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This Week in Interesting A kitchen painting nearly tossed during a move sold for $26.8M after being authenticated as a 13th-century Cimabue. Only 15 of his works exist. In markets this thin, authentication IS the asset.

TWII Meniscus trimming surgery is done 400k+ times a year in the US, but patients who got a fake procedure actually had fewer symptoms, less arthritis, and needed less follow-up surgery over 10 years. "Covered by insurance" is not the same thing as "works."

TWII US student scores were already sliding for 7 years before COVID hit. The pandemic gets the blame, but Stanford researchers say the collapse was well underway, which means the "recovery plan" is probably solving the wrong problem.

TWII ~30% of adult brain synapses are completely silent, sitting dormant until learning activates them. Scientists thought this was only a childhood thing, which means most models of adult learning and brain recovery were built on an incomplete picture.

This Week in Interesting Irregular sleep schedules in your 40s are linked to roughly 2x the risk of heart attack or stroke over the next decade. Not how long you sleep. The chaos of the schedule itself is what predicted risk.

TWII Sears shipped 70,000+ complete homes by railcar between 1908 and 1940, pre-cut lumber included. Many sell for $300k-$500k today, which means a catalog house has quietly outperformed most 20th century investments without anyone calling it a portfolio strategy.