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Rare Bird Feasts on Grapes and Smucker's Jelly in Cape Breton,Nova Scotia
This Bullock's oriole is supposed to be in Central America this time of year.
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‘The Last of the Mohicans’
Remembering Giorgio Gomelsky, 1934–2016. By Brian Cullman.
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Severed feet — still inside shoes — keep mysteriously washing up on Pacific Northwest shores
A 16th dismembered foot in a shoe was discovered in Vancouver this week. By Yanan Wang. (Feb. 11)
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57 Questions About Campaign Spending, Starting With Ted Cruz’s Flower Budget
The campaign trail is, by all accounts, a greasy and exhausting slog. Also a slog? Sifting through hundreds of pages of campaign finance reports. By Cara Giaimo.
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Double Trouble: Emilie Sagée and the Doppelganger Work Ethic
Doppelgangers are a pain in the ass. They have no respect for your personal space. Preternatural apparitions do badly in job interviews, so they are universally unemployed, leaving them ample free time to screw up your work and scare the neighbors...
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Officials: Young Man Poses as Ohio Lawmaker, Tours School
A teenager posing as a state senator toured a high school and spoke to a class, and school officials didn't realize they were fooled until weeks later, authorities in Ohio said. Mohawk Local School District officials said Izaha Akins, of Marion, Ohio, visited the high school in December and...
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Is that a gorilla on the International Space Station?
Ape in space: astronaut Scott Kelly celebrates his year in space in an unusual way. By Chiara Palazzo.
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The other KKK: how the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift tried to craft a new world
George Orwell thought they were ‘sex maniacs’. They thought they were spiritual samurai, rebuilding Britain after the Great War. With their magical rituals, outdoor living and utopian vision, they are the most fascinating of forgotten youth movements – and their ideas still resonate. By Jon Savage.
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How 43 Giant, Crumbling Presidential Heads Ended Up in a Virginia Field
After an ambitious monument went bust, big dreams—and big heads—remain. By Jennifer Billock.
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California Highway Patrol needed nearly four hours to catch a runaway ‘unicorn’
When a caller reported a “unicorn-like” animal galloping down an open Central Valley road, the California Highway Patrol suspected someone was high on hallucinogenic drugs.By Brittny Mejia.
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In a Crazy Coincidence a Mother Born on a Leap Year Gives Birth on a Leap Year
In an extraordinary coincidence a mother born on a leap year gives birth on a leap year.
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Mathematician finds his ‘new’ solution to Poisson formula problem buried in 1959 paper
As Yves Meyer was getting ready to publish a detailed mathematical proof that he had spent months working on, he decided do a final search of the existing literature. In the reference list of one of the papers he had just peer-reviewed, he noticed what he describes as a "bizarre" paper published in 1959 by Andrew Paul Guinand... By Lisa Zyga.
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6 Times Dreams and Mysticism Changed the Course of Science
Some of the most incredible breakthroughs in scientific history are the result of dreams, intuition and the mystic side of the brain. Here's six. By Anne Web.
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Inside Meow Wolf, the amusement park for people who want a weirder Disneyland
A high-tech storytelling gameworld has just opened its doors in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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A Maddening Sound
Is the Hum, a mysterious noise heard around the world, science or mass delusion? By Colin Dickey.
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What People Find Creepy, According to One New Survey
Creepiness, the quality ascribed to creeps, has long been demarcated by the same ambiguous parameters as hardcore porn: We know it when we see it. By Christina Cauterucci.
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Is "the Hum" a Scientific Fact or a Mass Delusion?
Sue Taylor first started hearing it at night in 2009. A retired psychiatric nurse, Taylor lives in Roslin, Scotland, a small village seven miles outside of Edinburgh. “A thick, low hum,” is how she described it, something “permeating the entire house,” keeping her awake. At first she thought it was from a nearby factory, or perhaps a generator of some kind. She began spending her evenings looking for the source, listening outside her neighbors’ homes in the early hours of the morning.
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Top 10 Bizarre Wars
War is fought over many things, it can be about honor, glory, liberating a land that you believe is rightfully yours, the list goes on, but alongside those there have been a number of decidedly unusual wars, fought for trivial or even contemptible reasons...
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Tequila Bottle with Man's Ashes and a Request Washes up on Nova Scotia Beach
Plans are underway to fulfil the wishes of the late Gary Robert Dupuis after the mystery man's ashes washed up on the shores of Cape Breton inside a tequila bottle — its apparent first stop on an attempted world tour.
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The Old West’s Muslim Tamale King
How a South Asian immigrant became a Wyoming fast-food legend and received American citizenship—twice. By Kathryn Schulz.
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