Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-13
Banana Finder
A UCLA course-discovery tool for students trying to decide what to take in fall 2026.
Why it surfacedBanana Finder addresses a concrete catalog-navigation problem: finding a promising class without repeatedly jumping among course pages, Bruinwalk, the class planner, and degree-audit information. Its developer explains that the tool grew out of spending hours in that exact loop, giving this small utility an unusually clear human origin story.
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Thirty Patents for the Grave
August 13’s newborn domains include 30 safety-coffin patents, lost notices for false teeth and a box of hair, short films playing in 100 Tokyo taxis, and a Queensland river view arranged gauge by gauge downstream.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-13 Domain Arrivals issue.