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Why Your Phone Dies at 30 Percent and EV Batteries Don't

The same chemistry sits in your pocket and under an electric car, so why does one quit after two years and the other last a decade?

StoryHistoryMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

Easy Company From Currahee to the Eagle's Nest

They ran a Georgia mountain until they hated it, then jumped into Normandy in the dark. What happened to Easy Company, and what the legend leaves out.

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GuideBooksMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

Thrillers That Cost You Sleep and Not Your Conscience

Nine books that grab you on page one, with nothing in them you'd hide from your kids, plus honest flags on the ones that need them.

Delicious.com — Nine thousand recipes and a plan for tonight

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The Night Sky Runs on a Schedule and You Can Learn It

Meteor showers repeat on the same dates every year, eclipses come in seasons, and almost everything you need costs nothing but a lawn chair.

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StoryHistoryMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

The Ten-Dollar Runaway and Other Presidents Who Had Nothing

A pawned watch, a canal-boat mule driver, and a tailor's apprentice with a bounty on his head. The log cabin story is a campaign prop, except when it isn't.

GuideBooksNina Castellan23 Sept 20265 min

Books for Teenage Girls With Heroines Worth Copying

Ten novels and one memoir with girls at the center who are brave, stubborn, and good — plus what's in each one you should know about first.

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GuideScience & SpaceCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

What Your Brain Is Actually Doing While You Sleep

Sleep isn't the body shutting off. It's a scheduled maintenance window, and there's a chemical clock deciding when it opens.

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Is your money actually in order?

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StoryHistoryMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

The Two Hours at Pearl Harbor and the Answer That Followed

A destroyer fired the first shot at 6:45 in the morning. What happened over the next three years is the part worth telling.

GuideBooksMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

Biographies Good Enough to Keep You Up Past Midnight

Eight lives worth reading, ranked by how fast they hook you, plus the honest warning about which ones need a thousand pages to get going.

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GuideScience & SpaceWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

How Weather Forecasts Are Made and When to Stop Trusting Them

Balloons, supercomputers, and chaos theory go into the number on your phone. Knowing where the skill runs out is the useful part.

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StoryHistoryMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

Lincoln Hired the Men Who Thought He Was a Fool

He ran a cabinet full of rivals, a war he was losing, and a country that hated itself. The record shows exactly how he did it.

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Where does your phone charge overnight?

GuideBooksMarcus Vale23 Sept 20265 min

How to Finish a Book Again

You don't need more discipline. You need a shorter book, a worse chair for your phone, and permission to quit the ones that bore you.

GuideScience & SpaceDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

Why Your Blue Dot Jumps Downtown

Atomic clocks 12,550 miles up, a database of Wi-Fi router names, and a guess about your walking speed. That's your location.

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StoryHistoryWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

Ten Miles of Track in One Day

On April 28, 1869, a crew in the Utah desert broke a record nobody has broken since. Getting there took seven years, a mountain of granite, and men who kept showing up.

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Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next fortnight.