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In 1992, a container ship leaving Hong Kong lost 28,800 plastic bath toys overboard in the North Pacific, and oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer spent the next two decades tracking yellow ducks and blue turtles as they washed up in Alaska, Maine, and eventually the coast of Scotland, quietly rewriting the textbook map of ocean currents.

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On January 10, 1992, a container ship hit a violent storm somewhere near the International Date Line on its way…

When General James Mattis joined the Theranos board in 2013, he had already spent a year pushing Elizabeth Holmes’s fingerprick blood analyser toward soldiers in Afghanistan, and the only reason it never reached the battlefield was an Army regulatory officer named David Shoemaker who kept warning the FDA the device was not approved.

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General James Mattis joined the Theranos board of directors in July 2013, a few months after retiring as head of…