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Skin Deep: Why 70,000 Years of Separation Failed to Create Separate Human Races
Horses and donkeys look more than 95% alike. But the mules they produce—99.9% of them—are sterile. Lions and tigers differ by just one pair of chromosomes (19 pairs in lions, 19 in tigers; their hybrids end up with 19 pairs that can't synapse properly). Ligers have a survival rate of about one in a hundred thousand, and every single male is infertile.
By Jin3 months ago in FYI
My Take On the Horrifying Gunfire at Seattle Food Festival. AI-Generated.
A city built on coffee, tech, and live events is now reckoning with gunfire at one of its most beloved summer festivals. What should have been a weekend of food and music at Seattle Center ended with two people dead and five injured, including a toddler , after shots rang out near the Space Needle.
By Eina Liban3 months ago in FYI
While The World Burns
You've heard it before. You'll hear it again. Something is coming. Unfortunately, a growing number of people can't handle what's headed their way. Do you think that you can?
By Jason Morton3 months ago in FYI
The Great Dental Dilemma
I never liked my front teeth as a young adult. They’d spent most of my life trying to occupy the same piece of real estate, in one part of my mouth and leaving gaps in another.
By Rejoice Denhere3 months ago in FYI
I Analyzed a Reddit Thread About a Stranger’s Long Fingers — and Found the Secret Recipe for 33K Upvotes
On July 26, 2026, a photo appeared on r/interesting: a hand with fingers that were clearly out of the ordinary: long, knobby, as if stretched. The title was just five words: “My fingers are way too long.”
By Jin3 months ago in FYI
A Jar of Honey and an Old Fridge: How Two Ridiculous Misdemeanors Barred Me from Uber for 12 Years
Winter in Tennessee. A thin layer of frost had formed on the honey jars sitting on the porch. He lined them up in a row, ready to sell to passing truckers, his own bees, no additives, six dollars a jar. He hadn't put labels on them. He figured, who reads labels on honey?
By Jin3 months ago in FYI
Two Rivers, One Casing: A European’s Love Letter to Chinese Sausage
The first time I really looked at lap cheong —Cantonese cured sausage—was on Yide Road in Guangzhou. A row of them hung from iron hooks. Ruddy, glossy, each section tied off with white cotton string, plump and even. I stood underneath and looked up, and what hit my nostrils was something sweet and sharp. Not the beechwood-smoke depth of a European smokehouse, nor the warm blend of pepper and nutmeg. It was baijiu , sorghum liquor, piercing, like someone had waved a bottle under my nose and then pulled it away.
By Jin3 months ago in FYI
What It Was Like To Get Shot
Have you ever been shot? Not too many people say yes to that question. It's about as many yes answers as the question, "Have you ever shot someone?" And why people used to ask me that, I never did figure out. In the modern era, it would have been in the news.
By Jason Morton3 months ago in FYI
A Glitchy Video Game About a Doomed Emperor Just Explained Why Your Company Is Collapsing
The real sign that a company is about to collapse is hidden in a string of figures from the Chongzhen reign. The place I work now is full of anxiety and uncertainty, but I can’t tell when it will actually go under.
By Jin3 months ago in FYI
The 26 Yuan Lie: What a Croissant Taught Me About the Cost of Convenience
The Warm Yellow Light That Evening Was the First Trap. It spilled out through the glass doors of the Holiland bakery, carrying the scent of freshly baked caramel and wheat flour that had been thoroughly heated through, the kind of smell that stops you mid‑step. You were only passing by, but that aroma landed on your forearm like a hand — not tugging, just resting there lightly, the kind of touch you know you could shake off anytime. You shook it off three times. On the fourth, you pushed the door open.
By Jin3 months ago in FYI
Malaysia’s Red Line: Anwar, Israel and the Cost of Saying NO. AI-Generated.
Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has drawn a clear red line. He’s refusing to soften the country’s decades-old ban on Israeli citizens, even as a group of US lawmakers hints that American security and economic ties might be on the line.
By Eina Liban3 months ago in FYI
The Disturbing Origins of the Pinky Promise
I think every single one of us at some point in our lives has made a pinky promise, whether it’s keeping a secret between childhood friends or making some form of commitment. The pinky promise is the ultimate gesture of keeping a sacred vow.
By Rosie J. Sargent3 months ago in FYI