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Check out today's events at the Folklife Festival, including Roma fiddlers, Quecha music and headwrapping
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Unlike any other small mammal, bats stretch their tendons to store and release energy, helping the creatures launch into the air
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Something as simple as catching a falling ruler triggers a complex process behind the scenes
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The beaches of Qingdao, China, are covered in algae, but marine life may be faring worse than the swimmers
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The Diagon Alley set from Harry Potter has been added to Google Street View
It has to be pushed to start and caught when he stops to not fall over but this strange fish-shaped bike might be able to beat the speed record
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Though Engelbart revolutionized computing in 1967 with the invention of the mouse, he never received any royalties from his creation
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People who are deliberately thinking about death, on the other hand, produce the least funny cartoon captions
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This weekend, listen to sounds of the U.S. Air Force Band, participate in a day of dance and get a glimpse of a local artist's perspective on art
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Both John Paul II and John XXIII will be made saints at the end of the year, suggesting a shift from traditions
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Go locate the hidden bottles and replace each with a selection of your own
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Check out today's events at the Folklife Festival, including shepherd culture, Tuvan music and histories of style
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Check out today's events at the Folklife Festival, including Damali Afrikan couture, Jewish music in Hungary and hair styling
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Reading, writing and other mental exercises, if habitual from an early age, can slow down the age-related decline in mental capacity
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Artist Nickolay Lamm created a 3D doll-sized model of a healthy, average 19-year-old American woman, then made her up like Barbie
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The advent of open fire cooking began with Homo erectus
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Say hello to Pluto's newest moons, Styx and Kerberos
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By mixing different types of stem cells in petri dishes, researchers created liver "buds" that effectively filtered blood when implanted in mice
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Buttercup's adorable plight, which concluded on Sunday when engineers successfully outfitted the duck with a 3D printed duck foot
Vanity prosthetic legs aren't new - but this is probably the first one built out of LEGOS
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