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20 Years Ago Today, the Northridge Earthquake Rocked L.A.
Sixty people died and thousands were left homeless in one of the most deadly earthquakes in American history
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It’s So Hot They Had to Suspend the Australian Open Because Players Were Passing Out
Australia is getting hotter, creating dangerous conditions for everyone
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A New Way to Find Out If Your Chocolate Is Legit
You no longer have to be expert chocolate-taster to tell whether your cacao beans are as fancy as advertised
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Not All the Knights of the Round Table Were White
The storytellers assumed we’d be sharp enough to pick up on their hints that Sir Morien was black. Turns out, we’re not
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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
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Ancient Walking Fish May Have Walked on All Fours
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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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