Maybe you’ve noticed it too. Everyone seems to have become fixated on puzzle games. In the morning, over coffee, I play Word Wheel on the Guardian app. Over lunch, colleagues compare notes on Tradle, the game where you guess a country from its exports. Which place exports about 45% fish and 50% crustaceans? Greenland. Another … Read more
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An animated 3-D model of the moon, shown on a black background. A 3-D model of the moon with the near side in view. It reads: This is the side of the moon we see from Earth In the first era of moon exploration, NASA and the Soviet Union focused on the near side of … Read more
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