mystery
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A beef-tallow-induced identity crisis: Earlier this year, Luke Winkie set out to crack the biggest culinary mystery in America: Why has this old-fashioned cooking ingredient become so polarizing?
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
Rather than softening the edge that helps define Monk, this strategy highlights another essential Monk characteristic: an air of mystery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
“People connected with the mystery of it, and I think audiences love trying to figure out what’s going to happen or who did it,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Researchers, including Dr. Marcus Lower from Swinburne University of Technology, investigated this long-standing quantum mystery by studying a magnetar, a rare type of neutron star that possesses the strongest magnetic fields known in the universe.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
The sisters were no longer young or pretty, and the mystery that had always surrounded the spirits was left in ruins—the mainstream news lost all interest.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
"The reasons for this conservation are not well understood. It's one of the mysteries of the universe, related to why we have more matter than antimatter," she said.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
Rapid-fire pictures of advertisements cause one person to philosophize on the mysteries of life, saying “All of this will never make sense.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Watching “Scooby-Doo” as a child, I came away with two clear ambitions for adulthood: a side gig solving mysteries and a refrigerator always full of sandwich ingredients.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
For a documentarian who specializes in personal movies, “Remake” feels especially revealing — both in terms of the glimpses we get of this father-son relationship and of unsolved mysteries that linger just outside the frame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
There was no way of knowing where they might’ve taken him, so add Disappearing Petey to the list of mysteries needing solving.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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