Jumps, Not Slowly (Gross Science) | 11 |
| Your Eyelashes Are Home to Tiny Mites, and That's Probably Fine (Gross Science) | 9 |
| In Space, Sperm Can Still Swim—They Just Have No Idea Where They're Going (Space & Cosmos) | 5 |
| Tiny Galaxies Are Getting Crushed by Impossibly Huge Black Holes (Space & Cosmos) | 10 |
| Primitive Galaxies Are Making Dust From Almost Nothing (Space & Cosmos) | 5 |
| The Weird Way Scrolling Food Videos Makes You Eat Less (Food & Drink) | 11 |
| The Free-Throw Paradox: Why NBA Shooters Can't Break 75% (Sports & Games) | 5 |
| Why Left-Handers Own the Fencing Strip—But Bomb at Throwing (Sports & Games) | 13 |
| Home-Court Advantage Is Dying—and COVID Proved It (Sports & Games) | 10 |
| The Pirahã Have No Words for Numbers—and They Don't Need Them (Language & Words) | 0 |
| Your Brain Speaks a Language Grammar Never Taught You (Language & Words) | 8 |
| Universal Grammar Rules Are Real—and Evolution Proves It (Language & Words) | 8 |
| Why Nobody Studied the Trait That One in Three People Have (Wacky) | 12 |
| Hippos Are Technically Flying Animals, and Here's Why That Matters (Wacky) | 9 |
| A Forgotten Popsicle Created a Billion-Dollar Accident (Accidental Inventions) | 10 |
| A Melted Chocolate Bar Changed How We Cook Forever (Accidental Inventions) | 9 |
| A Dog Covered in Burrs Changed the History of Fasteners (Accidental Inventions) | 4 |
| The Resistor That Rewired Medicine (Accidental Inventions) | 11 |
| Connecticut's Bouncing Pickle Law: The Absurd Food Safety Standard That Never Died (Weird Laws) | 6 |
| North Dakota's Bizarre Beer-and-Pretzel Ban Is Still Somehow Law (Weird Laws) | 9 |
| Washington State's Unhinged Cryptid Protection Law Is Somehow Still in Effect (Weird Laws) | 6 |
| The Octopus's Exhausting Design Flaw: Why Swimming Makes Their Heart Stop (Animals) | 7 |
| A Fish the Size of a Rice Grain Screams Love Songs at 140 Decibels (Animals) | 8 |
| Dolphins Are Getting High on Pufferfish Toxin—and They Know Exactly What They're Doing (Animals) | 8 |
| The Carjacker Who Mastered the Gun but Not the Clutch (Stupid Criminals) | 12 |
| The Robber Who RSVP'd to His Own Crime (Stupid Criminals) | 10 |
| The Fugitive Who Hid Upward Into Custody (Stupid Criminals) | 10 |
| The Universe's Invisible Engine Might Not Run on a Constant (Science & Nature) | 10 |
| People Given $10,000 Give Away Most of It. Yes, Really. (Human Behavior) | 9 |
| Why Nobody Can Actually Tell You How Long a Coastline Is (Geography & Maps) | 9 |
| Australia Declared War on Emus—and Lost (History) | 8 |
| A Dog Is the Actual Mayor of a Minnesota Town, and Yes, She Has Duties (Wacky) | 9 |
| A Blood Test That's Better at Finding Cancer Than Preventing It (Statistics & Data) | 13 |
| Brain Damage Changes How You Vote, Not What You Believe (Human Behavior) | 8 |
| Cardboard Boxes Are Predicting Recessions Better Than Economists (Economics & Money) | 8 |
| The Speed of Change Matters More Than You'd Think in Economics (Economics & Money) | 7 |
| Men Hit the Same Aging Wall as Menopausal Women—and Nobody Expected That (Statistics & Data) | 11 |
| Quantum Computing Just Jumped Forward By a Century's Worth of Progress (Technology) | 4 |
| Solid-State Batteries Stopped Being 'The Future' and Became the Present (Technology) | 8 |
| Most People Share News on Facebook Without Reading It (Human Behavior) | 8 |
| Your Bad Mood Isn't Making You Doom-Scroll. Your Doom-Scrolling Is Making You Have a Bad Mood. (Human Behavior) | 4 |
| A Mollusk Invented Fiber Optics Before We Did (Science & Nature) | 8 |
| Your Body Ages in Two Sudden Bursts, Not Gradually (Science & Nature) | 8 |
| The Original 'Computer Bug' Was Literally a Moth (Technology) | 8 |
| The Internet Weighs About as Much as a Strawberry (Technology) | 9 |
| Norway's Coastline Is Longer Than Russia's. Yes, Really. (Geography & Maps) | 10 |
| Alaska Is Somehow Both the Easternmost and Westernmost State in America (Geography & Maps) | 2 |
| The Dancing Plague That Seized a Medieval City (History) | 8 |
| Cleopatra Was Closer to the Moon Landing Than to the Pyramids (History) | 6 |
| Why Paying Someone to Do Something They Love Might Backfire (Human Behavior) | 8 |
| Your Language is Literally Changing What You See (Human Behavior) | 4 |
| The Fed Cut Rates Three Times. Your Mortgage Got More Expensive. (Economics & Money) | 5 |
| Why Economic Speed Matters More Than Birth Control Pills (Economics & Money) | 5 |
| Why Your Irregular Sleep Schedule Might Be More Dangerous Than You Think (Science & Nature) | 4 |
| We've Been Eating Farmed Fish Longer Than We Realized (Science & Nature) | 9 |
| How a Drug Can Beat Placebo—Until You Actually Look at the Data (Statistics & Data) | 6 |
| Young Adults Can't Sleep. Old People Can. Science Has No Idea Why. (Statistics & Data) | 8 |
| Psychology's WEIRD Problem: Why Your Brain Might Not Work Like the Rest of the World's (Human Behavior) | 4 |
| Young People Are Better at Sleeping, Worse at Noticing It (Human Behavior) | 4 |
| Childhood Insomnia Doesn't Just Go Away—Most Parents Get This Wrong (Human Behavior) | 6 |
| The Wealth Collapse Nobody Saw Coming (Or Did They?) (Economics & Money) | 6 |
| Your Friends Are Adding Years to Your Life—Literally (Science & Nature) | 8 |
| We've Built More Stuff Than Nature Ever Grew (Statistics & Data) | 5 |
| We're Now Eating More Farmed Fish Than Wild-Caught—And Nobody Really Noticed (Science & Nature) | 8 |
| The Paradox That Broke COVID Statistics: How Italy Could Be Deadlier Than China in Every Possible Way—Except One (Statistics & Data) | 4 |
| Why Your 25-Year-Old Self Can't Sleep Better Than Your Grandmother (Human Behavior) | 9 |
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Top 5 Most-Read
- Earth's Magnetic Shield Is Collapsing in One Spot, and It's Getting Worse 19 views
- You've Been Worrying About the Wrong Contact 17 views
- The Days You're Most Likely to Die Are Not Random—And It's Not Monday 16 views
- The Volcano That Kills You After It Stops Erupting 16 views
- Before the Oscar, Christopher Walken Tamed Lions 15 views
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