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Why You Should Stop Worrying About the Robot Apocalypse
You, for one, won't have to welcome your robot overlords too soon
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This Woman Wants You to Buy Her, Piece by Piece
Filmmaker Storm Theunissen tired to find out just how much she could get for the various pieces of her
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A Different Kind of Pi Day – the U.S. Population Hits π x 100,000,000
The U.S. Census Bureau announced yesterday that our population has hit one of math's favorite landmarks
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After London Many Olympians Find Real Life Hard to Swallow
You're not the only one with post Olympics blues, athletes have it way worse
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Hot for Hominids – Did Humans Mate With Neanderthals Or Not?
Geneticists are busy figuring out whether humans and Neanderthals got busy
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Shark Week Loses its Bite, and That’s a Good Thing for Sharks
After 25 years of man-eating, Discovery's Shark Week embraces conservation
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Julia Child Loved Science but Would Hate Today’s Food
It's her birthday today, and while the master chef loved science she would have hated today's laboratory produced food
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Google Earth Probably Didn’t Just Find New Pyramids
Amateur archaeologist claims to have found lost pyramids using Google Earth. Real archaeologists are skeptical
This is What Fire Breathing Looks Like in Slow Motion
Super high speed camera catches a fire breather in action.
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How Lincoln’s Assassination Launched the Funeral Industry
The doctor who embalmed Abraham Lincoln changed the way Americans think about funerals.
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The Olympics Are Over and Here Are the Best Infographics
While athletes were setting world records, designers and journalists were building graphics and games to track them. Here are the best ones.
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Why People Won’t Leave the Town that Has Been On Fire for Fifty Years
For the residents of Centralia, Pennsylvania, the fire that has been burning beneath their town for fifty years is part of what makes it home.
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Olympic Hurdling Record Broken in 1.5 Seconds – On Google Doodle
Programmers use a few lines of code to crack the Google Doodle hurdling puzzle. The rest of us still press the arrow keys frantically.
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Meet the First Woman to Referee an NFL Game
Shannon Eastin, the first woman to ever referee an NFL game, got her stripes last night.
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The Olympic Salute We Don’t Use Anymore Because it Looked too Much Like Heiling Hitler
Saluting Hitler and saluting the Olympics look basically identical, which is why you never see anybody saluting the Olympics anymore.
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How Olympic Bodies Have Changed Over Time
From 1929 to now, how do former Olympic champions compare to today's athletes?
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These People are Turning Themselves into Cyborgs in their Basement
At the intersection of body hacking and transhumanism is a group of people trying to enhance the human body. And they're doing it in their basement.
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The History of the Exclamation Point
Everyone likes to complain that we're using too many exclamation points these days. Here's where the punctuation came from.
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Old School Games Make a Comeback – How Arcades and Rubik’s Cubes Are Becoming Cool Again
In Brooklyn, you can drink beer while you do just about anything at some themed bar. Shuffleboard, darts, pool, mini-golf, horror movies, steampunk, old school arcade games; you name it and you can find it. And now the hipsters have an unlikely ally: Rubik’s cube obsessives. Together, this not-so-odd couple is bringing back the games [...]
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Long Before Curiosity, Carl Sagan Had Something to Say to Kids About Mars
In a lectures series for children, Carl Sagan educates us all on the history and exploration of Mars.
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