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How Amazing Stories Served as the Blueprint for American Science Fiction

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The Self Balancing Monorail

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Common Threads: It Has Pockets!

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Smuggler Lawrence Kelly on the Salish Sea

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Why fixing your gadgets often costs more than replacing them

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“It’s not designed to last. It’s designed to be cheap.” - Wayne Seltzer

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Idea Smugglers - When the CIA distributed banned books behind the Iron Curtain

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Coxey’s Army

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Olympic hero Jack Hughes has new chiclets as NHL dentists get a moment in the spotlight

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To Finance Their Lifestyle, a Young French Couple Went to Cambodia to Steal Antiquities. They Did Almost Everything Wrong

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The Vampire Rabbit of Newcastle upon Tyne

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If you read cursive, the Newberry has a job for you.

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‘Backrooms’ and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic

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Bitch: a history

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Mei Lanfang Was Famous for His Masterful Performances as Female Leads. In the 1930s, He Introduced American Audiences to the World of Chinese Opera

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A Native Soldier Allied With the British Killed a Young White Woman in 1777. Propaganda Transformed Her Into a Martyr of the American Revolution

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Inside the Space-Age Bid To Build Millions of Homes in Factories

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Operation Breakthrough, a 1970s federal moonshot to build 26 million homes using advanced manufacturing methods, has lessons for today’s abundance movement.

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4 ways to make a city more walkable | Jeff Speck

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The Mother of the Jersey Devil

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The brain after blindness: How newly-sighted people build a visual world

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A History of Momo, the Dumpling That Defines Nepali Cuisine

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I love any sort of dumplings, from Shumai to Xiaolongbao to Pierogis to Varenyky to Pupusas

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I Flew Across the Country to Look at the Most Controversial Work of Art in Canada

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Disposable Vape Becomes Breath-Activated Synth | Hackaday

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‘The Tibetan Book of the Dead’ is actually not just about death

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Our possums are a problem. Could Selena Gomez be the solution?

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“Our” being New Zealand’s in this case.

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Runners Are Discovering They Can Churn Butter on Their Runs—and It’s Surprisingly Easy

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The Discovery of King Richard III

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Bridgebuilders and Historians Turned Metal Into Myth

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Saint Michel d'Aiguilhe – the Chapel Built atop a Volcanic Plug

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Don't lick that cold metal pole in winter—if you do, don't panic

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The Absinthe Enthusiasts Hiding Bottles in the Swiss Woods

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Why this strange animation style was left behind

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My dad made the biggest jewelled egg in the world. The obsession would destroy his marriage, family and fortune

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Not my dad, of course, mine only made the second largest jewelled egg in the world. His marriage, family, and fortune are doing fine.

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The Radical Tub

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The Labyrinth of the Minotaur is Real. And It's Worse Than the Myth.

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The Berlin Cathedral Is Reopening Its Massive Crypt—Home to the Bones of One of Europe’s Most Powerful Dynasties

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The Man Who Stole Infinity

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The Gold Nugget That Changed America Forever

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The World's Smallest Boat? How Andrew Bedwell built his 100cm boat to sail across the Atlantic

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Why Haters Hate: Kierkegaard Explains the Psychology of Bullying and Online Trolling in 1847

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The apocrypha, Christianity’s ‘hidden’ texts, may not be in the Bible – but they have shaped tradition for centuries

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Wild Chimpanzees Love to Eat Boozy Fruit. Scientists Say the Proof Is in Their Pee

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Wes Cook and the Centralia McDonald's Mural

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What Does This 150-Year-Old Bottle of Mystery Booze Taste Like? Fruity, With a Hint of Leather

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Michelangelo hated painting the Sistine Chapel – and never aspired to be a painter to begin with

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The Layered History of Koshary, Egypt's Most Beloved Street Food

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Building a Cathedral without Science or Mathematics: The Engineering Method Explained

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This Massive, Meat-Eating Dinosaur Was a 'Hell Heron' That Waded Into Shallow Waters to Nab Slippery Fish

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The curious tale of Bhutan's playable record postage stamps

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The Egyptian Book of the Dead: A guidebook for the underworld

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Vincent van Gogh Adored the Color Yellow. A New Exhibition in Amsterdam Wants You to Fall In Love With the Hue, Too

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The Skyscraper That Ruined Paris

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How far back in time can you understand English?

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Very entertaining. I’m totally lost around 1400. I don’t even recognize 1200 as English lol.

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Gut Instincts: A profile of Nobel laureate Barry Marshall

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What Frank Gehry’s Personal Home Teaches Us About Creative Risk

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The Moon has a Roman Catholic Bishop

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‘Her time has come’: did Mondrian owe his success to a cross-dressing lesbian artist who lived in a Cornish cove?

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The last masters: The international effort to preserve an ancient craft

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Paris - 3D timelapse - 300 BCE to 2025

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Harry Potter’s Draco Malfoy becomes mascot for year of the horse in China

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Migrating ancient Inca data to an opensource database | Khipu to Excel

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The pie and mash crisis: can the original fast food be saved?

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The World’s Rarest Fragrances Live in a Shopping Plaza in Lake Tahoe

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The strangest doctor's office you've ever seen is in N.J.

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I Watched The "Lost" Live-Action 'Dilbert' Pilot Episode, And It's Clear Why It Didn't Get Picked Up

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Whether it’s yoga, rock climbing or Dungeons & Dragons, taking leisure to a high level can be good for your well-being

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For These Old Bus Stations, It’s Not the End of the Line

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Excavating My Dad's Life

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Recreating the smells of history

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This Massive Hillside Figure Has Mystified Historians for Centuries. Now, Donations Have Secured the Surrounding Landscape

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Meet 13 People Who Survived on Deserted Islands, From a Real-Life Robinson Crusoe to a Noblewoman Marooned With Her Lover

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The People Who Secretly Decide How Everything Looks

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Why American cities pay over $3,000 for one trash can

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Volunteers wanted to live on Skomer Island and count puffins

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Souvenir Hunting on the Battlefield of Waterloo

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From Hell and Bent on Returning

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Meet the hellbender, Appalachia’s elusive salamander.

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How a 1964 Student Protest Reshaped the Fight Over the Panama Canal

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Little Addie's Last Fight

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Why Gen Z Is Trading Night Clubs for Japanese-Style Listening Bars

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Buried alive, leeched, and attacked with a poker: The dark history of nostalgia "cures"

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The infamous JoJo thought experiment - Michael Vazquez and Sarah Stroud

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Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo

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I Was Having a Millennial Midlife Crisis. Until I Picked Up the Most Unhinged Hobby Imaginable.

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Can Everyone Become Talented? - Story of the Polgar Sisters (animated)

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Formless, Faceless, Directionless: Earthworms Defy Architectural Logic

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The giant chainmail box that stops a house dissolving

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Justin McDaniel Found a Way to Make Students Read Again

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35th Housekeeping Olympics Takes Place In Las Vegas

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Unearthing What Archaeologists Can and Cannot Know

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An archaeologist studying 1,000-year-old dog burials reflects on the need for imagination in archaeology.

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When Two Filmmakers Make the Same Movie

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How a Sudden Winter Storm in 1617 Sparked the Deadliest Witchcraft Trials in Norwegian History

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Has figure skating reached the limits of human performance?

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“I Know I’m Not Going to Win”: Why People Set Out on Impossible Quests

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An Experimental Director Is Bringing 'The Simpsons' Into The Post-Apocalypse

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McSki Sweden: The World's Only Ski-Thru McDonald's

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Inside the Most Magical Brownstone in NYC

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The Crazy True Story of The Madagascar Man-Eating Tree

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The celibate, dancing Shakers were once seen as a threat to society – 250 years later, they’re part of the sound of America

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How James Garfield’s Assassination Gave Birth to the American News Cycle

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'Excitement With a Little Dash of Fear': Polar Plunges Ring in the New Year With a Splash. But What Actually Happens to Your Body?

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The science of green hair care

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