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'Presidents’ Day' Doesn't Actually Exist

Despite what furniture stores and car dealerships tell you, officially, we’re really just celebrating George Washington’s birthday

A slave cabin at Mount Vernon, George Washington's estate in Virginia.

George Washington Used Legal Loopholes to Avoid Freeing His Slaves

One of his slaves fled to New Hampshire to escape becoming a wedding present

Not the new self-driving car

Britain’s First Driverless Car Stays on the Sidewalk

The car's 15 mile-per-hour speed limit keeps things safe

Jailing People Has Little Effect on Crime Levels

At some point, the data indicates, more people in prison doesn’t translate to fewer crimes

Robert Sorlie and his team during the 2005 Iditarod race

Lack of Snow Forced the Iditarod to Move Its Track

Instead of starting in Willow, Alaska, this year, the race will start 300 miles north in Fairbanks

Fighting in Aleppo in 2013

Can Antiquities Looting in Syria Be Stopped?

The Islamic State is selling antiquities to fund their fight, now a secretive group is trying to protect those cultural treasures

Who’s Digging Up Hadrian’s Wall?

Rogue diggers with metal detectors are threatening a priceless archaeological site

Abraham Lincoln in the year of his death, 1865.

The Group That’s Been Celebrating Lincoln’s Birth for Almost 150 Years

The Lincoln Association of Jersey City claims it has the longest record of celebrating Lincoln’s legacy

Don't hate eggs because of the cholesterol in their yolks

New Guidelines on Cholesterol: Eggs Are Ok, Butter's Still Bad

Experts have long pushed for the change since for most, cholesterol isn't the demon we thought it was

Now for Sale: Straw Houses

One new technique for green building—making houses out of straw—actually draws on century-old ideas

Here’s The Most Expensive Painting Ever Sold

A Gauguin painting broke the price record this week, selling for nearly $300 million

Rosa Parks addresses a crowd in 1989 on the 25th anniversary of the signing of the civil rights legislation.

The Library of Congress Now Has Rosa Parks’ Personal Letters

The loan of over 10,000 documents from the Civil Rights icon’s personal life reveals her complexity and inner struggles—as well as one solid pancake recipe

Starving Sea Lions Are Piling Up on California Beaches

It's the third year of a crisis that's confusing scientists

Hikers in the North Cascade mountains of Washington, on the Pacific Crest Trail

The Pacific Crest Trail Is So Popular It Needs a New Permit System

Only 50 people per day will be allowed to start thru-hikes from the southern terminus

Private Space Investments Will Reach $10 Billion This Year

Make way for money—investors are bullish on space

Why One Nonprofit Wants You to Sell Them Your Poop

A qualified candidate could make thousands of dollars a year selling their waste to an organization preparing fecal transplants for the ill

Harper Lee in 2007, accepting the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Harper Lee is Releasing A Sequel to “To Kill A Mockingbird” in July

The novel was written before her prize-winning book and tells the story of Scout as an adult, returned to her hometown from New York

A nurse at the ELWA Ebola Treatment Unit in Monrovia, Liberia, picks up disinfected boots

There Aren’t Enough Patients for Ebola Drug’s First Clinical Trial

The developer called a halt after fewer than 10 people had been treated in the trial’s first month

The Hopkins' Rose nudibranch, or pink sea slug.

What’s Causing California’s Bright Pink Sea Slug Bloom?

They might be fun to look at, but they're not necessarily good news

Friendship Nine members Clarence Graham, Willie Thomas Massey, David Williamson Jr., James F. Wells and Willie E. McCleod (L-R) stand in front of the renamed Five & Dine diner in Rock Hill, South Carolina, on December 17, 2014

The "Friendship 9" Who Sat At A White-Only Lunch Counter Have Been Cleared

The men who participated in a South Carolina sit-in were sentenced to 30 days hard labor in 1961

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