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Laugh tracks
The misunderstood glue holding sitcoms together
The US $100 bill
All about the Benjamins
Helium
Vanishing into thin air?
Doorbells
Ringing a new kind of alarm
Staplers
Holding it all together
Procrastination
The pause that doesn't refresh
Pizza boxes
A corrugated culinary icon
Porta-potties
A game of thrones
Butter
The global spread of an irresistible fat
Camp
A cultural sensibility for our time
Salvator Mundi
The world's most mysterious painting
Gene drives
How to edit diseases from the planet
Beige
The shade of modern life
Ellipses
Wait for it...
Keyboards
The keys to communication
The Bauhaus
The utopia we’re all still living in
Tom’s Restaurant
Where black holes, MP3s, Seinfeld, and Barack Obama meet
The Ben Franklin effect
Do us a favor and read this?
White-out
How correction fluid made its mark
Bricks
Layered in intrigue
A woman holds a pyramid figure towards the sun to welcome the spring equinox in the pre-hispanic city of Teotihuacan on the outskirts of Mexico City
Maslow’s pyramid of needs
An elitist management symbol?
Redaction
Reading ◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎ the lines
Cottage cheese
Yogurt's ugly stepsister
Notre Dame
The collective pain of history destroyed
Nemeses
The rivals we love to hate
Photo booths
An image-driven industry
Drones at work
The unmanned infrastructure of the air
MMT
You down with Modern Monetary Theory?
Wasabi
The great, green imposter
Capacitors
The power-packed components we can’t get enough of
“Let It Go”
The mysterious power of the most-streamed Disney song
False eyelashes
Delicately placing the beauty industry in the black
Fiber-optic cables are shown at, Intergate.Manhattan in New York, Wednesday, March 20, 2013. The 32-story Intergate.Manhattan, once a Verizon facility, will house a one million square foot data center. The Seattle-based data storage company has renovated the building with electrical substations and backup generators above ground level to protect the facility from storm surge damage. The facility will greatly increase the city's computing infrastructure capacity. ()
Undersea cables
Data moves better down where it’s wetter
Romance novels
The throbbing, heaving powerhouse of publishing
Vocal bursts
The science of oohs and ahhs
Kludge
A makeshift solution that creates its own problems
Supersonic flight
Breaking the sound (and money) barrier
Free lunches
Ain’t no such thing?
Death cafés
The rebirth of memento mori
‘Oumuamua
Our first interstellar visitor