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American physicist Richard Feynman gives up the secret of quantum mechanics
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What are the must-read books written by and about the famed British author?
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A photographer uses a scanning electron microscope to zoom in on everyday foods—and makes art
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What are your favorite varieties, and what do they say about you? And did you sell the cookies as a kid?
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Friedrich Nietzsche philosophizes on where luck and skill come into play
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Films both new and old that we look forward to in the coming year
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The replication of a historic whisky might reflect merely our fascination with artificial artifacts---but the whisky yielded a surprise
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I'm putting on my event planner hat to offer up the following ideas for a party inspired by an Impressionist painting
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Salmon's powerful, ingrained sense of smell allows them to return to the exact stream of their birth for spawning.
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Two new films show how far we've come since The Birth of a Nation and In the Heat of the Night
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January 8 will be your last chance to see Julia Child's kitchen for a while, so hurry by the American History Museum
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After stealing $1,500 worth of cooking oil from a Burger King, two men were apprehended siphoning off oil from a Golden Corral
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Why business enemies sometimes become partners
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A look at the most popular posts among our readers from the past year
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The irreverent take on the giants of literature, science and politics could only have come from the brain of cartoonist Kate Beaton
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Just a short drive from the mansions of Beverly Hills lies a site where paleontologists have found over three million fossils
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Located in the Canadian Rockies, the fossil-rich dig site provides clues to scientists investigating how animal life began
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In a new book and exhibition, the esteemed photographer pursues a passion for history and lets us see familiar icons in a fresh light
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Dispatches From My War on Stuff
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Like the Steins, other collectors and patrons influenced 20th-century art by supporting new genres and unheralded artists
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