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This 1950s Kitchen Has Been Untouched For Over 50 Years And It Looks… Wow.

Americans are having more trouble paying off their student debt than their houses

Women are increasingly important players in the U.S. economy. Why are we treating them so poorly when they retire?

Retirees are keeping fewer foods in their kitchens than folks their age did a decade ago, a new study shows.

With deal, West Coast seaports tackle huge cargo backlog

Even as Many Eyes Watch, Brutality at Rikers Island Persists

9 Surprising Industries Profiting Handsomely from America's Insane Prison System

The Ukrainian city that’s become a haven for Jews fleeing another European war

This Adorably Frustrated Puppy Has No Idea How to Pick Up a Frisbee

Inside the food industry: the surprising truth about what you eat

A small college in Charleston, South Carolina, seeks to revive the centuries-old fine building trades.

States where it is legal to argue that a trans woman is responsible for your decision to murder her. Spoiler: It's almost all of them

Rust Never Sleeps

America’s losing fight against the insidious enemy within

Walmart’s Wage Hike Still About Greed

How Did Long-Necked Dinosaurs Drink Without Getting Dizzy?

FYI, Humans Can Only Distinguish Between About 30 Shades Of Gray

The crackdown on Little Free Libraries

2 Cezanne sketches found on reverse sides of watercolors. The collector who bought them more than 90 years ago probably never knew they were there.

Syrian children struggle on Lebanon's streets

The Japanese-Peruvians interned in the US during WW2

Now Cleared for Landing at Airports: Bees

Despite being applauded by many, the "miraculous" prosperity of the Twin Cities is only a reality for a certain slice of their population.

A dynasty of repairmen is keeping the world’s typewriters from going obsolete

Indian River, Protected by a Curse, Faces the Modern World

The government and rebels in eastern Ukraine have agreed to start pulling back heavy weapons from the frontline.

Modi bets on GM crops for India's second green revolution

China’s island-building spree is about more than just military might

Ousted Ukraine leader aiming to return as rebel rockets threaten peace plan

Greece debt deal: Reforms will 'combat tax evasion'

Since last summer, Southern California Edison, which serves nearly 14 million customers, has been firing its domestic IT workers and replacing them with outsourced employees from India.

Iran's Jews: It's Our Home And We Plan To Stay

Boston’s Winter From Hell

Barack Obama urges audience to “do a fact-check.” We oblige

Republicans want to shut down poverty research in North Carolina

Gosh it snowed a lot today!

I better go out and shovel again before I go to bed. I don't love shoveling, but I love it less when I put it off, so I'd better not.

Yesterday we went to the Museum of Math, and the girls were utterly fascinated by the existence of ice on the water in the bay. They compared it to Narnia!

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Work of prominent climate change denier was funded by energy industry

U.S. weighs slowing Afghan withdrawal to ensure 'progress sticks'

Ukraine crisis: Prisoner swap boosts ceasefire

Moscow protesters strike out against Ukraine and the West

U.S. defense chief: Mosul assault should be launched at right time to succeed

Kurdistan’s right to secede

Kurds’ Ascendance With West Further Isolates Turkey

History Repeats Itself: Ancient Cities Grew Much Like Modern Ones

A wall that segregated a town's Roma becomes an “art project”—which still segregates the town's Roma

United Nations investigators are considering revealing the names of an estimated 200 individuals suspected of committing war crimes in Syria.

Syria forces execute 10 children of rebels

"Children Do Not Migrate—They Flee": Striking Photos From Poverty-Ravaged Guatemala

'To your bone you’re cold': New York homeless shelters filled to capacity

Black hole's blast stunts birth of stars

Detroit homeowners face new wave of foreclosures

This Prisoner's Note Isn't From Some Dystopian Dictatorship. It's From Texas.

Tsipras declares victory as Greece dodges financial ruin

Sex in the Wild: 6 Ways Animals Do It

U.S. has seen a 400 percent increase in crude oil transportation. So why don't we have rail cars that are designed to carry it?

Turkish troops 'pass through Kobane' in Syria

Pope Francis compares trans people to nuclear weapons

Man's death leads to discovery of new virus in Kansas, CDC reports

The Soviet Union Dumped A Bunch of Nuclear Submarines, Reactors, and Containers into the Ocean

Life-destroying 'spice' drug engulfs Russia

Moscow blames Ukraine for proliferation of new highly addictive and deadly narcotic among its youth.

As many as 2,800 federal prisoners will be moved to other institutions after inmates seized control of part of a prison in South Texas, causing damage that made the facility "uninhabitable," an official said Saturday.

Cheap solar cells made from shrimp shells

The secret world of government debt collection

Libya violence: Islamic State attack 'kills 40' in al-Qubbah

I read only non-white authors for 12 months. What I learned surprised me

OMG OMG OMG!!!!

Scholar's Plot is finally on Kindle! Which means I can get it! And read it! Without paying $26, which, even for a hardcover, is highway robbery (although I was seriously considering it, even though that'd mean having to get Thief's War in real-book format as well, because I can't have a gap.)

I may have screamed, and my sister may have called me to make sure I wasn't seriously injured.

I have, like, a bajillionty articles to post, but you're all gonna have to wait.