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Photographs of the Futuristic Antarctic Ice Station That Can Move On Skis
Halley VI with science modules to the left, the red social module in the centre and habitat modules to the right. (Photo: © James Morris)When it comes to designing a habitat for the British Antarctic...
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The Story Behind the Comically Villainous Octopus Logo of U.S. Spy Agency
The Mission "patch" of NROL-39 showing the logo: an octopus grabbing the earth's globe, labeled "Nothing is beyond our reach". (All Photos: ODNI/Public Domain)A version of this story originally...
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The Frightening Lack of Data Surrounding Police Misconduct in the U.S.
There are no official numbers on America's police misconduct. (Photo: Pierre (Rennes)/Flickr) The threat of police misconduct seems to be more prevalent than ever before, but how common are incidents...
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George Firestone Building in Tallahassee, Florida
The George Firestone building, having sat empty and largely un-maintained for years, hides a historic past from those who drive or stroll by on their way to downtown Tallahassee offices or the new...
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I Made My Friends Test the 19th Century’s Hottest Dating Tactic: Reading Aloud
A slightly post-Victorian pair of readers in Bautzen, Germany. (Image: Abraham Pisarek/WikiCommons Public Domain) There's nothing like the onset of winter to remind you of how limited your idea of fun...
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The Snake Catchers Who Handle Australia’s Most Venomous Home Invaders
An eastern brown snake, one of Australia's many highly venomous slitherers. (Photo: Peter Woodard/Wikipedia)Reports of snakes unexpectedly slithering into homes and freaking out their inhabitants are...
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FOUND: Desert Hot Spots Just for Microbes
The dark spot is extra hot (Photo: Ferran Garcia-Pichel, Arizona State University)Out in the desert, in addition to hermits, Mars simulations and one lonely mailbox, there are whole communities of...
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Fleeting Wonders: A Petrified Forest Unearthed By A Beach Storm
Another #submergedforest of ancient wood. This one is #Portreath. These only appear about one every 50 years after heavy gales. May not reappear in my lifetime. #geology #history #archaeology #fossil...
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Republic of Zaqistan in Box Elder County, Utah
In 2005, New York resdient Zaq Landsberg acquired two acres of hostile land in Utah's Evaporated Basin of the Great Salt Lake from eBay, sight unseen.Though it sounds like something one might do in the...
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Ray Charles Statue in Greenville, Florida
Albany, Georgia may claim musician Ray Charles as a "native son," and may even have a plaza and statue to showcase that claim, but Greenville, Florida was his real childhood home.The tiny town of...
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Sego, Utah in Sego, Utah
A boom town is only as good as whatever made it go "boom". In the case of Sego, Utah, it was coal. When English farmer Harry Ballard started quietly buying up as much property as possible around his...
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FOUND: The New 9th Planet! (Maybe)
The orbits of Kuiper Belt objects and of Planet Nine. The entire solar system is tiny in comparison. (Image: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC))Ever since Percival Lowell began searching in 1906 for a "Planet X"...
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Hasankeyf in Hasankeyf, Turkey
The settlement of Hasankeyf in southeastern Turkey has been continuously inhabited for nearly 12,000 years, its location near the river Tigris making it a key prize for the great civilizations of...
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Statue of Liberty, Colmar in Colmar, France
Of all the Statue of Liberty replicas in the world, only one is located in a traffic roundabout in the celebrated statue's sculptor's hometown.Colmar is a remarkably well-preserved medieval city,...
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Liepaja Northern Forts in Liepāja, Latvia
Crumbling away on the edge of the Latvian coast, a row of abandoned concrete bunkers have formed a lovely line of ruins that harken back to a fort built by Tzarist Russia.When they were created, the...
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Borders of Baarle-Nassau and Baarle-Hertog in Baarle-Hertog, Belgium
Lots of places have jagged borders, but few are as mixed up and convoluted as the bits and pieces of intertwined towns Baarle-Nassau and Baarle-Hertog, which are a series of small enclaves that fit...
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A Map of Methane Levels Near the Massive Gas Leak in L.A.
A map of Porter Ranch methane levels (Image: Rob Jackson, Nathan Phillips, and Bob Ackley)It’s been three months since Southern California Gas Co. first reported a massive leak in its Aliso Canyon gas...
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Boarding Down the Slopes of an Active Volcano in Nicaragua
Cerro Negro is the only place in the world where you can go volcano boarding. (Photo: Blue Sonicboy/ Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0)On May 12, 2002, a Frenchman named Éric Barone rode his bicycle down the steep...
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Why We Picture Bombs As Round Black Balls with a Burning Wick
(Photo: Alexander_P/shutterstock.com) In 1920, the popular newspaper comic strip Jerry on the Job was adapted by Bray Studios into a few animated films. In “The Bomb Idea,” Jerry and another character...
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