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What is the term for a "euphoric sensation upon eating amazingly delicious food"
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The counterculture has long been characterized by a single word: “love.” For some hippie communards, love was also a recipe ingredient
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Hollywood does romance best in its comedies
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How Act of Valor is only the latest in a long history of official military involvement in the film industry
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"I take no man's word for the qualities of a toadstool," said the man who took it upon himself to sample more than 600 species
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Did ancient Romans, Pope Clement II or Ludwig van Beethoven overdose on a sweet salt of lead?
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All the history, travel, science and culture you love in a new and exciting format
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Would Flopsy, Mopsy and Peter Cottontail have been conceived had it not been for the biases of Victorian era science?
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Why short films still win Oscars
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The Super Bowl has always been about more than just the outcome of the game
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Was Sally Lunn a 17th-century Huguenot refugee named Solange Luyon? Or just a great tall tale?
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A new book examines how food figured into the major powers' war plans
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Does the noise in a Super Bowl stadium create enough power to fry up a dozen eggs?
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The sport was fodder for slapstick comedy, but as the technology evolved, so did the way in which filmmakers portrayed the gridiron on the big screen
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NASA prepares its decommissioned space shuttles for delivery to the National Air and Space Museum
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Biographer Claire Tomalin's literary sleuthing revealed the untold story of the famed author's "invisible woman"
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Two centuries after his birth, the novelist is still wildly popular, as a theme park, a new movie and countless festivals attest
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Icons and Insights
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A chemist from the Textile Museum is perfecting a new technique for understanding the past
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