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Fish Sauce, Ketchup and the Rewilding of Our Food
Fermented fish sauce has been a culinary staple since at least the 7th century B.C. What makes this seemingly disgusting condiment so popular?
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The Hidden History of a Rock ’n’ Roll Hitmaker
Bassist Carol Kaye blazed her own trail, as the only female studio musician to record some of the greatest songs of the ’60s and ’70s
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Design Specs for a Genetically Ideal Snack
How plant geneticists are growing convenience food on trees
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Will High Gas Prices Jolt Electric Cars?
This is the year we should find out if plug-in cars are for real. And it doesn’t hurt when gas goes over $4 a gallon
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This week, learn about slavery at Monticello, meet artist Ginny Ruffner, and join experts for a day of discussion on sustainability
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Dinosaur Robots Return with a Vengeance
A new concept album by MJ Hibbett & The Validators envisions an invasion of alien cyborg dinosaurs
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Arabic Manuscripts: It Used To Snow in Iraq
Baghdad was the bustling capital of the vast Islamic Empire a thousand years ago, when the city’s climate was much different than today
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Scientists Discover a Waterworld Just 40 Light Years Away
An entirely new type of planet is made up mostly of water
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Colonel Parker Managed Elvis’ Career, but Was He a Killer on the Lam?
The man who brought The King to global fame kept his own past secret. But what exactly was Tom Parker hiding?
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Peeling Open the 1947 Chiquita Banana Cookbook
What do ham banana rolls with cheese sauce and salmon salad tropical have to say about politics?
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Local Artists Blend Brand and Art at the Anacostia Community Museum
“Artuare” and “Conversations in the Contemporary” blur the definitions of commercial and fine art
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“A Precise, Beautiful Machine”: John Logan on Writing the Screenplay for Hugo
The Oscar-nominated writer tells how he adapted Brian Selznick’s bestseller for the screen
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Our nervous system can hold on to pain memories for a long time. But scientists may have found a way to make pain go away for good
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Fish “Scary Stuff” Alarm Call Deciphered
A newly identified brain circuit could be responsible for driving innate fear responses in many species
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How to Make Sense of Dinosaur Variation
Paleontologist Jordan Mallon describes how he figured out how many Anchiceratops species actually existed
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How a tiny, seedless fruit becomes the iPhone of the produce aisle
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1970s Children Draw Robot Presidents and Nuclear Apocalypse
Kids predict the darndest things
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Halfway to the Bottom of the Earth: The Catlins
To see this place on a globe, home of the world’s southernmost tapas reastaurant, one must lift it upward to expose the underbelly of the planet
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Meet the mysterious small predators that set the stage for the later rise of more imposing tyrants
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Oldest American Rock Art Found in Brazil
The petroglyph, with a head, hands and “oversized phallus” is around 10,000 years old
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