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Inulin propionate ester (IPE) just won EU approval; 10 g a day curbs appetite by triggering colon hormones.

Meta emotion-tracking patent: a wearable that records you all day and reads your feelings from sighs and laughter.

Peter Matthiessen co-founded the Paris Review as CIA cover; a new biography and LRB essay untangle his double life.

Odd radio circles are huge unexplained rings, over 50 times the Milky Way's width, seen only at radio wavelengths.

The Wicked Bible of 1631 left 'not' out of 'thou shalt not commit adultery.' About 25 copies survive today.

Spontaneous human combustion is pseudoscience; the real cause is the wick effect, where body fat feeds a slow fire.

IP over Avian Carriers is a real 1990 internet standard for sending data by homing pigeon, with 55% packet loss.

Solvej Balle's incredible story of a woman trapped in time continues in Book II of On the Calculation of Volume.

Verba Prima is an archive of thousands of first sentences from notable literary works, browsable one line at a time.

Atlassian, Adobe, and Amazon are throttling AI use as costs spiral, one firm's bill hitting $15 million a month.