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Archaeologists in Turkey Discovered an Ancient Gate to Hell
The Ruins at Hierapolis. Satan not pictured. Image by Radomił Binek, via Wikimedia Commons Bad horror movies have taught us a lot over the years: If you hear a strange noise in the woods, don’t go...
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Voyager 1 Still Hasn't Left the Solar System
An artist's rendition of Voyager near Saturn. via Space lovers around the world were buzzing on Wednesday when the American Geophysical Union released a statement saying saying the Voyager 1 probe has...
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A Woman Lit a Snake on Fire So the Snake Burned Her House Down
Today has been a good day for news about hellish things. Earlier today, I reported that Italian archaeologists had recently discovered an ancient portal to hell amid the ruins of Hierapolis, in...
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The 'World's Largest & Most Popular All-Positive' Online News Outlet Pays Its...
Felice News is a Canadian organization that labels itself as "the world's largest and most popular all-positive news outlet," and claims that it is "all run by reporters aged 12 to 25." All of the...
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Watch Sufjan Steven's Latest Crazy Plot: A Laser-Filled Tribute to the Solar...
Image via parn on Fotopedia It would be an understatement to say that Sufjan Stevens is full of surprises. This is the musician who once promised to make an album for each of the 50 states in the...
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Solar-Powered Trash Cans Saved Philadelphia Almost a Million Bucks Last Year
I recently moved to Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love. And while I have been impressed by how warm and welcoming the folks in my neighborhood are, I have not, unfortunately, been similarly...
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There's No Good Way To Kill a Puppy
Even if you accept the premise that kill shelters are a necessary evil and that ownerless dogs should be put down so they don’t live aimless lives as nonpets, wouldn’t you agree that puppy gas...
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Crafting Portraits of Montreal's 'Electrosmog' Radioscape
Smog, it’s not a very attractive thing, even its name sounds unappealing. But as well as this air pollution that encompasses our cities, hidden from our visual spectrum is vast amounts of...
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Prettier Female Great Tits Produce Healthier Hatchlings
A great tit, via Luc Viatour Good looks aren't an accident. Well, in the sense of mutations being genetic accidents they are, but appearance is something selected for by evolution, just like anything...
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Create a Better Condom, Win a Million Dollars
Fancy condoms on display, via Paul Keller on Flickr On Friday, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new challenge in the group's Grand Challenges for Global Health: $100,000 to develop a...
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Heads in the Sand or Not, Americans Widely Support Drone Attacks
Armed Predator drone (via Flickr / collectionlaw) An interesting thing is happening as news of America's lethal drone campaign abroad continues going mainstream. At the end of the day, it seems...
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The ATF Has Yet to Be Convinced That 3D-Printed Guns Compare to the Real Thing
An unnamed Defense Distributed supporter tests out an iteration of the group's lower receiver, which is the translucent part of the rifle above. Around the same time that Cody Wilson took the stage at...
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The Only Reason We Still Care About Daft Punk Is Science Fiction
Last weekend, Daft Punk announced it would drop a new record called Random Access Memories on May 21st. Then they ran another 15-second ad on Saturday Night Live, a snippet of one of the album's...
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Click, Print, Gun: The Inside Story of the 3D-Printed Gun Movement
Being a 3D-printing novice, I was once somewhat skeptical of the promise behind what's being billed as a truly game-changing technology. I saw Makerbot CEO Bre Pettis on the cover of Wired in late...
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OMG! Literature Study Says Americans Are More Emotional Writers than the...
“England and America,” wrote the great playwright George Bernard Shaw, “are two countries separated by a common language.” Shaw knew from whence he spoke. The author of Pygmalion (the basis of the...
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Lockheed Martin's New Quantum Computer Doesn't Really Quantum Compute
D-Wave has a boy-who-cried-wolf problem. Some six years ago, the Canadian future-computer company announced a major technological breakthrough, a world-changing feat, a spectacular accomplishment....
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'Groups of Women, Three or Four at a Time, Grabbed Each Other by Their Hands,...
Image via the Kheel Center and Cornell University, reproduced with permission. In his poem "Shirt," which is the best poem about shirts I know, Robert Pinsky is going about the business of buying one...
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Watch the Largest Ship in the World Get Built in 76 Seconds
Image via Maersk Line Maersk Line is one of the largest shipping carriers in the world, with a claimed 3.8 million TEUs of capacity. How does the firm move all those giant metal boxes around the...
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To Combat China's Hacker Army, the U.S. Is Copying Its Methods
The U.S. government wants hackers, and it wants them young. In the face of a growing number of cyber attacks from China's hacker army on American companies and government agencies, the Department of...
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Drones and the Dawn of the New Home Video
Fact: I had no idea who the hell the Lumineers were prior to watching this. So, yeah. But that's not what matters here. What matter here, setting aside the subtle oh-fuck-I'm-weeping Diving Bell and...
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