https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/nov/10/experience-steve-wonder-secretly-played-on-my-bands-single
The song in question:

This is excellent, and just 900 words... see if you can answer the puzzle before continuing.

If a bat and a ball together cost $1.10, and the bat costs a dollar more than the ball, how much does the ball cost?

Then, the wider implications take a real twist! 🤯 

https://timharford.com/2023/11/the-simple-maths-puzzle-that-shows-us-how-to-seperate-fact-from-fiction/

Last weekend there was a minor national scandal in Finland when it was SHOCKINGLY revealed that for decades the sound effects in cross country ski races on TV had been added to the broadcasts by foley artists, who had "ski swish", "crowd cheer", "cowbell" and other such samples on their MIDI keyboards and would just press keys to dub in the sounds.

This piece is in Finnish, but Google translate will do the job.

https://yle.fi/aihe/a/20-10005843

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This is excellent, and just 900 words... see if you can answer the puzzle before continuing.

I suppose it's just life experience, but if anyone ever asks a seeming simple question I always assume the obvious answer is wrong - otherwise, why would they ask it?

I'm generally right about that, even if I can't answer the question, although this one was trivial.

Here's a good one: https://twitter.com/latifnasser/status/1750952860131729544?t=b1kFl8F-gWkfASWFBJrH8g&s=19

Unrolled version for easier reading >

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1750952860131729544.html

... and the podcast version for ... easier listening.

https://radiolab.org/podcast/zoozve

Oh my ... this is unexpected!

Heard of no-fap November? There's more to it than meets the eye ... 3700 words, or a 28 min listen

Masturbation abstinence is popular online. Doctors and therapists are worried

https://pca.st/kv2id48o

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Heard of no-fap November?

Well, there's always Maysterbation if you feel you're lagging behind.

Fapruary?

"We thought we knew how Voyager 1 would end. The instruments would shut off, one by one. The signal would get fainter. Eventually either the last instrument would fail for lack of power, or the signal would be lost.

We didn’t expect that it would go mad.

https://crookedtimber.org/2024/02/19/death-lonely-death/

Interesting ... how Google is failing to combat the fake review sites, and is actively promoting the scammers ...

Blogpost >

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/21/im-feeling-unlucky/#not-up-to-the-task

And twitter thread > https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1760286104971088369

Leading to ...

https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/

https://detailed.com/google-control/