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Cool Finds

Some World Cup Teams Ban Sex Before Games, Even Though Science Says It May Help Performance on the Field

Other teams, however, are all in favor of pre-game sex

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Archaeologists Find Jobs in Oil Boomtown

The oil boom in North Dakota has lead to a lot of job openings, including jobs for archaeologists

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Watch The Top of A Mountain Be Blown Up Live

The future site of the European Extremely Large Telescope will be leveled this morning

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This Guy Shredded One Million (Worthless) Dollars for Art

A new artwork made of one million shredded dollars has people pondering the value of money

An artist's rendering of what HitchBOT's journey might look like

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This July, a Robot Will Hitchhike Across Canada

HitchBOT will attempt to travel from Halifax to British Columbia, relying on the kindness of strangers

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This Electric Bus Can Charge in 15 Seconds

A new method for charging buses is an attractive alternative to having unsightly wires strung across the street

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Introverts In Demand for Mars Missions

People who need lots of social stimulation might not be the best fit for long-term missions

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There Are Only So Many Ways Animals Can Poison You (Not That That’s Reassuring)

They say that knowledge is power, but we’re certainly not feeling any safer

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Tweaking the Banana’s Genome Could Save the Lives of Thousands of Children in Uganda

But not everyone agrees that GMO crops should be used to solve food and nutrition problems

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“WildLeaks” Is Like WikiLeaks for Poaching—And It’s Working to Stop Wildlife Crime

The site has received more than twenty tips so far, including about elephant and tiger poachings

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Giant Moths Have Descended on Malaysia, And No One Knows Why

Giant moths are making a mass appearance in Southeast Asia

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How to Actually Remember What You Read: Print a Newspaper of Internet Articles

Now instead of just saving online articles to read later, you can create your own newspaper

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This Ten Year Old Has Already Graduated From High School in California

Words like “prodigy” and “genius” are often used to describe pre-teen Tanishq Abraham

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New Road To Machu Picchu Discovered

The nearly-mile-long road was built over 500 years ago by the Inca, and appears to be intact

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Goats Evicted In Detroit

An attempt at urban farming runs afoul of city ordinances in Detroit

Urban Explorations

Pittsburgh Is Struggling to Maintain Its 45,454 Public Steps

The city budget isn’t enough to keep up with costly and logistically difficult repairs, so some stairways might come down

A modern Arctic fox

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Polar Carnivores Might Have Originated in Tibet

A new fox fossil lends weight to the idea that many carnivores now found in the Arctic originated in what is now Tibet

The Borei class nuclear-powered submarine Yuri Dolgoruky arrives at the Russian Northern Fleet's naval base after tests. September 9, 2013.

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As the Ice Melts, Spying in the Arctic is Hitting Cold War Levels

The prospect of resources and shipping lanes has sparked tensions in the Arctic

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See Samuel Beckett’s Doodles of James Joyce And Charlie Chaplin

The six-notebook handwritten manuscript has been in private hands since the 1960s

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Thousands of Lovers’ Locks Collapsed Part of an Overloaded Bridge in Paris

The trend affects bridges throughout Europe and in some places in the U.S., too

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