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Grad Students Carry 40 Percent of All Student Debt
But they make up just 14 percent of enrollment at U.S. universities
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Can’t Clap to the Beat? You Might be Beat-Deaf
For some people, tapping their foot to the beat is a challenge at a fundamental level
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Researchers Are Examining a 9,000-Year-Old Bison Mummy
The well-mummified specimen of a steppe bison, a now-extinct species that lived in the Ice Age, has intact organs
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A Lost John Steinbeck Short Story Was Rediscovered, Published
The short story deals with the racial politics of the mid-20th century
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19th Century Concern Trolling: Chess Is “a Mere Amusement of a Very Inferior Character”
The writers of Scientific American had some not nice things to say about chess
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A Soldier’s Room Has Remained Virtually Untouched Since WWI
The home’s current owner, however, says he feels little connection to the dead soldier
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What If There Are Parallel Universes Jostling Ours?
It could explain a lot of weird, quantum physics
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Large Dinosaurs Had a Nesting Strategy to Avoid Breaking Eggs
Oviaptorosaurs likely kept their eggs in open nests—more like bird than crocodiles—but needed to arrange their eggs carefully
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The World of Personal Computers in the 1980s Was A Wacky, Wonderful Place
You can experience early video games and operating systems yourself through retrocomputing and ads
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George Washington Didn’t Have Wooden Teeth—They Were Ivory
Washington’s teeth were made of a lot of things, but not wood
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Scientists Figured Out How to Make People “Feel” an Otherworldly Presence
Feeling like a ghost or an angel is near is likely caused by a blip in how our brain processes self awareness and our sense of place in space
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Arctic Squirrels Use Steroids to Bulk Up But Don’t Suffer the Consequences
Fat alone couldn’t get these squirrels through hibernation in burrows that get almost as chilly as -10 degrees Fahrenheit
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The Navy SEAL Who Says He Shot Bin Laden Goes Public
Robert O’Neill says he is the SEAL who killed bin Laden
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The Foolproof Way to Fix a Wobbly Table
Solving life’s challenges one at a time—with math!
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The International Space Station Just Avoided a Collision With Space Junk
A four-minute maneuver by a docked, unmanned European spacecraft pushed the ISS out of the path of a hand-sized chuck of space debris
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Atari Games That No One Wanted Now Selling for $500 a Pop
No one wanted Atari’s E.T. in 1982, but they want it now
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Smaug the Dragon And Other Unexpected Airport Surprises
There’s more to the world’s airports than newsstands and food courts
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Virgin Galactic’s Aggressive Plan to Get Back in the Air
The company hopes to resume flying with a new ship by summer 2015
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Nearly 400 Journalists Have Been Murdered Over the Past Ten Years
Only ten percent of their killers are ever reprimanded
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A Lone Gray Wolf May Have Wandered Into the Grand Canyon
Officials haven’t confirmed whether the canine is a full-blooded gray wolf, but wolf advocates are pretty convinced
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