The Messy History of the Pie Fight. The second best use for baked goods.
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The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of FDR’s Floating White House. The USS Potomac had plenty of adventures besides hosting a president.
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The Man Who Played with Absolute Power. Philip Zimbardo shares what he learned from conducting the Stanford Prison Experiment.
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17 pictures that will turn you off escalators forever. Or they might just make you more careful using them.
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Library Hand, the Fastidiously Neat Penmanship Style Made for Card Catalogs. It’s pretty, but wouldn’t it have been easier to just learn to type?
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Meet the hackers trying to solve the problem of death. If we can’t maintain the body, maybe we can download the mind.
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TV’s callous neglect of working-class America. Their only portrayal these days is on reality TV.
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Inside the Mysterious Hot Springs Found Deep Below the Gulf of California. This is no ordinary hydrothermal vent.
February 17, 2017 – 5:00am