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Watch Hundreds of Gliding Leaf Frogs Party (and Mate) in Costa Rica
I just searched for "frog party" on YouTube on the vague assumption that because frogs are so chill that they must indeed get down with amphibian fiestas. Well hoo boy, do they ever. This video shows...
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Weathering the Storm? Bitcoin Finds New Resiliency
After reaching a new all-time high just three weeks ago, the Bitcoin ecosystem has since weathered a security breach and a software “glitch” that resulted in what some have labeled a “flash crash.”...
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Is It a Good Idea to Revive Extinct Species, Jurassic Park-Style?
We’re getting a lot better at cloning than we used to be. Just last week, in fact, Japanese scientists revealed news that they had successfully cloned 25 generations of mice from the same single...
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Living Alone in the Fukushima Evacuation Zone
Interview and photos by Ivan Kovac and Jeffrey Jousan Article translated from the Japanese by Luke Baker Last week marked the second anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Japan and caused one...
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Dodging Bombs to Capture Afghanistan's Media Success Story
I re-watched Taxi to the Darkside a few nights ago, preparing myself for a chat with Eva Orner, one of the producers of that Academy Award-winning film. If you missed it, the film takes account of the...
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How Writing Is Losing to Metrics in the Online Content Wars
To gauge a website’s success or the success of a publication that utilizes it, one must look at metrics: clicks, views, shares, tweets, points, likes, search engine optimization, etc. As experts and...
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Imagining a City Where Subway Restaurants Are Actually Subway Stations
Baltimore has one subway line. It has average ridership comparable to other single subway lines around the United States but, given that it's a single not-terribly-long line in a city of 600,000...
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The Last Group America Wants Touching Its Guns Is the United Nations
The gun business is a big business in the United States, and it's even bigger elsewhere in the world. All things told it's a $70 billion industry that knows no political borders besides the ones some...
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Toyo Ito's Biggest Building: A Stadium That's Secretly a Solar Power Plant
Toyo Ito's ascendancy into the architectural Pantheon—solidified by his winning of the Pritzker Prize today—began with the luminous and transparent houses and public buildings he designed in his...
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Curiosity's Latest Find is Exciting, But Not Entirely Surprising
Two Mars rocks, L to R: Wompay rock in Endurance Crater as seen by Opportunity, and Sheepbud unit in Gale Crater as seen by Curiosity via After about seven months roving the Martian surface, Curiosity...
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Prayer on Ice: The Six Churches Giving Sermons to Scientists on Antarctica
Image: Wikimedia This how we know there will one day be churches on the Moon, and on Mars: There are at least six churches currently offering services on Antarctica. Over the weekend, this twilit...
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In the Future, Our Solar Panels Will Be Controlled by Tiny Robot Overlords
In the not-so distant future, each array of solar panels may come with its own robot overseer. Qbotix thinks so anyway, and, in an effort to make those panels more efficient, it has designed a little...
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Future Sex: Steubenville and Rape in the Digital Age
Crowd at a January rally in Steubenville (via Block News Alliance / Lake Fong) The Steubenville, Ohio, rape trial concluded yesterday. The case, brought to public attention through a New York Times...
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How This Solar Storm Was Born
Image: NASA Everyone make it through the massive geomagnetic solar storm alright? Glad to hear it. You probably didn't even notice the coronal mass ejection that bombarded your planet last night, but...
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Is an Uber Ride Any Better Than a Gypsy Cab?
A bad thing happened in Washington, DC, last December. (Actually, a few bad things happened in DC, but bear with me.) A 20-year-old woman went out on U Street — a popular destination for hip young...
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Scientists Create a Living Clone Embryo from a Long-Extinct Species of...
I recently asked whether or not it was a good idea to revive extinct species using cloning technology—something like Jurassic Park, minus the dinosaurs (dinosaurs, it seems have been extinct for too...
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Swartz, Keys, Weev: Doing Hard Time for Hacking Doesn't Actually Require Any...
It's hard to know what to make of Andrew Auernheimer. The 27-year-old grey hat, known in the hacker community as "Weev," was sentenced to 41 months in prison and ordered to pay a $75,000 fine to...
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This Drone Flight Over a Decaying Shipyard Will Save Ruin Porn
First Detroit, now Mare Island. As hobbyists and cinematographers alike continue taking to small-fry, remotely-flown aircraft with equal aplomb, they're breathing fresh life into the undying...
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Modern Day Prospectors Will Haul 12,000 Gallons of Cyanide from Nevada to...
Picture a gold mine, and your brain probably whips up something delightfully anachronistic—a 49er with a pickaxe maybe, or a wheeled metallic basin emerging from a mine shaft on railroad tracks,...
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BPA Not Only Messes With Your Hormones, It May Mess with Your Genes and...
Perhaps there’s no such thing as coincidence. Carl Jung didn’t think there was—to him, it was all synchronicity. But you don’t have to be a Jungian or a flaky New-Ager to think that when two studies...
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