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Only A Fungus Can Prevent These Extreme Tumbleweed Situations
A tumbleweed prepares to make its move. (Photo: Jez Arnold/Flickr)As Old West villains go, the tumbleweed doesn't look the part. It lacks a big mustache or a low kerchief. It's more likely to be seen...
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How 1940s Prisoners of War Escaped Through Their Dreams
The illustration of a dream from a patient in Jungian analysis, 1967. (Photo: Wellcome Images, London)This is part five of a five-part series on sleep and dreams, sponsored by Oso mattresses. Read the...
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Captain Sam Greele Monument in Wilton, New Hampshire
Another in a long list of old and moldering mementos of times gone by, this memorial marks the spot where the life of Captain Sam Greele was tragically ended. Captain Greele was, in Wilton, what some...
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Hotan Sunday Market in Hetian, China
Kashgar Bazaar too played out for you? Then you should go further down the road and check out the Sunday market in Hotan.Situated on the southwestern edge of the Taklamakan Desert, Hotan — by virtue of...
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Wolfe Creek Crater in Sturt Creek, Australia
A well-preserved crater in the Australian outback marks the earthfall of a giant meteorite that scarred the planet with its arrival thousands and thousands of years ago.Despite the crater's ancient...
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The Big Mango in Bowen, Australia
Australia is covered in big things, and one of the most colorful is The Big Mango. This giant fruit only sprouted up in 2002, but it has already been stolen and returned in a giant publicity...
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Salina Turda in Turda, Romania
With over 2,000 years of history, highly preserved galleries, and a futuristic underground attraction, Salina Turda is the largest salt mine museum in the world, and easily the most incredible.Located...
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Mistletoe is a Parasitic, Explosive Plant That Maybe You Shouldn't Stand...
Mistletoe on a doorway. (Photo: Teodora D/shutterstock.com)The mistletoe plant is largely known for a manufactured characteristic: It’s the green sprig with white berries that hangs in doorways during...
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Peek Inside the Grisly, Salacious Case Files of NYC's Head Coroner in the...
Autopsies, murder case notes, coroner reports, the Dr. Scholer archives were given to the NYPL by his wife. (All Photos: Luke Spencer/ Courtesy Gustav Scholer papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division,...
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FOUND: A Glimpse of a Supernova, Arriving Right on Schedule
The middle circle indicates the most recent appearance of the supernova (Image: NASA/ESA/UCLA/UC-Berkeley/et al)It's hard to spot a supernova. In any given galaxy, a star only explodes every few...
View Article100 Wonders: Battleship Island
A miniscule slip of land sitting of the coast of Nagasaki, Japan has seen a long and troubled history. Hashima, a less than one square kilometer island, was once the most densely populated place on the...
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Freaks, Geeks, and Obliques: Nonconformist Gyms For People Who Hated Dodgeball
Minneapolis-based YogaQuest leads a costumed yoga session at a science fiction convention. (Photo courtesy of YogaQuest)Are you dreading the upcoming resolution season because you want to start being...
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Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia
At Dulles International Airport is the satellite annex of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. It may be 30 miles away from the Museum’s home in Washington, D.C., but the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy...
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Fleeting Wonders: A Siberian Cat is Running for Mayor
Кто, если не я? #ЗаБарсика #БарнаулЗаБарсикаA photo posted by Кот Барсик (@barsikbarnaul) on Dec 10, 2015 at 12:59am PSTThe year of the political outsider has reached its scruffy apex. When asked who...
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Rinkusteinar in Oyndarfjørður, Faroe Islands
In the Faroe Islands, two huge and mysterious boulders have been rocking away in the sea for as long as anyone can remember.Located on the northeastern edge of the island of Eysturoy, the village of...
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Why Every Kid in America Learns to Play the Recorder
Some of the world of classroom wind instruments. From top to bottom: Yamaha soprano recorder, Swanson Tonette, Conn-Selmer Song Flute, Grover-Trophy Flutophone, Suzuki Precorder. (Photo: Phil Wink, CC...
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The Shark Tombstone of Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Nestled near the back of Allegheny Cemetery's sprawling 300 acres sits a headstone quite unlike any other. Of the thousands of people buried in Allegheny, ranging from film stars like Lillian Russell...
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The Poisonous Beauty Advice Columns of Victorian England
A woman applies lipstick in Joseph Caraud's La Toilette, 1858. (Photo: Public Domain/The Athenaeum)Glass and tin bottles hide snug in a case, waiting for a woman’s daily ritual. She reaches for a...
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Llangernyw Yew in Conwy, North Wales
The Llangernyw Yew is an ancient tree, growing in Conwy, Wales. The tree is estimated to be between 4,000 and 5,000 years old, although dating yew trees is notoriously difficult thanks to the tree's...
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