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Good evening, beautiful insomniacs, and welcome to Nova After Dark—the show where we discuss the news that’s too important to ignore and too absurd to take seriously. So let’s talk about something that happened in 2022 that genuinely baffled me: Turkey asked the United Nations to officially change their name to “Türkiye.” Just like that. The UN said, “Sure, why not?” And just like that, the entire world’s paperwork became a nightmare. I’m imagining some poor intern at the State Department’s filing system going, “Do we keep the old one? Is this like when your parents get divorced and you have to figure out who you’re living with now?” ...