At A Glance

Bookkeeping
> 92%: US GDP growth in the first half of 2025 attributed to information-processing equipment and software, according to a Harvard economist.
> 44.8 oz: The amount of 21-karat gold on the world's most valuable gold dress— worth over $1M—approximately the weight of a dachshund.

Browse
> Unveiling the Roman Colosseum's once-secret corridor.
> Reddit users share their favorite non-tech hobbies.
> More and more people want to smell like dessert.
> Goats and sheep are hired to prep the ski slopes.
> Robot steals the show at Paris Fashion Week.

Listen
> Is there such a thing as too much empathy?
> Fortunes fold when sweepstakes company goes under.

Watch
> Building luxury doomsday bunkers for billionaires.
> How much information can a human head hold?
> Day in the life of a 102-year-old French yogi.

Long Read
> Why young people in China are paying to look and feel employed.
> Trials and tribulations of a Revolutionary War reenactor.
> A road trip through America’s swamps reveals how the wetlands embody resilience, beauty, and forgotten stories.

Most Clicked This Week: What it costs to grow old in your home. (w/interactive)

Historybook: Earthquake in Aleppo, Syria, kills 230,000 people (1138); Eleanor Roosevelt born (1884); "Saturday Night Live" premieres (1975); Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes first American woman to perform a spacewalk (1984); ... and Alexei Leonov, first person to ever perform a spacewalk, dies (2019).