The Sunday Blender

a curated weekly #NewsForKids that helps you escape from short videos and stay in touch with the world on tech, culture, sports, lifestyle, science and economy

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@HalfwayPost he’s the biggest joker in history

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@Gianl1974 Let’s hope the remaining two years will go by quickly

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@HalfwayPost He is an idiot. We are living in a live show of Emperor’s New Clothes.

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Utagawa Hiroshige was a Japanese artist who spent much of his early life as a fire warden in Edo, the city now known as Tokyo, before turning to art full time.

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On June 5, 1661, an 18-year-old Isaac Newton walked through the gates of Trinity College, Cambridge, and quietly began one of the most consequential educations in human history.

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[Soccer] The World Cup's round of 32 brought big surprises this week. Germany, a four-time champion, was eliminated after losing to Paraguay in a penalty shootout, the first time Germany has ever lost a...

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Every year, Independence Day weekend marks the unofficial launch of Hollywood's biggest summer movie season, and studios save some of their splashiest releases for it.

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This year's Fourth of July was extra special in the United States, marking exactly 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia in 1776.

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Soccer goals are rare and scattered, which makes them a perfect example of something mathematicians call a Poisson distribution, a formula for predicting how often random events happen in a fixed amount of...

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For decades, most flu shots have been made the same way: growing weakened flu virus inside chicken eggs, a slow process that takes months. Scientists have now developed a new kind of flu vaccine that skips...

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A famous natural rock arch off the island of Comino, near Malta, collapsed into the sea on the evening of June 27, 2026. The arch, nicknamed the "Kissing Elephants," was a limestone formation on Malta's coast...

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SpaceX crashed the stock market party on June 12, 2026, in the largest IPO in history, briefly overtaking Amazon and Microsoft in value and making CEO Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire almost overnight.

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Every World Cup team's roster carries a price tag, based on what buying all its players on the open market would roughly cost. France leads this year at around 1.

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Cape Verde is a tiny archipelago off the coast of West Africa with about 525,000 people, yet its World Cup squad this year was built almost entirely from players scattered across 14 different countries.

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[Herbert Yang @herbertyang]

小时候断断续续看过几届世界杯。后来去了海外，就没这个氛围了，自己不踢球，周围也几乎没人讨论足球。

现在不一样了，儿子是 C罗球迷，在校队踢了三年，倒逼我也开始关注哈兰德，维尼修斯，贝林厄姆，姆巴佩，亚马尔。

这届的世界杯真是好看。今早的英格兰对墨西哥，精彩纷呈。更早一点，跟儿子一起四点钟睡眼惺忪爬起床目睹哈兰德绝杀巴西带队敲鼓划船的历史名场面。

现在 The Sunday Blender @SundayBlender 已经是全方位涵盖世界杯的方方面面了，从技术科技到人文娱乐。不光小孩可以看一看培养阅读习惯，大人也可以翻一翻洗去班味。欢迎订阅！

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On June 24, 2026, two powerful earthquakes struck northwestern Venezuela less than a minute apart, with magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5, arriving only 39 seconds apart, causing widespread damage across parts of...

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Artificial intelligence has an enormous appetite for electricity, and this year that appetite grew faster than ever. Google just reported that its electricity use jumped 37 percent compared to last year, the...

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Portugal beat Croatia 2-1 in the World Cup round of 32, but the game almost ended differently. Deep into stoppage time, Croatia's Joško Gvardiol slid in to score what looked like a tying goal, and the stadium...

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Meituan, best known in China as a food delivery app similar to DoorDash, surprised the tech world by releasing LongCat-2.0, a giant AI model built entirely on Chinese-made chips. The model has 1.

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[Soccer] The 2026 World Cup's biggest stars have lit up the group stage, and the goals are flying in faster than at any tournament in decades. Lionel Messi, now 39 and likely playing his last World...

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