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Coming soon: Metazooa Live!
A fun fact inspired by Fictogram
Answers to last week's games
Reader survey
Attention all Torontonians! 🇨🇦
Turn your phone into a nature detective tool at Toronto’s High Park! Metazooa: Live is a scavenger hunt where you photograph plants, animals, and fungi around you. The app instantly identifies each species and builds your personal Tree of Life in real-time.
How many of High Park's 1,000+ species can you discover? Snap, identify, and watch your evolutionary tree grow with every shot.
Hitchhike across the galaxy with Arthur Dent
Which Mario Kart character would be most likely to pick up a hitchhiker?
The answer to life, the universe, and everything: 42. But what's the question? So wonders Arthur Dent (Fictogram guest for May 28), the bewildered protagonist of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. This 1979 novel, first in a comic science fiction series, follows Arthur as he's swept into an intergalactic adventure when Earth is destroyed by bureaucratic aliens building a hyperspace bypass. The story satirizes human nature and our treatment of the planet, becoming a pop culture phenomenon through its wit and philosophical absurdity.
Adams' inspiration came during a night lying drunk in a field, gazing at stars and thinking someone should write a guidebook to the Milky Way. Starting as a comedy writer who said he only ended up in science fiction through his love of exaggeration, Adams first created Hitchhiker's as a successful BBC radio show filled with wit and philosophical humor. This success led to five novels, a television series, and additional radio programs.
Hitchhiker's references appear everywhere in popular culture. Google named its AI research lab DeepMind after Deep Thought, the novel's reality-calculating supercomputer. Phrases like "Don't Panic" and the number 42 show up in Doctor Who, Lost, and Star Trek. Fans declared May 25 as Towel Day to honour Adams, celebrating the book's claim that a towel "is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have."
Trivia
Answers to last week's games
Monday, May 26 to Sunday, June 1.
Globle
May 26 Bolivia
May 27 Colombia
May 28 Côte d'Ivoire
May 29 Bosnia and Herzegovina
May 30 Belarus
May 31 Armenia
Jun 1 Italy
Jun 2 Play now!
Globle: Capitals
May 26 Tarawa
May 27 Abuja
May 28 Saint George's
May 29 Kinshasa
May 30 Gaborone
May 31 Victoria
Jun 1 Bangkok
Jun 2 Play now!
Chronogram
#786 Nikola Tesla
#787 Jimi Hendrix
#788 Oliver Cromwell
#789 Amerigo Vespucci
#790 Francisco de Goya
#791 Giuseppe Garibaldi
#792 Alessandro Volta
#793 Play now!
Fictogram
#553 Randle McMurphy
#554 Rick Deckard
#555 Arthur Dent
#556 Ellen Ripley
#557 Tyler Durden
#558 Baby Jane Hudson
#559 Mr. Biswas
#560 Play now!
Metazooa
#665 sea lion
#666 two-toed sloth
#667 manatee
#668 rhinoceros
#669 arctic fox
#670 sea sponge
#671 lynx
#672 Play now!
Metaflora
#604 hop
#605 coconut
#606 cinnamon
#607 myrtle
#608 cranberry
#609 passionfruit
#610 wisteria
#611 Play now!
Linxicon
The following are the shortest paths from last week:
#468 personal → human → biological → mechanism
#469 shake → party → funeral → estate
#470 legitimate → authentic → special → highlight
#471 infant → preschool → education → math → calculate
#472 dig → miner → prospect → individual
#473 still → later → tomorrow → weekend
#474 path → shortcut → simple → effectively
#475 Play now!
Elemingle
#124 Palladium
#125 Sodium
#126 Bohrium
#127 Actinium
#128 Rutherfordium
#129 Lead
#130 Potassium
#131 Play now!
That’s all for this week. Thanks for reading!
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