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Two scammers, a web of betrayal, and Europe’s fraud of the century.
A decades-long forgery scheme, a rock musician turned sleuth and several top museums. Here’s how investigators unraveled an incredible scam.
Anything that can be computed can be computed by folding paper: origami is “Turing complete”.
He invented more necktie knots than anyone else on the planet—so many that he started to call himself a “tieknotologist.”
It is said that Pythagoras came up with the idea that musical note combinations sound best in certain mathematical ratios, but that doesn't seem to be true
Do we really want to listen to a whole film of Charles Martinet going “woohoo” in falsetto and putting on a cartoonishly thick Italian accent?
Teen girls have unique needs and experiences that are often left out of our built environment
“Loab” was initially produced using a technique called “negative weighting.” – Warning: some creepy/gross images follow
Howard Scott Warshaw’s video game was blamed for single-handedly sinking a multibillion-dollar market. But the true story is more complicated.
He was Hulk Hogan before Hulk Hogan. He leapt to the big screen before it was the sporting standard. And for his final act? He worked in the shadows to help topple Hitler.
Seven years, 60 countries, 935 internet shutdowns: How authoritarian regimes found an off switch for dissent.
Few genres are more preposterous than the locked room mystery. The premises are absurd and plot solutions ridiculous—but still I keep on reading.
The story of ‘Teletubbies’ is anything but innocent
Scandal, conspiracy, and cover-ups in the theft of the “Irish Crown Jewels” from Dublin Castle.