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If You Die in This Video Game, You Can Never Play Again

How do people play when dead means dead?

Justine Siegal pitching for the Cardinals during batting practice in 2011

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The Oakland A’s Hire the First Woman to Coach Major League Baseball

Justine Siegal will be a guest instructor for the team

A newspaper report of Leoti Blaker, who stabbed a man with a hatpin when he would not leave her alone.

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American Women in the 1900s Called Street Harassers 'Mashers' and Stabbed Them With Hatpins

These are the turn-of-the-century women who fought back when men tried to grab them

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An Oregon Brewery Is the First Ever to Go “Salmon-Safe”

Hopsworks Urban Brewery is the first in the United States to be certified Salmon-Safe

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For $1,600 You Can Own a Genetically Altered Micropig

From lab animal to potential pet

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What Fingerprints Can Reveal About Ancestry

Clues as to whether people have European or African lineage may show up in the fine details of their fingers

Helen Keller in a photograph taken to promote her efforts to give radios to poor blind children.

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How Helen Keller Experienced Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony

"I could actually distinguish the cornets, the roll of the drums, deep-toned violas and violins singing in exquisite unison"

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The Nazis Wanted to Beat the British With Exploding Chocolate Bars

Sweet, but scary

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The Secret to Better Biofuels May Lie in Panda Poop

Microbes in the panda’s guts might help make biofuels cheaper

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Researchers Devise Way to Determine Color from Fossils

Researchers now know how to tell what color an ancient animal was from its fossils

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Scientists Just Found a Sea Turtle That Glows

The turtle is the first biofluorescent reptile ever found in the wild

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Americans Used to Eat Four Meals a Day

Rest in peace, “second supper”

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Yet Another Highly-Venomous Snake Discovered in Australia

The Kimberley death adder is one of the most venomous snakes in the world

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Climate Change Is Turning 500-Year Floods Into 24-Year Ones

Rising sea levels and an increase in large storms will continue to threaten the Atlantic coast

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In Honor of Banned Books Week, Here Are the Most Challenged Books of 2014

The American Library Association reported 311 formal, written challenges to books

What a cute little schemer

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Babies Time Their Adorable Smiles to Manipulate Adults

By timing their grins, babies can get adults to grin

A domed building serves as the village center and is visible from everywhere in Matavenero, Spain

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Spain Has Turned a Ghost Town Into an Off-Grid Eco-Village

A photographer documents the remote, self-sufficient lifestyle

The Mason jar can even be used to serve oatmeal -- though other containers might be better suited for this particular stunt.

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How Mason Jars Went from Thrifty to Hip

One jar that can be used to store pickles, serve cocktails and, with some craftiness, light up a room (just not all at the same time)

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How Italian Police Finally Busted Thieves for Nabbing $875,000 in Cheese

Cheese is the most stolen food in the world

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This Man Tracked his Sneezes for Five Years and Fixed his Pollen Allergy

What a little bit of data about health can do

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