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In 2022, Sri Lanka simply ran out of money. Not the way a household does, but in the far stranger way that entire nation…
5 min readIn the coldest water on Earth, ordinary animals grow to extraordinary sizes — sea spiders the size of dinner plates, wor…
5 min readSome of the strangest animals in the ocean look less like modern wildlife than like something dredged up from deep time …
5 min readAcross almost every sport ever measured, teams win more often at home than away. It is one of the most reliable patterns…
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Ask most people what would kill you in the Amazon and they'll picture jaguars, anacondas, and piranhas. The truth is str…
5 min readSri Lanka's most famous product was born from a catastrophe. A fungus wiped out the island's entire coffee industry in a…
5 min readIt is tempting to think that only the foolish or the paranoid fall for conspiracy theories. But the evidence says otherw…
5 min readGreat empires rarely die in a single dramatic blow. They bleed out slowly, from a set of internal ailments that repeat, …
5 min readToday they are the cheapest things in your kitchen — a jar of cinnamon, a pinch of nutmeg, a grind of pepper. But for mo…
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