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In Facebook world, you'd think there wouldn't be much of a future for nonfiction storytelling. But several startups are trying to keep the narrative alive
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In 1912, a family of six was murdered by ax in the little town of Villisca, Iowa. Might these killings be linked to nine other similar crimes?
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A history of caricatures exposes the inside jokes
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How Hollywood portrays musicians—rock, jazz and country—as they tour
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Is it time to stop calling sickle-clawed dinosaurs "raptors"?
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It's World Oceans Day and here are 10 things scientists know about what's happening under the sea that they didn't a year ago
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Brian Eno's Music for Airports is a sound environment created specifically to complement the experience of waiting in an airport terminal
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Planetary geologist Jim Zimbelman reflects on Ray Bradbury's legacy
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This weekend celebrate World Oceans Day, 100 Years of Girl Scouts and hat designer, Lula Mae Reeves
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A delightful new film takes viewers to India’s picturesque western state of Rajasthan
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The hulking crustacean has razor-sharp mandibles and eyes that catch the light like a cat's. Now it has turned into a high-tech saboteur
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These elder-containing concoctions, credited with reviving a taste for liqueurs, came about as folk remedies
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Make a fuss in the road and someone will appear. Spit out some gibberish about “fromage a vendre,” and that should do it. You'll get your cheese
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The power of the synthesizing mind and the building blocks of combinatorial creativity
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The Duke's daughter-in-law Gretchen Wayne talks about the restored version of one of his moodier Westerns
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The American Indian Museum tells the stories of indigenous Olympians both past and present
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The German chemist helped feed the world. Then he developed the first chemical weapons used in battle
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As cars got larger in the 1920s, the "Helicar" was presented as the solution to congested city streets
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Fossil evidence hints that the common ancestor of gorillas, chimpanzees and humans evolved in Europe
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