Americans are reportedly holding around $21 billion in unused gift cards.
Personally I just found a $25 gift card that someone sent me a year ago.
https://www.thestreet.com/personal-finance/americans-holding-billions-of-dollars-in-unused-gift-cards

MIT scientists have discovered a population of neurons that light up whenever we see images of food.
https://news.mit.edu/2022/food-neurons-visual-cortex-0825

Why Dijon mustard disappeared from France https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220816-why-theres-no-dijon-in-dijon-mustard

It may not have sold wands or grimoires, but this subterranean shopping alley remained just as hidden as J K Rowling’s, until it was accidentally stumbled upon in 2002 https://www.messynessychic.com/2022/07/30/a-real-life-diagon-alley-buried-in-time/

>>Topics like reskilling, career mobility, talent marketplace, and organizational agility are now all C-level topics. And they aren’t just ways to “retrain workers” – they’re needed transformation tools to stay relevant.

https://joshbersin.com/2022/08/the-confusing-job-market-ceos-and-chros-seem-baffled/

Ancient relics, prehistoric treasures and medieval villages are among the underwater artifacts that have resurfaced as water levels around the world plunge because of drought.

https://news.yahoo.com/lost-villages-ancient-ruins-wwii-090013819.html

"Unfortunately, this made an object intended to evoke metaphysical dread look more like a cheap prop at a Jaws convention" https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220722-inherent-vice-the-masterpieces-that-decay

"The thing that determines whether you’re the product isn’t whether you’re paying for the product: it’s whether market power and regulatory forbearance allow the company to get away with selling you." ...

"Tech monopolists love kill-switches, and they exhibit heart-warming confidence in their own ability to prevent their abuse.
That confidence is terribly misplaced."
https://doctorow.medium.com/about-those-kill-switched-ukrainian-tractors-bc93f471b9c8

"As the name suggests, the US $180 Core64 kit provides just 64 bits of RAM, but you can get quite a bit more mileage out of it than just the ability to store up to eight extended ASCII characters." https://spectrum.ieee.org/weave-your-own-apollo-era-memory

Two conspiracy theorists walk into a bar.

You can't tell me that was just a coincidence, man.

The origins and culture of “The Real Panama Hat.” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/the-real-panama-hat-180980525

8,000 medieval cures - from everyday herbs to baked owls - are being digitised and made freely available by Cambridge University Library https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/curious-medieval-medicine

In the void of interstellar space, the most distant emissary of humankind carries a message that will last for billions of years.
https://theconversation.com/after-45-years-the-5-billion-year-legacy-of-the-voyager-2-interstellar-probe-is-just-beginning-188077

I think it would be a good idea.
– Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization

"Kovalcik founded Share a Seed, a mutual aid seed-sharing and gardening initiative aimed at connecting crop-curious community members—especially in lower-resourced communities—to seed surpluses." https://modernfarmer.com/2022/08/share-a-seed/

" If the darker show he illuminates was present in Oklahoma! at its inception, why and how did it get there, and how did it evaporate in the intervening decades?"
https://www.vulture.com/2019/04/frank-rich-oklahoma.html

This is such a mean-spirited article. It doesn't capture any of the reasons that I was glad to join Mensa.

We let our membership lapse, 20+ years ago, but not for any reasons to do with the organization or its membership.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/08/my-week-with-americas-smartest-people.html

Women of the White Buffalo broadly recaps the US genocide of Indigenous peoples through broken treaties, buffalo slaughter and boarding schools, where remains of children are being excavated. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/apr/12/native-american-women-of-the-white-buffalo-documentary

When housewives began demanding abortions, it wasn't just that mainstream society saw them as nice, respectable ladies who of course should make decisions about their own bodies for themselves. It's that each one was seeking an abortion for a very specific reason: to prevent what mainstream society saw as a tragedy—a disabled child. Thalidomide sparked the anxiety among women, but rubella made it persist. https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/podcast/roe-v-wade-v-rubella