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Women’s clothing sizes

Every adult woman already knows this, but sizing differs across nearly every major brand of clothing. An informative article with great visuals detailing how varied women’s closing sizes are.

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  • Women’s clothing sizes

    Every adult woman already knows this, but sizing differs across nearly every major brand of clothing. An informative article with great visuals detailing how varied women’s closing sizes are.

  • Bionic shoes

    Nike is striding to the lead in developing bionic footwear, designed to allow people to move faster. “What it’s doing is learning how your ankles are moving, how long your steps are, taking the algorithms and customizing them for you,” said Alison Sheets-Singer, Project Amplify’s lead scientist. “So that when it turns on, it feels…

  • Origami inspires new structural design

    Miles Wu folded a variant of the Miura-ori pattern that can hold 10,000 times its own weight. Sitting in his family’s living room in New York City, 14-year-old Miles Wu was astonished to find that a simple piece of paper, folded into a Miura-ori origami pattern, could hold 10,000 times its own weight. For a…

  • Enclose.horse puzzle game

    Enclose.horse is a tile based puzzle game where you attempt to create a fence to prevent a horse from escaping. You try to create the largest possible area.

  • A credit union inside a high school

    A Missouri credit union opened a real, working branch inside of the high school. That’s because this school year, a CSD Credit Union branch officially opened inside the high school, making it the second student-run credit union in Missouri. Winnetonka students and staff can make deposits, open accounts and even apply for loans without leaving…

  • Respect the parking spot chair during winter

    In cities that experience blizzard accumulation of snow, unwritten rules exist surrounding parking spots, and who gets to use them, especially if you do the work of clearing the space. The people of Pittsburgh use a chair to claim their snow cleared spot.

  • On Moltbook, roleplaying as an AI bot

    Moltbook popped up, claiming to be the first social network for AI agents. Spoiler: it turned out that they were humans behind the scenes. Several viral threads on Moltbook portrayed agents discussing long term strategy, collective survival and coordinated takeovers. The language was confident, ideological and eerily coherent. To casual observers, it felt like the…

  • Sabbatical, a.k.a. the adult gap year

    There appears to be a growing trend of working adults taking sabbatical or gap years between jobs. Mini-sabbaticals. Adult gap years. Micro-retirement. Extended career breaks go by many names and take many forms, from using the time between jobs to explore or taking an employer-approved leave to becoming a digital nomad or saving up for…

  • 3D printed batteries

    The future will require smaller or odd shaped devices, leading to innovations in 3D printed batteries. A superpowered Formula 1 car, a buzzing drone, a soldier’s pack, and a wearable smart device have this in common: They all need batteries. Ideally, those batteries could fit into oddly shaped nooks, curves, and voids, something that today’s…

  • Bad Bunny’s half time bush people

    All the plants that made up Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl 60 set were people. Hidden inside the sugarcane grass beside him were humans hired to stand there in costume. The realization that real people were cast to play hundreds of bushes at the Super Bowl turned the inconspicuous performers into a social media sensation overnight.