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A T. rex skeleton just sold for a record $50.1 million (opens the original)
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A fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex nicknamed Gus sold at Sotheby's in New York on Tuesday for $50.1 million to a phone bidder, making it the most valuable dinosaur fossil ever auctioned. The price nearly doubled its estimate and beat the $44.6 million a stegosaurus fetched in 2024. Gus is one of the largest and most complete T. rexes ever found — 12.5 feet tall, about 38 feet long, 67 million years old. Its skull is so heavy that Sotheby's couldn't mount it; the real head sat in the lobby of the auc
Houses built for one purpose: to make the neighbors miserable (opens the original)
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A spite house is a building put up to punish someone — by blocking a neighbor's light, ruining a view, or planting a permanent monument to a grudge in their sightline. America has been building them for centuries. In 1716, sailmaker Thomas Wood built the ten-foot-wide Old Spite House in Marblehead, Massachusetts — by one account, sized precisely to block the view of two houses on Orne Street after its owner got a small share of his father's estate. It's occupied today. Boston's Skinny House, 10.
The billion-dimensional map hidden inside every AI model (opens the original)
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AI models contain a vast, compressed map that they pull every answer and image out of. In his new essay, Kevin Kelly calls this latent space a real creative medium, as consequential as film or photography. Because the model stores patterns instead of copies, the sum of human knowledge fits on a palm-sized card. "This is weird," he says. "Until recently we might have thought that all the information about a thing would take up more storage space than the thing itself. That may be true for a singl
Smearing yogurt on your windows can cool a house by 6 degrees (opens the original)
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When a heatwave hits the UK, where almost no homes have air conditioning, staying cool takes improvisation. Dr. Ben Roberts, a researcher at Loughborough University, tested one of the stranger fixes going around and found it actually works: smear plain yogurt on the outside of your windows. According to Fortune, Roberts ran a month-long experiment with two identical test houses, one with yogurt-coated windows and one without. The dried dairy film blocks solar radiation from streaming in through
A tick bite can make you allergic to meat, and cases are climbing (opens the original)
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A tick bite can make you become allergic to hamburgers. Alpha-gal syndrome — a red-meat allergy triggered by the Lone Star tick — is spreading so quickly that researchers just held the first-ever scientific conference on it. According to Scientific American, the CDC estimates 450,000 Americans have it, and a July study found about one in four people tested across five Southern states carried the antibodies. Lone star tick saliva injects alpha-gal, a sugar found in mammal tissue but not in people
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