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Jack Kevorkian stands in front of one of his paintings.

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Listen to Dr. Kevorkian’s Jazz-Funk Album

The man called “Dr. Death” created a complex and surprising body of artistic work

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In Mexico, a Gritty Neighborhood Has Become a 65,000-Square-Foot Mural

A hillside in Pachuca gets a psychedelic makeover

Hawaii, three foot long egg mass, the product of a species of open ocean squid.

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This Huge, Gooey Blob Could Be a Clutch of Squid Eggs

The blob was the size of a car…and completely baffling to a group of divers

A mother rhino breastfeeding her baby

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Why Mammals Have a Monopoly On Milk

It all started with an egg

A swarm of mayflies in Ontario

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Officials Had to Use A Snowplow to Reclaim a Bridge in Iowa Swarmed by Mayflies

An unusually large emergence of aquatic insects created temporarily hazardous conditions

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This Fungus Eats the Butts off Cicadas

It’s totally not a big deal, though

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This Video of Lightning in Slow Motion is Strangely Entrancing

Hypnotize yourself with lightning at 2,000 frames per second

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These Drones Hunt Whale Snot

Snotbots will make mucus collection less stressful for whales

With carrot liqueur, one distillery takes a cue from Bugs Bunny

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Carrot Liqueur Could Be Coming to a Cocktail Near You

What’s Next?! Kale?!

The Scanadu Scout is just one of the many devices that attempt to act like a real-life tricorder

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A List of All the Times People Have Tried to Build a Working Tricorder

Star Trek-style scanning has been a bit more complicated than expected

This fasciated flower — a White Mule’s Ear, found in Island Park, Idaho — has the same disorder found in flowers near Fukushima

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Don’t Freak Out Over the Funky Flowers That Appeared Near Fukushima

The odd appearance is due to a plant disorder called fasciation

Orson Welles as Macbeth in the 1948 film with Jeannette Nolan as Lady Macbeth

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Listen to 98 hours of Shakespeare’s Poems and Plays Performed by Great Actors

The playlist includes the voices of Edith Evans, Dylan Thomas, Orson Welles and Sir Ian McKellen

Two black rhinos, a mother and her calf, explore a watering hole at Etosha National Park in Namibia.

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Researchers are Fitting Rhinos With Hidden Horn Cameras

One non-profit wants to outfit the animals with cameras and heart rate monitors to save them

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Root Beer Is For Adults Again

This is not your soda fountain’s root beer

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The International Olympic Committee Just Rescued Its Priceless Video Archive

Seven years and 100,000 hours of work later, the IOC’s archive has been digitized and preserved

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You Can Pay for This Transylvanian Music Festival in Blood

Dracula would totally approve of this payment system

In early July, Sentinel-2A captured this image of the Sahara in central Algeria.

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See the Algerian Sahara From Space

It’s pretty spectacular

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In the 1960s, One Man Took Washington D.C.’s Rat Problem Into His Own Hands, Literally

And challenged the city’s race and wealth divide in the process

Screen shot from "The Whale Warehouse - AudioVision Ep. 1" via Vimeo

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In L.A. There’s a Warehouse Filled with Whale Bones

A video offers a tour of the Whale Warehouse, which holds a large part of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County’s marine mammal collection

1924 Doble steam car at the Henry Ford Museum

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Here’s What Steam-Powered Cars Were Like Before the Combustion Engine

The Doble brothers’ built a beautiful steam car in 1924 but mismanagement kept it from being a financial sucess

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