"The first rule of hustling is to let your opponent suggest the match," he told Sports Illustrated in a florid 1977 profile, “and when he does you mustn't seem too eager.”
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Yes, 'Marty Supreme' Is Based on a True Story. It's Also Insane.
Meet the real-life ping-pong hustler Marty Reisman.
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January 5, 2026 at 8:24 PM
"The first rule of hustling is to let your opponent suggest the match," he told Sports Illustrated in a florid 1977 profile, “and when he does you mustn't seem too eager.”
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Glocalisation - The gist is the surprising success of local artists singing in their local language. This phenomenon continues to percolate, and as it evolves we’re still defining it in real time.
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Global Value of Music Copyright Hits New All-Time High, Nearly Doubling in a Decade to $47.2bn in 2024 — Pivotal Economics
The global value of music copyright reached $47.2bn in 2024. That's up just $2.3bn (5.2%) on the prior year; growth is slowing largely because this is the first year where the pandemic effects have va...
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December 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Glocalisation - The gist is the surprising success of local artists singing in their local language. This phenomenon continues to percolate, and as it evolves we’re still defining it in real time.
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The problem with these comparisons, however, is that the pound’s purchasing power was not steady in the years between Austen novels.
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Was Mr Darcy the richest of all Jane Austen’s characters?
It depends how you count their wealth
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December 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The problem with these comparisons, however, is that the pound’s purchasing power was not steady in the years between Austen novels.
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"Well, you know, I was raised on Star Trek, and all the good ideas come from Star Trek. So I said what if we could just do it all electronically? What if I could store an image electronically, capture an image electronically, and I don't require any film at all?"
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A 'toaster with a lens': The story behind the first handheld digital camera
In 1975, a young engineer in the company that made Kodak film took the first picture on a handheld digital camera. Photography would never be the same again.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
"Well, you know, I was raised on Star Trek, and all the good ideas come from Star Trek. So I said what if we could just do it all electronically? What if I could store an image electronically, capture an image electronically, and I don't require any film at all?"
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“Everyone’s just like, ‘How the fuck is [WBD CEO] David Zaslav going to make so much money when he ran the company into the ground?’” says a studio executive. “The unjustness of that, when all these people are going to be out of work, it should be illegal.”
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As Netflix Swallows Warner Bros., Hollywood Is in Full-Blown Panic Mode
“Everyone’s just like, ‘How is David Zaslav going to make so much money when he ran the company into the ground?’” says a studio executive. “The unjustness of that, when all these people are going to ...
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December 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
“Everyone’s just like, ‘How the fuck is [WBD CEO] David Zaslav going to make so much money when he ran the company into the ground?’” says a studio executive. “The unjustness of that, when all these people are going to be out of work, it should be illegal.”
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In 1962, while Mr. Cropper and the MG’s were jamming between sessions at Stax, Mr. Stewart, impressed by the riffing, organ-driven blues he heard, surreptitiously captured the quartet’s playing on tape. “Green Onions” was the result.
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Steve Cropper, Guitarist, Songwriter and Shaper of Memphis Soul Music, Dies at 84
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December 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
In 1962, while Mr. Cropper and the MG’s were jamming between sessions at Stax, Mr. Stewart, impressed by the riffing, organ-driven blues he heard, surreptitiously captured the quartet’s playing on tape. “Green Onions” was the result.
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To be whirling the blue supergiant star around so fast, they deduced that the invisible companion must be at least four – and possibly as much as six – times the mass of the Sun. Only one candidate could be that heavy and that dark. They had discovered a new celestial body: a black hole.
The woman who discovered black holes
Louise Webster has been largely forgotten – it's time to remember her
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November 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
To be whirling the blue supergiant star around so fast, they deduced that the invisible companion must be at least four – and possibly as much as six – times the mass of the Sun. Only one candidate could be that heavy and that dark. They had discovered a new celestial body: a black hole.
America First? The slogan of Charles Lindbergh and other pre-World War II isolationists should have been buried forever on Dec. 7, 1941. Instead, it emerged from its grave some 75 years later.
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Opinion | Do Dumb Ideas Ever Die?
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November 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
America First? The slogan of Charles Lindbergh and other pre-World War II isolationists should have been buried forever on Dec. 7, 1941. Instead, it emerged from its grave some 75 years later.
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Excavation for the hardened COC in the 9,565-foot Cheyenne Mountain began on 19 June 1961 and was essentially completed by August 1962. It was completely finished on 1 May 1964.
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Inside NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center, c.1966 - Flashbak
A look around the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center underground facility.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Excavation for the hardened COC in the 9,565-foot Cheyenne Mountain began on 19 June 1961 and was essentially completed by August 1962. It was completely finished on 1 May 1964.
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RFK Jr. Greets Trick-Or-Treaters With Big Bowl Of Ape Glands https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-greets-trick-or-treaters-with-big-bowl-of-ape-glands/
October 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
RFK Jr. Greets Trick-Or-Treaters With Big Bowl Of Ape Glands https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-greets-trick-or-treaters-with-big-bowl-of-ape-glands/
... the NBA would have been required legally to take on the ABA’s debts (i.e. player pensions). However, it was not a merger. The NBA’s outside counsel, which included a young David J. Stern, cleverly structured the deal as an expansion.
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Column | NBA should do right by these basketball pioneers before it’s too late
Few former ABA players are left, and as a documentary film shows, it wouldn’t take much for a lucrative league to step up for them.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
... the NBA would have been required legally to take on the ABA’s debts (i.e. player pensions). However, it was not a merger. The NBA’s outside counsel, which included a young David J. Stern, cleverly structured the deal as an expansion.
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The area is still a far cry from its peak period about 15 years ago, when the vacancy rate was 7%. The rate today is about 25%, according to local real-estate brokerage Stone Real Estate.
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The Fight to Restore Chicago’s Magnificent Mile to Its Glory Days
The area’s crime rate is down, and cheaper rents have prompted retailers to lease new space.
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October 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The area is still a far cry from its peak period about 15 years ago, when the vacancy rate was 7%. The rate today is about 25%, according to local real-estate brokerage Stone Real Estate.
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TFF president Ibrahim Haciosmanoglu said that 10 referees had placed over 10,000 bets each, and one official had placed an astonishing 18,277 bets.
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Turkish referee betting scandal explained: What’s happened and what next?
Analysing the latest major controversy to hit Turkish football and what the implications could be
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October 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
TFF president Ibrahim Haciosmanoglu said that 10 referees had placed over 10,000 bets each, and one official had placed an astonishing 18,277 bets.
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Ambient IoT is a class of IoT devices mainly powered by harvesting ambient energy from radio waves, light, motion, heat, or other viable ambient energy sources.
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Walmart deploys millions of new sensors in retail's first large-scale deployment of IoT tech
Walmart is deploying millions of ambient Internet of Things battery-free sensors throughout its U.S. supply chain to enhance services and add efficiencies.
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October 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Ambient IoT is a class of IoT devices mainly powered by harvesting ambient energy from radio waves, light, motion, heat, or other viable ambient energy sources.
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Grant noted that three of the women in her book — Peggy Neal, Cindy Clark-Newby and Christine Hammill — are still alive; they’re just proactive in their end-of-life planning.
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A New Cookbook Compiles Recipes From Gravestones Around the World
From snickerdoodles to cheese dip, these recipe epitaphs — compiled in a new cookbook — will live forever
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October 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Grant noted that three of the women in her book — Peggy Neal, Cindy Clark-Newby and Christine Hammill — are still alive; they’re just proactive in their end-of-life planning.
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Moving the space shuttle Endeavour just 12 miles from Los Angeles International Airport to the California Science Center was an arduous engineering feat that cost roughly $10 million.
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The Strange Saga of the Great Texas Space Shuttle Heist
Texas lawmakers want to move the Smithsonian’s retired space shuttle to Houston. It’s “a vanity project that is apt to destroy a near-priceless American treasure,” one historian says
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October 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Moving the space shuttle Endeavour just 12 miles from Los Angeles International Airport to the California Science Center was an arduous engineering feat that cost roughly $10 million.
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“I just never took the thing that seriously, even though we were one of the biggest groups in the world. And I still look back on it today and I go, ‘Wow, that was weird.’”
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Ace Frehley, hard-rocking Kiss guitarist, dies at 74
Taking the blues rock of his favorite bands, Mr. Frehley imbued the group with energy and leaned into theatrics as a performer.
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October 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
“I just never took the thing that seriously, even though we were one of the biggest groups in the world. And I still look back on it today and I go, ‘Wow, that was weird.’”
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The rules of murderball are simple: there are no rules. You play as fast as you can, the refs swallow their whistles and defenders can hack away to their hearts’ content. This was the CLA concept at full bore, just as Plum experienced.
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What is CLA, the revolutionary coaching method used by Victor Wembanyama and other top athletes?
This radical coaching method was once a secret. Now, it’s reimagining athletic training and powering champions all over the world.
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September 30, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The rules of murderball are simple: there are no rules. You play as fast as you can, the refs swallow their whistles and defenders can hack away to their hearts’ content. This was the CLA concept at full bore, just as Plum experienced.
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Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile | Official Teaser Trailer
YouTube video by The Onion
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September 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
“The glorification of editors … is not a wholesome thing. The editor’s relationship to a book should be an invisible thing.”
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Opinion | These editor’s notes are poison. I learned from every drop.
Working with Starling Lawrence, who died last month, was a bracing course in a vanishing art.
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September 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
“The glorification of editors … is not a wholesome thing. The editor’s relationship to a book should be an invisible thing.”
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The company is able to produce each episode for $1 or less, depending on length and complexity, and attach programmatic advertising to it. This generally means that if about 20 people listen to that episode, the company made a profit on that episode ....
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5,000 Podcasts. 3,000 Episodes a Week. $1 Cost Per Episode — Behind an AI Start Up’s Plan
Former Wondery exec Jeanine Wright is leading a new firm, Inception Point AI, that's betting on flooding the zone with audio content: “I think that people who are still referring to all AI-generated c...
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September 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The company is able to produce each episode for $1 or less, depending on length and complexity, and attach programmatic advertising to it. This generally means that if about 20 people listen to that episode, the company made a profit on that episode ....
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... Nakamura won all 12 without much trouble. His first Iowa game was so easy that he finished with more time on the clock than when he started. His final Iowa game saw him clinch the title against 13-year-old Artemii Khanbutaev.
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Here's why Hikaru Nakamura, the world's No. 2 chess player, is gaming the system with 'Mickey Mouse' tournaments
The grandmaster has competed in the Louisiana State Championship and Iowa Open this month. He won the latter by beating a 13-year-old.
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September 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
... Nakamura won all 12 without much trouble. His first Iowa game was so easy that he finished with more time on the clock than when he started. His final Iowa game saw him clinch the title against 13-year-old Artemii Khanbutaev.
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