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Tomorrow, Americans across the country will head to the voting booth and cast their ballots for the next president of the United States - but why always on Tuesday?
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As humankind expands into the far reaches of the world - we build things. Bridges, cities, buildings. How do those things get built?
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The decision to keep the race on, less than a week after Hurricane Sandy knocked out much of the city's power and transportation, is garnering criticism for Mayor Bloomberg and the New York City Road Runners who organized the event
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A possible nor'easter is brewing off the Atlantic shores
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A message, carried by a long-dead pigeon, was found 70 years later in a chimney
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For wifi network owners, things are getting personal. Network names now replace stick it notes as the means of conveying passive-aggressive snarks to annoying neighbors. The BBC did a little digging and found the following gems floating about in local cyber space: “Stop Stealing My Paper!” begins one exchange, to which the reply taunts: “FYI, I Don’t [...]
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Give up your pistol, get a new point-n'-shoot camera
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Matthieu Ricard, a 66-year old Tibetan monk and geneticist, produces brain gamma waves never before reported in neuroscience
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Habits die hard, but researchers may have the first clue towards neurologically shutting down bad ones
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This 350-person town is the oldest of its type found to date
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Spotting artistic talent in your own kid is hard - but here are some ways to do it
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Dolphins deliberately enter trawlers' nets to look for food--sometimes they get caught
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Rana Danaji, a professor of molecular biology in Jordan, weighed in in the journal Nature on what it's like to be a woman in science in an Arab world
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Hurricane Sandy delivered a gruesome mystery, just in time for Halloween
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Often, screams in horror movies come from stock files. Chances are, they're one of two stock screams: the Wilhelm or the Howie
A complex chemical reaction is responsible for argyria, the condition in which a person turns a deep shade of blue
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Monkeys engage in "sneaky sex" to escape the burning gaze of voyeuristic bystanders
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A hand-built computer-in-a-book lets you play Myst in a replica linking book
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A controlled trial found that psychics lacked sight, but here are some tricks to help you fake it
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