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There Once Was a Man Called Curley In the village of Bellewstown, about 15 miles north of Dublin, Ireland, they still talk about what...
6th Sep 2025
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There Once Was a Man Called Curley

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6th Sep 2025
In the village of Bellewstown, about 15 miles north of Dublin, Ireland, they still talk about what Barney Curley did back in 1975. It all happened during a horse race on the Hill of Crockafotha. It was just an amateur jockey race on a lazy summer day in a sleepy, remote town; it...
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Omiword, a Word Game In certain dialects of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, the word for ‘four’ sounds very...
21st Jul 2025
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Omiword, a Word Game

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21st Jul 2025
In certain dialects of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, the word for ‘four’ sounds very similar to the word for ‘death’1. Consequently, the number 4 is considered by many people in East Asian nations to be unlucky. It is not unusual for buildings in that region to skip...
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Much Ado About Adenoids Edmund Lawall must have felt cursed. He’d brought his family to New York in the late 1800s to carry...
23rd Jun 2025
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Much Ado About Adenoids

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23rd Jun 2025
Edmund Lawall must have felt cursed. He’d brought his family to New York in the late 1800s to carry on his father’s business as a pharmacist, but fate—or perhaps the city itself—seemed determined to drive him back out again. Lawall’s health had been in decline since their...
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A Trail Gone Cold Iceland is known to the rest of the world as the land of Vikings and volcanos, an island caught...
21st Mar 2024
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A Trail Gone Cold

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21st Mar 2024
Iceland is known to the rest of the world as the land of Vikings and volcanos, an island caught between continents at the extremities of the map. Remote and comparatively inhospitable, it was settled only as long ago as the 9th century, and has seen little additional in-migration...
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Breaking a Bit It’s been a busy summer, and the large shortfall in donations last month has been demoralizing, so...
5th Sep 2023
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Breaking a Bit

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5th Sep 2023
It’s been a busy summer, and the large shortfall in donations last month has been demoralizing, so we’re taking a week off to rest and recuperate. The curated links section will be (mostly) silent, and behind the scenes we’ll be taking a brief break from our usual researching,...
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Giving the Bird the Bird We’re not going to post things on Twitter X anymore. The new owner keeps doing awful stuff. If you...
7th Aug 2023
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Giving the Bird the Bird

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7th Aug 2023
We’re not going to post things on Twitter X anymore. The new owner keeps doing awful stuff. If you have enjoyed our mostly-daily curated links via the aforementioned collapsing service, we invite you to bookmark our curated links page, or follow us a number of other ways. Rather...
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Journey to the Invisible Planet In the late 17th century, natural philosopher Isaac Newton was deeply uneasy with a new scientific...
13th Jun 2023
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Journey to the Invisible Planet

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13th Jun 2023
In the late 17th century, natural philosopher Isaac Newton was deeply uneasy with a new scientific theory that was gaining currency in Europe: universal gravitation. In correspondence with a scientific contemporary, Newton complained that it was “an absurdity” to suppose that...
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From Where the Sun Now Stands An American Indian man on horseback stood outlined against a steely sky past midday on 05 October...
22nd May 2023
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From Where the Sun Now Stands

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22nd May 2023
An American Indian man on horseback stood outlined against a steely sky past midday on 05 October 1877. Winter was already settling into the prairies of what would soon become the state of Montana. Five white men stood in the swaying grass on the other side of the field,...
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The Ancient Order of Bali In the 1970s, the Indonesian island of Bali went through a period of rapid change. Along the...
28th Mar 2023
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The Ancient Order of Bali

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28th Mar 2023
In the 1970s, the Indonesian island of Bali went through a period of rapid change. Along the stunning beaches on the southern side of the island, tourism boomed. Parking lots were put up, together with swinging hot spots and hotels of various colours. Hip young travellers from...
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This is Dang Interesting Happy New Year! This has nothing to do with the new year. We at this website know, reluctantly, that...
2nd Jan 2023
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This is Dang Interesting

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2nd Jan 2023
Happy New Year! This has nothing to do with the new year. We at this website know, reluctantly, that “d*mn” is not always a welcome word. Additionally, we are aware that we have a few articles sporting even saltier vocabularies (settle down, Colonel Sanders!). Countless school...
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