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  • Best Of: The Map Men On Missing Islands And The Meaning Of Mistakes

    Best Of: The Map Men On Missing Islands And The Meaning Of Mistakes
    Dec 26 2025
    Last year, Americans spent more than 300 billion minutes on navigation apps, like Waze or Google Maps.

    The GPS systems in our pockets have come a long way from the first known map, carved into a mammoth tusk 30,000 years ago.

    But even with satellites tracking us and the ever-changing Earth from the skies – digital maps aren’t fact. Errors can show up and are sometimes as old as maps themselves. The phantom island of Sandy Island appeared on Google Maps until 2012, when Australian scientists sailed to its supposed location and found only open ocean.

    Mistakes on maps were sometimes intentional, sometimes not – but every single one tells a bigger story.

    How and why did it get there? What does it reveal about the creator of the map and the world around them?

    We sit down with Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper-Jones, better known as the Map Men on YouTube, to talk through these questions and more.

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  • Best Of: The Financial Burden Of Caregiving

    Best Of: The Financial Burden Of Caregiving
    Dec 24 2025
    In-home elder care costs are rising more than three times faster than inflation.

    AARP estimates that caregivers in the U.S. spend an average of $7,242 out of pocket each year.

    Cuts to federal spending have gutted programs that support them. And amidst the longest government shutdown in history, what little help was left is quickly drying up.

    Why is the cost of care going up? What can be done to combat those costs?

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  • Best Of: What Beards Tell Us About Power, Politics And How We See Each Other

    Best Of: What Beards Tell Us About Power, Politics And How We See Each Other
    Dec 22 2025
    Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. president to sport a beard. For the next 50 years, whiskers were commonplace in the White House. But then, they went out of style.

    Now, Vice President JD Vance is the first executive branch leader in more than a century with a furry face.

    And others are following suit. From the Senate to the campaign trail, more and more men in politics are letting their facial hair grow free. But what does that tell us about masculinity, power, and how we see each other?

    Why did our politicians remain bare faced for so long? And what does the reemergence of whiskers in the White House represent?

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