I Went on Two Dates With a Guy. Then He Sent Me a Surprising Message About Where He Wants to Go From Here.: the hour's strongest signal
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Longform/North America/Signal 49
I Went on Two Dates With a Guy. Then He Sent Me a Surprising Message About Where He Wants to Go From Here.
I immediately changed the conversation.
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Science & Climate/Global/Signal 47
Why the places we love in books can never quite be found in real life
From the Brontës' Haworth to Jane Austen's Bath, Wordsworth's Lake District and Thomas Hardy's Dorset, literary places continue to exert a powerful hold over readers.
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Business & Finance/North America/Signal 47
Nike is getting dropped from the S&P 100 after 18 years. Here’s its plan to come back
After an 18-year tenure, Nike will be removed from the S&P 100 later this month. But during a panel at the Fast Company Innovation Festival in New York City this week, Phil McCartney, Nike's chief innovation, design, and product officer, maintained that the company’s best days…
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 45
Real Madrid fan group wants Mbappe apology over Ceuta shirt snub
A Real Madrid supporters’ group is seeking a public apology from Kylian Mbappe and teammates for partially wearing a tribute shirt supporting Ceuta before a match against Elche.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 43
Gaza documentary sparks political storm in Israel
On a street in southern Israel, a graffiti artist paints a mural depicting the filmmakers behind the award-winning documentary "NAZA". But this is not a tribute.
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Business & Finance/North America/Signal 42
How record diesel prices will rip through the U.S. economy. Trucks, rails are only the start
Record diesel prices are already walloping the transportation sector, and if energy prices stay high, the economic impact will spread.
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Global Tech/Asia/Signal 42
Xbox’s clever disc-to-digital feature was 15 years in the making - The Verge
Xbox’s clever disc-to-digital feature was 15 years in the making The Verge
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Global Affairs/Europe/Signal 42
Trump administration denies entry visas to Palestinian officials ahead of UN general assembly
It is the second year this administration has barred the Palestinian delegation from US travel ahead of the forum The US state department said on Wednesday that it had again denied entry visas to Palestinian officials ahead next week’s United Nations general assembly gathering…
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
How naval combat with Hamas after Oct. 7 transformed a low-ranked soldier into an officer
Israel Navy officer "O," recently graduated from his officer cadets course, after spending a nearly unprecedented 18 months as a regular non-officer mandatory service navy combat fighter.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
Israel Election 2026: What are you voting for when you choose a party hovering at the threshold?
"If I put this ballot in the box, what government, policies, and political reality am I helping create?"
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
'Dangerous incitement': Bar Association demands Smotrich remove AI video featuring justices, A-G
The Bar Association claimed that the AI-generated video, which depicts Israeli justices being dragged away from a protest, was an "attempt to intimidate" the Judicial system.
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Global Affairs/Middle East/Signal 40
IDF removes officer who served as Gaza Division's intelligence chief on Oct. 7 from service
-Col. "A" served as the intelligence officer for the Gaza Division during the October 7 massacre.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Americans Invent Yet Another Crazy-Ass Racing Style: "King of the Hill"
I'm sure our overseas readers are shaking their heads. Yes, we Americans have done it again, inventing a new bat-shit style of racing. It was going to be hard to top the Rockford Speedway Figure 8 Trailer Race , where all participants had to drag a trailer.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Oilstainlab's Automotive-Inspired Maniac Chair
Out of the corner of your eye, this might appear to be a midcentury chair. But look closer, and you see a material no 1950s Scandinavian designer got to play around with: Carbon fiber. The piece is in fact current.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
A Great Design in Need of Basic Improvement: This Clamp-Based Tape Dispenser
Here's a clever product idea from industrial designers David Suhami Nitzan Shafat, a/k/a Scratch Design. ClampTape is essentially an A-clamp with a tape dispenser centered on the clamp's pivot point.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Skil's Powered Hex Key Set
Lots of us have something like this in the toolbox or junk drawer: Now Skil has designed a powered hex key set , the world's first. The head can lock at 90°, 135° and 180° positions, then your thumb does all the work. The push-button has both forward and reverse.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Autodesk's Aishwarya Balamukundan on Judging Core77's Fusion Forward Competition
Ask Aishwarya Balamukundan what excites her most in design right now, and she'll point to something almost invisible: the shrinking gap between having an idea and holding the finished thing.
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Design & Architecture/North America/Signal 40
Konstantin Grcic's Industrial-Looking Grinder for Alessi
The form of a grinder/peppermill must communicate to the user which part they're supposed to turn. " The body is machined out of aluminum, and the piece is meant to handle salt or pepper.
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