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Welcome to a new edition of “On the Net Today”, the newsletter where every Friday we share a selection of useful and interesting resources to help you get the most out of the internet and make the best use of your browsing time.

Here are the topics we’ve prepared for today:

"Wonders of America" is the title of the multimedia special published by National Geographic magazine to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States' independence.

The special gathers "the grandest, wildest, weirdest bits of geography and culture all across an eclectic country." It's an original journey across the United States through its most extreme, unique, or surprising places, from the earliest sunrise (in Maine) to the steepest street in the country (in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania).

The special offers a collection of short stories that travel through the country's 50 states to showcase spectacular landscapes, cultural oddities, and small human stories. Readers can discover the least populated municipality, the smallest post office, the longest-running hot dog truck, or the most spectacular hot air balloon festival. Or the rainiest place, the river with the most fish species, or the largest living organism on the planet.

This is an original editorial project that pays tribute to the country's diversity, with each story blending facts, historical context, and personal accounts that let readers jump from one curiosity to the next.

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The Athletic, the sports-focused digital outlet owned by The New York Times, has launched a spectacular six-part multimedia series, "How To Series," timed to the 2026 World Cup being played across the United States, Mexico, and Canada. The series teaches viewers how to recreate the moves and technical skills of soccer's biggest stars, including Messi, Lamine Yamal, Maradona, Cruyff, Zidane, Iniesta, and Van Basten, among many others.

Dribbles, turns, shots, passes, bicycle kicks, chip shots, set pieces… across its episodes — four have been published so far — the series shows and breaks down footage of moves performed by different soccer stars, paired with tutorial videos so any soccer fan can learn to pull them off.

The team The Athletic assembled to produce these instructional videos includes various current and former soccer players, several young talents, and soccer content creator and YouTuber Eman SV2 (Eman Balogun), who has more than 5.7 million subscribers.

Here, courtesy of "On the Net Today," you can watch all the episodes published so far for free: 

TIME magazine has just published its inaugural TIME100 Sports list, featuring its selection of the 100 most influential people in the world of sports. The list includes both athletes and other professionals connected to sports in various ways.

This is the cover of the print edition launching this new TIME list:

To make its selection, TIME considered not just excellence in sport, but also influence beyond athletic competition. It's a recognition of athletes and professionals "whose leadership and reach continue to shape conversations, industries, and communities around the world."

The list features some of the most influential athletes of their generation, such as LeBron James, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Stephen Curry, and Caitlin Clark, as well as figures like Erling Haaland, Aitana Bonmatí, Carlos Alcaraz, and Jannik Sinner, among many others.

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