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Movies, zombies, Halloween changing Mexico's Day of the Dead
Students in first-year composition classes are, on average, writing longer essays (from an average of 162 words in 1917, to 422 words in 1986, to 1,038 words in 2006), using more complex rhetorical techniques, and making no more errors than those committed by freshman in 1917. (And students are more likely to go to college today than they were 100 years ago!)
The world’s knowledge is being buried in a salt mine
MIT Lab Produces Incandescent Lights Rivaling LEDs in Efficiency
The School of Wants and Needs — and Wood-Fired Showers
Inside the Frozen Zoo That Could Bring Extinct Animals Back to Life
In the West Bank, Samaritans provide a sanctuary
The Colonel's Nephew "Accidentally" Revealed KFC's Secret Recipe (I would not have expected the ginger! Though, to be fair, if I'm going to have fried chicken I prefer Popeye's.)
Ancient water from Northern Ontario mine may harbour ‘alien’ life
Have a kid with migraines? Sugar pills work as well as drugs
Meet the Makech, the Bedazzled Beetles Worn as Living Jewelry
Proofreader's Marks :P
A short jump from single-celled ancestors to animals
Scientists Trace Society’s Myths to Primordial Origins (This is certainly very interesting, though I'm not 100% convinced.)
The secret behind Italy’s rarest pasta
Struggling Gaza factory turns to recycling to survive
New model suggests scrubbing CO2 from the atmosphere
Rehabilitated orangutans freed in Borneo as species dwindles
In Germany, Syrians find mosques too conservative
Long, curved, akimbo: Hope uncovered for bird beak deformity
Forgotten But Not Gone: The Rusty Patched Bumble Bee
Thousands of California soldiers forced to repay enlistment bonuses a decade after going to war.
Pollution exposure is higher in city kids who are active, finds study
The Trump Supporters...Who Are Secretly Voting for Hillary
The Revolt of the Conservative Women
Patients left in limbo as more doctors flee Puerto Rico
U.S. Prisoner Protest: Why Listening to the Voices of the Incarcerated Matters
Kashmir kids find refuge in makeshift schools amid uprising
I Went Undercover With a Border Militia. Here's What I Saw.
With French camp razed, moved migrants try to adapt again
Rohingya women say Myanmar soldiers raped them amid crackdown on militants
Turkey’s New Maps Are Reclaiming the Ottoman Empire
Number of US foster kids rises; parents' drug abuse a factor
Movies, zombies, Halloween changing Mexico's Day of the Dead
Students in first-year composition classes are, on average, writing longer essays (from an average of 162 words in 1917, to 422 words in 1986, to 1,038 words in 2006), using more complex rhetorical techniques, and making no more errors than those committed by freshman in 1917. (And students are more likely to go to college today than they were 100 years ago!)
The world’s knowledge is being buried in a salt mine
MIT Lab Produces Incandescent Lights Rivaling LEDs in Efficiency
The School of Wants and Needs — and Wood-Fired Showers
Inside the Frozen Zoo That Could Bring Extinct Animals Back to Life
In the West Bank, Samaritans provide a sanctuary
The Colonel's Nephew "Accidentally" Revealed KFC's Secret Recipe (I would not have expected the ginger! Though, to be fair, if I'm going to have fried chicken I prefer Popeye's.)
Ancient water from Northern Ontario mine may harbour ‘alien’ life
Have a kid with migraines? Sugar pills work as well as drugs
Meet the Makech, the Bedazzled Beetles Worn as Living Jewelry
Proofreader's Marks :P
A short jump from single-celled ancestors to animals
Scientists Trace Society’s Myths to Primordial Origins (This is certainly very interesting, though I'm not 100% convinced.)
The secret behind Italy’s rarest pasta
Struggling Gaza factory turns to recycling to survive
New model suggests scrubbing CO2 from the atmosphere
Rehabilitated orangutans freed in Borneo as species dwindles
In Germany, Syrians find mosques too conservative
Long, curved, akimbo: Hope uncovered for bird beak deformity
Forgotten But Not Gone: The Rusty Patched Bumble Bee
Thousands of California soldiers forced to repay enlistment bonuses a decade after going to war.
Pollution exposure is higher in city kids who are active, finds study
The Trump Supporters...Who Are Secretly Voting for Hillary
The Revolt of the Conservative Women
Patients left in limbo as more doctors flee Puerto Rico
U.S. Prisoner Protest: Why Listening to the Voices of the Incarcerated Matters
Kashmir kids find refuge in makeshift schools amid uprising
I Went Undercover With a Border Militia. Here's What I Saw.
With French camp razed, moved migrants try to adapt again
Rohingya women say Myanmar soldiers raped them amid crackdown on militants
Turkey’s New Maps Are Reclaiming the Ottoman Empire
Number of US foster kids rises; parents' drug abuse a factor
