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I spoke with author Mark Kurlansky about the quirky inventor who changed the way we eat
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If it looks like a black truffle, and if it cost you $1,500 a pound like a black truffle---it may actually be a worthless Chinese truffle
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Curator Larry Bird tells of the adventure—from Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Washington, D.C.
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How a brainless, single-celled organism created a startlingly efficient route map for U.S. highways
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Lazy journalists and unscrupulous documentary creators have demonstrated that they just can't play nice with Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops and kin
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The "if you can't beat 'em, eat 'em" strategy for controlling exotic species could backfire, a new analysis warns
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College graduates take note: Your dream career as a robot psychologist or nasal technologist is just around the corner
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How a ditch irrigation system in the arid Southwest became the backbone of local democracy
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This week, watch a documentary about Hawaiian music, enjoy a performance of Dominican merengue and Haitian méringue, and chow down at ZooFari
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Some males take decades to fully mature; this arrested development can improve their odds of mating success
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It wouldn't seem to be. But social TV, where people interact with their friends on a second screen while they're watching a show, may be boosting ratings
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King Kong's fearsome Brontosaurus found a home in an out-of-the-way Utah museum
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From saints to sinners, some Mother's Day movies you may have overlooked
The renowned physicist enjoyed the sensation of weightlessness while 24,000 feet over the Atlantic
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Tonight, the Hirshhorn's nightly 360-degree projection, SONG 1, comes alive with an outdoor concert
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Ernest Hemingway popularized the cosmopolitan lifestyle of Paris, but he missed out every day he wasn't walking through the forested hills of Périgord
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Why are the lees at the bottom of a wine or cider barrel named for your female parent?
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The History Channel presents self-appointed challengers of science who take on the idea that aliens caused the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs
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Seventy-five years later, opinions still vary on what caused the airship to explode so suddenly
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