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Out of the deep
From Atlantis to Noah’s Ark, we have long been drawn to stories of submerged lands. What lies beneath the flood myths? By Edward Platt
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The Spiritualist Who Warned Lincoln Was Also Booth's Drinking Buddy
What did Charles Colchester know and when did he know it?
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Objects in Brain May Be Bigger Than They Appear
The first time it happened, I was 8. I was tucked in bed reading my favorite book when my tongue swelled up to the size of a cow’s, like the giant tongues I had seen in the glass display case at the neighborhood deli. At the same time, the far wall of my bedroom began to recede...
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Rescuers recall 'distinct voice' that spurred them to rescue trapped toddler
Four police officers all said they heard a voice that spurred them to roll over a wrecked vehicle and rescue an 18-month-old girl who had been trapped inside and upside down for 14 hours. The crash killed the mother but the young girl survived.
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The Meaning of Siberia’s Mystery Craters
They have been attributed to meteorite impacts, missile strikes, and gas-field explosions. The likeliest explanation, however, seems to be climate change.
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The divine witches of cyberspace
Fortune-telling games help us fumble toward deeper truths, at the junction of technology and mysticism
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Tarot Dreams
The images in Tarot function much the way dreams do in psychoanalysis, providing a symbolic and interpretable language for the elusive shape of our lives. By Christopher Benfey
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Medieval technology, indistinguishable from magic
Robots came to Europe before the dawn of the mechanical age. To a medieval world, they were indistinguishable from magic
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Sleeping sickness traps Kazakh town in waking nightmare
Scientists are baffled by a mysterious illness that has sent hundreds of people into days-long slumbers
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Priest greeted by strangers discovers doppelganger neighbour
Two men who look almost identical and have shadowed each others' lives for years have finally met after a chance encounter on a coach trip to London
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Anglo-Saxon antibiotics are just the start – it’s time to start bioprospecting in the past
Researchers at the University of Nottingham say a thousand year old recipe may offer hope in the fight against antibiotic resistant ‘super bugs’. So what other super-remedies might we find in the history of medicine?
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The Ghost Who Solved Her Own Murder
Mary Heaster was crushed by the strange death of her daughter – until her daughter's spirit, the Greenbrier Ghost, appeared to tell her she'd been murdered.
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The Reality of Devils and Goblins and Fairies
Much as believers in fairy folk, elves, dwarves, leprechauns, etcetera, may seem to you like simpletons holding onto ancient superstition, you should first know that every myth contains at least a small kernel of truth.
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The Radical Dissent of Helen Keller
Here’s what they don’t teach: When the blind-deaf visionary learned that poor people were more likely to be blind than others, she set off down a pacifist, socialist path that broke the boundaries of her time—and continues to challenge ours today.
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John Dee was the 16th century's real-life Gandalf
Queen Elizabeth I’s court advisor was the foremost scientific genius of the 16th century, laying the foundation of modern science. Then teamed up with a disreputable, criminal psychic and things really got rolling.
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Unfinished
Robert Bruno labored for decades to build one of America’s most striking houses, but died before he could complete it. Is there a way to preserve his work and legacy?
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Mike Anderson Released
In 2000 Mike Anderson was convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to 13 years in prison. But he never went to prison. Law enforcement should have picked Mike up, but for reasons that are still unclear, that never happened. So during those 13 years he turned his life around: he got married, became a father of four and started his own business. He never had another run-in with the law. The Missouri Department of Corrections only realized its mistake when they were preparing to release Mike
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Decoding Plato
I met with the world’s leading Atlantologist to separate fact from myth. By Mark Adams
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Selfish Shellfish Cells Cause Contagious Clam Cancer
In the 1970s, scientists noticed that soft-shell clams along the east coast of North America were dying from a strange type of cancer. Their blood, which was typically clear, would fill with so many cells that it would turn milky. The rogue cells clogged and infiltrated the clams’ organs, often killing them. This cancer—this clam leukaemia—seemed to be transmissible...
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Meet the Chinese Lumberjack Who Slept With an Alien
"If you can't find me," Meng Zhaoguo said over a cell phone whose signal faded from its isolation, "Just head to the last house on the logging commune lane. Or ask anyone who's around." Everyone knows the first Chinese person to allegedly be abducted by aliens.
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