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Mattias Krantz: This Ukulele Transforms Into a Full Guitar Mid-Performance, and the Crowd Went Wild

August 4, 2026

Mattias Krantz spent months engineering a ukulele that physically transforms into a full-size guitar mid-performance,

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The Wall Street Journal: Why Billions of Zippers All Share the Same Three Letters

August 4, 2026

The three letters YKK appear on everything from fashion jackets to NASA spacesuits and US

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August 4, 2026

On July 31, 1786, Robert Burns published 'Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect' in Kilmarnock

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Kuji Rolls: The Inmotion P6 Goes 90 MPH and Weighs as Much as a Dog. So Why Is the Electric Unicycle Still Dying?

August 4, 2026

The Inmotion P6 hits 90 mph and weighs as much as a dog, making it

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Quantum Makers: One Man Spent a Year Building a Floating Self-Sustaining Village on a Remote Vietnamese Lake

August 4, 2026

One man spent twelve months in the rainy forests of Vietnam building a floating bamboo

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Disney: Walt Disney Built Disneyland in One Year on Borrowed Money and Sheer Belief

August 3, 2026

Walt Disney broke ground on Disneyland in 1954 with barely ten percent of the drawings

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Alex the Historian: How Walt Disney Built Disneyland With $40, a Brother's Faith, and 366 Impossible Days

August 3, 2026

Walt Disney arrived in Los Angeles in 1923 with $40 in his wallet and half

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Disney: Disney's Worldbuilders Reveal How Arendelle, Avengers Campus, and More Come to Life

August 3, 2026

The creative teams behind Disney's themed lands reveal what it actually takes to turn Arendelle

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Mark Rober: Mark Rober Built a Real Jello Pool and Then Belly Flopped Into It

August 3, 2026

Mark Rober spent six months engineering the world's first real Jello pool, tracking overnight temperatures

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Chris Rogers: Chris Rogers Was eFoiling Cape Town Bay When 100 Dolphins Showed Up

August 3, 2026

Chris Rogers set out on an eFoil in Cape Town Bay hoping a dolphin or

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Marques Brownlee: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Review: A $1,900 Phone That Does Some Things Better Than Any Smartphone Alive

August 2, 2026

Marques Brownlee spent more than a week daily-driving the $1,900 Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8,

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Silicon Valley Girl: Anne Wojcicki Bought Back 23andMe to Build the World's Largest DNA-AI Health Engine

August 2, 2026

Anne Wojcicki bought 23andMe back from bankruptcy and converted it into a nonprofit with one

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