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Why more writers should be as fearless, and as prickly as Vidal
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Visionary postcard artists illustrated around 90 fanciful cards between 1899 to 1910 imagined what the future held in store for France in the year 2000
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In 1919, Popular Science magazine imagined how Earthlings might communicate with Mars
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Soldiers arriving home with missing or mutilated genitals have drown attention to the lack of government support for in vitro fertilization
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Nasal hallucinations are a real thing, and they stink
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Sherlock Holmes’s extraordinary deductions would be impossible without the optical technologies of the 19th century
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A new study indicates that the mere act of smiling can help us deal with stressful situations more easily
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How the Nova, the latest in artificial climbing wall design, goes from in-home gym to living room gallery
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The Galapagos recently finished exterminating 80,000 invasive goats from the island
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Virginia Mecklenburg offers a Wednesday lecture on the artists from "Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era and Beyond"
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Power grids supplying both the northern and eastern parts of India went down, throwing 620 million people, or 8.9% of the world population into darkness
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New research reveals that the flu virus has mutated into a novel strain of influenza, which transfers not just from bird to seal, but from seal to seal
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Voted female athlete of the 20th century, the runner won four gold medals while pregnant with her third child
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No one, not even the experts, really knows what's about to happen
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Molecular biology professor David Goodsell is just as skilled with a microscope as with a paint brush
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A major botched call by referees during the World Cup has opened the door for computerized replacements
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Records at the National Archives in London show how organizers cobbled together the 1948 "Austerity" Games
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In 1954, a special issue of Collier's magazine envisioned a ten-ship flotilla to the red planet.
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Even though scientific interest in dinosaurs is relatively new, our species have been puzzling about the prehistoric creatures for centuries
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