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Ancient Trees Were Bafflingly Complicated, and Scientists Don’t Really Know Why

A tale of ‘trons’: the suffix that tells the story of modern science

The obsolete English -k suffix is my new favourite thing. It’s also the same -k that derives “hark, hearken” from “hear”.

Clever Machines Learn How to Be Curious

Google Search Now Checks Your Local Library For Ebooks

Why Is This Deer Licking This Fox?

Artificial eye dominance may speed reading for people with dyslexia

The FDA Will Decide Whether 26 Ingredients Count As Fiber

Universe shouldn’t exist, CERN physicists conclude

Japan's Infamous Halloween Trains

SO apparently my entire life is a lie how has your guys' night been

First Person Goomba (Video)

Not so cold duck? Man keeps looking for bird thought extinct

Poor kitty! He's not a taco!

In response to far right, LGBTQ gun group hits firing line

Female homicide rate dropped after Craigslist launched its erotic services platform

Female animators release an open letter denouncing the industry's culture of silence and harassment

College's bell tower trolled white supremacist with black national anthem

Anne Frank diary to counter anti-Semitism in Italian soccer

We say black lives matter. The FBI says that makes us a security threat.

The GOP Tried Trump-Style Tax Cuts in Kansas. What a Mess.

Rigged: How Voter Suppression Threw Wisconsin to Trump

Study: NYC could see bad flooding every 5 years

These Staten Islanders lost their neighborhood to Sandy. Here’s why they’re not taking it back.

Trump pick for top environmental post called belief in global warming a 'kind of paganism'

Scientists warn that saline lakes in dire situation worldwide

EPA keeps scientists from speaking about report on climate

All five living former US presidents make rare appearance together

Texas city requires Israel pledge for hurricane relief

Syria: shocking images of starving baby reveal impact of food crisis

Watching Discovery 1 x 6

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Everybody's under the weather.

Boo.

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These shrews have heads that shrink with the season

Songbook From the 16th-Century Spells Out Samurai Customs, Tactics and Baby Names

Great tits aren’t the only things evolving to adapt to humans. Here are 12 others.

Pissarro in Norwood, Monet at the Savoy: what the exiled impressionists saw in London

Crops evolved 10 millennia earlier than thought

Guy Tests Out An 8,000-Year-Old Egyptian Mousetrap Design (Video)

Study may explain counterintuitive effect of why hotter systems can cool more quickly

The billion-dollar widget steering the driverless car industry

New Orleans' Great Bail Reform Experiment

How the 1867 Medicine Lodge Treaty Changed the Plains Indian Tribes Forever

Why So Many People Believe Conspiracy Theories?

Has the Supreme Court Legalized Public Corruption?

This Is What It Looks Like When An Industry Controls A State’s Politics

A Family’s Long Search for Answers After Israel’s Killing of a Palestinian-American Teen

The U.K. agency that compiled the data in Trump’s terrorism tweet disagrees with his assessment

When the Revolution Came for Amy Cuddy

Toxic tensions in the heart of 'Cancer Alley'

Air Force could recall as many as 1,000 retired pilots to address serious shortage

Trump's secretive voter fraud panel is keeping own members in the dark

First major abortion battle of Trump era could be headed for Supreme Court

Don't Surrender, Reinvent: The New Mantra Of Small Biz In Puerto Rico

One month later, most of Puerto Rico is still utterly destroyed.

Imagine a Puerto Rico Recovery Designed by Puerto Ricans

How American women are left to rot in jail

They weren’t faking: 12 young detainees who died while under Florida’s care

The Islamic State: From Insurgency to Rogue State and Back

Chibok diaries: Chronicling a Boko Haram kidnapping

This Is What A 21st-Century Police State Really Looks Like

End of Apartheid in South Africa? Not in Economic Terms

ST DISCO!

Appropriately, no sooner do we come up with this nickname for them and they have their own actual disco. Sadly, no disco ball, but whatever.

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All in all, a good time-loop ep, even if nobody played golf. And next episode seems to be all deep and meaningful and shit, judging by the music, even if I have no clue what's gonna happen. Also, don't forget to pop by spacefungusparty!

If you don't want my advice, don't ask my opinion

Seriously!

If you know what I'm going to say, and you don't want to hear it, why don't we just talk about something else?

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Bacteria have a sense of touch

The History of Mincemeat Pies, from the Crusades to Christmas

Mother of Hawaii woman lost at sea for months never gave up

Living close to green spaces is associated with better attention in children

'Neopets': Inside Look at Early 2000s Internet Girl Culture

One of the 100 Desks in the U.S. Senate Chamber Is Full of Candy

The Hidden Meaning of Kids' Shapes and Scribbles

Diversity and immigration increase productivity in microbial communities

The Mind-Boggling Physics of a Standing Double Backflip

The Uncanny Resurrection of Dungeons & Dragons (Also!)

Panel recommends new, better shingles shot over old version

The Trick To Making Your Own Halloween Candy? Swallowing Your Fear

NY woman missing since '75 found alive in Massachusetts (But she suffers from dementia, so nobody knows why she disappeared or changed her name and what she did in the missing time between 1975 and her hospitalization. Now you don't need to read the article, but what a weird story!)

The Giant Frog Farms of the 1930s Were a Giant Failure

What If the Newspaper Industry Made a Colossal Mistake? (As always, if I link to MeFi, you should probably read the comments there)

America's Imperial Unraveling

John Kelly and the Language of the Military Coup

Russian Interference Had No Impact On Election, Reports Website Created 8 Minutes Ago

Pennsylvania finds 544 possibly illegal ballots since 2000 (Definitely what we should really be scared of....)

Leopold and Loeb’s Criminal Minds

When Kids Have to Act Like Parents, It Affects Them for Life

Sorry, but Haribo gummies are reportedly made with slave labor (Everything worth eating seems to be.)

"What could help me to die?" Doctors clash over euthanasia

‘No One is Coming:’ Investigation Reveals Hospices Abandon Patients at Death’s Door

Boko Haram strapped suicide bombs to them. Somehow these teenage girls survived.