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For the residents of Centralia, Pennsylvania, the fire that has been burning beneath their town for fifty years is part of what makes it home.
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Programmers use a few lines of code to crack the Google Doodle hurdling puzzle. The rest of us still press the arrow keys frantically.
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Shannon Eastin, the first woman to ever referee an NFL game, got her stripes last night.
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Saluting Hitler and saluting the Olympics look basically identical, which is why you never see anybody saluting the Olympics anymore.
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Tim De Chant's Per Square Mile answers through infographics: How much land would 7 billion people need to live like the people of these countries?
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From 1929 to now, how do former Olympic champions compare to today's athletes?
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At the intersection of body hacking and transhumanism is a group of people trying to enhance the human body. And they're doing it in their basement.
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New research finds that one out of four science educators in the U.S. and Canada released lab animals into the wild after they were done using them in the classroom, introducing a surprising but potentially serious pathway for invasives to take hold in new locales.
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Everyone likes to complain that we're using too many exclamation points these days. Here's where the punctuation came from.
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Science provides an answer on what details in an urban street scene clue people in on what city it is from.
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Unearthed from a site near modern day St. Louis, Missouri, archaeologists found tea residue in pottery beakers that dates back to as early as 1050 A.D.
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Though plains bison are icons of America's cowboy past and rugged West, research findings show that most of the buffalo have cow ancestors from the 1800s
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Martin Fleischmann, who in 1989 claimed to have discovered cold fusion, died in his home in England on Friday, August 3rd, following a long battle with Parkinson's disease.
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In Brooklyn, you can drink beer while you do just about anything at some themed bar. Shuffleboard, darts, pool, mini-golf, horror movies, steampunk, old school arcade games; you name it and you can find it. And now the hipsters have an unlikely ally: Rubik’s cube obsessives. Together, this not-so-odd couple is bringing back the games [...]
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In a lectures series for children, Carl Sagan educates us all on the history and exploration of Mars.
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Olympic synchronized swimmers get a lot of flack for their wacky sport - but while it is weird, it's also really hard.
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Singapore's "unbelievably low birthrates" have inspired "National Night," a campaign to encourage Singaporean couples to "let their patriotism explode" on August 9.
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