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Is the F-35 a USD 1 tn Mistake? The F-35 fighter was more to the US than its next hot new toy — for those unfamiliar with aircraft made famous by its vertical landing capabilities, we give you this gem of a demonstration (watch, runtime: 3:54). The plane was supposed to ensure the air supremacy […]
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Why we pretend to be knowledgeable when we’re not
Why do we pretend to know far more than we do? People form their opinions based largely on the information provided by individuals closest to them, and try to generally avoid the arduous task of having to use critical thinking skills to verify facts, cognitive science professor Steven Sloman tells Vox’s Sean Illing. It’s physically […]
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Somalia’s central bank-less, mostly fake paper currency
Possibly the strangest monetary phenomenon in the world: Somalia, quite possibly, has the world’s strangest monetary phenomenon, JP Konig argues on his blog. Konig calls its currency, the Somali shilling, an “orphaned” one as it exists without a central bank. Although the Central Bank of Somalia and the national government ceased to exist when a […]
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Lebanon’s narcotics’ kingpin
Lebanon’s Pablo Escobar? BBC News’ Pop Up has started to make edgy documentaries a la Vice News. One particularly interesting one that caught our eyes recently was about one of Lebanon’s supposedly biggest narcotics kingpins. BBC says narcotics are grown in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley with impunity. “Backed by armed militiamen, the country's [redacted] lords have […]
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Where to go for the upcoming Easter and Sham El Neseem long weekend
Still haven’t made plans for the Easter and Sham El Neseem long weekend? The New York Times has got your back with its 36 Hours in Cyprus. Also on the list of places we’d like to explore: Fez.
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In our streaming queue this weekend
Two TV shows in our video queue to try this weekend: Better Call Saul (one season on Egyptian Netflix, three in most other markets), the Breaking Bad prequel, and The Leftovers (two seasons on iTunes, season three in progress), billed as a dark, edgy drama set three years after the completely unexplained disappearance of 2% […]
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This Japanese family has been making edible art in Tokyo for the last 170 years
Toshio Fukushima and his sons are the fifth- and sixth-generation in their family to run their confectionary in Tokyo where they mainly make and sell the traditional Japanese delicacy known as wagashi. Made from a mix of local ingredients such as white kidney beans and red azuki beans, sugar, and fruit, wagashi’s “sweetness is well […]
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How to kick your “um” habit to the curb
How to kick your “um” habit to the curb: Verbal fillers like “um,” “ah,” or “so” are common in both our everyday vernacular and in high-stakes situations like job interviews or public speeches. We tend to stay away from allowing ourselves to take a (silent) moment to gather our thoughts for fear of appearing ill-prepared […]
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It might be ugly, but Comic Sans can be useful
In defense of the indefensible: Comic Sans. Nobody is entirely sure why the worldwide web suddenly came together and collectively decided that Comic Sans is the devil’s handwriting, but Mashable’s Christine Erickson says two graphic designers actually started a “Ban Comic Sans” campaign in 1999 in hopes of pointing out its amateurish look and the […]
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A dive into the minds of animals
What do we really know about the minds of animals? Evidence of brain functions and responses show various animals do have minds as we might define them, argues an Economist article the newspaper has run on Medium. “No animals have all the attributes of human minds; but almost all the attributes of human minds are […]