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New Jersey Encourages Hunters to Add Bear to Menu

New Jersey is hoping more hunters will take advantage of bear season

CDC director Tom Frieden during a press conference last week announcing Duncan's diagnosis with Ebola.

Thomas Duncan, Dallas' Ebola Patient, Has Died

The total cost of fighting Ebola could push $32 billion

For the First Time Ever, a Woman With a Transplanted Uterus Gave Birth to a Baby

Two more women with transplanted uteruses are due to give birth in the next couple of weeks, too

Anna S. Harrington portrayed Aunt Jemima during promotional events in the 1930s and '40s. Her great-grandsons say she helped develop the brand's self-rising pancake mix recipe.

In 2014, Descendants of Woman Who Played Aunt Jemima Sued Quaker Oats

The case, which was later dismissed by a judge, accused the company of failing to pay royalties to Anna S. Harrington

ISIS briefly controlled the Mosul Dam in Iraq over the summer.

ISIS Is Cutting Off Water to Uncooperative Villages

In parched Syria and Iraq, water is a weapon

Columbus Day Is Now Indigenous People’s Day in Seattle And Minneapolis

Some cities seek to change the second Monday in October to a more politically correct, inclusive holiday

Dennis Kimetto after setting a world record at the 41st BMW Berlin marathon

What Will It Take For Someone to Run A Marathon in Under Two Hours?

Course design, genetics, training and luck all have a hand in this game

The Park Service Wants to Cull 900 of Yellowstone's 4,900 Buffalo

The Park Service will be killing bison that stray from the park

Your Cheat Sheet to the 2014 Nobel Prizes

Just enough to catch up

A protester holds the cut off nose of the statue of former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin after it was toppled during a rally on the central square of eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, 28 September 2014.

Ukrainian Protesters Are Auctioning Off the Nose of a Massive Lenin Statue

Lenin's ears are also, reportedly, up for grabs

The Aral Sea as of August 19, 2014. The black outline shows the lake's extent in 1960.

The Aral Sea Is Pretty Much Gone

The fourth largest lake in the world is less than a tenth of its former size

Thousands of walruses gathered at a beach in Point Lay, Alaska.

35,000 Walruses Are Crowding Onto One Alaskan Beach

Some animals have already been killed on the beach, most likely by stampedes

Eyewitness images shot by a hiker trapped on the top of Mout Ontake. The hiker was able to descend after a few hours through deep ash.

Japan's Mount Ontake Erupted Suddenly Over the Weekend

36 hikers are feared dead; because of toxic gas, rescue operations have been suspended

Anyone Can Make Up Their Own Weird Or Random Holiday

Case in point: Today is International Coffee Day as well as National Poisoned Blackberries Day

Drone equipped with camera

Who Can Use Drones This Week?

Movies and deliveries are moving on up, while fines and bans go into effect in parks

A farmer sprays soybeans with herbicide

The USDA Approved a New GM Crop to Deal With Problems Created by the Old GM Crops

Weeds became resistant to the herbicide partner of older genetically modified crops

An Artist's rendition of HAT-P-11b crossing in front of it's star

Water Vapor Found on Small, Cloudless, Hot Planet

NASA announced yesterday that water vapor had been detected on exoplanet HAT-P-11b

Wolf Hunting Made Illegal Again in Wyoming

A federal judge called the state’s management plan inadequate, though wolf numbers and genetics are still strong

The Mangalyaan orbiter back when it was still on the ground.

India's Space Agency Made It to Mars on the First Try

India's Mangalyaan orbiter dropped into orbit around Mars last night

Deforestation in Liberia

Norway Is Paying Liberia To Stop Deforestation

Norway is promising Liberia $150 million to stop cutting down trees by 2020

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