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Called the Order of the Good Death, the club is full of artists, writers, film makers, musicians and other creative types
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Time to find a new brain teaser - the chicken and egg question has been solved. The egg wins
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The American Academy of Pediatrics says that allowing a child's parents to marry is good for kids
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But why do we require music to work out? And what kind of music is best?
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People from around the world respond to optical illusions different. But why?
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Drivers who drank caffeine-laden beverages were 63 percent less likely to crash than those who did not - even if they were more sleep deprived
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These booster rockets sent Apollo astronauts blasting to the Moon
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Several venom-derived drugs are already approved on the market and scientists are working on what they think are many more to come
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Unlike New Yorker cartoons, in which, you are actually missing the joke, Garfield is in fact not even designed to be funny
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In an evolutionary throwback, people with a blood phobia first experience a racing heart and then a sudden drop in blood pressure
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How does one take a regular sized human skull and miniaturize it?
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An inch and a half long with bright red eyes, the swarm of Brood II cicadas is coming
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A fun video by a Minnesota high school student tries to capture all of human history in just two minutes
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Everybody's favorite predictor of the future - Nate Silver - has his own analysis of the tournament over at the New York Times
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The Minke whale skeleton was probably on the seafloor for at least several decades and is only the sixth natural whale carcass ever found
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Interestingly, people who do not own dogs were a bit better at accurately labeling canine emotions than people who do own dogs
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In the cracks between tectonic plates, veins of gold appear
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A laser that shoots sound, a Star Trek fantasy that's nearly within reach
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Cats and babies and corgis? Or something more.
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There might be a dark side to the so-called "interactive ecotourism" business
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