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Ghost Town Living: He Thought His Mining Claim Had No Gold. A Fire Assay Just Proved Him Wrong.

September 14, 2026

He Thought His Mining Claim Had No Gold. A Fire Assay Just Proved Him Wrong.

Brent spent a year pulling rock from a legally claimed mining site and walked away

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Sierra Clark: Lloyd Kahn Skateboards at 91 and His Doctor Told Him to Stop

September 8, 2026

Lloyd Kahn Skateboards at 91 and His Doctor Told Him to Stop

Lloyd Kahn started skateboarding at 65, fractured his arm badly enough to lose consciousness, drove

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iamBrandon: Brandon DoorDashed in the Hollywood Hills for 24 Hours and Nearly Didn't Survive

September 8, 2026

Brandon DoorDashed in the Hollywood Hills for 24 Hours and Nearly Didn’t Survive

Brandon spent 24 hours DoorDashing through gated celebrity compounds and uphill pizza deliveries in Hollywood

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carly king: Inside George Lucas' Museum of Narrative Art: Star Wars Props, Models, and Costumes Up Close

September 8, 2026

Inside George Lucas’ Museum of Narrative Art: Star Wars Props, Models, and Costumes Up Close

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles pulled the Lucasfilm archives into the

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Architectural Digest: The Stall Family Bought the Lot Nobody Wanted for $13,500 and Built One of Architecture's Most Famous Homes

September 7, 2026

The Stall Family Bought the Lot Nobody Wanted for $13,500 and Built One of Architecture’s Most Famous Homes

Clarence Stall bought a hilltop lot nobody wanted for $13,500 and a handshake, hauled concrete

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Peter Bjorndal: Inside the Tardigrade House: A Week with Architect Eugene Tssui in Berkeley

September 7, 2026

Inside the Tardigrade House: A Week with Architect Eugene Tssui in Berkeley

Peter Bjorndal spent a week inside Eugene Tssui's tardigrade-inspired fish house in Berkeley, California, a

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: GoPro Finally Lets You Swap Lenses and Filmmakers Are Already Losing Their Minds

September 4, 2026

GoPro Finally Lets You Swap Lenses and Filmmakers Are Already Losing Their Minds

GoPro's new interchangeable lens system lets filmmakers attach anamorphic glass and cinema zooms to a

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Y Combinator: Paul Graham Says the Next Trillion-Dollar Company Comes From the Right Founders, Not the Right Idea

September 4, 2026

Paul Graham Says the Next Trillion-Dollar Company Comes From the Right Founders, Not the Right Idea

Paul Graham sat down at Y Combinator's original Mountain View offices to explain why the

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Y Combinator: Hart Aerospace Just Flew the World's Largest Electric Airplane on $5 of Electricity

September 4, 2026

Heart Aerospace Just Flew the World’s Largest Electric Airplane on $5 of Electricity to take-off

Heart Aerospace flew the world's largest electric airplane from Plattsburgh, New York, on $5 of

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just lanchen: Inside Wasteland, the Post-Apocalyptic City Built from Scratch in the Mojave Desert

September 4, 2026

Inside Wasteland, the Post-Apocalyptic City Built from Scratch in the Mojave Desert

Deep in the Mojave Desert, a fully built post-apocalyptic city runs on bottle caps, barter,

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CrunchLabs: Mark Rober Built a Nerf Artillery Vehicle and Zach King Still Lost

September 3, 2026

Mark Rober Built a Nerf Artillery Vehicle and Zach King Still Lost

Mark Rober built a rapid-fire Nerf artillery vehicle, invited Zach King and a kid who

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: Google Brain Co-Founder Andrew Ng Says AI Fear-Mongering Is Slowing America Down

August 30, 2026

Google Brain Co-Founder Andrew Ng Says AI Fear-Mongering Is Slowing America Down

Andrew Ng, co-founder of Google Brain and Coursera, argues that the wave of AI fear-mongering

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