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Cool Finds

Cool Finds

NASA Unveils Giant Ice Cube With Wheels for Exploring Alien Oceans

An underwater rover might one day explore otherworldly seas

A statue of goddess Durga in Kolkata — India was the location of the first recorded nose job

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The Nose Job Dates Back to the 6th Century B.C.

But for a long time, the nose was built up instead of shaved down

An illustration of Titanosaurs nesting — the large group the museum-bound specimen belongs to

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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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Supreme Court Justices Have a Thing for Shakespeare

The brief’s the thing

Mexican free-tailed bats leaving Bracken Cave in Texas

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Saving Bats Could Reduce Pesticide Use

People already install bat houses to attract the insect-eating mammals, but one researcher is working to quantify exactly how much they may help

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People Can Now Have Their Tattoos Framed After They Die

A new service turns skin art into a gift that keeps on giving

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Netflix Has Figured Out The Exact Moment Viewers Get Addicted to a Show

It doesn’t take many episodes

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How Doughnut-Loving Cops Became a Stereotype

A sugar-sweet symbol for beat cops around the country

Stonehenge after the 2008 restoration

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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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A Letter About Darwin’s Belief in God Just Sold for Nearly $200,000

Just 41 words long, it provides a missing link for historians who have long wondered what the naturalist thought about religion

Brooke Shields filming a shampoo commercial

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How to Pose Like a 1980s Model

A collection of clips from real videos proves to be silly — and not just due to the fashion of the 1980s

Samuel L. Clemens in 1909

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Mark Twain Was not a fan of the Mona Lisa

“The complexion was bad; in fact it was not even human,” he wrote of Da Vinci’s mysterious smiling lady

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This Tower Scrubs the Air of Smog

The project is intended to draw attention to the problem of air pollution

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The Ig Nobel Prize Turns 25

Celebrating a quarter-century of the goofiest work in science

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How to Build a Seven-Mile-Wide Scale Model of the Solar System

It takes three-and-a-half miles to get from the Sun to Pluto

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Preserving Old Computer Games Is Harder Than it Seems

There’s an art and a science to resurrecting now-defunct PC games

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Why Are Urban Planners Collecting City Soundscapes?

This is a journey into sound

Screenshot from "How to Make a Sandwich - Chapter 11 Assembly"

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Making a Sandwich From Scratch Took This Man Six Months

The chicken sandwich also racked up a total cost of $1,500

Screenshot from "Camera Restricta"

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This Camera Refuses to Take Clichéd Photos

An art project demands a unique perspective of its user

An ancient Hittite carving

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Archaeologists Recreate 4,000-Year-Old Hittite Feast to Better Understand Their History

The chef crushed buckwheat on stones and used no kitchenware other than a knife

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