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Exceptionally creative people and your average Joe see different things when they look around.

By Jessica Stillman

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You can zipline down the Eiffel Tower at nearly 100 km/h and 115 meters above the ground.

Today, Apple announced a brand-new tier of its all-in-one desktop called the iMac Pro. The new product, unveiled onstage at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California, is supposed to be a “the most powerful Mac ever,” according to the company. In other words, this computer is going to replace the painfully outdated and woefully mismanaged Mac Pro line, at least for the foreseeable future. The iMac Pro will start shipping this December starting at $4,999, Apple confirmed.

Apple says the computer will ship with an 8-core Xeon processor, with configurations that scale up to an 18-core Xeon processor, 5K display, and an all-new AMD Radeon Vega GPU. You’ll also be able to shell out for up to 16GB of VRAM, up to 128GB of data corruption-protecting ECC RAM, and up to 4TB for SSD storage. There’s a whole bunch of other upgrades in there. Check out the full list Apple shared in its presentation below:

Apparently there are 6–8 people in the world who look exactly like you.

Via Twinstrangers.com

The subconscious communicates truths better than intellect.

Actor Ethan Hawke on ambiguity.

How old, black and white photos get colorized — and why artists do it despite criticism.

It will be the longest sea crossing in the world.

A story on why we might one day become an extragalactic solar system. From the archives.

Why Earth and the rest of our solar system may eventually become an intergalactic solar system.