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A DJ named Ralph Lawson, who hosted a radio show called Trans Europe Express, found an incredible time capsule in his collection: an hour-long mixtape sent to h ...

This workshop founded in 1882 still makes dried bonito like they did back in the Edo period. How katsuobushi — Japanese dried ...

A DJ named Ralph Lawson, who hosted a radio show called Trans Europe Express, found an incredible time capsule in his collection: an hour-long mixtape sent to him by Daft Punk in 1997, shortly after ...

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I’ve been reading a bit about the recent election in Serbia and some of the details are fascinating. A student-led coalition toppled the 12-year corrupt reign o ...

For more than a year, marshalled by animator Andy Bailey, more than 1000 artists collaborated to create a hand-drawn, ...

I’ve been vaguely aware for awhile that researchers had traced the origins of HIV/AIDS back to Sub-Saharan Africa. But I didn’t know the whole story, which turn ...

Perfect Play ran over 300 million games of Monopoly to determine the best strategy and the most common mistakes players make. I turned eight classic Monopoly st ...

Sometime in the past few years, media sites like Bloomberg, The Economist, The Atlantic, Defector, Talking Points Memo, and the NY Times started offering a way ...