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The Real Scottish Landscapes That Inspired Pixar’s “Brave”
Disney/Pixar’s “Brave” is based on real places in Scotland. Now, “Brave”-centric vacations lets families experience the adventure first hand
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Experiments Show We Really Can Learn While We Sleep
Our minds are surprisingly active during deep sleep, capable of cementing memories we learned while awake
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Upside down skyscrapers. Vacuum tubes whisking away trash. Welcome to the future of cities as they begin exploring the next urban frontier
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Surgery, Security and Sales: The Future of Closed-Circuit Television
Just as people were experimenting with the uses of broadcast TV in the 1930s, so too were they envisioning ways to utilize closed-circuit TV in the 1950s
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Events June 26-28: Duke Kahanamoku, Bring Back the Funk, and the Folklife Festival
This week, learn about past Olympians, get funky with George Clinton and other music legends, and kick off this summer’s Folklife Festival
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When Did the Human Mind Evolve to What It is Today?
Archaeologists are finding signs of surprisingly sophisticated behavior in the ancient fossil record
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The Men Behind the First Olympic Team
Mocked by their peers and kicked out of Harvard, the pioneering athletes were ahead of their time… and their competition in Athens
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Edmontosaurus has often been called the “cow of the Cretaceous”, but did this dinosaur chew like a mammal?
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Now kept at the American Geographical Society in New York, the globe is precious not for its age or beauty, but for the explorers who signed it
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Besides how to be a good neighbor, Mr. Rogers taught us other lessons, especially about the impact of a comforting change of clothes
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