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College Football Players Push to Unionize for Medical Benefits
Are college athletes students or employees?
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Humans Are Naturally Inclined to Believe We’re Immortal
Even children who live in a culture with no beliefs about existence before birth have a concept of “pre-life”
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Climate Change Is Already Causing Mass Human Migration
When temperatures are high, Pakistani men are 11 times more likely to move out of town
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A Surprising Number of College Students Struggle to Find Enough Food
Food insecurity, a problem normally associated with poverty, also plagues college campuses
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The Sun Is Spraying Water Into Space
When the solar wind hits oxygen-rich rocks, water can form
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Try to Smuggle an Illegal Elephant Tusk Out of Kenya, Pay a $230,000 Fine
For the first time, Kenya exercised its new, stricter punishments for wildlife trafficking crimes
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That Time Cats Attacked a NYC Butcher Shop
Cats are clearly untrustworthy creatures. Everybody knows that. But lest you forget, here’s a historical horror story.
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English Speakers Are Bad at Identifying and Describing Smells
But is this a problem with our noses, or with English?
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The Time the U.S. Nearly Nuked North Korea Over a Highjacked Spy Ship
The Pueblo incident ended peacefully, but newly unclassified documents detail President Johnson’s contingency plans
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The Elusive Snow Leopard, Caught in a Camera Trap
Researchers managed to capture images of notoriously elusive snow leopards in Pakistan
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Amsterdam Is Feasting on Pigeon Paté
Street birds, not farm-raised squab, are rumored to be the meat of this tasty spread
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Spend the Morning With Pete Seeger’s Voice
“A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think,” Seeger once said
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Just Call This Hunter-Gatherer Ol’ Blue-Eyes
DNA from an ancient human tooth found in a cave in Spain reveals one European hunter-gatherer’s complexion
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China’s Lunar Rover Just Melodramatically Announced Its Impending Demise
A mechanical failure could mean the end of China’s Jade Rabbit
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The Grand Canyon Is Young And Old, All at the Same Time
Geologically, the Grand Canyon is a baby, but you might say it has an old soul
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Look Closely at This Picture of John Glenn
The reflected faces of NASA staff appear in John Glenn’s spacesuit
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Stephen Hawking Thinks Black Holes Don’t Exist
And he’s been trying to tell the rest of us for a decade
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How Medieval People Decided Whether Sex Was Acceptable or Not
Spoiler alert: your sex is definitely Medievally sinful
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Dogs Can Get Sexually Transmitted Cancer, And They’ve Been Spreading It for Millenia
This contagious cancer has spread from a single dog that lived 11,000 years ago
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A New Device Can Use The Motion of a Beating Heart to Produce Electricity
Piezoelectric generators turn motion into electricity
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