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Several of the characteristics that define a psychopath also correspond to the traits that make for effective leaders. For politicians, this is true
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Clendenin's photos evoke the feeling that for all the changes seen by the modern Olympic games, the athletes themselves could be transposed across time
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The Curiosity lander sets down in just a few days, and here's who to follow on Twitter in anticipation
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In Vietnam, dog lovers had best keep their pooches behind high, locked fences if they don't want their pets to wind up boiled in a pot
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Did you celebrate? If not, you'll just have to celebrate twice next year
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Humans love babies. Humans also love robots. Yet somehow, when you combine the two, it's terrifying.
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Why more writers should be as fearless, and as prickly as Vidal
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Visionary postcard artists illustrated around 90 fanciful cards between 1899 to 1910 imagined what the future held in store for France in the year 2000
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Soldiers arriving home with missing or mutilated genitals have drown attention to the lack of government support for in vitro fertilization
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Nasal hallucinations are a real thing, and they stink
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Getting your daily dose of awe inspires patience, altruism, and life satisfaction
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The Galapagos recently finished exterminating 80,000 invasive goats from the island
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Power grids supplying both the northern and eastern parts of India went down, throwing 620 million people, or 8.9% of the world population into darkness
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New research reveals that the flu virus has mutated into a novel strain of influenza, which transfers not just from bird to seal, but from seal to seal
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No one, not even the experts, really knows what's about to happen
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Molecular biology professor David Goodsell is just as skilled with a microscope as with a paint brush
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A new study shows that right-handed and left-handed people make different choices
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From the ancient Romans to the Tudor Queen, everyone likes dressing up and pretending to be something else
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Bad news for coffee drinkers: It turns out that those cheap coffee pots found in offices are one of the biggest energy hogs in the modern workplace
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The things we do to animals for the LOLs might not be as innocuous as they seem
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