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National Bowling Stadium in Reno, Nevada
When Peter and Bobby Farrelly needed a place to film their ultimate bowling showdown, the choice was obvious. After all, as the National Bowling Stadium says: “All lanes lead to Reno.”Kingpin, the 1996...
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Waitomo Glowworm Caves in Waitomo, New Zealand
In 1887, English surveyor Fred Mace and local Maori Chief Tane Tinorau decided to explore the Caves of Waitomo. They entered the cave system on a tiny raft where a stream descends into the underground,...
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The Israeli Company Sending 500 Million Bees and Mites to Russia
Millions of mites and bumblebees will soon dominate Russian farms. (Photo: Darko Mareš/CC BY 2.0)Farms in Russia will soon be battlefields teeming with insects. The country is being sent 500 million...
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A Volcano in Iceland May be Close to Erupting
Hekla in the distance. (Photo: Hansueli Krapf/CC BY-SA 2.0)For years, Hekla, a volcano in southern Iceland, was active, erupting regularly—and sometimes with great force—over the past century. But it...
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Egypt's Biggest Pyramid Isn't Quite Square at Its Base
(Photo: Nina/CC BY-SA 3.0)The Great Pyramid of Giza, the largest of three pyramids built more than 4,000 years ago in Egypt, is 455 feet tall, and 756 feet wide at its base.But one scientist recently...
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The Strange History of Microfilm, Which Will Be With Us for Centuries
Using microfilm in the early 1980s. (Photo: University of Haifa Younes & Soraya Nazarian Library/CC BY-SA 3.0)A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that...
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How Big Can Bug Nests Actually Get?
A wasp's nest, up close. (Photo: Matt/CC BY-SA 2.0)The Vespula germanica species of wasps, one of the most common in the world, build nests that typically reach the size of a five-gallon bucket....
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Mystery Bugs Rain Down On Colorado Neighborhood
I feel itchy. Several viewers near Brighton reported these bugs 'falling from sky' after rain yest. WHAT ARE THEY? pic.twitter.com/Mt8wWQXJni— Kelly Jensen (@KellyJensenCO) June 14, 2016After heavy...
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How a Gift from Schoolchildren Let the Soviets Spy on the U.S. for 7 Years
The Great Seal that held a listening device. (Photo: NSA/Public Domain)In 1946, a group of Russian children from the Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organisation (sort of a Soviet scouting group)...
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How to Choose the Pet Bug That's Right for You
Entomologist Sammy Ramsey was initially scared of bugs as a kid, then read some books and became enthralled for life. (Photo: Julian Vankim)Sammy Ramsey, 27, an entomologist and Ph.D student at the...
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Found: Baby Planets
An illustration of K2-33b. (Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech)Of all the far-away exoplanets that NASA has been finding with the Kepler telescope, some of the most important and fascinating are young planets,...
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'No One’s Got A Crush On Peter' and More from the Forgotten Spider-Man Rock...
It's not easy being Spider-Man. (Photo: Joel Kramer/CC BY 2.0)Sure, Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, the 2011 Broadway musical, might seem like it was the strangest musical adventure involving Peter...
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Police Find Swarm of Bees Intentionally Placed in Car’s Trunk
Beekeepers and police don't normally collaborate, but on Monday, in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, the two became teammates in a bizarre case of bug crime.The beekeepers, swaddled from head to toe in their...
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Entomological Museum of Volos in Volos, Greece
Doctor Athanasios Koutroumpas has had a lifelong preoccupation with the collection of insects. It's only proper, then, that a lifetime of beautiful, systematic hoarding should result in a museum the...
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Glowing Millipedes of Sequoia National Park in Three Rivers, California
On the forest floor of Sequoia National Park there are countless hidden insects and things that crawl, but only one boldly makes its presence known every night by lighting up its entire body to scare...
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Knight's Spider Web Farm in Williamstown, Vermont
Will Knight's Spider Web Farm, the only one in the world, is a rather small operation.Two garage-sized barns are packed with wooden frames, built in grids, hanging from the ceiling. These square frames...
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Fireflies of the Great Smoky Mountains in Gatlinburg, Tennessee
America's fireflies have been keeping a secret.In 1680, Dutch physician Engelbert Kaempfer, on a voyage down the Meinam River in Siam, recorded one of the earliest Western accounts of the coordinated...
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Kan'ei-ji Temple in Taito, Japan
Close to Tokyo's Ueno Park, the Kan'ei-ji temple is a quiet pagoda far removed from the hustle and bustle of the park's top tourists draws, its zoo and museums. Few visitors stop by, and most of those...
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Some of History's Most Beautiful Combs Were Made for Lice Removal
A 19th-century de-lousing comb made in India. (Photo: Science Museum, London, Wellcome Images)Thirty years ago, parasitologist Kostas Mumcuoglu and anthropologist Joseph Zias were examining a...
View ArticleHow to Take Care of Your Hair, 1950s Edition
Before the days of WikiHow articles that diligently teach you how to shower, there was this 1950s instructional video on proper care for your hair. "Wash your hair frequently," the video instructs,...
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