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The strange design history and modern resurgence of pinball

Best-selling author John Green and Roman Mars answer questions and give dubious advice

From scratchers to the Powerball, the lottery is the most popular form of gambling in the United States, even though the odds of winning a big jackpot is infinitesimally small.

Today the Netherlands has a reputation as a kind of bicycling paradise, but that was far from inevitable

The “panopticon” might be the best known prison concept in the world. It’s become the metaphor for the surveillance state, but very few actual prisons were built around this idea. Breda Dome is one of them.

The rise, fall, and unexpected second life of the crosscut saw is also the story of how America created the very concept of wilderness.

Proximity founder Ryan Coogler talks all about podcasts with Roman Mars

Two stories about the transformative power of silence from our friends at Twenty Thousand Hertz

Composer Raymond Scott’s lifelong quest to build an automatic songwriting machine, and what it means for our own AI-addled, ChatGPT world

Friction, tribology, and the complex art and science of lubrication