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• Why You Can Play Full Games in Your Browser Now
  A decade ago a browser game meant a small flash puzzle; today it can mean a 3D world with physics, multiplayer and a leaderboard — no install, no app store, no download bar. This quiet revolution came from three technical shifts most players never noticed. Here is how the browser became a game console.
• Plate Tectonics: How the Continents Move and Why It Explains Everything
  Mountains, earthquakes, volcanoes, the shape of coastlines, even the distribution of oil and ancient fossils — one theory accounts for all of it: the broken, drifting shell of the Earth. Here is how geologists figured it out, and how slow a revolution of ten centimetres a year really is.
• How Scientists Classify Life — From Linnaeus to DNA Trees
  Every organism on Earth has an address in a filing system invented by an 18th-century Swede and now being rebuilt base pair by base pair. Taxonomy is where biology meets genealogy: naming, ranking, arguing — and occasionally discovering that fungi are closer to animals than to plants.
• How Football Tactics Evolved — From the Pyramid to the Gegenpress
  The formation numbers commentators bark about are fossils of real battles: every system existed because it beat the last one, and every counter existed to break it. A century and a half of football shape, told through the six revolutions that still define what you watch on Saturday.