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🩹 7 facts I learned this week
Today’s list explains why peeling tape is basically a tiny sonic boom and how Ryan Gosling’s fox cardigan became the latest knitwear obsession.
 • Elia Kabanov
🌐 A proposal that changed everything
When Tim Berners-Lee, a 33-year-old software engineer, submitted his proposal to CERN management for what would become the World Wide Web, he opened…
 • Elia Kabanov
☕️ 9 facts I learned this week
As you may have noticed, this newsletter has range. Today’s edition, for instance, takes us from a coffee house opened in 1654 to a survey of teenagers…
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🌴 Nobel prizes, grapefruit and camouflage: Things I learned on a Caribbean cruise
I’m back from my Caribbean cruise on board the MV Britannia with a list of facts I learned along the way. For a science writer, even a holiday turns…
 • Elia Kabanov
⚱️ How do you mix up two giant pharaohs?
This week, a behind-the-scenes look at a story that started with a statue and ended with me correcting National Geographic.
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🍄 13 things I learned this month
This week: how a Scottish mountain was once used to weigh the entire Earth, why “Viking” may have been a job title rather than a nationality, and how…
 • Elia Kabanov
🦦 7 things I learned this week
This week took me from tool-using sea otters to the lack of female statues, via experimental pigeons, fast-evolving yeast, and Elon Musk enablers who…
 • Elia Kabanov
🗓 25 things I learned in 2025
Not sure anyone was waiting for this, but I couldn’t resist: here’s a partial list of facts I learned last year.
 • Elia Kabanov
🧠 7 discoveries from 2025 that changed how I see the world
I read a lot of science news, but only a few stories actually stick. This year, I kept bumping into facts that nudged my worldview a few degrees, and…
 • Elia Kabanov
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