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Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World

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Cartoon Laws of Physics

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Walking Your Octopus: A Guidebook to the Domesticated Cephalopod

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Photographer’s Facemash Project Reveals Uncanny Genetic Resemblances

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French Revolution Wallpapers

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Raymond Chandler and Ian Fleming in Conversation (1958)

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Fearsome Font Friday

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“Sharknado” saves the summer!

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Living People Linked to 5,500 Year-old DNA

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“Umami” Was Coined by the Inventor of MSG to Describe Its Taste

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How iOS 7’s Font Change Looks in the New Beta 3

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X-Ray Reveals How Bats Take Flight

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The Largest Structure Ever Built Has Opened in China

• technology

‘Shortcat’ utility replaces mouse clicks with keyboard presses

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Undervalued Inventor Nikola Tesla’s 157th Birthday

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The Hut Where the Internet Began

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Fearsome Chrome T-Rex Sculpture on the Banks of the Seine in Paris

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World’s Most Wired: Designer Robert Egger

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9 Superheroines Who Deserve a Movie

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Wild Cat Found Mimicking Monkey Calls; Predatory Trickery Documented for the First Time in Wild Felids in Americas

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‘A Nice Cup of Tea’ by George Orwell

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NASA Set to Fund World’s First 3D Food Printer

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Disaster Preparedness: San Francisco Emergency Drinking Water Hydrants

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This Subway Window Whispers Ads That Only You Can Hear

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Cortex 3D-printed cast for fractures

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Orwell’s birthday celebrated with party hats on surveillance cameras

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In an appalling decision, the Supreme Court stops use of a key part of the Voting Rights Act

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Supreme Court’s ruling overturns both the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8

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A pristine ‘temple of the dead’ has been uncovered in Peru

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The Lowly Luggage Tag Gets a High-Tech Makeover

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Desktop Backgrounds Designed to Make You Smarter

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Prairie dogs’ language decoded by scientists

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Scientists use electron ‘ink’ to write on graphene ‘paper’

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Public Art Marks Hurricane Evacuation Spots in New Orleans

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Extreme Typographic Nerdery, Part 2: Making Sense of Type Classification

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Extreme Typographic Nerdery, Part 1: Making Sense of Type Classification

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Bigger and brighter ‘super moon’ lights up night sky – in pictures

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Geeks vs Nerds: An Infographic

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English is no longer the language of the web

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Beautiful! Historical use of pomegranate motifs in textiles

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Neil Gaiman novel inspires Portsmouth street name

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Social Networking in the 1600s

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“Aviatrix” – A few of the fantastic woman flyers of the early 20th century

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“See America with the WPA” Posters

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Vintage Photobooth Animations

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What iOS 7 Should Look Like

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Buildings Based On Human Bone Structure Could Be the Future of Cities

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A Chocolate Maker’s Big Innovation

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