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Beautiful art on the menu for Thanksgiving Day, 1916, at the Greyhound Inn.

When Thanksgiving Meant a Fancy Meal Out on the Town

From the Gilded Age to the Great Depression, the menu had a lot more than turkey and stuffing

Here’s What the U.S. Is Trying to Do With the Iran Nuclear Deal

The Iran nuclear deal won’t stop the country’s ability to make a nuclear weapon, but it will give us more warning time

Art Meets Science

Should We Use Body Painting to Teach Anatomy?

Artist Danny Quirk’s paintings on the skin of willing friends show in textbook-like detail the muscle, bone and tissue that lie underneath

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Get Up to Speed on the Latest Climate Science in Nine Minutes

This new IPCC video boils down the physical science behind climate change in language anyone can understand

Why Is Squash Called Squash?

It’s an adapted version of a Narragansett Native American word that translates to “eaten raw or uncooked”

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Spectacular Photos from Air & Space Magazine’s 1st Annual Photo Contest

Vote now for your favorite!

“One Coin for all your cards.”

Soon, You Might Pay for Everything With a Coin

Coin, a new product that allows users to store up to eight cards in one place, could be in use as early as this coming summer

Can’t Make a Conference? Send a Robot Instead

Now, even if you can’t swing the trip to the First Annual Catholic Conference on Geocentrism, you can send a robot instead

Get Ready for America’s First Mass Market Hydrogen-Powered Car

Hyundai aims to have a hydrogen fuel cell-powered SUV on the road by 2014

Online Courses Aren’t Actually Democratizing Education

Eighty percent of those who enrolled in online learning classes already have bachelor’s degrees. Forty four percent have some graduate education

Move and This Interface Will Adjust Its 3D Form Accordingly

MIT students have developed a motion-based interface that allow users from afar to build formations in real time

Shale gas in America

Most Americans Don’t Know What Fracking Is

You know what fracking is, right? If not, we’re here to help

A bed bug killed by Beauveria bassiana

This Fungus Is the Ultimate Bedbug Killer

This insect-killing fungus could be the bane of bed bugs

Compared to a control brain (top), neuroscientist James Fallon’s brain (bottom) shows significantly decreased activity in areas of the frontal lobe linked to empathy and morality—anatomical patterns that have been linked with psychopathic behavior.

The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath

While studying brain scans to search for patterns that correlated with psychopathic behavior, James Fallon found that his own brain fit the profile

Even If It Hurts More, People Rather Just Get A Painful Experience Over With

People can sometimes seem eager to get physically painful experiences out of the way, likely in avoidance of having to dread that impending pain

How Stores Fool Us By Listing the “Original Price” During Sales

From half off deals, to the music they play in the store, marketers are getting ready to release their arsenal of tricks on you

Archeologists Discovered a Stash of 3,700-Year-Old Psychotropic Wine

Archeologists working one the site say it is the largest and oldest wine cellar ever discovered in the Near East

Good Benefits Don’t Make Unemployed People Happy About Being Unemployed

People really don’t like being unemployed, and having good unemployment assistance doesn’t change that

The Mauna Loa Observatory where Keeling’s observations are made.

Budget Cuts Could Shut Down the Carbon Dioxide Monitors That First Warned of Global Warming

The monitoring program that gave us Keeling’s Curve is facing the axe as budgets are cut

Fishing net at Alaska’s Gore Point

Art Meets Science

Artists Join Scientists on an Expedition to Collect Marine Debris

Now, they are creating beautiful works from the trash they gathered on the 450-nautical-mile journey in the Gulf of Alaska

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