Friday, March 1, 2019

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​Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: the intricate engineering of a checkbox, a brain that rewired itself, and the molten blobs under our feet.
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WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK
​The 'I'm Not A Robot' Checkbox Is Actually Absurdly Complicated, And Other Facts
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​Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: the intricate engineering of a checkbox, a brain that rewired itself, and the molten blobs under our feet.
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IBM's Great, Big Microkernel Failure
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How IBM bet big on the microkernel being the next big thing in operating systems back in the '90s — and spent billions with little to show for it.
THE VOID WHICH REMINDS
How The Universe Remembers Information
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A "memory matrix" might solve Stephen Hawking's black-hole paradox.
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THE LONGEST SHORTEST MONTH
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All Of February 2019 In One Big Post
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A bad gun, some worse french fries and one extremely fast bulldog. Here are the 9 big things that happened in February 2019, all in one big post.
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THE FATE OF BANDA
The Hidden History Of The Nutmeg Island That Was Traded For Manhattan
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Dutch colonists committed genocide to secure a spice monopoly. But there's more to the story.
THEY F*** YOU UP, YOUR MOMO AND DAD
Don't Freak Out About The 'Momo Challenge,' Which Is Not A Real Thing
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Well-meaning parents and educators are inadvertently spreading a scary hoax when there's no evidence that it actually exists.
THE ARSENIC ASSASSIN
The Minnesota Murderess
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A new wife, a dead husband and the arsenic panic that shook the Victorian world.
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Where Your Job Is Most Popular, Visualized
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Some jobs are common nationwide, because they are needed everywhere. Then there are jobs more specific to geography. Use the searchable map grid below to see the popularity of your job in each state, compared against the national average.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
WE DESTROY THE THINGS WE LOVE
Longhorn Bull Accidentally Deflates His Ball, Has The Deepest Sadness
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Well, if this isn't the most relatable thing we've seen all week.
IN THE NEWS
Trump Ordered Officials To Give Jared Kushner A Security Clearance
The $35,000 Tesla Model 3 Is Here At Last
Reddit Is Letting Users Tip Real Money — To One Guy In One Subreddit
HBO Chief Richard Plepler Leaves Network After 27 Years
FBI Finds 2,000 Human Bones At Indiana Home: 'Unlike Anything We'd Ever Seen'
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This Tabletop Machine Makes Molds For Soap, Chocolate, And Concrete
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Enjoy your weekend, and please correct any panicked relatives about Momo.