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Grab Your Fork and Travel Back in Time With These Old USDA Dietary Guidelines
Wheels, pyramids and plates—dietary recommendations have come a long way in the last century
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Scientists Trained Monitor Lizards Not to Chow Down on Poisonous Toads
And they did it by feeding them smaller and less-poisonous toads
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Copenhagen Has a Cemetery for Homeless People
But proper burials for indigent individuals remain few and far between
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Through This New Crowdfunding Site, a Lucky Few Can Make a Living Just by … Living
Participants make around $1,100 a month—just for being alive
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This Pen Can Draw Electrical Circuits
A silver salt based ink lets users draw any circuit they can dream
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Here’s Why NASA Had to Postpone a 2016 Mission to Mars
A leak in a key instrument on board the InSight lander means the team will have to wait for the next launch window in 2018
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Oysters Could Save Staten Island From the Next Hurricane Sandy
A living breakwater could prevent future flooding while cleaning polluted waters
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This Hearing Test Can Be Taken Over the Phone
Though it doesn’t replace a visit to a doctor, researchers hope it will persuade more people to seek help
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Sensors Designed for Prosthetic Hands Could Lead to New Textile Standards
Haptic sensors might help figure out if thread count really matters
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Utah Will Soon Have an Imaginary Theme Park
In 2016, virtual reality fanatics will step into a VR “VOID”
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Rainbow Collars Could Help Keep Cats From Wiping Out Birds
This colorful trick may stop Fluffy from murdering local songbirds
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Four Things to Know About the Paris Climate Deal
The strengths and limitations of the roadmap for fighting climate change
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These Old-School Internet Browsers Are Like Real-Life Time Machines
A new tool lets you experience the glory—and embarrassment—of the internet of yore
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How Much Space Do Astronauts Need?
The answer could help design spacecraft for one day taking people on the months-long trip to Mars
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The Many Roads That Lead to Rome, Visualized
Caveat: not all cities named Rome are in Italy
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Jakarta Is Building a Gigantic Bird-Shaped Seawall
But will the Great Garuda project be enough to save a sinking city?
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New Robots Could Learn Like Children
A research team is teaching artificial minds to imitate and innovate like kids do during play
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Explore Laos’ Plain of Jars with Drone Footage
Many parts of the 2,000-year-old-site are off-limits because of Vetnam-era cluster bombs
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