Apparently less really is more: Learn how a lucky gambler in England earned $1.97 million on a $1 bet. Behold the Supreme Court Justice of few words (“Two years and 144 cases have passed since Justice Clarence Thomas last spoke up at oral arguments”). Track how everyday activities affect your larger carbon footprint at The New Yorker. And peek inside the “doomsday” vault dug deep into the permafrost of a remote Arctic mountain, which houses small samples of the world’s seeds in case of a global catastrophe or nuclear attack… And speaking of digging into mountains, if ever there was a story about questionable quests, it’s this one: “Treasure hunters claim to find an enormous stash of gold or silver hidden by Nazis.”