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The Unexpected Weirdness of Exploding Rocks and So Much More
You know what rocks are, right? Of course you do, what a silly question. Rocks are natural solid aggregate formations of one or more minerals or mineraloids, at…
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Star Trek ‘Tricorders’ and Weird Diseases
In a world where nearly everything is trying to kill you in one way or another, you’ve got to hand it to modern medical science for finding effective…
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Would You Step Inside A Learning Machine?
If you could push a button, flip a switch, or utter a simple command and have all of the vast knowledge of the human race suddenly embedded in…
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There Be Dragons Here! Blue Ben and England’s Limestone Pavement
Along England’s Somerset coast lies a strange landscape of fractured limestone—and an old legend about the dragon said to have made it. Known as Blue Ben, the creature…
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Toronto Mystery Tunnel has Police Scratching their Heads
Canada’s largest city, Toronto, finds itself with a genuine mystery this week. While the rest of the province and the entire east coast is dealing with record cold…
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Oldest Known Figural Art from a Culture You’ve Never Heard Of
I love the art of sculpture. I’m not sure if it’s the three dimensional rendering of a subject, or some ineffable quality of the aesthetics, but either way,…
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Did Mars Just Fart? Unexplained Dust Plumes on the Red Planet
The amateur and professional astronomy communities alike are busy scratching their heads today; headlines from the ESA (European Space Agency) claim that scientists are baffled. Now, such a…
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Tibetan Mummies and Immortal Cells: A Lost Legacy
What do Tibetan mummies, cancer research and a poor woman from the first half of the 20th century have in common? No, that’s not the opening line to…
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Edgar Cayce’s Blue Stone and the Fall of Atlantis
Psychics, healing crystals, Atlantis, and an odd discovery. Just by that short qualifier, you might think you’re in for a woo-filled sales pitch for a New-Age spiritual retreat. …
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Eggshell World Globe Might be the First to Depict The Americas
So there’s been something of a theme to my work of late; my research notes would have you believe that I’ve become a cartophile – that is, a…