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Literary fiction presents a myriad of characters and leaves it up to the reader to piece together all of those takes on reality
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Caulfield was one of the first to employ the phrase LMAO
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The highly anticipated acquisition of one the most complete T. Rex specimens in existence is delayed
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Boiled in its own juices by fire, this brain has been preserved for the past 4000 years
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There is a chance that it's only the fine sand the females are after, not the formations' intricate patterns or symmetry
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Seven months before he shot President Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald tried to kill Major General Edwin Walker
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Some think wearable tech is just the thing to help us break bad habits, others that it will let us invade privacy like never before
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In addition to reinvigorating spiritual and community bonds, the tradition keeps Japanese artisan skills alive
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Of the nine possible sodium ion channels the centipede venom could have affected, it happened to correspond with just the right one for numbing pain
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These new robots can chew up nearly a ton of jellyfish per hour
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We hear it goes great with cheese
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In the movie Fly Away home that involved a goose shaped plane, but in the wild it's just a few flicks of the neck.
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Beetles, moths and aphids are markedly turned off by the hint of impending rain, likely an evolutionary adaptation to prevent them from getting washed away
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Brandon Todd spent years training to be able to dunk, putting on 80 pounds of muscle and increasing his vertical to 45 inches
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Depending on a person's age and the robot's job, people feel differently about what the robot should look like
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The movie theater's most popular concession wasn't always associated with the movies—in fact, it used to be explicitly banned
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A new device uses heat from any fire to produce electricity
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Tests show that diesel pollutants reduce bees' ability to smell flowers, potentially playing a role in the disappearance of the pollinating insects
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Photographer Nick Brandt captures haunting images of calcified animals, preserved by the extreme waters of Tanzania's Lake Natron
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While the rise of agriculture allowed human populations to blossom, it also opened the door for catastrophic collapses
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