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5 Great Historical Myths And Traditions About Hot Cross Buns, a Pre-Easter Pastry
From solidifying friendships to driving evil spirits away, legends abound about these sweet dough balls
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A Militant Group Is Fighting to Keep Nigerian Students From Education
Islamic extremists from the group Boko Haram have kidnapped 200 girls from a boarding school
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Marijuana Grow Ops Are Drying Out California’s Water Supply
Illegal marijuana grow ops use thousands of gallons of water a day
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Dogs That Should Be Guarding Sheep Are Mating With Wolves Instead
Intimate encounters between dogs and wolves are relatively common in Georgia’s Caucasus Mountains
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Pretty Soon, Video Games Will Be Able to Read Your Emotions
Video games are becoming increasingly adept at reading our emotions
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New York Once Had an Entire District for Typography
Downtown New York used to have an entire neighborhood of type foundries, before they all disappeared
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We Might Hit Our Cognitive Peak Before 24
As we age beyond about 24, we become mentally slower and slower
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Which of These Two Alaskan Glaciers Is Better to Visit?
As one glacier melts, locals are pushing for tourists to visit rival pile of ice
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A Fully Vaccinated Woman Contracted And Then Spread the Measles
This is the first time health officials have encountered a Typhoid Mary-like situation for measles
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Mid-Day Naps Can Be a Sign of Bad Health
People who frequently take naps tend to die younger than those who don’t, according to a new study
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Online Food Reviews Say As Much About the Author As the Restaurant
These brief write-ups are surprisingly personal
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Flower Tourism Blooms in China
The Netherlands has tulips, Japan has cherry blossoms, and now China wants in on the action too
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This Architect Spends His Free Time Reinventing the World’s Subway Maps
The new system is meant to be easy to read and understand, no matter how foreign the place
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Mathematicians Want to Fix Your Jet Lag—Fast
They’ve created a system that will tell you exactly how much light to get in order to fix your circadian rhythms
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This Adorable Robot Is Like a Roomba That Prints Documents
Rather than feed the paper through the printer, why not just put the printer on wheels?
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Future Buildings Could Use Lasers to Fight Off Lightning
Shooting a laser beam in the path of lightning could help divert it from the building
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You Can Read All 17,198 of Susan Sontag’s Emails
She sent emails with subject lines like “Whassup?”
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In the Western Hemisphere? Get Set for Tonight’s Total Lunar Eclipse
Tonight’s eclipse is the first of a rare spurt of lunar eclipses for the western hemisphere
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