Month: February 2022

Although it has been used to a lesser extent in previous Winter Games, the Beijing Olympics are the first to use all artificial snow, a substance commonplace at ski resorts and even on film sets. The Onion takes a step-by-step look at how artificial snow is made.

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Researchers in Switzerland have developed a spinal cord implant that uses a nerve-stimulating device controlled by a touchscreen tablet that has already allowed for a paralyzed man with a completely severed spine to walk again. What do you think?

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You leave a swig of orange juice in the bottle because you’re too busy with your own life to think about anyone else’s.

Aging can be hardest for strivers, says social scientist Arthur Brooks, because they sometimes mourn that their biggest successes are in their rearview mirror.

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Answer a few questions and find out what kind of immune cell you’d be — and learn more about these amazing cells that fight off infection.

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O’Rourke authored more than 20 books, including Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance, both of which reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list.

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Trumbull, who brought otherworldly landscapes to life pioneered physical, not digital, effects that catapulted audiences into hyperspace and became Hollywood’s go-to guy for sci-fi imagery.

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NPR’s Elissa Nadworny speaks with actor Anna Chlumsky about Netflix’s new limited series Inventing Anna.

Journalist Matthieu Aikins shed his own identity and traveled with his Afghan interpreter along smugglers’ routes to reach Europe and escape the Taliban. His book is The Naked Don’t Fear the Water.

In 2014, an anonymous whistleblower leaked a copy of a letter that allegedly revealed an Islamist plan to take over schools in one English city. A new podcast tells the story behind the fake document.