Yeah, despite what I said

I may have still gone and made a new Neopet. Entirely by accident!

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Jack-o'-lantern Snake Adds Herpetology To Halloween

Rediscovering History’s Lost First Female Video Game Designer

A 600-Year History of Cookbooks as Status Symbols

It's Alive! The Birth of Frankenstein

Honest Trailers - Star Trek: The Next Generation (Video)

When Hope Runs Out, Cancer Patients Are Making Their Own DIY Immunotherapy Treatments

The Hearing World Must Stop Forcing Deaf Culture to Assimilate

One Cuban Family's Long And Risky Journey To A New Life In The U.S.

The Army Veteran Who Became the First to Hike the Entire Appalachian Trail

The Long Journey to Reveal the Oregon Trail’s Racist History

The Forgotten Italian Tradition of Building Monumental Food Palaces

Why tyrants love to write poetry

The quiet crisis among African Americans: Pregnancy and childbirth are killing women at inexplicable rates

Bats And Tequila: A Once Boo-tiful Relationship Cursed By Growing Demands

Domestic abuse shelters for men help spotlight male victims

How renting furniture in Texas can land you in jail

For Sandy survivors, a desire to help Texans avoid their mistakes

Iraqi forces, Kurdish Peshmerga agree on ceasefire, Kurdistan says

Why Harvey Weinstein is disgraced but Donald Trump is president

When I was nineteen years old, Elie Wiesel grabbed my ass. If it is such a small thing that I shouldn’t be upset about it then how is it big enough to ruin a legacy?

Science Says: Jack Frost nipping at your nose ever later

Puerto Rico Is Burning Its Dead, And We May Never Know How Many People The Hurricane Really Killed

Puerto Rico's Dire Health-Care Crisis

When Race Tips the Scales in Plea Bargaining

Wisconsin juvenile prisons struggle to change course

Is The F-Word Ever OK In The Classroom?

Donald Trump is Stressing Students Out and Making Classrooms Meaner

Catalan leaders removed, Spain asserts control over breakaway region

As Africa tackles child marriage, young survivors speak out

Look at this cute costume choice!

I don't get it, though. Why did she dress up as two totally different, completely unrelated people? :P

Anecdotally, it seemed every other kid was in a superhero costume this year - especially the girls. Eva bucked the trend a bit - she made a Harley Quinn costume, complete with homemade mallet.

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The Multiverse Is Inevitable, And We’re Living In It

Las Vegas shines as a model for solar power

The Other Reformation: How Martin Luther Changed Our Beer, Too

Crows Are Doing the Best They Can

Want to be Santa? Be ready for tough questions and heartbreaking requests (Data on the costume vs. uniform front - "A Santa suit should never be called a 'costume,' he said. It's a 'uniform.'")

The reminiscence bump: why America’s greatest year was probably when you were young

Hidden in a Basement for 70 Years, Newly Discovered Documents Shed Light on Jewish Life and Culture Before WWII

Return of the city-state

The war against Pope Francis

Mali’s Desert Elephants, on Edge of Annihilation, Get a Fighting Chance

For the Love of Rattlesnakes, Scrub All GPS Data from Your Nature Photos

New fingerprint algorithm helps ID bodies found decades ago

The Kurds Are Right Back Where They Started

How Catalonia’s crisis is turning into a European problem

There is no 1st Amendment right to speak on a college campus (I'm not 100% certain I agree, however, it is refreshing to see an article on the subject that's more than handwringing over how today's youth are ruining everything.)

Here’s Why Vaccines Are So Crucial

On NYC’s Paratransit, Fighting for Safety, Respect, and Human Dignity

They fled danger at home to make a high-stakes bet on U.S. immigration courts

Wisconsin governor signs anti-boycott Israel order

Neo-Nazis Target College Campuses in Recruitment Drive