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The writer casts aside concerns about comfort and political correctness to take the rail trip of a lifetime
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This weekend, get some insight into 20th-Century African American Art and hear the Gamer Symphony Orchestra perform arrangements of video game music
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A trip into space without leaving Earth--or even going outdoors
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Design teams propose new models for farming and suburban development in California's water-scarce Central Valley
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Tracing the work of the famed writer through movies
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When a would-be assassin shot, the 50-page manuscript and metal eyeglasses case tucked against Roosevelt's chest absorbed the blow
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Carol Nemeroff studies why certain foods, such as feces-shaped fudge, pink slime, or recycled tap water, gross us out
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Peculiar bite marks suggest why paleontologists have found so little of the enigmatic, long-armed dinosaur Deinocheirus
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A new study links eating meat to shorter periods of nursing, allowing women to bear more children
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Guest blogger and Portrait Gallery historian Amy Henderson discusses Louis Armstrong and the meaning of stardom
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New data show that nearly 35 years after their launches, NASA's Voyager probes are now at the outermost reaches of the solar system
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It takes $6,000 to shoot a leopard in Botswana. For $1,200, you can shoot a crocodile. Short on cash? There's always baboons, which go for $200 a pop
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The spinosaur, apparently the first confirmed in Asia, had a wavy sail that dipped downwards at the hips, creating the appearance of two smaller sails
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Jeopardy's annual "Power Players" show airs this week, pitting journalists, pundits and newsmakers against each other
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More than 20 years before the iPad, an entrepreneur saw the potential of interactive, digital magazines
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Long before hops cones were used to make beer bitter, hops shoots were eaten as a spring green
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The violent dinosaur documentary once known as Dinosaur Revolution gains new life in movie theaters
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Most chimpanzees build tree nests when it's time to go to bed, but some prefer sleeping on the ground; the same was probably true for early hominids
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