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Current Event CatLadyChasing Space: Astronaut Leland Melvin’s Journey From Sports To Space
Leland Melvin on the perseverance and different communities that helped launch his career into space.
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When Your Child Is a Psychopath
The condition has long been considered untreatable. Experts can spot it in a child as young as 3 or 4. But a new clinical approach offers hope.
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2 days ago
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The struggles of war babies fathered by black GIs
Many GIs had children with British women but under US laws black servicemen were usually refused permission to marry. So what happened to the children?
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13 days ago
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Saber-Tooth Cats, Dire Wolves Found in La Brea Tar Pits Show Wounds From Ice Age Battles
The bones of saber-tooth cats and extinct dire wolves from downtown Los Angeles still bear the marks of injuries sustained in battle more than 11,500 years ago, researchers say.
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2 weeks ago
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Snow leopard features three sub-species, scientists discover
The snow leopard species is comprised of three sub-species, according to new research.
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2 weeks ago
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Tomb Drawing Shows Mongoose on a Leash, Puzzling Archaeologists
A mongoose on a leash, a colorful pelican and various bats are just a few of the rare animal drawings revealed in a new survey of 4,000-year-old tombs in Egypt.
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2 weeks ago
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Rediscover a 19th-Century Compendium of North American Trees
Botanists François-André Michaux and Thomas Nuttall documented every known tree in North America. A book compiles over 270 plates from their publication.
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3 weeks ago
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An Illustrated 19th-Century Japanese Travelogue of Egypt
The image of Egypt as conceived by innovative Japanese publisher Takejirō Hasegawa was well outside the dominant paradigm and thus startling to Western eyes.
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3 weeks ago
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Entomology: Photos by Francesco Bagnato
Beautiful macro photos of insects by Milan-based photographer, illustrator and designer Francesco Bagnato.
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3 weeks ago
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Everything You Need to Know About Waffle House
A brief history of the beloved 24-hour Southern diner icon
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3 weeks ago
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Journey Through 100 of Japan’s Finest Gardens
Marc Peter Keane is an American landscape architect who spent almost 20 years in Kyoto practicing landscape design. In fact, he was the first foreigner to receive a working visa as a landscape architect. Now back stateside, Keane maintains an office in upstate New York where he designs Japanese gardens for both public and private spaces.
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3 weeks ago
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Interesting and sad. I first heard about the mass pet killings recently when I watched "1940's House" a British historical reality program. They briefly touched on the fact that people had their pets euthanized at the start of the war. I can understand the feeling of not wanting your pets to suffer. I have cats and I do wonder how I would handle a catastrophic emergency with them.
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3 weeks ago
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Reading The Game: Stardew Valley
Our occasional series on storytelling in video games travels to Pelican Town to explore the bucolic pleasures of Stardew Valley, a farming simulator inspired by the classic 1990s Harvest Moon games.
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1 month ago
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Europe's Famed Bog Bodies Are Starting to Reveal Their Secrets
High-tech tools divulge new information about the mysterious and violent fates met by these corpses
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1 month ago
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Dog family tree reveals hidden history of canine diversity
Genetic map showing how dog breeds are related provides a wealth of information about their origins.
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1 month ago
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The New York Public Library Has a “Digital Time-Travel Service” For Its Historical Maps
The New York Public Library's NYC Space/Time Directory is a "digital time-travel service" for their collections of maps and geospatial data.
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1 month ago
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NASA Releases Amazing New Photos of the World at Night
NASA scientists have released new global maps of Earth at night, providing the clearest-yet views of the patterns of human settlements across our planet
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1 month ago
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The National Galleries of Scotland Is Digitizing Its 94,000-Piece Collection
Since the start of this month, about 40,000 images of works are available on the relaunched NGS website.
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1 month ago
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WPA-Style Posters Imagine a Bleak Future for US National Parks
Artist Hannah Rothstein created a series of images in the style of vintage posters for US National Parks that imagines what they will look like if we don't act against climate change.
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Exploding Sea Cucumber Butt Threads Are a New Material
Whoever named the sea cucumber after a vegetable didn’t give it enough credit. Yes, sea cucumbers are soft, warty tubes that scoot eyelessly along the seafloor. But they aren’t helpless. Some secrete a poison that’s deadly to other animals. And some, when threatened, shoot sticky threads out of their anuses to tangle up predators.
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1 month ago
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Centuries Old Pemmican-Making Camp Uncovered in Montana
The camp, used by Blackfoot peoples from to the 14th to 17th centuries, sheds light on a key commodity of the pre-contact Northern Plains.
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1 month ago
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Here's a List of All the U.S. Govt's Rogue Twitter Accounts Fighting Trump's Crackdown on Science
...President Trump has been ordering the removal of scientific data from government websites. In response, a handful of people at these government bodies have reportedly been launching unauthorized, rogue Twitter accounts in an effort to preserve the flow of information.
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1 month ago
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Gorgeous comic book gives Afro-Brazilian mythology the Avengers treatment - Kill Screen
A lot of nerd culture is dominated by European mythology, from Thor to Lord of the Rings or even Harry Potter, just to name a few. But far from just a disservice to African or Asian or Middle Eastern cultures, this blind spot is a an even bigger disservice to nerds everywhere. There is a huge well of awesome mythology that has gone untapped, with epic characters and stories that would make even the most dignified comic book fan salivate. That’s where Brazilian artist Hugo Canuto comes ...
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1 month ago
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Nikita Golubev Turns Dirty Cars Into Works of Art
The Moscow-based artist insures these cars will never get a car wash