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Memory hack: self-testing beats re-reading by 50%, research shows
Students who test themselves on new material remember about 50% more than students who just re-read their notes.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Meditators’ brains showed thicker cortexes and slower aging in study
As you age, your cortex thins.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Kristi Noem left search and rescue techs without the tools to do their job
Kristi Noem’s mismanagement has left rescuers without critical tools during emergencies.
 • Séamus Bellamy
Star Wars shares more Maul
Another trailer has dropped for the soon-to-be-released “Maul: Shadow Lord” animated short series.
 • Jason Weisberger
Bear photobombs live TV report about bears
During a live KTLA segment about a bear incident in Monrovia, a black bear wandered into the background behind reporter Erin Myers.
 • Jason Weisberger
Chris Fleming’s hilarious new comedy special, “Live at the Palace”
Chris Fleming is a fascinating and hilarious comedian, and his new special “Live at the Palace” (HBO) puts all his skills, quirks, and brilliance on…
 • Ruben Bolling
Paul McCartney scored a film about an unconsummated marriage, in 1966
In 1966, between “Revolver” and “Sgt.
 • Ruben Bolling
Apple’s cheapest laptop is also its most repairable laptop
The reviews for Apple’s new, reasonably priced, entry-level laptop, the MacBook Neo, have been overwhelmingly positive.
 • Séamus Bellamy
The legal and creative battle over who gets to modify beloved games
Y’all know about my love of the game that Bethesda fans love to hate: Starfield.
 • Séamus Bellamy
Why garlic smell sticks to your hands — and how a spoon removes it
Copper receptors in your nose are the reason you can’t escape garlic fingers.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
“Weird Little Devices”: first one listens to Cold War spy radio
Numbers stations — those ghostly shortwave broadcasts where synthetic voices read strings of digits into the void — have been sending one-way coded…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Firefly is back — maybe and sort of
Firefly, the beloved space western which was cruelly cancelled by Fox after a single season, is returning.
 • Gail P Sherman
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