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6 years ago+23 23 0The Snowflake Photographer
A Russian man uses Soviet-made lenses to reveal the magical world of snowflakes.
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6 years ago+15 15 0The Russian Villagers Living In The Shadow Of A Nuclear Tragedy
People still live in shadow of Mayak, site of one of history's most hushed-up nuclear disasters.
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6 years ago+24 24 0The mystery of the baby in the box
Robin was abandoned as a baby 74 years ago. Now thanks to DNA and his daughter's detective work he finally knows where he came from.
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6 years ago+20 20 0The secrets and service of a World War II family, 76 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor
Four siblings wrote hundreds of letters to each other during World War II. The story they tell of service, sacrifice and trauma was hidden away in an abandoned storage unit — until now.
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6 years ago+18 18 0Who invented hummus?
Everyone from the Greeks to the Turks to the Syrians have tried to claim it.
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6 years ago+10 10 0Water music of Vanuatu
Female musicians from the northern islands of Vanuatu use the water surface as an instrument to create a variety of unique sounds.
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6 years ago+13 13 0How Monsanto’s GM cotton sowed trouble in Africa
When America’s biotech giant tried to export its know-how to small cotton farmers in Burkina Faso, there was a problem: The quality sank.
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6 years ago+22 22 0Scientists map ancient rock art in Venezuela
Researchers have mapped Venezuela's rock art in unmatched detail. The map features some of the largest rock engravings in the world and some 2,000 years old.
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6 years ago+16 16 0How Medieval Manuscript Makers Experimented with Graphic Design
'Designing English: Graphics on the Medieval Page' at Oxford's Bodleian Libraries considers how early English manuscripts approached graphic design.
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6 years ago+19 19 0 x 1The Utopian Leisure of Soviet Sanatoriums
Unlike Westerners, Soviets preferred to vacation at sanatoriums, which were modernist structures infused with a sense of utopia.
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6 years ago+13 13 0The Deaths That Come When an Industry's Left to Regulate Itself
The Consumer Product Safety Commission tried for 16 years to make portable electric generators less dangerous. Then a Trump-selected official took charge of the agency.
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6 years ago+1 1 0Statues of ancient Egyptian lioness deity Sekhmet uncovered in Luxor
A collection of 27 fragmented statues of the goddess Sekhmet has been unearthed at the King Amenhotep III funerary temple on Luxor’s west bank
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6 years ago+13 13 0Wander the Lost City of Teotihuacán in Minecraft
At San Francisco's de Young Museum, an interactive dive into the ruined pre-Columbian metropolis.
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6 years ago+17 17 0'Very Hungry And Thin As Rope': Belarusian Centenarian Recalls Years Spent In Stalin's Gulag
A centenarian who lived through Stalin's repression recounts the hardships and some of the happier times of her life.
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6 years ago+16 16 0How to Tell if Your 12th-Century Lover is Just Not That Into You
In the twelfth century, courtly love was all the rage with the French nobility. To participate in this trendiest of trends, though, you actually needed to know the rules.
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6 years ago+24 24 0How Chefs Go From Restaurant Kitchen to Grocery Store Brand
Inside the world of licensing your name to Big Food
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6 years ago+22 22 0When cream hits coffee, the math is magical
There’s some pretty incredible physics happening in your morning cup of coffee, and it could have wide-reaching significance.
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6 years ago+12 12 0New York City Has Genetically Distinct ‘Uptown’ and ‘Downtown’ Rats
A graduate student sequenced rats all over Manhattan, and discovered how the city affects their genetic diversity.
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6 years ago+33 33 0 x 1The Surprising Evolution of Dinosaur Drawings
Since the 1800s, paleoartists have tried to imagine what prehistoric creatures looked like—with wildly different results.
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6 years ago+15 15 0Vintage Portraits of Algerian Women
They Were Forced to Remove Their Veils to be Photographed in 1960