Yesterday I ended up in the checkout line with the new guy

Had I realized it was his first day, I probably would not have gone into his line with all my produce, and the guy behind me just had eggs!

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Evolution: Where did building blocks of life come from?

How many King Edwards has England had? Why I am irrationally enraged by regnal numbering

A Secret Forest Grew for Millennia in North America Without Anyone Noticing

How do trees go to sleep?

New rule expands overtime pay to millions of salaried workers

Governor who called legalization 'reckless' now says Colorado's pot industry is working

A Wooden Chain Made Without Glue Is an Act of Sorcery

Kullervo: Tolkien's fascination with Finland

Agrihoods take root: a housing trend rooted in agriculture

Meet Tabboush: A Syrian Cat in Greece (This one shouldn't make anybody cry.)

Two colleges where diversity works

As Attention Grows, Transgender Children’s Numbers Are Elusive

Cuckoo mafia: Host birds only tolerate parasitic eggs in their nests when they fear retaliation

The racial divide of the perception of cyclists

Apparently, it was a Japanese-American unit that liberated Dachau. I had no idea!

Much of World Suffers Not From Abuse of Painkillers, but Absence of Them

Defective ‘breast cancer’ genes aren’t just dangerous for women. They’re also linked to aggressive cancer in men.

Report finds segregation in education on the rise

A man’s search for his kidnapped children

Toddler tied to a rock while her parents work (Photojournalism, mostly)

As Many as 4 in 10 Gay Men Have HIV in Some Southern Cities

From belief to outrage: The decline of the middle class reaches the next American town

When immigration status is used as a weapon for domestic abuse

CIA 'mistakenly' destroys copy of 6,700-page US torture report

Militant attacks force Bangladesh's gay community into hiding

For asylum seekers, Dutch prisons feel like home (Pictures here

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Are we pointing telescopes in the right direction to find alien life?

This dinosaur had a heartbreaking life. Now she’s famous — and an inspiration.

Bilingual babies learn languages faster than monolingual babies

Identify Any Tree in New York City With this Map (ANY tree is stretching it. This map is missing quite a few street trees in my neighborhood, although the ones they include seem to be accurate. Still, nifty!)

Girls And Older Adults Are Missing Out On Parks For Recreation

Ancient Roman Shipwreck Full of Coins and Bronze Statues Discovered Off Israel

Clues to ancient giant asteroid found in Australia

Where teenagers can legally drink in the U.S. (yes, really)

Even Psychologists Respond To Meaningless Rewards

Acorn Woodpeckers Hoard Thousands of Acorns in a Single Tree. That’s not even the weirdest thing about them.

What Car Did The Dad In Calvin & Hobbes Drive?

Sharks’ electricity-sensing organs are even more powerful than we realized

As American As Duct Tape, Brass Knuckles and Cole Slaw

Equation shows that large-scale conspiracies would quickly reveal themselves

Citizen-scientists: Uncle Sam wants you to fight Zika!

Germs could play a role in the development of type 1 diabetes by triggering the body's immune system to destroy the cells that produce insulin, new research suggests.

Is there a sexist data crisis?

A Peek at the Golden Age of Prison Radio

A drive to rethink what incarceration is for

In New Orleans, Criminal Justice Meets Housing Justice

The inside story of Facebook’s biggest setback

The Trucker, His Downfall, and the US Economy

Why There’s an Uproar Over Trying to Increase Funding for Poor Schools

Auschwitz mug reveals jewellery hidden 70 years ago

Skull condition thought extinct is actually widespread, research finds

The TSA is a waste of money that doesn't save lives and might actually cost them

In Search For Cures, Scientists Create Embryos That Are Both Animal And Human

Superbugs will 'kill every three seconds' (Okay, serious subject, but check out their stock image!)

Alerted to Danger, New York City Failed to Curb Harm at Group Homes

The patriot and the correspondent: Acts of friendship in a land caught in-between

Bloodshed blurs Middle East borders set 100 years ago by UK-French pact

As videos expose wrongdoing by South Carolina cops, police agencies tighten control over footage

U.N. urges Greece to stop detaining migrant children

Farms a major source of air pollution, study finds

Polluted dust can impact ocean life thousands of miles away

‘Fundamentally unstable’: Scientists confirm their fears about East Antarctica’s biggest glacier