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Horror · How to talk about horror

Quick check

Which horror film holds the genre’s only Best Picture Oscar?

  1. Get Out
  2. The Exorcist
  3. The Silence of the Lambs

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71 subjects across sport, money, history, music, the screen, science, tech and ideas. Tap a shelf and the covers below follow.

On the shelf

34 subjects you can read tonight, 37 more on the way.

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Cover photo credits

Every cover is public domain or Creative Commons, from Wikimedia Commons, licence-checked before it ships.

One idea per card.

A moment, a number, a reveal, a quiz. Twelve real cards from the library; there are 4,606 where they came from.

  • The Beatles · The four, and the two behind them

    A teenage agreement that outlived the band

    Lennon and McCartney agreed as teenagers to credit every song to both of them, whoever wrote it.

  • By the numbers · Crypto

    9pages in the whitepaper

    $41the pizzas, in 2010 dollars

  • Guess first · Basketball

    Why is the NBA everywhere on your phone?

    RevealedBecause it mostly declined to fight. While other leagues issued copyright takedowns on fan clips, the NBA treated highlights as free advertising.

  • Horror · Slashers and video nasties, 1980 to 1989

    A sequel every year, then an Act of Parliament

    The 1980s copied Halloween a hundred times: a mask, a date, a body count, a sequel every year. Friday the 13th made eight films in nine years.

  • By the numbers · World War II

    1974the year Bletchley’s secret broke

    2.5Mmen landed through one artificial harbor

  • Guess first · The iPhone

    How does one phone in five take most of the industry’s profit?

    RevealedTwo reasons: price and control of the whole system. The average iPhone sells for around $850, the average Android phone for a fraction of that.

  • Evolution · What evolution is

    Populations change; individuals never do

    Evolution means the makeup of a population changes over generations, because some members leave more descendants than others.

  • By the numbers · Soccer

    48teams at the 2026 World Cup

    70matches a season for an elite player

  • Guess first · Philosophy

    What is the difference between a priori and a posteriori?

    RevealedA priori: you can know it without checking the world. The angles of a triangle add to 180 degrees. A posteriori: you have to look.

  • Taylor Swift · What people still argue about

    Most arguments about her end at a public record

    Critics say album variants inflate her charts. Billboard counts every copy, and K-pop did it first.

  • By the numbers · The Roman Empire

    8 yearsto build the Colosseum

    100 daysof games to open it

  • Guess first · Money

    What stops banks creating money forever?

    RevealedReserves do not run out, so no vault limits them. What stops them is price, risk and rules. Every loan is a bet that has to be priced above its expected losses.

The bar test

Every chapter has to pass it. Here is what passing sounds like.

A stranger

The internet is dead. It was better back in the old days.

You, one chapter later

Because every wave of newcomers looks like the end to the people already there. In September 1993 AOL connected its users to Usenet, the discussion boards, and the old hands called it Eternal September.

From The internet “How to talk about it”

After one chapter, you can say something true, specific and slightly surprising to a stranger. That is the whole product.

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+0 XP on a chapter you already cleared. Replays are free; they are not progress.

Five minutes, not five hours.

A chapter fits in the walk to the bar. Three promises keep it worth the walk.

  • One idea per card

    A moment, a number, a photograph, a reveal. Never a wall of text you scroll past.

  • Wrong answers are real traps

    The pleasure of a good quiz is nearly falling for option B. Nobody writes option C as a joke.

  • A streak that doesn’t lie

    XP is a ledger, not a counter. Replay what you’ve cleared and it honestly reads +0.

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