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Tom Whitwell | Medium | 1st December 2025 This list is an annual institution and always provides a smorgasbord of interesting facts from the year. Some highlights: Spotify still hasn't found a level of randomness for their "shuffle" that listeners like, almost 0.7% of US exports are of human blood or blood products, MIT researchers have created a stretchable and washable computer, and Americans have been shrinking since the 1980s (1,600 words) Nomido is the Browser's daily word game. Play today's before it's gone! Finlay McLaren | Lion & Unicorn | 4th December 2025 Examination of nostalgia as represented by the clips that the BBC Archive packages for modern digital consumption. Videos of train commuters in the 1970s, pub pianists in the 1980s, and a man who cycles across the Cairngorms just to find that his friend isn't in evoke a bygone, analogue age. That's not a bad thing, though. "If you’ve never missed a moment you can never return to, you simply haven’t lived" (2,000 words) Looking for the perfect gift? Give a Browser subscription, and delight someone daily with five outstanding articles to read. Caroline Crampton, Editor-In-Chief; Robert Cottrell, Founding Editor; Kaamya Sharma, Editor; Sylvia Bishop, Assistant Publisher; Jodi Ettenberg, Associate Editor; Uri Bram, CEO & Publisher; Al Breach, Founding Director Editorial comments and letters to the editor: editor@thebrowser.com | Technical issues and support requests: support@thebrowser.com | Or write at any time to the publisher: uri@thebrowser.com Proudly published with Ghost, the fiercely independent website and newsletter platform
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