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To Boost Your Chances of Kickstarter Success, Use These Key Phrases
Some phrases shows up time and again in successful Kickstarters, while others are associated with failure
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We’ve Got 1.5 Billion Years Left With a Habitable Earth
And then we need to get off this rock
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Here’s the Paper That Popularized Net Neutrality
Net neutrality might be done for. Here’s a look at where it came from
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No One Trusts Geoengineering—But Pretty Soon It’s Not Going To Be a Choice
We’re very quickly running out of time to deal with rising carbon emissions
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Icelanders Protest a Road That Would Disturb Fairies
Nepal has the Yeti. The South has Bigfoot. Iceland has fairies
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How Scientists Recorded the Music Inside One Woman’s Head
A patient was hallucinating musical scores, and researchers have managed to record it
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Don’t Give Your Kids and Pets Similar Sounding Names, Or You’ll Confuse Them
Your parents don’t actually think you and your sibling are interchangeable
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What Prompts People to Eat Human Flesh?
Power, violence, revenge—and the heat of the moment
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Grasshopper Gut Parasites Could Stop Ruinous Locust Swarms
The microbes confuse the chemical signals that tell pestilent locusts: swarm!
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We Burn Just Half the Calories Other Mammals Do
Our slow metabolism helps explain why it takes us so long to grow up—and why we live such long lives
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Ancient Walking Fish May Have Walked on All Fours
A fossilized pelvis shows the fish had functioning rear “legs”
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Archaeologists Chart the First Great Wall of China
Hundreds of years before the Great Wall, the Qi Dynasty built a wall of rammed earth
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China And Qatar Want Flight Attendants To Be Young, Single, Skinny And Female
Just like American airlines did in the 1960s
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One More Point for Coffee: It Might Boost Memory-Making Abilities
Research indicates that two cups of caffeine-laced coffee might enhance your ability to remember certain details
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Francis Drake May Have Discovered Western Canada Hundreds of Years Earlier, Kept Quiet About It
The discovery of a 16th century coin is threatening the story of British Columbia’s history
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Spike TV points out that this is the “LARGEST CASH PRIZE IN TELEVISION HISTORY” [sic]
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A Permit to Hunt a Critically Endangered Black Rhino Just Sold for $350,000
Proceeds will supposedly go toward conservation of the species
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Trains Running Three Minutes Behind Anger Swiss People
The Swiss media is very displeased by the late-ness
Kids Start Forgetting Early Childhood Around Age 7
Memories of that awesome zoo trip? Those first few birthday cakes? All gone
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