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I never realized how much patience and stealth it took to cook this tasty treat until I had to carry it down a long, "The Shining"-esque hallway
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It's Predator Week here at the blog. What's your favorite predator, either existing or extinct?
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There were five spherical eggs in the 70-something-million-year-old clutch. One egg was cracked in half and filled with cocoons
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Removed as minister of antiquities, the high profile archaeologist no longer holds the keys to 5,000 years of Egyptian history
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A new show looks at the growth of science and technology in the 19th century, as a new nation embraced the transformative power of American ingenuity
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Meal planning has become like triage; we eat whatever is most urgently ripe
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I was certain that the bird's plumage had to have been faked, but all the photographer did was darken the background. Those feathers were real
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Dinosaurs are famous for the gargantuan sizes some attained, and that's why these minuscule skeleton sculptures are so charming
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Thomas Jefferson and Noah Webster argue over conventional wisdom that lasted thousands of years
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This weekend take part in a satellite discussion about the Inca Road, Pheon and a look into a new American History exhibition
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Some playthings veer off into sheer ridiculousness when it comes to interacting with what's on a plate
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Despite the heat waves across the country, no one is screaming "climate change is real" because of them. Why?
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The Natural History Museum's newest exhibition "Race: Are We So Different," opened on June 18. Here's a look inside
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Cope did not know it at the time, but he had described an especially large representative of a species his rival had named just a year before
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Artists Judith and Richard Lang comb the California beaches, looking for trash for their captivating, yet unsettling work
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The main drag of Dinosaur, Colorado is festooned with a number of goofy-looking dinosaurs
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