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Scientists engineer microbes to form 'memories' of their environment

Modern Art Simplified

We looked at the major scientific discoveries from five years ago to see where they are now

We Fact-Checked 8 Animal Emojis—Here's What We Found

The New Year’s Feast That Transformed Fools Into Popes and Kings

Childhood Leukemia Was Practically Untreatable Until Dr. Don Pinkel and St. Jude Hospital Found a Cure

When Whimsical Anti-Theft Tea Caddies Protected the World's Most Precious Leaf

How A Typical Teen Did Something Not So Typical To Help Street Kids

Five questions about NASA's plans to visit an alien world in 2069

Secret Sauce? Kim Jong Un applies science to kimchi-making

American reams: why a ‘paperless world’ still hasn’t happened

What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year?

The real enemy on the world's highest battlefield

No 'Easy Answer' To Growing Number Of Stray Dogs In The U.S., Advocate Says

The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine

'The Simpsons' Shut Down Trump's Climate Change Tweet 8 Years Ago

The Places That May Never Recover From the Recession

Lower taxes spur growth, Trump says. The historical record isn’t so simple.

Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump’s New York Times interview is a scary read

Can you pass a grade 8 sex ed test?

Debunking Myths About Estrangement (The bulk of the comments are worth reading, however, there is a small but highly vocal contingent that's determined to dismiss anybody who might have had to break ties with a family member, ever.)

Prison Food Is Making U.S. Inmates Disproportionately Sick

How Hospitals Are Failing Black Mothers

Jakarta Is Sinking So Fast, It Could End Up Underwater

The Perils of a Post-ISIS Middle East

The shame of Afghanistan's virginity tests

In a hospital ward in Yemen, the collapse of a nation

Tyler Haire was locked up at 16. A Mississippi judge ordered that he undergo a mental exam. What happened next is a statewide scandal.

How Sea Shepherd lost battle against Japan’s whale hunters in Antarctic

3+ months after Maria, barely half of Puerto Rico has power

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UNESCO recognizes Panama's hats - no, not those ones

How to keep a family business running after 200 years

Why I Stopped Reading The Queen’s Thief Series (And Why I’m Diving Back In)

I don't know why, but I always love breakingcatnews_feed

It all makes so much sense now!

7 Brilliantly Useless Websites You Won't Believe Exist

Tilt! Old-school pinball is no longer old-school

Young gardeners eat more greens in first year at college

17 Questions For People With Strong Opinions About Condiments

How Did Fans React To The Empire Strikes Back In 1980? (The last section is the most interesting, and you should read it even if you skip the rest

Military turns to oyster reefs to protect against storms

This Georgetown freshman is 63, and attending the school that enslaved her ancestors

Starfish making comeback after syndrome killed millions

32 Sweet Photos That Capture Christmas at St. Joseph Orphanage, Louisville in the 1960s

The Hidden Biases That Shape Natural History Museums

We pitted 50 movies against 12 new ways of measuring Hollywood’s gender imbalance.

As child care costs soar, public preschool spots are limited

"The rainbow color map can significantly reduce a person’s accuracy and efficiency"

Crime victims' rights campaign faces fresh local backlash

Why people really want to move to Idaho but are fleeing its neighbor, Wyoming

Northeast states sue EPA over air pollution from Midwest

Where we've failed to live up to the promise of the Americans with Disabilities Act

Cities, volunteers clash over feeding homeless in public

Chinese report says South China Sea islands expanded 'reasonably' (And we all know they're so unbiased in this matter!)

South China Sea: How 2017's forgotten flashpoint could flare again

One Target in Beijing’s Migrant Crackdown: Schoolchildren

In the heart of Trump Country, his base's faith is unshaken

A Twitter Tirade on Christmas Eve

Winds of worry: US fishermen fear forests of power turbines

Could Brain Surgery Save A Father And Son?

These Children Of Central America Wonder Why Trump Is So Afraid Of Them

After Going from Church to Church Seeking Help, A Mexican Family Finds Sanctuary in Philadelphia

Cities sue Defense Dept. over gun-check system failures

The Criminalization of Gentrifying Neighborhoods

Hundreds Of People Told Us How Sexual Harassment In Tech Derailed Their Careers

Rohingya refugees have only memories, saved on cellphones

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Ugh. My keyboard home row is completely busted. Using the onscreen keyboard, but I hate it. Hope nobody expects replies today : (

The laptop is already held together with spit, so I will get a USB keyboard for now and save for a new PC.