Cool Finds

The coffin-within-a-coffin at Greyfriars

Mysterious Coffin-in-a-Coffin Found Under the Same Parking Lot as Richard III

The only marker on the coffin lid is a cross, but the person must have been of high social status to warrant such an elaborate burial

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Even in the Remote Wilderness, Frogs Are Not Safe From Pesticides

The next step is to figure out how, if at all, the frogs are affected by their chemical loads

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These Kindergarten Kids Aren’t Just Playing With Colored Blocks—They’re Coding

Simplified, visual programming languages make it easy for anyone to write their own code

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Should Doctors Wait a Little Longer to Cut Umbilical Cords?

The cutting of the umbilical cord is the only surgery that every human alive has gone through. But when is the right time to cut that cord?

I am a word artist.

Google Translate Can Now Handle Handwriting

Next time you get a hand written note from your hostel mate in a language you can't understand, you can turn to Google Translate

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This Amazing Interactive Shows What The Sun Would Look Like Anywhere, Anytime

These simple gifs show the motion of the Sun through the sky, anywhere on Earth

The first bog body ever photographed, which was discovered in Denmark in 1898.

Celebrate 262 Years of Bog Bodies on International Bog Day

Thanks to their cool, oxygen-poor conditions, bogs are a hostile environment for microbes—and a great environment for inadvertently embalming bodies

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Redskins Hall of Famers Say Team Name is Probably Offensive, But Shouldn’t Change

Many Native Americans have called for the team to change their name out of respect for their culture and history

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A Well Preserved, 15-Foot Long Dinosaur Tail Is Being Dug Up in Mexico

The 72 million-year-old tail finding is quite rare, and a hip and other bones have also been found nearby

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What Happens When You Test the Prisoner’s Dilemma on Prisoners

The prisoner's dilemma is a classic game theory thought experiment. But no one ever tested this on actual prisoners. Until now

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The Newport Aquarium’s New Shark Ray Was Killed by an Overenthusiastic Suitor

The aquarium has yet to name names or point fingers at which of the other four shark rays was responsible for the new female's undoing

What’s left of a former residential school in British Columbia

Canada’s Forgotten Experiments on Malnourished Indigenous Kids

During this period in history, the Canadian government strongly promoted a reeducation program of sorts for indigenous children

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Climate Change Is Creating Cannibal Lobsters

Warming water means more lobsters--and lobster cannibalism

Etsy Has Banned Sales of Protected Animals’ Fur, Bones, Teeth And Bodies

Conservation groups are hoping that, with Etsy and Ebay on board, other sites such as Craigslist, Bonanza and Google Shop will follow suit

The mushroom cloud produced by the “Fat Man” bomb from the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan.

Here’s What Nagasaki Would Have Looked Like If the Tsar Bomba Had Replaced ‘Fat Man’

A Google Earth add-on helps you understand the strength of the world's nuclear arsenal

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The Ten Most Controversial Articles on Wikipedia Might Surprise You

One researcher has quantified the most controversial Wikipedia entires of all time in ten different languages

In Bacon Therapy, the Meat Isn’t for You: It’s for the Bugs Eating Your Skin

Bacon therapy might sound like an awesome thing. It is not

Meet Your Local Farmer Bot

Not so much the dream of the far future, agricultural robots are nearly ready for prime time

Miconia growing in Hawaii

In Hawaii, Scientists Are Battling Invasive Plants with Herbicide-Shooting Paintball Guns

Paintball gun-wielding researchers have used this Rambo-like approach to reduce some patches on invasive plants by 80 percent

That little blue dot floating in the black is every single one of us.

NASA Goes All the Way to Saturn, Takes a Stunning Selfie

Here it is: Earth, as seen from Saturn

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