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I don't know, if pedantry got me that awesome cape-pose, I wouldn't hate to be that guy either.

And as I'm evidently posting comics today, welcome to Fauxtopia!

How the Body’s Trillions of Clocks Keep Time

Five Supreme Court cases to watch

The War Over Genome Editing Just Got a Lot More Interesting

When science catches up to the pet trade: Geosesarma crabs

The Miracle Sugar Substitute The FDA Won't Let You Have

What Will I Hear When My Ears Stop Working?

Official USDA Food Plans: Cost of Food at Home at Four Levels (That liberal food plan is amazing. How on earth are four people supposed to be spending $300 a week on food alone!?)

What 2,000 Calories Looks Like

Notes Toward a Theory of Hair

Philippines' Forgotten Revolution: General Luna and the Quest for Independence

Everything You Eat, From One Farm

Why There is So Much Sugar in Your Kid’s School Breakfast

When Grasshoppers Go Biblical: Serotonin Causes Locusts to Swarm

The future of language

Aspirin 'may double life expectancy of cancer patients'

What Life Is Like as a Twentysomething Nun

5 Methods The Professionals Use To Avoid Hard Questions

Ban on 'Tag': Are school children getting the right playtime?

The 5 biggest lies you’ve been told about Planned Parenthood

Nepal considers fuel rationing as protesters block trucks

The True Cost of an Expensive Medication

Why It’s So Hard to Fire an Abusive Prison Guard

The Harrowing Conditions of U.S. Immigrant Detention Centers

Hundreds of deported mentally ill immigrants could return to U.S., judge rules

Israel's soaring population: Promised Land running out of room?

Map: The risk of genocide around the world

Four Decades of Herbicide Use Is Creating Zombie Weeds That Just Won't Die

These places banned booze. Now they’re dealing with something far worse

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When America Was 'Great,' Taxes Were High, Unions Were Strong, and Government Was Big

The Newly Discovered Tablet V of the Epic of Gilgamesh

Immigrants will drive U.S. population growth in next five decades: Pew

U.S. foreign-born population nears high

More Asian than Hispanic immigrants: political implications?

Printing lightweight, flexible, and functional materials

Folk etymology: AUSTRALIA in British Sign Language (Be sure to read this one)

Scientists find evidence of recent water flows on Mars

What Does Probability Mean in Your Profession?

Street Lamps That Take Photos and Record Data Could Come to NYC

Pregnant cancer patients shouldn't terminate or delay treatment: study

This New Campaign Wants To Help Surveillance Agents Quit NSA or GCHQ

Why Catalonia matters to Spain: the numbers

The Greenwich Village vision of artist Alfred Mira

How one fisherwoman built a small empire

Brontë Sisters Power Dolls (OMG you want to watch this!)

Antikythera shipwreck shows how the ancient world's one percent lived

“Food doesn’t all look the same and it shouldn’t”

Crowds Gather to Remember Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution, One Year On

Clashes at Jerusalem holy site as Jewish holiday starts

Thai police link suspect in bombing to previous explosions

Guyana’s President Says Venezuela Is Massing Troops Along Disputed Border

China village defenceless against North Korean intruders

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Fun with thermometers!

We were goofing off after school today, and the girls remembered we have a thermometer, and decided to ask me to take their temperature. I started with Ana.

Results: 105.3

I glanced at Ana, observed she wasn't currently comatose, and resolved to try again.

Results: 93.4

Uh... third time's the charm?

Results: 97.0

Methinks our thermometer might not be working quite as well as it ought to. For the record, the Kiss of Connie registered Ana as "just fine". I didn't bother measuring Eva's temperature.

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The island of colour blindness

Think the floppy disk is dead? Think again!

Glass Portraits Are Sliced Incredibly Like a Loaf of Bread

The Ohio Superstore That Beat Walmart by Giving Up Electricity

What Happens When the 'Moral Majority' Becomes a Minority?

I Gave A Speech About Race To The Publishing Industry And No One Heard Me

A Wild Hippo Still Comes Home to Visit Her Human Parents Who Rescued Her as a Baby

911 caller: Monkey's eating mail out of neighbor's mailbox

Bat species found to have tongue pump to pull in nectar

‘This Goes All the Way to the Queen’: The Puzzle Book that Drove England to Madness

Unusual Allergy: Girl Reacts to Food Only After Exercise

Silica Valley

Boy turns in $8,000 found on slide: When can finders be keepers?

Why slowing down London's subway could make it more efficient

American War Heroes Return Home 7 Decades Later

Distinctive contexts critical to how children learn words, Stanford study reveals

Okay, pretty cool, there's a woman who has picture book artists draw on her arm. Then she has a tattoo done over the drawing!

Company Store Scrip

New York City Bar Association Urges Reduction of Mass Incarceration in Report

Racism Is Real

Germany needs migrants. Do we?

Migration crisis proves boon for some businesses

China pledges $2bn for developing world

Syria's Assad gets new chance, despite military setbacks