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The man who oversaw Nintendo's transformation into a video game company died today
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This engraved infographic from 1871 shows the major events of the Revolutionary War, and some beautiful subtle additions
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Some, however, are doubtful that the app will actually enact any change
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While we all have a communal sense of how pirates talked, our sense of how pirates ate lies, by comparison, in uncharted waters
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A three billion mile hunt will climax soon when Rosetta, quite literally, harpoons a comet
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Lego platforms propped the sarcophagus in place from the inside, allowing the researchers to work on the ancient materials without fear of collapse
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At the beginning of the 20th century, a group of women known as the Harvard Observatory computers helped revolutionize the science of astronomy
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A 3D scanner, similar to Microsoft's Kinect, is coming to your mobile device
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Using videos of thirsty customers lining up for bar-side drinks, they created algorithm equivalents for "I want a drink" body language
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Mathematic and musical detectives have discovered that perhaps Beethoven's tempo was so strange because his metronome was broken
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The Smithsonian Institution's 12th Secretary says he'll step down next October
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Dan Corson's latest installation in Seattle—flower sculptures that light up at night—show that solar energy is viable even in the cloudy Pacific Northwest
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The best questions and responses as pulled from Twitter
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Flies, for example, can perceive visual stimuli four times faster than we can
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Acid rain is "dissolving the surface of the Earth," making streams more alkaline in the process
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Narcis Monturiol loved the ocean’s corals so much, that he built a machine so he could better enjoy them
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Today the Zoo's veterinarians gave the giant panda cub a full exam and pronounced the cub healthy and thriving
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The idea of there being one genetic "you" is up in the air
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Two cups of flour, a nice zinfandel, a pinch of sun-dried tomatoes, and 3 chopped squirrels
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Of the 67 mass shootings in the US over the past three decades, more than three-quarters of the 143 guns used were obtained legally
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