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Man Survives 60 Hours Under Water In Sunken Ship
An air pocket saved his life
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Why Life Does Not Really Exist
I had an epiphany that has forced me to rethink why I love living things so much and reexamine what life is, really. For as long as people have studied life they have struggled to define it. Even today, scientists have no satisfactory or universally accepted definition of life.
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'Let me keep my dead husband's sperm'
A woman has begun a legal bid to prevent her dead husband's frozen sperm from being destroyed.
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US fast-food workers in strike
Fast-food workers in nearly 100 cities across the US are planning to hold a 24-hour strike on Thursday in protest at low wages.
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Ho, ho, holy cow - Santa gets fighter escort on U.S. military site
A U.S. military website showing Santa Claus delivering his presents while guarded by warplanes has some children's advocates worried.In a twist to its tradition of tracking an animated
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World's biggest gingerbread house built in Texas
A team in Texas has broken the Guiness World Record for the largest gingerbread house ever built.
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So you think you can ski.
Ostrich on skies
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Socotra - Isle of the Dragonsblood
Socotra is a small Yemeni island, off the southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula. After many years of wanting to visit, I made it in February 2010. It was incredible to say the least - it's the most mystical, beautiful and diverse place i've visited so far, and had a deep, profound impact on me.
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Suffering from Alzheimer's, Ga. man fatally shot
The unlikely collision between two strangers one deeply confused, another perceiving a threat illustrates both the difficulties that caregivers face in keeping loved ones with Alzheimer's safe and the consequences of miscalculation in a state that celebrates its gun culture
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America's best bakeries
Whether you're craving old-fashioned chocolate chip cookies, freshly baked bread, flaky pain au chocolat, mouthwatering cakes or fruit-studded tarts, our best bakeries in America have something for everyone.
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The Trans-Tasman
This timelapse/slow motion video is the culmination of a year's travel around Australia and New Zealand, The Trans-Tasman.
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Couple, four children found safe after 2 nights missing in frigid Nevada mountains
The couple and four children who had been missing since Sunday night in the frigid mountains of northern Nevada were found safe Tuesday, local officials said. The six were found “in fairly good shape.
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The Internet of things is coming on faster than ever thanks to a new, huge alliance
"The move is aimed at accelerating the Internet of Everything, which will transform homes and businesses with a wide range of everyday devices, objects and machines that are always connected.
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Our Secret Universe
Welcome to a human cell - the fundamental unit of life. This is an inner universe that is only just beginning to give up its secrets.
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'The women who sold their daughters into sex slavery
A neighborhood in Cambodia is a global center of the child sex trade. The peddlers? Often, their parents.
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Three Things Humanity Needs to Do to Survive the Apocalypse
Annalee Newitz has a succinct, bittersweet message for the human race: Mass extinction is coming, and we're probably going to survive it. Whether it's manmade (a nuclear holocaust, anthropogenic climate change), earth-spawned (mega-volcanoes, a pandemic) or of the cosmic variety (radiation bombardment or an asteroid impact), there's eventually going to be catastrophe big enough to snuff out the vast majority of life on Earth.
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5 up-and-coming California wine regions
When we think of American wine, we think of the state of California. After all, over 90% of wine produced in this country comes from the Golden State
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Why We Need More Than Three Genders
Commentator Barbara J. King thinks we should embrace a fluid system of gender identities.
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A Goat Sanctuary
A Goat Sanctuary
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Life in a North Korean Prison-USS Pueblo 1968
On Thursday, when North Korea’s government news agency announced the execution of Jang Song-taek—the uncle and presumed political adviser of leader Kim Jong-un—for alleged treason, a U.S. State Department spokeswoman called the act, if confirmed, “another example of the extreme brutality of the North Korean regime.”
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