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A seaweed farmer in Tanzania shows off her crop.

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Eat More Seaweed (It's Good for You)

Foraging for fresh seaweeds gives you option and the best taste according to this Brittany seaweed eater

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Get Past the Vile Smell: Ginkgo Nuts Are Delicious

People have been feasting on these tasty little morsels since at least the 11th century

Syrian Kurds flee Kobane as Islamic State forces approach.

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ISIS Is Making Its Own Currency

It's the latest step in the insurgent group's attempt to forge a new state

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This Artist Makes E. coli-Shaped Popsicles

For those who prefer plants to pathogens, there's popsicle cacti, too

A middle-schooler from North Korea who’s family defected listens to a teacher in school south of Seoul

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North Korea Subsidizes About 70 Schools in Japan

The institutions are a way for ethnic Koreans to connect to their culture but are also targets of criticism

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Living in Tough Environments Makes People More Prone to Belief in God

People living in harsh natural environments are more likely to believe in a tough, moralizing god

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Grad Students Carry 40 Percent of All Student Debt

But they make up just 14 percent of enrollment at U.S. universities

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A Lost John Steinbeck Short Story Was Rediscovered, Published

The short story deals with the racial politics of the mid-20th century

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The World of Personal Computers in the 1980s Was A Wacky, Wonderful Place

You can experience early video games and operating systems yourself through retrocomputing and ads

Atari cartridges and packaging recovered from the Alamogordo landfill are shown off on April 26, 2014.

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Atari Games That No One Wanted Now Selling for $500 a Pop

No one wanted Atari's E.T. in 1982, but they want it now

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Nearly 400 Journalists Have Been Murdered Over the Past Ten Years

Only ten percent of their killers are ever reprimanded

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Scotland Is No Longer Home to the World’s Best Whiskys

When it comes to whisky, Japan, the US and even England now reign supreme

The Lincoln Memorial and Reflecting Pool

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How to Protect the Lincoln Memorial From Crazy Flooding

The capital city's decades-old system of levees to keep water back during storms and flooding is getting an upgrade

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The European Space Agency Has Made the Weirdest Short Film

The ESA's advertising Rosetta with a very unusual sci-fi short

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Artists In Search of Inspiration Can Now Find Their Muse On a Cargo Ship

Container ships now join Amtrak trains, dune shacks and remote islands in the Arctic circle as sights dedicated to artistic pursuit

In London, Sherlock Holmes is happy to stop for a quick chat.

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You’ll Soon Be Able to Talk to London And Manchester’s Statues

Just scan a tag near the statues with your cell, and they'll call you with a quick first-person history lesson

Cat in his basket at Vienna’s first cat cafe

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America's Finally Getting Its First Permanent Cat Cafe

Cappuccino and a Siamese, please

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When Becoming a Man Means Sticking Your Hand Into a Glove of Ants

Young men must subject themselves to a ritual involving bullet ant-filled gloves not once but 20 times

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This Photographer Set Out on a Quest to Rediscover the World's Lost Species of Frogs

Some of the subjects are new to science, others haven't been seen in 15 to 160 years

A Dallas resident in a neighborhood where one of the persons diagnosed with Ebola lives peers out of her window.

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Unbelievable Reactions People Have Had to the Ebola Outbreak

For some, the disease is a chance to make money; for others, it brings out racism

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