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Would You Pass Thomas Edison’s Employment Test?

Probably not.

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When Breathtaking Rock Billboards Dominated the Sunset Strip

A new exhibition showcases the Sunset Strip’s “rock ‘n’ roll billboards”

"The Legal Justice League" celebrates the first four women to sit on the country's highest court.

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Celebrating the Women of the Supreme Court With LEGOs

What better way to hail the female trailblazers of the bench than miniaturizing them into tiny toys?

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When Even the Simplest Word Looks Weird And Wrong You Have Wordnesia

We don’t really know why it happens, but at least there is a term for it

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Our Brains Hate Waiting So We Sped Up Everything Else

Sidewalk rage, road rage and anger at slow-loading web pages are all part of our evolutionary inheritance

The zodiacal light.

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Catch a Glimpse of the Zodiacal Light Show This Month

For some in the northern hemisphere, a celestial treat sometimes referred to as “false dusk” is lighting up the night

Celebrities: Popular then forgotten. Recognize her? No?Don't worry, this is just a stock photo.

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How Long Do Cultural References Last?

Not forever

Screen grab from DIY TV’s "Professional Fort Builder: Jay Nelson"

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This Treehouse Has It All

Salvaged fence boards, given new life, help Jay Nelson create dwellings that blend with nature

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This Is Next-Level Origami

From dancing cranes to protective structures, origami is popping up in science and tech

Gustavia, St. Barths

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St. Barts Is Like the Galapagos for Linguistic Diversity

Beyond the glitz of tourism, St. Barts natives speak in unique varieties of French

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Rain Took This Fruit Bat’s Happy Away, a Banana Gave it Back

An Australia-dwelling flying fox needed rescue after rains drove it to search for food

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The First Photos of Free-Falling Snowflakes Reveal Their Imperfections

Collisions in mid-air often produce ice crystal aggregates, rather than single symmetrical flakes

Paul Allen used his superyacht Octopus to locate a Japanese battleship near the Philippines.

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Microsoft Billionaire Finds Enormous Sunken Japanese Battleship

Paul Allen used his megayacht to locate the long-lost ship, which has been missing since World War II

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A Paralyzed Woman Operated a Flight Simulator Using Only Her Thoughts

Electrodes implanted in the brain are shown to enable those with quadriplegia to achieve amazing feats

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Vigilantes in Quito Have A Mission to Correct Graffiti Artists’ Spelling and Grammar

Meaning is important, the group says to explain their illicit copyediting duties

Our familiar, and only true, Moon -- the only photos of the 'second moon' are of a distant, blurry object

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Bet You Didn’t Know About the Earth’s ‘Second Moon’

Even astronomers didn’t realize it was following the Earth until 1997

A view of the dense Honduran rain forest.

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Amazing Ruins of a Long Lost City Discovered in Honduras

A scientific expedition into the depths of the Honduran rain forest discovered a lost city

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Grave Robbers Once Held Charlie Chaplin’s Body For Ransom

Months after his death, thieves stole the actor’s body in hopes of a $600,000 payout; it didn’t turn out as they had hoped

A TV tower on Burnt Island in Fife, Scotland, reaches just 410 feet -- but others of its kind top 2,000

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The Fourth Tallest Man-made Structure Isn’t a Building at All

TV towers and power station chimneys are some less well-known record-breakers in the history of super-tall structures

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Someone Found Chris Hadfield’s Flight Suit in a Thrift Store

The astronaut isn’t sure how his suit made its way to a Toronto second-hand shop

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