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Chicago’s Newest Library Is on a Train
Bored during your morning commute? #BooksOnTheL can help.
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A Car-Free Day in Paris Cut Pollution by 40 Percent
But will the city say non to smog for good?
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It Will Take Nine Years to Clean the Taj Majal
“Mudpack therapy” will help the iconic monument clean up its act
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Spain Has Turned a Ghost Town Into an Off-Grid Eco-Village
A photographer documents the remote, self-sufficient lifestyle
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The Biggest Dinosaur to Walk the Earth Will Soon Be in a Museum
The as-yet-unnamed sauropod was about 130 feet long and will barely fit in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City
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A Man Once Bought Stonehenge for his Wife, and She Was not Pleased
Or at least, so the story goes of a British barrister’s decision to purchase the neolithic site for the equivalent of about $1 million
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Colorado Once Lost Pikes Peak to Texas in a Bet
A friendly wager raised the stakes to a whole new elevation.
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A One-of-a-Kind Museum Was Just Lost in California’s Wildfires
The JKL Museum of Telephony featured hundreds of old-fashioned phones
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Visit the Giant Galápagos Tortoises Using Google Street View
The 15-sided camera of the Street View Trekker followed migration routes for the giant reptiles
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Japan Is in the Midst of Catastrophic Flooding
The floods are the worst seen in over 60 years
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Why Elon Musk’s Idea to Nuke Mars Won’t Happen
Terraforming the planet with thermonuclear weapons: Best idea ever or disaster waiting to happen?
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These Women Reduced Poaching on one South African Reserve by 76 Percent
The “Black Mambas” just received a prestigious award for their work on behalf of rhinos, lions and cheetahs
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Liverpool, England Has a Mysterious Network of Tunnels
Historians know who built them, but they don’t know why
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There Are About 600,000 Dahlias on These Van Gogh Themed Floats
The colorful floats can be covered in up to one million dahlias apiece.
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Quebec Might Become The New Napa Thanks To Climate Change
In a few years, Qubecois pinot noir might be among the best in the world
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To Find New Rice Species, Scientists Head to Remote Tropical Swamps
A remote peninsula in northern Australia beckons a rice research expedition
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Tour This Japanese City from the Viewpoint of a Cat
New “cat street view” shows Hiroshima Prefecture’s Onomichi through the eyes of its fluffiest residents
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The World’s Rarest Silk Is Made of Clam Spit
Only one person in the world is thought to be able to dive for, spin and create rare “sea silk”
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