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Is There More to Obesity Than Too Much Food?
Recent research suggests that chemicals used to protect, process and package food could be helping to create fat cells
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Will Matt Rutherford be First to Circumnavigate the Americas Solo?
“Basically, I either fail and everyone thinks I’m crazy, or I succeed and I’m a hero,” says the sailor, who is on the homestretch of a one-year journey
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How Well Do We Really Remember A Crime Scene?
A new study shows that our ability to recall details is severely impaired after physical exertion
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Brachiosaurus was once thought to be the ultimate prehistoric titan, but we know surprisingly little about this Jurassic dinosaur
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Wildflower Hunting in the California Desert
March is the traditional time to view the fab flora in Joshua Tree National Park
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A primer on where the documentary got its start and how the film genre gets its funding
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What Shredded Wheat Did for the Navy
The inventor of one of the first ready-to-eat breakfast cereals was also an accidental historian
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Amy Henderson: “Downton Abbey” and the Dollar Princesses
A curator tells of 19th-century American socialites, who like Cora Crowley, found noble husbands and flushed Britain with cash
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Mysterious Exploding Foam is Bursting Barns
One explosion raised a barn roof several feet in the air and blew the hog farmer 30 or 40 feet from the door
Game On At the American Art Museum This Weekend
“The Art of Video Games” opens at the American Art Museum with a weekend packed with gaming, panels, and performances
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Dinosaur Sighting: Triceratops Topiary
The reader is correct that Trixie is technically a “real, live dinosaur”
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Telemedicine Predicted in 1925
With video screens and remote control arms, any doctor could make a virtual housecall
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And for Dessert: An Object Lesson on Simple Pleasure
How a disappointing dessert becomes an object lesson on simplicity and pleasure
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Clarence Dally — The Man Who Gave Thomas Edison X-Ray Vision
“Don’t talk to me about X-rays,” Edison said after an assistant on one of his X-ray projects started showing signs of illness. “I am afraid of them.”
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Clovis People Hunted Canada’s Camels
North American camels went extinct at the end of the last ice age. Were humans partly to blame?
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Video games may be the art medium of the 21st century, but they’re also an advertising medium. Here are five notable games that promoted foods
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Arthur Conan Doyle’s Ethereal Dinosaurs
Prior to the 1925 debut of The Lost World, the novelist pulled a stunt to make people think dinosaurs might still be alive in a distant jungle
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When filming for a 1924 silent Western was finished, the crew members abandoned several of their extras
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