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The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon

You may have heard about Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon before. In fact, you probably learned about it for the first time...
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Computer Dating

Every year, millions of people use services like eHarmony and Match.com hoping to find romance by answering a questio...
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China’s Sorrow

Natural disasters are tragedies that usually strike randomly and infrequently - unless you happen to live in the Huan...
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Volcanic Winter

In France, on 6 April 1815, Napoleon surrendered his throne in favor of his sons. The coalition that opposed him were...
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Shortness of Dark

Depending on who you ask, the first practical light bulb was invented by Joseph Wilson Swan of Britain in 1878, or Th...
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Do You See What I Hear?

Human beings are very metaphoric creatures. We love to juxtapose the experience of one sense with another. Whether it...
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The Jumping Frenchman of Maine Disorder

In a nutshell, evolution describes the fact that in a given set of organisms, those which manage to survive are the s...
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A Big Footprint on the Steppe

The Y-chromosome is one that geneticists love to study. Because it is passed on from father to son with no matching c...
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The Only Nazi Aircraft Carrier

In no naval action of World War 2 will you find a German aircraft carrier taking part. All the major navies in the wa...
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Watch the Skies in the Year 52,007 A.D.

Fifty thousand years from now-- if all goes according to plan-- a bright streak will smudge the sky as a man-made met...
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