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Neanderthals capable of complex speech, new study suggests
An international team of researchers has found evidence that Neanderthals, like modern humans, had the ability to speak.
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Message in a bottle found 54 years later in Canadian Arctic
According to Halifax's The Chronicle Herald, two researchers found the note tucked into a pile of rocks in the northern Canadian Arctic, about 500 miles away from the closest human settlement. Turns out the message was left by Paul Walker, a fairly well-known American geologist, during an expedition to the area back in 1959. He was reportedly 25 at the time.
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Isaac Asimov's 1964 predictions of life in 2014 are prescient
The great science fiction author got a lot right in this New York Times article.
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Who invented wrapping paper?
Stationery purveyors J.C. and Rollie Hall ran into a problem during the 1917 holiday season: Business had been too good at their Kansas City, Mo., shop, and they'd run out of the white, red, and green tissue papers that were the era's standard gift dressing.
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How America abandoned its “undeserving” poor
With poverty on the rise in the late 1970s, Reagan conservatives waged war on the needy — and won
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Why South Sudan Is Raging
More than 500 people have been killed in four days of fighting in South Sudan . But the problems go much further back.
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Carlos Santana reunited with his old drummer that was a beggar for 40 years
More than four decades after Carlos Santana and his drummer Marcus Malone parted ways, the two were reunited on the streets of Oakland, California, where the talented musician has been living after falling on hard times.
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The History and Future of Everything -- Time
How much time do you have left?Time makes sense in small pieces. But when you look at huge stretches of time, it's almost impossible to wrap your head around things. So we teamed up with the awesome blog "Wait but Why" and made this video to help you putting things in perspective with some infographics!
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The Computer Chronicles - Computer Games (1985)
Special thanks to archive.org for hosting these episodes. Downloads of all these episodes and more can be found at: http://archive.org/details/computerchronicles
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When beasts were people: The long, strange history of animals in court
The judges all dismissed the lawsuits, but the animal rights activists who brought them have vowed to wage a protracted legal campaign. To supporters, the move is a bold step forward for animal justice. To detractors, it’s worse than bad legal theory — it’s just plain bananas. Either way, the prospect of a chimp filing suit in court has been greeted as a total novelty. But , in fact, the idea of treating animals as people before the law isn’t new, it’s just long forgotten.
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7 Scary Accurate Vintage Ads That Predicted the Future
From the foretelling of home computers to a 1970s prophecy of the Internet, these particular predictions from the past were spot-on.
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Origin of flowers has been discovered
Flowering plants emerged on the planet over 160 million years ago - but it has never been entirely clear how these angiosperms came from their predecessor, gymnosperm ferns. New genetic analysis of the Amborella, a shrub with deep evolutionary roots, shows that there was a genomic doubling around 200 million years ago.
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Spokesman of the Slums
In the midst of fierce battles between drug kingpins and police, one tweeting teenager emerges as the most reliable reporter from inside Brazil’s infamous favelas.
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Heroin: art and culture's last taboo
It wrecks lives – but it has also inspired art from the poetry of Baudelaire to the music of Lou Reed. Andrew Hussey traces the path of heroin through modern European culture
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Former Apollo 8 astronaut to mark anniversary of 1968 Christmas Eve broadcast to Earth
An Apollo 8 astronaut who was among the first to orbit the moon is set to help re-enact the 1968 Christmastime broadcast from space Millions tuned in on Dec. 24, 1968, when Commander Frank Borman, Bill Anders and James Lovell took turns reading from the Book of Genesis as the Apollo 8 orbited the moon.
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Inventor of Kalashnikov rifle dies
The inventor of the Kalashnikov assault rifle, Mikhail Kalashnikov, has died aged 94, Russian officials say.
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A Norman Rockwell Christmas
Norman Rockwell, the famous American illustrator and artist, became almost synonymous with Christmas. Year after year he painted beautiful Christmas paintings for the covers of the Saturday Evening Post and other December magazines.
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How Do You Find Closure For Battles You Endured In A War?
How do you find closure for the horrific events you had to endure while you fought in a war?
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Visit to the World's Fair of 2014 (Written in 1964 by Isaac Asimov)
The New York World's Fair of 1964 is dedicated to "Peace Through Understanding." Its glimpses of the world of tomorrow rule out thermonuclear warfare. And why not? If a thermonuclear war takes place, the future will not be worth discussing. So let the missiles slumber eternally on their pads and let us observe what may come in the nonatomized world of the future.
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The First "Knockout Game"
The game, if it ever really was a game, started in Boston in 1992, and the media forgot about it, until this year
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