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Norwegian Nobel Winners Release Their Inner Avant-Garde Musicians

Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine repurposed a Norse folk tune for a science lecture

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Someone Walked Off With a Picasso From a Miami Beach Art Festival

An $85,000 silver plate went missing late last week

An illustration of the marriage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on February 10, 1840.

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Queen Victoria Dreamed Up the White Wedding Dress in 1840

For most people, wearing a white wedding dress wasn't really a thing until the 1950s

A steel engraving of Walt Whitman in his 30s from the first edition of Leaves of Grass, published in 1855.

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Found in "Penny Papers" from the 1800s, A Lost Walt Whitman Poem

A professor at the University of Nebraska stumbled upon an ode to Whitman’s contemporary William Cullen Bryant

frame from Winnie-the-Pooh part 1 (1969)

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Russia Has Its Own Classic Version of an Animated Winnie-the-Pooh

Three short films produced from 1969 through 1972 follow the adventures of A.A. Milne's characters

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Computers Write Novels Faster Than You Do

Silicon chips don't suffer writer's block

Two turkeys spent last night in the Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Washington, DC.

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Pardoned Turkeys Spend a Night in a Hotel First

After an evening in a $350 hotel room, today President Obama will spare the birds from the butcher's block

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Heroin Use Is on the Rise Again, Thanks to Suburban White Users

OxyContin is heroin's new gateway drug, experts say

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Millennials Are Different, Just Not the Way You Think

Young adults today are more optimistic despite facing more economic strain than the previous two generations

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More Than 35 Million People Around the World Are Slaves

People are slaves in every one of the 167 countries investigated in a new report, including the United States

We're Running Out of Chocolate

We're eating so much chocolate that plants can't keep up

A seaweed farmer in Tanzania shows off her crop.

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Eat More Seaweed (It's Good for You)

Foraging for fresh seaweeds gives you option and the best taste according to this Brittany seaweed eater

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Get Past the Vile Smell: Ginkgo Nuts Are Delicious

People have been feasting on these tasty little morsels since at least the 11th century

Syrian Kurds flee Kobane as Islamic State forces approach.

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ISIS Is Making Its Own Currency

It's the latest step in the insurgent group's attempt to forge a new state

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This Artist Makes E. coli-Shaped Popsicles

For those who prefer plants to pathogens, there's popsicle cacti, too

A middle-schooler from North Korea who’s family defected listens to a teacher in school south of Seoul

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North Korea Subsidizes About 70 Schools in Japan

The institutions are a way for ethnic Koreans to connect to their culture but are also targets of criticism

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Living in Tough Environments Makes People More Prone to Belief in God

People living in harsh natural environments are more likely to believe in a tough, moralizing god

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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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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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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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