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A Professor Proposes Creating the Matrix for Factory-Farmed Chickens
He wants to give them the Virtual Free Range™ experience
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Google Doodle Celebrates Rubik’s Cube 40th Birthday
For its 40th Birthday, the cube goes digital
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How to Predict If Your Baby Name Idea Is Too Trendy
A statistical analysis tries to predict how names’ popularity will change over coming decades
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In the Victorian Era, Doctors Prescribed Beards to Help Keep Men Healthy
The mid-19th century beard boom was motivated, in part, by health concerns
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Staying Near Home Becomes the Norm For Millennials
With finances tight and jobs scarce, hometowns are looking very attractive
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Kids And Young Adults Don’t Read Books for Fun — They’ve Got Smartphones
Three times as many kids as in the 1980s just don’t read books
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Boko Haram Video Says What the Group Wants in Exchange for Freeing Abducted Girls
If let go, they have a good chance of being able to recover emotionally
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We’re Drinking Whiskey Faster Than Distillers Can Make More
Whiskey supplies are running low
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This 300 Year Old Book Is a Guide to Every Paint Color Imaginable
Browse through color swatches from the 17th Century
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This Radio Station Broadcasts All Over the World, But Only at Breakfast Time
Global Breakfast Radio operates in every time zone on the planet
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Society Doesn’t Quite Know What to Make of Professional Snugglers
One snuggling operation in Wisconsin recently shut down when authorities thought it was a front for a brothel
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Five Parasitic Species People Love to Eat
From tapeworms to lampreys, some people don’t mind eating the bloodsuckers
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It’s the 75th Anniversary of Batman’s Creation
What’s the source of Batman’s lasting appeal?
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It Took Three Years to Restore 23 Pieces of Art Andy Warhol Made on a Computer in the 1980s
Trapped in an obsolete computer format, these works are finally seeing the digital light of day
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Sales of Gun Silencers Have Shot Up Nearly 37 Percent Last Year
Proponents argue that they make firearms safer; others say it’s just the opposite
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Facebook Users Most Often Unfriend People They Knew From High School
And how does that make the victim of the unfriending feel? Surprised, usually
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Elvis’ First Big Vegas Show Was a Total Flop
Playing to the middle-aged crowd at the New Frontier Hotel, Elvis’ first Vegas show didn’t go over so well
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