Trash to Treasure

• The Weird, Wooden Future of Skyscrapers
• High-Tech Skyscrapers Could Be Built with Low-Tech Wood
• The Skyscrapers of the Future Could Be Built with the Garbage of Today
• Boaters Stumble on Massive Caribbean Gyre of Plastic Garbage
• Sweden’s Recycling Program Is Doing So Well They’ve Run Ou…

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Learning from Nature

• The Physics of Champagne Bubbles Could Help Power the Future
• Wake Up and Smell the Traffic? London Tries Coffee to Power Buses
• Holy Smokes! Tobacco May Fuel Planes in the Future
• Full of Beans: Coffee Grounds to Help Power London’s Buses
• This Commuter Bus Runs on Poo…

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Scrawls of the Scribes

• Why Ancient Mapmakers Were Terrified of Blank Spaces
• Medieval City Plan Generator
• Why Were Medieval Knights Always Fighting Snails?
• Why Babies in Medieval Paintings Look Like Middle-Aged Men: An Investigative Video
• Strange and Curious Wills of the Georgian Era in the Canterbury Court

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Face Recognition

• Named-Cow Researcher Recognizes Merit in Research on Sheep Recognizing People
• How Do Animals Recognize Each Other?
• People Can Accurately Read Dogs’ Facial Expressions
• How to Have a Well-Behaved Puppy: Make Sure It Sees a Man with a Mustache Within Six Weeks of Birth
• Dog Ownership Is Linked t…

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Safety Zones

• These Are the Safest Countries in the World to Visit
• Three Graphics That Show Why Finland Is the Safest Place on the Planet
• This Unexpected Country Is Apparently the World’s Safest Place to Travel
• Land Mines in Ukraine’s East Put It Among World’s Most Dangerous Areas for Civilians
• People in These Places Le…

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Defending the Fauna

• Philippines Trying to Decide Whether to Burn, Crush or Donate $10 Million Worth of Ivory
• Can Farming Rhinos for Their Horns Save the Species?
• Three Elephants in Connecticut Just Got a Lawyer
• Elephants Deserve Legal ‘Personhood,’ New Lawsuit Argues in Connecticut
• Connecticut Lawsuit Is the First to Claim Elephants…

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All Just Get Along

• A 7 Year Old Boy and a 64 Year Old Man Sit down Across from Each Other to Discuss Their Lives
• What Kept Henry Fonda and James Stewart Friends for 50 Years?
• The Curious Animosity of Fred and Ethel Mertz
• The Mysterious Phenomenon of Stupid Things Becoming Much Smarter When Working Together
• To Recover from an Argumen…

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Refugee Rescuers

• Man Who Spent Retirement Repairing Norfolk Milestones Hidden from Nazis Wins Prize
• A Cycling Legend’s Secret War Mission: Saving Italy’s Jews
• 10 Things You Didn’t Know about Schindler’s List
• His Brother’s Keeper: ‘Chinese Schindler’ Defied His Government to Rescue More Than 3,000 Austrian Jews
• Latin America’s Schindl…

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A Social Function

• 35 Thoughtful Questions to Ask at Thanksgiving Dinner
• 12 Pieces of 100-Year-Old Advice for Dealing with Your In-Laws
• This Thanksgiving Pass the Stuffing — And Don’t Pass on the Discussion of Social Issues
• Solving the Riddle of What to Drink on Thanksgiving
• New York Today: What Are You Thankful For…

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Let’s Talk Turkey

• The Dreaded ‘Turkey Drop’: Here’s Why Couples Break up around Thanksgiving
• Here’s the Deal with All Those Turkeys Terrorizing the Suburbs
• Meet the Turkey’s Glamorous Mexican Cousin
• How to Win the Wishbone Wish
• Why Do U.S. Presidents Pardon Turkeys, Anyway?
• 25 Things You Didn’t Know about Turkeys

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Worth the Weight?

• #WeirdThanks…itions Is the Holiday Hashtag You Never Knew You Needed
• The Most-Googled Thanksgiving Pies and Sides in Every State
• The Cranberry: America’s Founding Fruit
• The Pawpaw: The All-American Fruit the Country Forgot
• U.S. Pumpkin Growers Toast Nontraditional Demand for Frui…

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Thanks for the Clarification

• Most Everything You Learned about Thanksgiving Is Wrong
• A Few Things You (Probably) Don’t Know about Thanksgiving
• The True Story Behind Plymouth Rock
• Thanksgiving Is an Annual Reminder of America’s Refugee Origins
• At Thanksgiving, the Search for a Black Pilgrim Among Plym…

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Device Advice

• Humorous PSA Videos Promoting Device-Free Dinners Starring Will Ferrell as a Phone Addicted Dad
• Our Smartphone Addiction Is Killing Us: Study
• 69% of Millennials Stress out When Away from Their Phones
• Does ‘Phone Separation Anxiety’ Really Exist?
• Which Computer Keys Wear Out First…

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Collecting Interest

• Winston Churchill’s 12-Word Definition of Success May Just Change Your Life
• Read Albert Einstein’s Handwritten Advice from 1922 on Living a Happy Life
• Einstein Scribbled His Theory of Happiness in Place of a Tip. It Just Sold for More Than $1 Million
• Make Tough Decisions Easier with a Decision Matri…

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Viewing Pleasure

• The Art of the Japanese Teapot: Watch a Master Craftsman at Work, from the Beginning until the Startling End
• New Book on Practical Geometry for Designers, Builders and History Lovers: ‘From Truths to Tools’
• Why Do We Get So Much Pleasure from Symmetry?
• Don’t Look at My Nipples
• The Faces on Every U.S. Bil…

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Eco-Effects

• Percent of Forests by Land Area in Europe
• Rare Victory for Rainforests as Nations Vow to Stop ‘Death by Chocolate’
• Which Costs More in Electricity Use: Using a Hairdryer or Microwaving a Meal?
• Google Is Mapping Out Air Pollution Levels on Google Earth
• Big Meat and Big Dairy Emit Enough Carbon to Put Exxon M…

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Spies & Secrets

• Spy Mystery of British Sisters Who Helped Jewish Refugees Flee the Nazis
• Can You Solve It? Secrets of Russian Intelligence
• How a Master Grifter Taught the FBI to Crack Open the Art of the Deal
• The Homemaker Who Helped Solve One of Geometry’s Oldest Puzzles
• The Hidden Meaning of Kid…

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Democracy in Peril

• Climate Policy Can Help Avert Modern Liberalism’s ‘Doom Loop’
• The Doom Loop of Modern Liberalism
• Democracy Is Like Fun: You Can’t Set Your Mind to Having It
• The Death of Liberalism in Japan
• We Have to Rethink What “Educated” Means in a Post-Truth World
• A Philosopher Ponders the…

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Demography in Turmoil

• Six Words Fresh Off the Boat, a Powerful Six-Word Compilation about Cultural Identity and Immigration
• My Travels in White America — A Land of Anxiety, Division and Pockets of Pain
• One Weird Trick to End Gerrymandering: Cake-Cutting Game Theory
• Researchers Propose a Gaming Solution to Gerrymanderin…

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National Colors

• The Reason You Almost Never See Purple on National Flags
• Tourism Logos of US States
• Tourism Logos of Canadian Provinces
• Tourism Logos for Italian Regions
• The World’s Most Powerful Passport Is No Longer European
• Places Where English Is an Official Language
• Main Native Language-Fami…

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Test of Character 3

• How Cool Are You? Personality Quiz
• Are You Self-Compassionate? Personality Quiz
• This Is the Least Common Myers-Briggs Personality Type
• 5 Signs You’re the Oldest Child in Your Family
• You Are Only Ever as Happy as Your Unhappiest Child
• There’s No Guidebook to Help the Unfaithful

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Science Miscellany

• The Science of Bodily Functions: Why We Yawn, Sneeze, Burp, and More
• Head-Shaking Research — Ejecting Water from the Ear Canals
• Struck by Cow, Contact with Dagger: The Oddest Medical Codes You’ll See
• Sing Happy Birthday Twice While Washing Your Hands, Say Pharmacist…

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Pacific Gravity

• The Most Popular World Leaders
• Asians Talk about Expectations for Trump’s Visit
• Abe and Trump to Rekindle Friendship, But Not All See Rapport as Positive for Japan, Survey Says
• South Korea Can’t Resist Shading Japan at Its Dinner for Trump
• The All-Female Police For…

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New New Zealand Laws

• New Zealand Considers Creating Climate Change Refugee Visas
• A Proposal in New Zealand Could Trigger the Era of ‘Climate Change Refugees’
• New Zealand Is Banning Foreigners from Buying Houses
• New Zealand Compared to Italy
• The Secrets of Zealandia: The Lost Continent of the South

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Getting Cold

• Can You Freeze Eggs to Keep Them Longer?
• New Study Could Explain the Elusive Reason Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold
• What Does the Cold Virus Get in Return for Making Its Host Feel Grotty?
• The Real Reasons We All Get Sick at This Time of Year
• Why Some People Can’t Sleep Without a Fa…

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Physics & Physique

• 18 of the Greatest Photographs from 125 Years of National Geographic
• Inspiration for the Beatles’ Lady Madonna? National Geographic
• Finally, a Downside to Being Attractive
• Attractive Woman Says Being So Beautiful Is a Real Curse
• People Guess Which Strangers Are Virgins in Myth-Challenging Vide…

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The City Struggle

• These Cities and Countries Will Pay You to Move There
• 25 Record-Breaking Cities: Highest, Cheapest, Oldest and Most Crowded
• What the Happiest Countries on Earth Can Teach Americans
• Why Is Leamington Spa the Happiest Place in Britain?
• Swiss Mountain Village, Population 13, Opens Hotel to Avoid Extinctio…

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Inward Bound

• Illustrator Perfectly Captures How an Introvert Likes to Spend the Weekend
• Humorous Cartoons That Illustrate the Perplexing Social Life of an Introvert
• 16 Tweets about Being an Introvert That Will Make You LOL
• Dinner for One: The Truth about Why We’re All Eating out Alone
• Eating Alone Is Slowly Killing Yo…

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Another War That Wasn’t

• Soviet Submarine Officer Who Averted Nuclear War Honoured with Prize
• When the World Lucked Out of a Nuclear War
• 10 of the World’s Weirdest Wars (and Where to Remember Them)
• During WWII, Mathematician Arne Beurling Made One of the Greatest…
• How the Tech Workers of WWII Thwarted the Nazis with H…

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A Fight for Love and Glory

• When a Student Asked How Someone Knows They’re in Love, This Professor Had an Adorable Answer
• American Weddings Vs. European Weddings
• One in Ten Grooms Now Take Their Wife’s Surname, Study Finds
• The Occupations with the Highest and Lowest Divorce Rates in the U…

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Around Japan 6

• Abandoned Land in Japan Will Be the Size of Austria by 2040
• Mount Fuji Has Become So Congested with Tourists That It Has Reached Breaking Point
• How Japanese High-Speed Trains Handle Earthquakes
• The Greatest Earthquake Zones on Earth
• What Do Volcano Warning Signs Really Tell Us?

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Merkel Tops Power List

• How Long and How Often Do Japanese Women Bathe? Survey Investigates
• Japanese Women List Reasons They Wish Their Husbands Would Die in New Husband Death Note Book
• The Top 10 Traits of “Domestic” Women in Japan, According to Japanese Men
• 5 Powerful Reasons to Be a Woman in Japa…

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Harrassment Claims Spread

• Sexual Harassment Allegations Hit the Restaurant Business
• When Will the ‘Harvey Effect’ Reach Academia?
• Confronting Sexual Harassment in Science
• ‘It’s Hurting Everyone’: The Truth about Sexual Misconduct in the Art World
• 2,000 Women Are Speaking out Against Rampant Sexual Harassment in the Art Worl…

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Missed Signs

• Government Snubs Campaign to Change ‘Misleading’ Soccer Road Signs
• Update the UK Traffic Signs Regulations to a Geometrically Correct Soccer Ball
• 5 Reasons Why Amsterdam Works So Well for Bikes
• ‘Beer Bikes’: Amsterdam Calls Time on Drunken, Urinating Processions
• Amsterdammers vs Tourists…

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Of Bottles & Ships

• Picking Up Beer Bottles with an Excavator Is Harder Than It Sounds
• This Man Has a Collection of 1200 Messages in Bottles
• $450,000 Antique Treasure Map Found in Attic
• Unusual ‘Coffee Table’ Is a Mosaic from One of Caligula’s Party Ships
• Historians May Have Been Wrong about This Ancient Ro…

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Butterball, Bath, & Beyond

• Japan’s “Leftover Bathwater Drink” Wants You to Imagine Beautiful Nude Women as You Sip It
• KFC Cooks Up Fried Chicken Bath Salts in Japan
• You Can Now Smell Like Fried Chicken Thanks to This KFC Drumstick Bath Bomb
• This Ice Cream Is Flavored Like Thanksgiving Dinner Foods
• Thanksgiving-Inspired Ice…

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Learning Curve Ball

• The Era of Easily Faked, AI-Generated Photos Is Quickly Emerging
• There’s a Glaring Mistake in the Way AI Looks at the World
• Google’s AI Thinks This Turtle Is a Rifle
• Hey, So, Your IPhone May Have Tagged All the Photos of You in a ‘Brassiere’
• Your IPhone’s AI Is Tracking All Your Pictures That It…

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Runway Showstopper

• Even Earless Oysters Clam up over Noise Pollution
• The Plight of the Sea Otter
• This 450-Pound Seal Removed from Alaska Airport Runway
• Huge Sunbathing Seal Brings Alaskan Airport to a Halt
• Huge Bearded Seal Blocks Airport Runway in Alaska
• Climate Change and Overfishing Bring Explosion of Jellyfish

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Animal Attraction

• A Giant Flock of Birds Inexplicably Descends upon the Lawn of a Laurel, Montana Home
• Thousands of Venomous Portuguese Man O’ Wars Wash Ashore in Australia: ‘It Was the Stuff of Nightmares’
• Thousands of Venomous Sea Creatures Have Invaded Australia’s Shores
• Senility, Storms, Global …

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Squirrel World News

• 10 Things You Don’t Know about Chipmunks
• How Does a Red Squirrel Cross the Road? French Local Authority Thinks It Has the Answer
• Fall Is for Squirrels
• Medieval Love of Squirrel Fur May Have Helped Spread Leprosy, Study Reveals
• Bolve Like a Stag
• Bison Comeback Story Has Bronx Accen…

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Around Japan 5

• The Secret Lives of Japanese Families: 8 Unusual Household Rules Revealed
• Japanese Artist Reveals the Truth Behind All Those Happy Photos on Social Media
• Japanese Artist Illustrates the Right and Wrong Ways to Carry an Umbrella on Public Transport
• Why Do Japanese People Wear Medical Masks in Public?
• A Japanes Teenager is S…

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Think Back

• This New Study Shows That People Who ‘Think Backwards’ Are More Successful
• Daydreaming During Meetings? It Might Just Mean Your Brain’s Too Big to Not Wander
• People Who Daydream Are More Intelligent: Study
• Daydreaming May, in Fact, Be a Sign of Greater Intelligence
• Is There Any Benefit to Daydream…

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People Talk

• 30 Unusual Christmas Presents for Him and for Her
• Gratitude and Hammocks: Oprah’s Out with Her Favorite Things
• Dance Legend Twyla Tharp on Truculent Men, Selling Hot Dogs and Her Idol Agatha Christie
• Chrissy Teigen Shares Her Thoughts on Motherhood and U.S. Presidents While Answering 73 Question…

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Robot Roundup 1

• Should Children Form Emotional Bonds with Robots?
• Saudi Arabia Bestows Citizenship on a Robot Named Sophia
• Saudi Arabia’s Robot Love Is Getting Weird
• Ford Built a Robot Butt to Test the Seats in Its Cars
• This Robot Snake Means You No Harm, Really
• Do Russian-Backed Bots …

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Tech to The Future

• Are the Amish Right about New Technology?
• Humans Are Bad at Predicting Futures That Don’t Benefit Them
• Advice on How to Predict the Future, from a Professor Whose Job Is to Predict the Future
• ‘Slightly Crazy’ 19th-Century Weathermen Who Braved Formidable Conditions Could Aid Climate Predictions
• Stephen Hawking Says the …

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Take This Job

• The Reason Every Cool Guy Wants to Be a Butcher or a Bartender Now
• Twitter Employee Shuts Down Trump’s Account on Last Day of Work
• ‘Eff You and Goodbye’: How the Bravest Among Us Quit Their Jobs in Style
• Last Laugh: What Did You Do on Your Last Day of Work?
• He Quit JetBlue by Slidin…

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Bedtime Stories

• How Many of Us Still Read a Book in Bed?
• 11 Ridiculously Overdue Library Books (That Were Finally Returned)
• The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time: No 92 — The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1660)
• Umberto Eco on Unread Books
• Found: A Long-Lost Copy of John Donne’s Fart-Filled Satire
• 12 of the World’s Most …

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Splitting Words

• The Guardian View on Translation: An Interpretative and Creative Act
• ‘Battle of the Dictionaries’ Ends in Victory for Casino as Court Rules Star Poker Player Cheated
• What Is ‘Edge-Sorting’ and Why Did It Cost a Poker Star $10 Million in Winnings?
• Supreme Court Delves into Semantics of English in a Capital Cas…

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Do You Swear?

• The Size of Things: An Ngram Experiment
• Swearing Is Good for You by Emma Byrne; How to Swear by Stephen Wildish — Review
• Daily Telegraph to Readers: Are You Able to Specifically Describe ‘Crap’?
• Language Patterns Reveal Body’s Hidden Response to Stress
• The Randomness of Languag…

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Language Universals

• German Untranslatable Words
• What English-Language Courtroom Dramas Sounds Like to Swedes
• 25 Words You Didn’t Know Were in the Dictionary
• Is an All-English Classroom Good for Students?
• What Is Universal Grammar?
• What Is Neurolinguistics?
• Grammarly Debuts IOS Keyboard App to Help Improv…

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Grammar School

• Cross-Linguistic Onomatopoeias
• How to Arrange (and Rearrange) Prepositional Phrases
• Become an Expert in Using Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
• What Are the Parts of a Prepositional Phrase?
• List of the Principal Parts of Some Common Irregular Verbs in Englis…

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Embodiment of Art

• Could a Farting Statue Unite Brexit Britain?
• 25 Million Images from 14 Art Institutions to Be Digitized & Put Online in One Huge Scholarly Archive
• 2,000+ Impressionist, Post-Impressionist & Early Modern Paintings Now Free Online, Thanks to the Barnes
• Barnes Collection Online
• When Claude Monet Slashed…

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The Look of Life

• Is Anybody Out There? What Darwin Can Teach Us about What Aliens Look Like
• Oxford Biologists Just Outlined What Alien Life Looks Like
• Aliens Might Look and Think Like Us, Courtesy of Natural Selection
• Green Bank Observatory Embraces Its Alien-Hunting Future
• Help Name the Most Distant O…

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Sugar, Cream, Or Sake?

• Caffe Latte with Sake: The Newest Way to Relax in Kyoto
• Trendy Coffee Shops Are Now Adding Oat Milk to Your Brew
• Crushing an Egg into Your Coffee Sounds Disgusting — But It Makes an Amazing-Tasting Drink
• What’s the Price of Coffee in Japan? Twitter User Investigates
• Starbucks Is Bringing an Italian Bakery Chain to th…

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Food Findings

• The History of Five Uniquely American Sandwiches
• How ‘Citizen Housewives’ Made Food Cheaper and Safer
• The History and Rebirth of the American Automat
• This Automated Restaurant Was Supposed to Be the Future of Dining. Until Humanity Struck Back
• The Surprising Science Behind the World’s Most Popular Frui…

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Dumber & Dumbest

• Some of the Strangest and Funniest ‘I Woke Up to This’ Moments
• The 25 Dumbest Ways You Managed to Injure Yourself
• The 25 Dumbest Ways You Managed to Injure Yourself
• 911 Dispatchers Share the Dumbest Calls They’ve Ever Received
• People on Twitter Are Sharing the Dumbest Things They’ve E…

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Pet Tales

• Scientists Rated 25 Animals for Who Makes the Best Pet. The No. 1 Spot Is Surprising (It’s Not a Dog)
• Some Humans Seem to Care More about Pets Than People … But Why?
• Dogs Are Better Than People, and a New Study Says Everyone Feels the Same
• Dogs Smell Your Emotional State and It Affects Their Moo…

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Animal Inspiration

• NASA Turns to Lobsters to Help Locate the Sources of Gravitational Waves
• The Secrets of Gecko Tails Could Help Heal Human Spine Injuries
• Slime from This 300 Million-Year-Old Creature Could Create Bulletproof Body Armor
• Meet the Monster Whose Bite Is Saving Lives
• Jellyfish-Inspired E-Skin Glow…

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Power to Go

• Ingenious New Sewage Treatment System Generates Electricity and Clean Water
• Waste Toilet Paper Could Produce Lots of Electricity
• World’s Largest Laser Could Solve Our Energy Problems
• Can a Carbon ‘Vacuum Cleaner’ Save the Planet?
• DeepMind Wants to Find the Next Miracle material — Experts Just Don’t Know H…

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Driver Ed, Then & Now

• Self-Driving Vehicles Could Make Jaywalking Legal
• Researchers Go After the Biggest Problem with Self-Driving Cars
• The Latest Fake Town Built for Self-Driving Cars Has Opened in South Korea
• A Glimpse Inside the Secret Site Where Driverless Cars Undergo 20,000 Tests
• Millions of Professional …

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The Plots Thicken

• Farmers Urged to Bury Their Underpants for Better Beef
• Farmers Urged to Bury Their Underpants to Improve Quality of Their Beef
• Scottish Farmer Reveals Why He Soils His Pants on Purpose
• Canadian Man Wakes up to Find Random House Abandoned in His Field
• #FindSue Mystery Solved as Farmer Reveals How Pol…

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Mammoth Findings

• Male Woolly Mammoths Were the Wile E. Coyotes of the Ice Age
• Male Woolly Mammoths Lived Fast, Died Young, and Left More Corpses
• Huge News: Scientists Solve Mystery of Dead Male Woolly Mammoths
• Male Mammoths Tended to Die in Really Silly Ways
• Humans Didn’t Outsmart th…

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Country Diary 4

• Top 10 Books about Pastoral Life
• Country Diary: In the Slow Lane of an Old Roman Road
• Country Diary 1917: Passing Companionship in the Wood
• Country Diary: One Spider to Make a Song and Dance About
• Country Diary 1967: Summit Cairn Vandals
• Country Diary: Insects Still Find Sanctuary in the P…

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Character Reference

• Apple Revealed Which Emoji Americans Use the Most
• Apple Says ‘Face with Tears of Joy’ Is Most Popular Emoji in United States Among English Speakers
• Think Twice Before You Use Emoticons. People from Other Countries Might Not Understand You
• These 69 New Emojis Have Arrived — Which Is Your Fav…

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Clearing up Fall Food

• Sweet Potato or Yam?
• Pumpkins Versus Gourds
• Elephants Vs. Giant Pumpkins
• The Elephants of the Oregon Zoo Gleefully Squish Some Giant Pumpkins to Celebrate the Fall Season
• How Do You Breed a 2,624 Pound Pumpkin?
• Pumpkins Evolved from a Literal Genetic (Monster) Mash-Up
• The Great Pumpkin-Pie Consp…

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The Sound of Fear

• NASA Rocket Scientists Carve the Most Incredible Pumpkins
• Get in the Halloween Spirit with a NASA-Curated Playlist of Spooky Space Sounds
• NASA Playlist of the Incredible ‘Sounds of Space’
• A “Spooky Sounds” Playlist Direct from Outer Space, Compiled by NASA for Halloween
• What Song Terrifies You?
• Fear Can Make You a Bette…

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Forgotten Fall Folklore

• The Forgotten Romantic Rituals of Halloweens Past
• Find Love with These 18 Old Halloween Fortune-Telling Tricks
• When Halloween Was All Tricks and No Treats
• 7 Superstitions about Cats from around the World
• Spider Mythology from around the World
• 9 Things You Never Knew about Guy Fawke…

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Licorice Sticking Point

• The FDA Just Flat-Out Called This Halloween Candy Dangerous
• The FDA Has a Warning for People Who Love Black Licorice
• Licorice Lovers Beware: FDA Warns Eating Too Much May Have Dangerous Side Effects
• Black Licorice Is Bad for Your Heart, FDA Warns
• Why Do So Many of Us Hate Black Licorice…

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Costume Creativity

• 4,626 People in Japan Set World Record for the Largest Gathering of People Dressed as Waldo
• School Sets Record for Number of People Dressed Like Penguins
• Halloween 2017: The Costumes That Won the Internet
• Justin Trudeau Dressed as Clark Kent for Halloween and It Was Super, Man
• One Legged Athlete Josh …

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About Time

• So That’s Why Some People Are Night Owls and Others Are Up at the Crack of Dawn
• Daylight Saving Time Is Even Weirder Than You Think
• A New American Revolution Is Starting in New England — Against Daylight Saving Time
• Why Clocks ‘Falling Back’ Are Good for Your Brain
• The Strange Tie Between Daylight Time and Assault Rate…

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Treedom

• From Tennessee to Japan, Here Are 9 Otherworldly Forest Bathing Destinations
• A Biologist Believes That Trees Speak a Language We Can Learn
• The Wisdom of Trees: Walt Whitman on What Our Silent Friends Teach Us about Being Rather Than Seeming
• When You Think of Freedom, Remember the Charter of the Forest, Not the Ma…

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Wanderlist 1

• 10 Simple Ways to Travel without Looking Like a Tourist
• Egypt’s Capital Cairo Is Worst Megacity for Women Worldwide, London Best
• Scotland’s Northeastern Scenery Circuit — 500 Miles of Sheep, History and Whisky
• Stonehenge Builders Feasted on Animals Brought from Scotland, Study Shows
• From Andes to Amazon: …

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Autocomplete Search Trends 1

• Sometimes Accidental Google Searches Bring the Best Results
• Google Auto Fill “Why Is Province/Territory So ~?”
• Google Autocomplete with ‘Why Is (State) So ~?’
• What Is Diversity? You Asked Google — Here’s the Answer
• Am I Old? You Asked Google — Here’s the Answer
• Why Is Life So Hard? You As…

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Around Japan 4

• Gifu’s Yanagiya — Is This the Best Restaurant on the Planet?
• Kaki: The Miracle Japanese Persimmon
• Japanese Women Rank the Otaku Obsessions They Can Most Forgive in a Partner
• City Hands Manhole Covers to Lottery-Picked Buyers
• Translation Debate: How Do You Say “Oh My God!” in Japanes…

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Human Nature 2

• Seven Things We Wish We Didn’t Care About But Do
• 13 Questions That Will Change Your Life
• ‘Screw It, Just Do It’: Life Advice from Sir Richard Branson
• Why Adults Need to Play More Often
• The Science Behind Why People Who Prefer the Window Seat Are More Selfish
• The Art of Thinking Wel…

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Old Dogu, New Tricks

• Swedish-To-English IKEA Product Name Dictionary
• A Cut Above the Rest: How Finland’s Orange-Handled Scissors Inspired a Design Revolution
• MIT Sophomore Designs Winter Sleeping Bags for Syrian Refugees
• Adventure Tape: Super Useful, Reusable Alternative to Duct Tape, Bungie Cords and Rop…

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Catitudes

• 10 Fascinating Facts about Owls
• 7 Facts You Didn’t Know about Elephant Trunks
• The Animal Most Likely to Kill You in Each State
• The Aerodynamics of Cheetah Tails
• Once Thought Loners, Cougars Revealed to Have Rich Society
• Pumas Are Not Such Loners After Al…

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History’s Mysteries

• 10 Historical Events with Hilarious Forgotten Details
• Girl’s Message in a Bottle Finally Answered after 29 Years
• This Nuclear Fallout Shelter Was Untouched for 55 Years. It Might Come in Handy Now
• Long-Forgotten Rodin Sculpture Discovered in New Jersey Town Hall
• The Buried Secrets of the World’s Very First Lighthous…

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Books to School

• Jimbocho: Spending a Day in Tokyo’s Book District
• Drawn and Quarterly’s Incredible Montreal Book Store
• A Love Letter Fell out of an Old Paris Guidebook — and Set a Filmmaker on an Obsessive Quest
• New Zealand Library Cracks Case of the Missing Books
• New Zealand Library Solves Mystery of Missing Book…

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Science Guides

• Bill Nye Had a Fixed View on GMOs. Then Something Happened
• The Earth’s Interior Is Teeming with Dead Plates
• Temperature Is Not What You Think It Is
• A Schlieren Wave Using Cellophane and a Flaming Ping Pong Ball to Make Air Visible with Bright Colors
• How Balloons Are Made fro…

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The Shows Must Go On

• Netflix: Which Shows Are Being Binged the Fastest?
• This Country Has More Netflix Ultra Binge-Watchers Than Anywhere Else in the World
• BingeClock, a Website That Lets You Know How Long It Takes to Watch an Entire TV or Movie Series
• The 50 Best TV Shows to Binge-Watch Right Now
• You Thought Downton Abbey…

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Fear & Clothing

• 72% of Americans Fear a Major War in the Next Four Years
• America’s Top Fears 2017 – Chapman University Survey of American Fears
• ‘Nowhere to Hide’: North Korean Missiles Spur Anxiety in Japan Fishing Town
• China’s President Just Laid out a Worrying Vision for the World
• Jackie Chan Goes Undercover on the Internet and Respon…

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Tongues, Toes, & Videos

• Scientist Finally Figures Out Why Holes Feel Larger with Your Tongue Than with Your Finger
• Surprise, Your Pinky Toe Does Serve a Purpose
• How Long Can a Person Safely Hang Upside Down?
• How Long to Nap for the Biggest Benefits
• Does Self-Control Deplete over the Course of the Day? Maybe Not, Says New Stud…

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Mind & Machine

• The Ethical Knob: Ethically-Customisable Automated Vehicles and the Law (New Study)
• Stephen Fry’s Lecture on a Hopeful, Cautious, Excited Vision of a Better Technological World
• Here Is How Modern Science Approaches the Phenomenon of Soul
• The Dark Side of Laughter
• Body Atlas Reveals Where …

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Map Lust 2

• The Independence Movements around the World
• Median Age around the World
• Population Density of Africa with US Equivalents
• African Climate with Equivalent Cities from around the World
• Countries by GDP per Square Kilometer
• Computer-Generated Maps Imagine America Redivided into Equal-Population Ar…

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Map Lust 1

• Map of Aussie Slang
• European Languages by Use of Grammatical Genders and Gendered…
• The Western World According to American Political Scientist…
• Countries with a Positive Net Migration Rate
• Countries’ Yearly Population Change
• Percent of the World’s Population Within 10,000 K…

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Living Space

• Scientists Want Astronauts to Live in a Lava Tube on the Moon
• Scientists Just Found the Perfect Spot to Build an Underground Colony on the Moon
• Japan Just Discovered the Perfect Spot to Build a Moonbase
• Discovery of 50km Cave Raises Hopes for Human Colonisation of Moon
• The Moon Once Had an Atm…

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Country Diary 3

• Country Diary 1917: Bungled Wasps’ Nest Theft Leads to Discovery
• Country Diary: Sycamores Create Painterly Clumps of Colour and Shade
• Country Diary: The Air Is Heavy with the Scent of Apples
• Country Diary: Up to the Gills in Toadstool Spores

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Country Diary 2

• Country Diary: Stalking Red Deer on the Fringes of the City
• Country Diary 1917: Fungi Flourishes amid Autumn Decay
• Country Diary: Henry III’s Charter Helped This Tree Survive to a Ripe Old Age
• Country Diary: The Autumn Run Is a Bruising Experience for the Fish

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Meh

• Why Sheep Calls Have That Unmistakable Vibrato
• Scientists Investigate Why Crows Are so Playful
• Listen to the Impossibly Adorable Sounds of a Baby Sloth
• Raccoons Pass Famous Intelligence Test — By Upending It
• There’s Nothing Squirrely about a Squirrel’s Memory for Puzzles
• Chimps Understand Ro…

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Cetacean Communication

• Dolphins’ Rich Social Lives May Be Tied to Their Bigger Brains
• Dolphins Have ‘Human-Like’ Societies…But Are Held Back by a Lack of Opposable Thumbs, Say Scientists
• Peer Pressure Forced Whales and Dolphins to Evolve Big Brains, Like Humans
• ‘Human-Like’ Dolphins and Whales Kept Back from World Do…

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Around Japan 3

• Which Japanese Anime Character Should Be Prime Minister of Japan?
• Stuff That Happens in Morning Rush Hour Trains in Japan
• Post-War Common Sense That Is Inconceivable Now
• Foreigners Misreading Japanese Kanji of “Two Men One Woman” Is Too Pure for Japanese Internet
• Letter from First-Grade …

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Bug Changes Ahead?

• Monarch Butterflies Migrate 3,000 Miles — Here’s How
• Why Stink Bug Populations Are Booming in 2017 (and What You Can Do about It)
• These Ants Seem to Prefer Living on Tectonic Faults
• To Find Nectar, Bees Follow Blue Halos
• Flowers Have Secret Blue Halos That Bumblebees Can See
• 7 Surprising Insect …

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Art of the Mustache

• Becoming with Sheep (Art Project)
• Need a Good Laugh? Check out Some 17th-Century Dutch Art
• The Dutch Masters Are Back: Blockbuster Vermeer Exhibition Opens at the National Gallery of Art
• Walter Isaacson Goes Inside the Most Creative Mind in History: Leonardo Da Vinci
• Leonardo Da Vinci: The …

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Field of Drones

• Albatross Teaches Drones the Art of Marathon Flights
• Drones Are Keeping Watch on the Arctic’s Polar Bear Population
• Drones Save Fawns from Terrible Fates
• Defibrillator Drones Aim to Respond in 911 Calls
• Drones Help Discover Lost City with Ties to Alexander the Great
• Engineers Invent Folding Delivery Drone That Carries C…

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Slices of Life

• What America Is Losing as Its Small Towns Struggle
• Smalltown America Finds Ecstasy at Dollar General
• Photographer’s Spot-On Photo Series Reveals What Women Want from Their Partners
• These Family Photos Don’t Sugarcoat the Everyday Chaos of Parenting
• Photographer Shoots the Same People Going to Work Over 9…

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Food for the Senses

• Grocery Shoppers Buy More Food When the Music Is Slower
• This Song Is So Relaxing, Scientists Recommend NOT Listening While Behind the Wheel
• More Songs’ Emotional Moods Inverted with Key Changes
• The First Batch of 2018 Colors of the Year Is Here
• What You Call a Color Depends on How You Use It

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Bug Burgers, Kiwi Chips, & Spamburglars

• The World’s Shiniest Living Thing Is an African Fruit That Looks Like a Pointillist Bauble
• Is It Time to Give Bug Burgers a Chance?
• What Does the Hamburger Helper’s Skeleton Look Like?
• Hamburger Helper Reveals What’s Inside the Glove, and It’s Freaking People Out
• Chipocalypse: Potato Shor…

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Disruptive Evolution

• Birds as Our Spiritual Messengers
• Great Tits May Be Evolving Bigger Beaks. Here’s Why.
• Bird Feeders Might Be Changing Bird Beaks
• Birds Might Be Evolving to Eat from Bird Feeders, Study Says
• See How Human Activity Is Changing Animal Migration Patterns
• The Inner Life of An…

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Watch Those Big Brown Eyes

• Gesundheit! African Wild Dogs ‘Vote’ with Sneezes
• Are Dogs the Only Animals That Show When They’re Happy?
• Those ‘Puppy Eyes’ Are All for You
• Dogs Attempt to Communicate with Us Through Facial Expressions
• Dogs Have Pet Facial Expressions to Use on Humans, Study Find…

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Cheese Tea & Garlic Coffee

• ‘Happy Chemical’ Discovered in Beer?
• Bubbly Ballistics: How Temperature Affects Champagne’s Signature Pop
• Colombians Have for Years Grown Amazing Coffee. Finally, They’re Drinking It
• I Put Peanuts in Coke to See What the Fuss Is About
• How Do You Use a Jar of Peanut Butter…

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