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Nuclear Power Is Just a Very Fancy Way to Boil Water

A uranium pellet the size of a pencil eraser, a steam turbine older than the automobile, and the reason utilities are restarting reactors they already closed.

GuideBooksRay OkonkwoSep 23, 20265 min

What Your Library Card Is Actually Worth

A free piece of plastic replaces an audiobook subscription, a streaming service, and most of your book budget. Most people never set theirs up.

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GuideCan You Fix ItWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

A Dripping Faucet Tells You Which Part Failed

Where the water shows up decides whether you need a 50-cent washer, a $6 seat kit or a $28 cartridge. Diagnose before you buy anything.

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

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Science & Space6 min read

How to Fly Your First Model Rocket Without Losing It

Fresh batteries, a field bigger than you think, and a plan for the one tree that eats rockets. Everything the instructions leave out.

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What was your first ever job?

GuideBooksMarcus ValeSep 23, 20265 min

Audiobooks That Actually Work in the Car

A 25-minute commute each way is roughly 200 hours a year. That's twenty books, if you pick ones built for a windshield.

GuideCan You Fix ItWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

Your Furnace Won't Fire. Check These Three Things First

A cold house at 6 a.m. usually comes down to a dead thermostat, a choked filter or a flame sensor with a film on it. Fifteen dollars and an hour.

Names.com — The name is the first thing you sell

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GuideScience & SpaceDean ShawSep 23, 20266 min

How Artificial Intelligence Actually Works

Strip away the marketing and the doom, and what's under the hood is a very large prediction engine that has never seen a chair.

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Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

GuideBooksSam OrtizSep 23, 20265 min

What to Read Aloud to Your Kids, Age by Age

A working list of read-aloud books from board books to Tolkien, with the mature content flagged and the ones that flop marked.

GuideCan You Fix ItWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

Patching Drywall Without Making It Worse

Nail pops, doorknob holes and the four-foot disaster behind the couch, fixed in the order a working guy actually does them.

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GuideScience & SpaceRay OkonkwoSep 23, 20266 min

Rooftop Solar and the Numbers That Actually Decide It

A panel is honest physics. The contract is where people get hurt. Here's how to run the math yourself before anybody knocks on your door.

CancerDefying.com — The research, protocols and reading in one place

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GuideBooksMarcus ValeSep 23, 20266 min

Start Here If You Think You Hate Poetry

Eight books, a three-minute nightly habit, and the reason the stuff they assigned you in tenth grade never had a chance.

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Where does your phone charge overnight?

GuideHistoryDean ShawSep 23, 20266 min

Seven Historic Stops Worth Making the Kids Sit in the Car

Valley Forge to the Alamo, the places where the story actually happened, what to see when you get there, and the parts nobody puts on the brochure.

GuideScience & SpaceDean ShawSep 23, 20266 min

What Holds a Bridge Up and What Eventually Takes One Down

Every bridge ever built solves the same two problems. Learn to read them, and a boring commute turns into a rolling engineering lecture.

Coconut.com — Tell us when. We find where the sun is.

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GuideBooksMarcus ValeSep 23, 20266 min

Reading After Sixty Without Fighting the Page

Better light, bigger type, the right device, and seven books that pay back a lifetime of reading rather than wasting what's left of it.

Quiz

Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

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

History6 min

Harriet Tubman Walked Back Into Maryland Thirteen Times

Science & Space6 min

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

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GuideBooksMarcus ValeSep 23, 20266 min

War Memoirs From the Men Who Were Actually There

Ten first-person accounts of combat that beat any history book, plus honest warnings about which ones will knock the wind out of you.

Dude.com — 16 AI advisers who listen, talk and are here with you

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History7 min read

The Cowboy Was Real For About Twenty Years

Thirty dollars a month, eighteen-hour days, and a job most men quit by thirty. The record is harder and better than the movies.

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How many days a week are you actually training?

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