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Why Some Cold Cuts Make Iridescent Meat Rainbows—and Why They're Still OK to Eat

16 Vintage Christmas Cards With Kittens That Will Get You Into The Holiday Spirit

Why 19th-Century Americans Drank From Coconut Shells

Barcelona's 'blanket men' try to rebrand

Parents' reports of children's autism symptoms differ by ethnicity

Misery Doesn’t Seem to Improve the Quality of Art

The McDonald’s Monopoly Scam: Operation Final Answer

China's rust belt gets long-awaited bridge to Russia. But is it still a lifeline?

S. Korea human rights body urges probe of abuse of vagrants in 1970s and 80s

Online risks are routine for teens, most bounce back

Kids aren’t protecting themselves against STDs during oral sex

The Preventable Problem That Schools Ignore

The Military Is Burning Art from Guantanamo That the World Should See

Fake news and botnets: how Russia weaponised the web

New blaze ignites near LA as fierce California wildfires rage

Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back, With a Vengeance

Republicans Are Looting the Treasury While They Still Can

GOP's next goal: Shred the social safety net

US homeless people numbers rise for first time in seven years

Most vulnerable dying in 'America's Finest City'

Nigeria looks for new ways to restore and protect villages dispersed by Boko Haram

The sex trafficking trail from Nigeria to Europe

Replaced the upstairs water heater today

Took a shower for the first time in too long.

I feel so clean.

(Also, even beforehand, all the dishes were washed. When you have to boil the water yourself, you don't stop at "just enough". So I'm clean and I don't have dishes to do. Win!)

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9 Very Specific Rules From Real Libraries

In first, 3-D printed objects connect to WiFi without electronics

Photographs that show a bygone India

A borderless Africa? Some countries open doors, raise hopes

These aquatic creatures eat in seriously strange ways

Some Delightful Alternatives to the Post-Sneeze ‘Bless You’

Appalled Graphic Designer Shows Girls’ Life Magazine What Their Cover Should Look Like

Bored teen in Kentucky builds his own rollercoaster (Video)

New dental material resists plaque and kills microbes

Before Edward Lear Was a Limerick Genius, He Was a Teenage Parrot-Painting Prodigy

Knowing a transgender person could influence one's political stance, study finds

Supreme Court hears same-sex marriage cake case

I Use a Wheelchair. And Yes, I’m Your Doctor.

What Archaeologists and Historians Are Finding About the Heroine of a Beloved Young Adult Novel

America's Deep Rift on Gender Issues

Accusers take on toxic culture in TV newsrooms

How Activists Are Using Technology to Help People Make Bail

A protest in Trump Country brings home nation's race divides

Goldwater rule? Should psychiatrists be allowed to publicly comment on mental health of public figures?

House will vote on concealed carry reciprocity bill

Trump administration to review whether bump stocks should be banned

Jerusalem is Israel's capital, says Donald Trump (Does it ever occur to him that other people might have had good reasons for preserving the status quo? No, of course not.)

For teen boys at risk of psychopathy, laughter isn’t catching

11-Year-Old Has Spent Her Life in Jail, a Serial Killer as a Cellmate

Hundreds of thousands of poor people detained in hospitals

Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?

Cocaine deaths among blacks on par with opioid deaths among whites, study finds

A Police Killing Without a Hint of Racism

Why America Fails at Gathering Hate Crime Statistics

A Teen-Ager in Solitary Confinement