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In modern role-playing games, like BioWare's Mass Effect series, gamers are being called upon to make emotional decisions.

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Pretty Soon, Video Games Will Be Able to Read Your Emotions

Video games are becoming increasingly adept at reading our emotions

Wooden letterpress type

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New York Once Had an Entire District for Typography

Downtown New York used to have an entire neighborhood of type foundries, before they all disappeared

Knik & Colony Glacier

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Which of These Two Alaskan Glaciers Is Better to Visit?

As one glacier melts, locals are pushing for tourists to visit rival pile of ice

You're next.

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This Poor Chicken Got Eaten by a Cow

Herbivores don’t always stick to their diet

Flower Field China

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Flower Tourism Blooms in China

The Netherlands has tulips, Japan has cherry blossoms, and now China wants in on the action too

The Paris Metro map, edited.

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This Architect Spends His Free Time Reinventing the World’s Subway Maps

The new system is meant to be easy to read and understand, no matter how foreign the place

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This Adorable Robot Is Like a Roomba That Prints Documents

Rather than feed the paper through the printer, why not just put the printer on wheels?

Give that building a laser!

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Future Buildings Could Use Lasers to Fight Off Lightning

Shooting a laser beam in the path of lightning could help divert it from the building

This is not the 101 year old message in a bottle.

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Message in a Bottle, Found in the Baltic Sea, Is 100 Years Old

While this new Baltic bottle will probably take the prize for oldest verified message in a bottle, it’s probably not actually the oldest

Tear gas being used on protesters in Caracas in February.

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Here’s a Six-Minute Explainer for the Turmoil Currently Underway in Venezuela

The 2014 protests have affected not just political activists but ordinary citizens, too

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Almost 2 Million People Ran a U.S. Half Marathon Last Year—And Most of Them Were Women

Fitness trendsters, take note: it’s about time you go run 13.1 miles

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A Recent Uptick in Cancer Patient Suicides in Russia Might Be Tied to the Unavailability of Painkillers

Procuring strong painkillers in Russia - even when the prognosis is death - is exceedingly difficult

Thames Houseboats

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10,000 People Live in Houseboats on London’s Waterways

High rent prices have driven Londoners onto the water

Men riding on the back of a car, 1940.

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110 Years Ago, Times Square Got Its Name: Celebrate by Browsing Old Photos of NYC

Thanks to a new release of images from the New York City Municipal Archives, you can see what the city looked like before it was consumed by neon

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Horses Can Do Yoga

“The method is to tame the horse according to its nature , avoiding cause fear and pain, and by earning their trust and loyalty”

St Louis

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Archaeologists Have Turned Up Teeny Tiny Pieces of St. Louis’ French Past

St. Louis was originally a French colonial city, but most remnants of that period have been lost to time, until now

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Thanks to New Shipping Guidelines, the Ocean Might Finally Become a Quieter Place

Noise from the shipping industry can stress and harm marine animals

Voynich Manuscript

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Is One of the Weirdest Books on the Planet Actually a Hoax?

This small book has puzzled scholars for decades and remains a mystery

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This Winter Was Hard on Animals, Too

As tough as it was on humans, it may have been even harder on the animals who don’t get to curl up in front of the fire

"Hey Neil I found something!" - Buzz Aldrin, maybe.

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The First Meal Eaten on the Moon Was Bacon

Bacon has a long history in the American space program

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