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When Upton Sinclair ran for governor of California in 1934, new media were marshaled to beat him
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Almost everywhere European explorers went, vineyards grew behind them. Here are a few places tourists might never have known there was wine to taste
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How citizens are using design interventions to shuffle social dynamics and change public space in cities
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An MIT study reveals that carbon dioxide directly reduces the strength of ice, which has troubling implications for climate change
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Just when naturalists began to suspect that birds might be dinosaurs, one researcher put forward a truly strange idea of what early bird ancestors would have looked like
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It's a full weekend of artist discussions, seminars and workshops for the home, fashion and art enthusiasts
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The Trust for the National Mall hopes to fund one of two projects that could bring an amphitheater, restaurant or ice skating rink to the Mall
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Microbiologist Zachary Copfer has created detailed portraits of famous artists and scientists in petri dishes
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Did T. rex use its tiny arms to do push-ups?
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Home to Lucy, Ardi, the oldest stone tools, the first fossils of modern humans and many other discoveries, Ethiopia deserves the title of Cradle of Humankind
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The Hestia project draws on a variety of data sources to paint a comprehensive picture of a city's greenhouse gas metabolism
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Why are there so few rules or instructions? It's all part of the plan
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The Jetsons didn't invent the flying car, but it sure did a lot to cement the idea of the airborne automobile into the American imagination
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Meet Sadie Mintz, a jewelry maker who saw her handiwork on the cover of LIFE magazine
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The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum is not a fun place to go, yet tourists flock here, and toother somber sites around the world
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A lovely little fossil shows how some dinosaurs said goodnight
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Cracking the Code of the Human Genome
A new study debunks the idea that friendships are influenced by shared genes
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Here are 10 things scientists have learned about trees this year. Thanks to climate change, it's not a pretty picture.
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Before Columbus made landfall in the New World 520 years ago today, glowing green worms engaged in a mating dance may have welcomed him first
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