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This Is (Maybe) Why You're Fat: Bacteria
As calorie counters and fitness fanatics have been demanding that we all eat right and exercise, scientists have been working on a different theory behind obesity, a bacterial one. How our bodies make...
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The Internet Needs to Be More Random: An Interview with Random Shopper...
A man looks through inventory at an Amazon warehouse, via Reuters/MSNBC That everything you do online is tracked is a common refrain amongst privacy experts, but there's a flip side that's less...
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A Brief History of Birds Stealing Babies
By now, we've probably all seen the instant viral sensation from Montréal "Golden Eagle Snatches Kid." We've also probably all come to the sobering realization that it is, in fact, a fake. The...
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Watch a 3D Overview of MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy
Last year, when I spoke with Michael and Annie Mithoefer, the husband-wife psychiatric duo at the leading edge of alternative post-traumatic stress disorder therapies, it was made very clear that...
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U.S. Slips to World's 15th Most Democratic Country, a Bunch of Austrian...
Looks like the United States is continuing its inevitable decline into a fascist Nazi socialist new world order, just like all those Tea Partiers predicted it would. The latest round of global...
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Alleged Canadian Syrup Siphonists Seized
About a year and a half after the great multi-million-dollar syrup siphon began, Canadian officials have finally arrested three men alleged to be involved in what had to be one of the nation's biggest...
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Mankind's Nine Favorite Apocalypse Scenarios
The apocalypse is nigh and blah, blah. Isn't it funny and strange that a small number of people think that the world is going to end on 12/21/12 but we sensible folk know that it isn't? The...
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Home at the End of Time: Robert Vicino Built an Underground City Where You...
Robert Vicino wants it to be clear he’s not a religious man. He is, like a lot of Southern Californians I’ve met, what he calls “highly spiritual.” So when he talks about the apocalyptic “message” he...
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Russian Climbers Explain Their Illegal Plan to Climb the Tallest Building in...
By now we all know that Russia is filled with extreme urban freeclimbers whose YouTube videos are liable to give you a panic attack. But this video stands out, partly because it's well-produced (turn...
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Meet the Awesome Yin Yang Frog, and the Other Newfound Members of the Animal...
Yin-yang frog (Leptobrachium leucops), via WWF Writing about ecology can be a real bummer sometimes, because everywhere you look, species are in decline and the world's biodiversity is continually...
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Can Time Just Stop?
I feel pretty confident that clocks and calendars are going to continue moving forward at more or less the same rate they have been since time became the abstraction it is. The Earth will continue...
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Unlucky Woman Grows Bones in Her Eyelid, Thanks to Stem Cell Cosmetics
The woman’s complaint almost sounded more appropriate for a mechanic, not a cosmetic surgeon: She had been hearing a strange clicking noise. But the noise, as described in a new article in Scientific...
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Will These Solar Panel Stickers Change Everything?
This is a real thing from Stanford: peel-and-stick solar panels. Put 'em wherever: glass, wood, plastic, the dog. It''s pretty great and doesn't seem like much of a radical revision in solar...
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China Is Not Handling the Apocalypse or the "Female Jesus" Very Well
All around the world, people are preparing for rivers of fire, waves of blood, plagues of locusts and everything else that the Mayan apocalypse could entail. Or at least that's what the Internet would...
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By the Way, 62% of the United States Is Still in a Drought
I know we're in a weird spot between Christmas, a fiscal cliff, and an imaginary Mayan apocalypse right now. There's a lot going on. A lot of trumped up talk of dramatic catastrophe, a lot of...
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How, Exactly, Could We Improve Mental Healthcare? Here's a Start
It's been almost a week since the Newtown shootings, and at this point, pretty much everybody with Internet access has weighed in on how to keep this from happening again. Predictably, the majority of...
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These Five Things Happened to Video Games in 2012
This year was a fascinating year for gaming—the commercial market may have narrowed, but as the mobile and social spaces flourished, indie matured to offer a wealth of polished downloadables....
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Don't Worry, Isaac Newton Says the World Won't End Until at Least 2060
Worried that a phantom planet is going to smash into the Earth tomorrow? Heading for your underground luxury bunker or taking up with a Chinese apocalypse cult? Don't bother. Yet. According to the...
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Germany Showed the World How to Do Clean Energy in 2012
Deutschland is kicking the world's ass in the renewable energy arena. Of all the rich, populous nations across the globe, only Germany is phasing out dirty and dangerous power sources fast enough to...
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So the Whole Earth Isn't Dead
Just a quick head's up: We're not all dead. The Mayan apocalypse didn't happen, so feel free to walk around all smug like Mr. Chill Shades today. Just goes to show, if you want something done right,...
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