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5 days ago | 
bigthink.com | Tim Brinkhof
Learn from the world’s biggest business thinkers. In an age where most careers converge towards specialization, genuine Renaissance-style polymaths have become increasingly difficult to come by — but Andrew Mayne comfortably fits the bill. Bestselling author, science educator, original OpenAI prompt engineer, inventor, founder, coder, and protective-shark-suit designer all appear on his packed resume. The sky, it seems, is Mayne’s limit.
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1 week ago | 
news.artnet.com | Tim Brinkhof
More than sixty years after his death, Frank Lloyd Wright remains one of the most recognizable and influential architects of all time.
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2 weeks ago | 
mentalfloss.com | Tim Brinkhof
This TikTok-popular trend is more dangerous than people may realize, according to a new scientific review. Gwyneth Paltrow is a fan of mouth taping. “My heart-rate variability and sleep scores are so much better when I do the mouth tape,” the actress-turned-wellness guru told Glamourin April 2025.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.artnet.com | Tim Brinkhof
Nowadays, the ruins of Tikal, an ancient Maya city in northern Guatemala, have been largely reclaimed by the jungle. Howler monkeys jump from pyramid to pyramid. Bats hide in the crevices of abandoned homes. Bullet ants and tarantulas crawl along the forest floor while coatis—racoon-like animals with long, upright tails—search for fallen fruit. Many of the city’s structures remain unexcavated to ensure their preservation.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Tim Brinkhof
NowFrance Touts Record Foreign Investment at Macron’s Annual SummitSupply Lines is a daily newsletter that tracks global trade. Sign up here. French President Emmanuel Macron will tally €37 billion ($41.4 billion) in …10 hours agoBitcoin Price Suddenly Soars As Congress Predicted To ‘Make History’05/18 update below.
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2 weeks ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Tim Brinkhof
Far-right leaders across the modern world—Viktor Orbán, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to Rodrigo Duterte to name just a few examples—have often presided over periods of social unrest and economic decline. In theory, the uncertainty that characterizes their rule constitutes a failure of governance. In practice, however, it often serves as a useful political strategy, solidifying support through both the metaphorical and literal creation of crisis.
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2 weeks ago | 
es.ign.com | Tim Brinkhof
Desde que el Dark Souls original puso a FromSoftware en el mapa en 2011, desarrolladores de todas las formas y tamaños han intentado replicar o reinventar la atractiva y escurridiza fórmula de la compañía. Y aunque muchos han fracasado, más de un par han tenido éxito. Y no te pierdas...Precios, formato físico y mucho más. Hablamos largo y tendido con Doug Bowser, presidente de Nintendo of AméricaLo más probable es que ya conozcas algunos de los grandes, como Nioh, Lies of P y Black Myth: Wukong.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.artnet.com | Tim Brinkhof
For much of human history, stories about the construction of Egypt’s Great Pyramids were rooted in rumor rather than research. The Greek historian and geographer Herodotus, who famously counted the towering monuments among his Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, claimed they were built over the course of 20 years, with the back-breaking labor of 100,000 people, using wooden levers to lift the 2.5 ton stones from one level to the next.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.artnet.com | Tim Brinkhof
Greece is famous for its ancient architecture. Each year, the Acropolis, Agora, and Parthenon attract millions of visitors—and rightly so. However, they’re far from the only human-made marvels the country has to offer. Take, for instance, the drakospita or Dragon Houses: a collection of 23 megaliths located on the island of Euboea (Evbia).
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3 weeks ago | 
mentalfloss.com | Tim Brinkhof
These are the five deepest shipwrecks ever discovered, including the USS ‘Samuel B. Roberts,’ which went to the depths of the Philippine Trench during the Second World War. In October 1944, during the Battle off Samar—one of four major actions during the Battle of Leyte Gulf in World War II’s Pacific theatre—the USS Samuel B. Roberts found itself in dire straits. The destroyer escort had only a fraction of the guns and torpedoes carried by the naval warships it accompanied.
