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New clue to Voynich manuscript mystery
Research suggests that Mexico, rather than Europe, may be key to famously indecipherable botanical document.
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What do you guys think of Phish's short lived foray into music videos?
I was in high school when this came out and even then it didn't really seem to match the music. What if they'd continued in this vein, do you think they would have ever become the epic 'Jam' band that we all know and love today?
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Ancient Egyptian Soldier's Letter Home Deciphered
A newly deciphered letter home dating back around 1,800 years reveals the pleas of a young Egyptian soldier named Aurelius Polion who was serving, probably...
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The Most Isolated House in the World
No rowdy neighbours keeping you up at night. A view that we could only dream of.
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Sweden Renames a Bunch of Birds to Make Sure No One Thinks They're Racist
Sweden’s Ornithological Society has changed the names of a bunch of birds because they were concerned that the old names sounded racist.
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'Mad chicken woman' sells round egg
Kim Broughton found one of her hens - now renamed Ping Pong - had laid the round egg in her garden in Latchingdon, Essex, on 17 February - Pancake Day.
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Massive Alligator Relaxes on Florida Golf Course
A massive alligator was spotted roaming a Florida golf course last week, going for a stroll and sunning itself just a short put away from the pin.
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The History of Lorem Ipsum
If you’re a designer, this phrase is everywhere. Known as “filler text” or “Greek copy”, people use it to simulate the appearance of whatever text will ultimately be used in a design. This way, a designer doesn’t have to wait for the text to be written to format it, and they and the client aren’t distracted from the graphical or interactive elements of the design by reading the copy. Because nobody would mistake it for their native language, Lorem Ipsum is also less likely than other...
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Former Janitor Who Lived Modestly Leaves $6 Million to Library, Hospital
A Vermont man who sometimes held his coat together with safety pins and had a long-time habit of foraging for firewood also had a knack for picking stocks — a talent that became public after his death when he bequeathed $6 million to his local library and hospital.
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Super-Rare Albino Tapir Photographed in Brazil
Photographer's "heart skipped a beat" when he caught the piglike animal on camera in the Atlantic rain forest.
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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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On the Lam with Bank Robber Enric Duran
In 2008, Enric Duran stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from European banks to start a progressive hacktivist commune. Nathan Schneider traveled to Catalonia to meet the man, who is still on the run from the authorities.
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A Strange Philosophical Manuscript. A Secret Benefactor
The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician
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Why Do Severed Goat Heads Keep Turning Up in Brooklyn?
Some say it’s a strange religious ritual. Others, a prank. I went on a quest to find the answer.
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Johannes Stötter Art
Fine Art Bodypainting, Nature-Art, Performance
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It's been raining worms in Norway
Karsten Erstad is a biologist from Norway. But despite his experience of the animal world, he couldn't believe his eyes when, whilst skiing, he came across thousands upon thousands of earthworms. At first, he thought they had been driven up from the ground...
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The strange afterlife of Einstein's brain
Einstein’s death 60 years ago was just the start of a fascinating and macabre journey for the most prized part of his anatomy, his brain.
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Raccoon climbs 213 metres up Toronto condo tower
A tower-crane operator looked down from his work on a downtown Toronto condo to see a raccoon had climbed up 213 metres on a ladder on Thursday morning.
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A killing in Pocahontas
A witness murdered, a drug ring exposed, a snake in a box.
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Scientists find the origin of Antarctica’s creepy ‘Blood Falls’
The region's lakes seem to be connected by networks of salty, below-freezing liquid water that could host microbial life.
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