A version of this column originally ran in Le Devoir on November 4, 2024. Translated from the French by Elettra Pauletto.

I watched a brief compilation video called “15 Completely Hazardous Mercury Experiments,” and then a video showing what ...

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Percentage of emergency calls to U.S. fire departments that were about an actual fire in 1980 ...