Scientists have identified the oldest-known inscription referencing the Norse god Odin on part of a gold disc unearthed in western Denmark
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Why river channels shift and meander, and what tools engineers use to manage the process (Part 1)
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The stories and saviors behind heirloom seeds
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How two Jewish kids in 1930s Cleveland altered the course of American pop culture (and the birth of Superman)
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The search for the saddest punt in the world
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Join the Counterforce: Thomas Pynchon’s postmodern epic Gravity’s Rainbow at fifty
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The Reemergent 1977 H1N1 Strain and the Gain-of-Function Debate (2015)
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‘M*A*S*H’ said goodbye forty years ago, with a finale for the ages
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Party patellas: The knee makeup fad of the '20s and '60s
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Barrett .50 Cal.
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Computer dating 1960s style (1966)
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Hayes command set history: The tech that dialed in a million modems
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The Birdcage and La Cage aux Folles: An epic stage to screen journey
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Worried that technology is ‘breaking your brain’? Fears about attention spans and focus are as old as writing itself.
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The unfathomable scale of the Brussels Palace of Justice
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How the inventor of the troll doll missed out on a fortune
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Douglas Adams on the 'Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy' game (1985)
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Donald MacGillavry, the genius hoax
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How a shipping error 100 years ago launched the $30 billion chicken industry
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The last mustard maker in Dijon
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The most important year in the history of science fiction is 1973, because that’s when science fiction ended
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Charles Silverstein, who helped declassify homosexuality as mental illness, dies at 87
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In 1952, a landslide caused a tsunami that killed a Greenlandic man – some researchers think he might have been an early victim of anthropogenic warming
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The forgotten story of Modulex – Lego's lost cousin
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Lost and found: Codebreakers decipher 50+ letters of Mary, Queen of Scots
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The National Museum of Denmark is paying tribute not to professional archaeologists, but to amateurs with metal detectors
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Depression has often been blamed on low levels of serotonin in the brain. That answer is insufficient, but alternatives are coming into view and changing our understanding of the disease.
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Grammy Album Of The Year winners through the years
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How MTV destroyed their network
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Manchester City striker Erling Haaland eyes Dixie Dean's 95-year-old record of sixty league goals
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The first ordinary woman in English literature. The life and legacy of the Wife of Bath.
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‘Oh my God, this is big!’ How The Cardigans went stratospheric with Lovefool.
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The murky, salty mystery of Worcestershire sauce - The peppery sauce may be wildly popular, but its ingredient list and origin story are shrouded in secrecy
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The case of the medieval castle and the opportunity cost of warfare
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Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape (2000)
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Twelve years before the Nintendo Wii took over living rooms, Sports Sciences released Batter-Up, a motion-controlled baseball bat for the Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, and personal computers
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Why did men stop wearing hats?
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Megacities: Reality or fiction? Architecture in sci-fi.
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Pickup trucks: From workhorse to joyride
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Andy’s Pop Life - Revisiting Steve Schapiro’s historic 1965 visit to Andy Warhol’s Factory and his travels across the US with a cadre of Superstars
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Gaytopia: Fed up with the horrific discrimination and violence against his community, Don Jackson had a plan to turn a remote spot in Northern California into the world's first gay-majority county
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Meet the Appalachian apple hunter who rescued 1,000 ‘lost’ varieties
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US pilot shot down four Soviet MiGs in thirty minutes – and kept it a secret for fifty years
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A lecturer showed a painting of the prophet Muhammad. She lost her job.
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World's oldest runestone found in Norway – 2,000-year-old inscription is among the earliest examples of words recorded in writing
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The secret gay love affair behind Alfred Hitchcock's Rope
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Al Capone's soup kitchen
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Forty years of PCMag: An illustrated guide
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Crippling Hitler's navy – the battle that knocked out 50% of the Kriegsmarine's destroyers in Norway
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How Edvard Munch's friend Thomas Olsen hid the masterpiece 'Dance on the Beach' in a remote barn in the Norwegian forest to foil the Nazis
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