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Most of the Seafloor Has Never Been Properly Mapped

Pressure at the bottom of the Challenger Deep runs about eight tons per square inch, and that's the easy part to explain.

StoryHistoryMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

Washington Slept in a Tent Until His Men Had Roofs

Valley Forge killed roughly 2,000 Americans without a shot fired. What Washington did in those six months is still the best leadership manual in print.

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GuideBooksMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

Eight History Books That Read Like Thrillers

Real events, real men, and prose good enough that you'll stay up past midnight. Start with Shackleton and build from there.

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How the Hoover Dam Actually Holds Back Lake Mead

582 miles of pipe buried in concrete, four tunnels blasted through a canyon wall, and a wedge of rock-hard math that hasn't budged since 1936.

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StoryHistoryMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

Gettysburg and the Three Days That Decided a Nation

A cavalry officer decided to buy time on a ridge outside a Pennsylvania farm town, and 51,000 men paid for it.

GuideBooksSam Ortiz23 Sept 20266 min

Books Teenage Boys Will Actually Finish

The rule that turns a quitter into a reader, plus fifteen books that survive contact with a distracted fifteen-year-old.

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GuideScience & SpaceSam Ortiz23 Sept 20266 min

Five Saturday Science Projects That Actually Teach Something

The baking soda volcano is a dud. These five take an afternoon, cost almost nothing, and give your kids something they can change and test again.

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Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

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

StoryHistoryMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

The Moon Race Was a Thriller and Nobody Knew How It Ended

Two weeks before Apollo 11 lifted off, the Soviet moon rocket blew up and took its launch pad with it. Almost nobody in America knew.

GuideBooksMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

Twenty Books Every Man Should Read Before Forty

Twenty books, ten years, one every six months. A list you can actually finish, with the mature-content flags nobody else bothers to give you.

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GuideScience & SpaceDean Shaw23 Sept 20265 min

Your First Telescope Should Probably Be an 8-Inch Dobsonian

Aperture and a steady mount beat everything else. Skip the 675x box-store special and buy the thing you'll actually carry outside.

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StoryHistoryRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20265 min

The Habits That Got a Generation Through the Great Depression

Thirty dollars a month, twenty-five of it mailed home. What the 1930s actually taught the people who lived them, hard parts included.

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GuideBooksRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20266 min

Nine Business Books That Actually Earn Their Pages

Most of the business shelf is one decent idea stretched to 240 hardcover pages. These nine aren't, and each one suits a different guy.

GuideScience & SpaceDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

How a Car Engine Actually Works, Stroke by Stroke

Four moves, a few thousand times a minute, and a gallon of gas becomes forward motion. What's happening, and what actually kills engines.

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StoryHistoryNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

The Pioneer Women Who Wrote It All Down

Cholera, a sod roof that leaked for three days, a birth at the end of the trail, and a hotel built on a ten-dollar biscuit. Their own record, in their own hands.

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