How to skirt liability if you use asbestos negligently; the 2017 nanocar race; Rome’s 53 million discarded olive oil amphorae; the world’s largest statue

Algiers’ paradoxical name; a polynomial that took 80 years to discover; ChatGPT’s monty hall difficulties; and what is an angzarr anyway?

Best of the Beatles or Best bait-and-switch?; the limits of parity arguments for irrationality; how newer, higher performance subway cars in NYC caused slower service; the importance of streets vs roads vs stroads for urban planning; the OEIS once had an error in the Fibonacci sequence

Letting your cat choose where you sleep; 0 isn’t the additive identity in IEEE754 arithmetic; dates in Excel are even more of a disaster than you imagined; Italian 110% ‘superbonus’ subsidy on pro-environmental upgrades

Letterlocking, a 700 year old privacy technique; using Goedel’s theorems to solve a geometry problem; non-transitive games; and the ‘mother of all demos’

First insurrectionist to plead guilty; what’s the deal with those fabric flaps on train seats?; Mississippi rules that citizens may not amend the constitution by ballot measure; slow motion footage of a Saturn V launch

Numbers whose powers approach integers; making a website with pure svg; fooling an image classifier by just writing the wrong name on an object

Room-temperature superconductivity; disproving Fermat’s Last Theorem with bad C compilers; Ramadan in space

Mosh pit phase transitions, did a black hole strike the Earth in 1908? (no), apples vs oranges