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We Uncovered the Hidden Patterns in Clinton and Trump's Most Common Phrases
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump making speeches. (Photo: left, lorie shaull/cropped/CC BY-SA 2.0; right, Gage Skidmore/cropped/CC BY-SA 3.0)The Republican National Convention is entering its final...
View ArticleTampons Could Soon Be Free For All Women in Sydney
(Photo: Simon Law/CC BY-SA 2.0)Sydney's city council is set to vote on a measure that would offer free tampons to women in a variety of places throughout the city, including at libraries, sports...
View ArticleHaunted Milk Bar, Pyramids of Zone and the 8 Best Places From This Week
Pyramids of Zone with Lake Iseo in the background. (Photo: Falk Lademann/CC BY 2.0)Every day our community of travelers and writers unearths fascinating places from the hidden corners of the world and...
View ArticleFound: A Giant Viking Axe
A very large axe. (Photo: Silkeborg Museum)Around the year 950 A.D., in a place near the center of what is now Denmark, a pair of important people were buried in an impressive tomb. There was a man and...
View ArticleWhat It's Like to Be an Underwater Crime Scene Investigator
Underwater investigations need to follow the same strict procedures on-land ones. (Photo: Tony Webster/CC BY-SA 4.0)For Mike Berry, a challenging workday might involve groping through the silt at the...
View ArticleI Would Walk 500 Miles, and I Would Walk 500 More, Just to Be the Man Who...
The Hudson trench, perhaps a short cut to the deep sea. (Photo: GeoMapApp/Vicki Ferrini)Imagine this scenario. Far into the future, all of Earth’s water has dried up. (Climate change turned out to be...
View ArticlePhotographing a Superpod of Sperm Whales
Members of an enormous social gathering of hundreds of sperm whales, which spread across many square kilometers. (All photos: Tony Wu)A version of this story originally appeared on...
View ArticleThe World's Oldest Known Manatee Turns 68 This Weekend
#Snooty, the oldest manatee in the world, is turning 68. https://t.co/yEfPDkDfMM@SouthFLMuseumpic.twitter.com/nsmzav3vJW— New Times Broward (@NewTimesBroward) July 1, 2016When Snooty the manatee was...
View ArticleAn Abandoned, Saddled Horse Was Found in a British Forest
Hello, horse. (Photo: photophilde/CC BY-SA 2.0)Like something out of a gothic ghost story, a lone horse, dressed up in full riding gear was mysteriously found Thursday with no rider in a forest near...
View ArticleThe Retro-Futuristic Undersea Habitats of Jacques Rougerie
The original Aquascope. (Unless otherwise noted, all images are property of the Jacques Rougerie Foundation/Used With Permission)If spy movies and comic books are to be believed, the world's oceans are...
View ArticleThe Perplexing Problem of Manitoba's Nameless Lakes
Manitoba's Dorothy Lake, one of the 10% of the province's lakes that do have an official name. (Photo: Robert Nunnally/CC BY 2.0)Canada has a heck of a lot of lakes. Back in the last Ice Age, the...
View ArticleInside the Creation of Europe's First Underwater Museum
"The Raft of Lampedusa," currently installed at the Museo Atlántico. (All sculptures and photos: Courtesy of Jason deCaires Taylor.)Off the coast of the Spanish island of Lanzarote, the easternmost of...
View ArticleThe Mystery of the 'Beast of Dartmoor' Has (Apparently) Been Solved
(Photo: Greg Hume/CC BY-SA 3.0)For years, blurry photographs and reported sightings of a big cat in Dartmoor, a massive southwestern English park, have emerged. There were also the dead animals that...
View ArticleTake a Soothing Swim in a Lake Swarming With Golden Jellyfish
There is something magical about floating alongside thousands of translucent, soft-bodied jellyfish. If you adventure to Jellyfish Lake, a marine lake secluded in a pocket of Eil Malk Island in Palau,...
View ArticleRaccoons Are Eating Pets and Terrorizing a Harlem Block
(Photo: Darkone/CC BY-SA 2.5)Raccoons, at their best, are harmless and even cute, but they can also be menacing, attacking other small animals and the odd human. They can be even scarier in packs, as a...
View ArticleAn Exclusive Look at the Leaked PR Agenda of the 1936 Republican National...
Bruce Barton's letter to himself ahead of the last time Cleveland held the RNC, 1936. (Photo: Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, Bruce Barton Papers)“Wire each state chairman to bring the prettiest...
View ArticleThe CIA's Declassified Guide to What Women Want
(Photo: Public domain)A version of this story originally appeared on Muckrock.com.After coming across what appeared to be an actual in-house CIA poster depicting lady agents as hard-boiled, gun-toting,...
View ArticleFinally, Russia Lifts the Ban on a WWII Donald Duck Cartoon
Donald Duck goose-steps into the munitions factory. (Screenshot: The Internet Archive)This week marked an unusual legal victory for Donald Duck and The Walt Disney Company, as the highest court in the...
View ArticleArizona City Buys Man's House for $4 Million, Lets Him Live Rent-Free for the...
The McDowell Sonoran Nature Preserve, Scottsdale, Arizona. (Photo: cloud2013 / CC BY-2.0)An Arizona homeowner made the best deal of his life this week. The Arizona Republic is reporting that Shawn...
View ArticleThe California Town That Produced 10 Million Eggs a Year
Egg gatherers at Armstrong’s Spring Hill Poultry Farm, 1897. (Photo: © Petaluma Historical Library & Museum)Is Petaluma, California, the world’s most divided city?On the one hand it is renowned as...
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