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How a Mythical Imp that Snuck Up People's Large Intestines Became a Symbol of...
A kappa doll decorates a water lily pond in Japan. (Photo: pattang/shutterstock.com)Although the kappa-maki, a slim cucumber roll, is a vegetarian standby on sushi menus all over the globe, few realize...
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For Two Weeks, The Beaches Of South Jersey Looked Tropical
So who's noticed the tropically-turquoise waters off of South Jersey over the last 10 days? Quite unusual, right? pic.twitter.com/gi92oNj1Bj— Dan Skeldon (@ACPressSkeldon) July 12, 2016Joe Bongiovanni,...
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The Library of Congress is in the Midst of a Cyberattack
(Photo: Carol M. Highsmith/CC BY-SA 3.0)Since at least Sunday, the Library of Congress has been undergoing a denial-of-service attack on their servers, bringing down websites and forcing the agency to...
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Watch Amazing Tiny Sea Creatures Light Up and Dance
The ribbons of purple and blue tentacles coiling in the video above look like they belong to some kind of alien lifeform. But this sea creature can actually be found floating on the surface of our...
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Police Find Marijuana, Give Facebook Instructions on How Its Owner Can...
Have you seen this weed? (Photo: Euclid Police Department Facebook)While a good portion of Ohio’s police are concerned with making sure that the Republican National Convention in Cleveland runs...
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Mystery of Why Turtles Have Shells Solved After 8-Year-Old Finds Fossil
(Photo: Bavarria/CC BY 2.0)Some time ago, an 8-year-old named Kobus Snyman found some turtle bones on his father's farm in South Africa. He wasn't quite sure what he had, so he did what others might do...
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The Dream of Building Floating Cities is Dragged Down by Reality
The first place winner, "Artisanopolis", from the Seasteading Institute's 2015 architectural design contest for floating cities. (Photo: Gabriel Scheare, Luke & Lourdes Crowley, and Patrick White/...
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The First Hollywood Film to Imagine a Fictional President Was Some Weird...
A still from Gabriel Over the White House. (Photo: David Inman/YouTube)A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail. Over the...
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The Neon Glow of Bioluminescent Sea Creatures
A bioluminescent firefly squid. (Photo: Visuals Unlimited/Getty Images)Each year on the western coast of Japan, nature creates a particularly unique spectacle. Just under the surface of Toyama Bay,...
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Most Whales Don't Know How Bad They Smell
This guy's stinking up the joint and he has no idea. (Photo: Steve Snodgrass/CC BY 2.0)It's impossible to gaze at a magnificent underwater creature, like a dolphin or a trout, without pondering how it...
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The Less-Than-Effective Shark Nets Protecting Australia's Beaches
Swimmers at shark-netted Bondi Beach in Sydney. (Photo: Tim Grubb/CC BY-SA 3.0)Gaze over the sprawling mass of humanity toward the horizon from any popular Sydney beach in summer and, if you’re...
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A Graphic Guide to All the Weird Things in New York City's Waterways
(Graphic by Michelle Enemark)Dead Horse Bay is a sloshing soup of forgotten ephemera. Old shoe soles, broken bottles, fractured horse bones from 19th-century rendering factories and landfills are some...
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A Cute Seal Is Living In an Inland British River
LOOK WHO'S BACK: Warrington seal spotted again: IT'S been a while since any sightings have… https://t.co/ftwEca3JOBpic.twitter.com/MUJvhpr7dv— Warrington Guardian (@warringtonnews) July 11, 2016It's in...
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Found: A WWII Tank Left Underwater Since a U-Boat Attack in 1945
A rusted Sherman tank in Guam. (Photo: melanzane1013/CC BY 2.0)Early in March of 1945, a convoy of 26 American ships left Scotland and headed north, towards the Barents Sea, to deliver aid to Soviet...
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Atlit Yam in Haifa, Israel
Off the coast of the village of Atlit lie the submerged ruins of the Neolithic site of Atlit-Yam. The site, which dates between 6900 and 6300 BC, lies around 10 m beneath the current sea level and...
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The Blue Planet in Kastrup, Denmark
The striking architecture of the Blue Planet aquarium resembles a swirl of metal tentacles, and inside its gleaming structure are 20,000 fish and ocean creatures. Opened in 2013, the Blue Planet...
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Red Sea Star in Eilat, Israel
There are few places to dine where the table next to you is a colorful school of fish passing, and a window next to your silverware leads out to the Red Sea. Each table of the restaurant has two large...
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Green Lake in Tal, Austria
The Green Lake (Grüner See) spends its falls and winters as a mild-mannered lake, with popular hiking trails around its shore. However, when the winter snows melt in the spring, the drain-off flows...
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Kaindy Lake in Raiymbek District, Kazakhstan
Kaindy Lake is an idyllic mountain lake in Kazakhstan’s portion of the Tian Shan Mountains, close to the country’s largest city, Almaty. The lake was formed after an earthquake in 1911, which caused a...
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The Unsoiling of Rockall in Toberonochy, United Kingdom
Created by Geographer-at-Large Eames Demetrios, Kcymaerxthaere is a "parallel universe that intersects with much of our linear Earth, but with different stories, creatures, peoples, even laws of...
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