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Why Are Whales So Massive? It's All About Energy Marine mammal size is a delicate balance between chowing down and chilly waters

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7 Tiny Homes You Can Buy on Amazon Now you can add a tiny home or cabin kit to your cart.

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How Did the World's Smallest Flightless Bird Get to Inaccessible Island?The first scientists to describe the animal thought it might have walked.

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Updated Aug 29, 2019

15 Five-Minute Breakfast Ideas That Aren't All Toast For when you're running late, but you can't eat another granola bar.

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Are Aliens Plentiful, But We’re Just Missing Them?Are we looking for life in all the wrong ways, like SETI with smoke signals?

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Mapped: The optimal road trip to see all the US national parks Summer plans?

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Holland covers hundreds of bus stops with plants as gift to honeybees Shelters support biodiversity while also capturing dust to improve air quality and storing rainwater

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Updated Aug 29, 2019

The Secret History of Fort Detrick, the CIA’s Base for Mind Control Experiments Today, it’s a cutting-edge lab. In the 1950s and 1960s, it was the center of the U.S. government’s darkest experiments.

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Spectacular Photo of the Northern Lights Looks Like a Dragon in the Sky Photographer Jingyi Zhang took an incredible photograph of the Aurora Borealis in Iceland that looks like a giant green dragon across the sky.

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CAT BOUNCE!It's Cat Bounce, what more do you need to know?

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Updated Aug 29, 2019

The 20 Best Movies of the 1980s After a decade of giving bold young directors free rein, the Hollywood studios took back control in the 1980s. Still, a number of excellent movies managed to get made—including some that achieved greatness by reinventing old genres and tropes.

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The curious history of Cuba's ice cream obsession Politicians have debated the merits of capitalism versus communism in back rooms and senate floors for decades.

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How Each Zodiac Sign Would Decorate Their Dream Home If you're not sure how you would decorate your dream home, your zodiac sign may help you figure out which style fits you best.

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I Quit Drinking for 30 Days—Here's What It Did to My Mind, Body, and Skin Have you ever asked yourself, "What does alcohol really do to your body?". To find out the true health effects of alcohol, I quit drinking for 30 days

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The Marching Band From Hamburg Playing Techno Tracks ... on Brass This Hamburg-based ensemble is giving a body-grooving tuba, xylophone and percussion twist to techno.

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Artist Seamlessly Combines Unexpected Elements in Brilliant Surreal Photos Each composite photo is straight out of a dream.

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This Algorithm Can Remove the Water from Underwater Photos, and the Results are Incredible An engineer has developed a computer program that can, in her words, "remove the water" from an underwater photograph. The result is a "physically

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The Four Points, Two Distances Problem Alex Bellos set a pleasingly simple puzzle in Monday’s Guardian: How many ways are there to arrange four points in the plane so that only two distances occur between any two points? He gives one solution, which helps to illustrate the problem: In a square, any two vertices are separated by either the length of a side or the length of a diagonal — no matter which two points are chosen, the distance between them will be one of two values. Besides the square, how many other configurations have this property? The puzzle comes originally from Dartmouth mathematician Peter Winkler,...

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Surreal Photo Mash-Ups Cleverly Merge Animals with Food This is the greatest thing since sliced bread...fox.

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4 Myths About Kids And Technology Screens can be good or bad for kids. It all depends on how active parents are in managing the time their kids spend in front of them.

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Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’Glacier cores reveal Icelandic volcano that plunged Europe into darkness

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Psychologists Explain How To Stop Overthinking Everything Overthinking can lead to serious emotional distress and increase your risk of mental health problems

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Slow Cooker Chipotle Sweet Potato Chili with Cilantro-Lime Avocado Smash This Slow Cooker Chipotle Sweet Potato Chili with added beef and black beans is hearty, sweet, and smoky! Just delicious!

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Updated Aug 29, 2019

7 healthy foods Japanese centenarians eat each day for longevity Okinawa boasts the longest life expectancy in the world.

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Best Architecture Aspen House River Woods images on Designspiration Saved by Shelby White (shelbywhite) on Designspiration. Discover more Architecture Aspen House River Woods inspiration.

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The Non-Gambler’s Guide to Gambling So your good friend from high school is getting married, and he dragged the boys to Vegas for some classic bachelor party shenanigans. The first...

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6 Contemporary Kitchen Trends That Will Last For Years to Come From appliances and lighting to tiles, cabinetry, and shelving, say hello to six modern kitchen trends that are sure to stand the test of time.

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Updated Aug 29, 2019

The Psychology Behind Superhero Origin Stories How does following the adventures of Spider-Man and Batman inspire us to cope with adversity?

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The Gobi Desert Is a Red Sea of Chili Peppers They dry in the sun every autumn in China's Uyghur Autonomous Region.

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The Underground Inferno that Created a Ghost Town Fifty years ago, this prosperous Pennsylvania coal town was ripped apart by a devastating subterranean mine fire. Today, the flames still burn in Centralia.

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Jane Fonda – The Recreationalist Her best selling workout series was the start of an 80's fitness phenomenon.

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Updated May 14, 2019

The Accidental Invention of Play-Doh The much-loved children’s toy was a desperate spinoff of a putty used to clean soot off of wallpaper

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Asking for a friend: Are 'expiration dates' just totally bogus?A food safety expert shares the deets.

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40 Reasons to Own a Cat

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Updated Aug 29, 2019

This Guy Improves Hollywood Movies By Editing His Cat Into Them And The Result Is Hilarious Cats are known to possess all kinds of talents. They are great at hunting, excellent at manipulating humans to get treats, and apparently, they are amazing actors. Well, at least some of them.

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How the human brain stays young even as we age Understanding how most brains maintain youthful plasticity could lead scientists to figure out why some don't.

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Top 10 golden age detective novels For some, ‘cosy crime’ of the 1920s and 30s is class-ridden and formulaic – but classic authors such as Agatha Christie and Josephine Tey paved the way for modern fiction as we know it

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Parchment Paper History: How We Got Paper Perfect for Baking What the heck is parchment paper, where did it come from, and why is it such a prominent baking aid these days? So many questions—here’s my attempt to answer.

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Why Is the North Star So Stellarly Important?Polaris, also known as the North Star, is almost exactly over the celestial North Pole, making it extremely useful for navigation (and for making wishes on, as well).

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Watch a Dreaming Octopus Put on a Dazzling Color Show "I witnessed something I've never seen recorded before."

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30 Must-See Attractions on Route 66 Route 66 stretches for 2,500 miles from the heart of Chicago to Santa Monica's iconic pier. Known as the "Mother Road," it is one of the most popular cross-country road trip routes. Here are just 30 of the countless things to see along the way.

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23 Photos Proving that Hallstatt, Austria in Winter is a Fairytale Hallstatt, Austria is a beautiful village nestled in the Alps. Here are 21 photos to fuel your winter wanderlust, plus how to get there, what to pack, and where to stay.

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10 Facts About Puffins With their comical expressions and orange beaks full of fish, Atlantic puffins and their kin are some of the most recognizable birds on the planet. Read on for more puffin facts.

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How to Do Wildlife Tourism Without Being a Jerk An estimated 550,000 wild animals are currently suffering in unethical tourist attractions around the world

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This bat-friendly town turned the night red British town, village in Netherlands find a happy middle ground.

complex.com

The Best Rappers of the 2010s The best rappers that defined the 2010-2019 decade, including Drake, J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, and more.

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Why Friendship Breakups Hurt So Much, According to a Couples Therapist A therapist tells us how friendship breakups measure up to romantic ones, why some breakups hurt more than others, and what to do if you want your pal back.

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Fashionista in the Making

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The Happiest Countries in the World These countries are not Utopias, but people who live in them are happier overall.

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America's wilderness is for sale We need more copper. Is it worth destroying this place? Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO The Trump administration has opened up America's public lands to mining and fossil fuel companies on an unprecedented scale, lifting decades-long protections from millions of acres of wilderness across the country. In Minnesota, one proposed copper mine is pitting neighbors against each other as they weigh the benefits of new mining jobs against the environmental consequences of a new mines. It’s an old American debate that’s been further complicated here by an unforgiving reality: We need copper, and there are not that many places to get it. Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Or our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts Follow Vox on Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H Or on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o

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