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On top of the world
Wherein we travel the globe in search of condiment news
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The Hole 459 Yards
Deep, deep sinkhole one more reminder of ocean’s mysteries
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AAAAHHHHHHH!
Munch’s maddening masterpiece and the history of heists
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A little of Column A…
These news items are positively chimeric
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Hawaii Five-One
All around the world–and in the Aloha State–today’s a big deal
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Prelude to progress
1939 World’s Fair gave a glimpse of a dawn deferred
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Taste sensation!
A sampler of news briefs that are easy on the palate
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‘Yo soy el cantante’
Library of Congress enshrines a salsa legend
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The first marvelous moment
Hank Aaron’s road to immortality started 70 years ago
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Go your own way
Road-trip briefs got us cruisin’ and newsin’
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Cook learnin’
This piece on food museums will make you hella snacky
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A sparkling diamond
Remembering Flora Batson, the boundary-breaking Queen of Song
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The call is coming from inside your body
Scientists know all sorts of new things about you. Come see!
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Age-Turners
Fifty years ago, they were putting out some darn good books
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Don’t Not Look Up
Post-eclipse, night owls still have plenty of cool things to see
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It’s all so clear!
This week’s briefs are no optical illusion
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Creased Lightning
Origami-inspired structures are quick to build, easy to stow
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Drs. Sandler and Nicholson Approved This Article
Good and bad strategies for getting your rage under control
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Q: What’s going on?
A: Marvin Gaye’s 85th birthday
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Welcome to the fast track
or, This week’s briefs have a one-track mind
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Going Down
Joy and grief mark 20 years of Europe’s first artificial reef
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Exit through the giftplex
A guided tour through the world’s biggest museums
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Huh-huh, huh-huh.
The week in balls
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Memory Palace Intrigue
Jeopardy veteran Monica Thieu digs into the science of trivia greatness
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Plus rapide!
French servers return to the race circuit, aprons and all
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Take your filthy hands off my asp!
The Pink Panther came out in a crazy-good year for movies
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You’re not the only one who’s excited about spring
World traditions show we’re all ready for some friggin’ sunshine
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Wee got you covered
This week’s briefs get tiny
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Surprise! Nic Cage Likes Weird Nic Cage Movies
Literally just say ‘Con Air’
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Flee Willy
Orcas burnish their resume as nature’s perfect killers
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Garbage Day
In which we toss out a veritable scrap heap of news
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Sweet relief
In which we say good riddance to a bad logo, and more
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Ms. Driscoll’s Many Colors
A point of Clara-fication on a design legend
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C-3PO Approved This Article
This week’s metal news goes “Clash! Clang! Crash!”
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The white zone is for merrymaking only
A whirlwind tour of the world’s most tourist-friendly airports
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Constant Carving
Thanks to a new statue, we remember a ‘Great’ emperor
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This article is worth 56% of a picture
All the latest from the world of words and communication
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Sitting Upright
The familiar story of a less-familiar civil rights icon
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International flap
Alleged Chinese spy pigeon is the latest in a long, long tradition
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Down where it’s wetter
Take a deep breath for this week’s news briefs
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Beyond Romeo
Love, Shakespeare style
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Noodling Around
Pasta makes us happy, says pasta
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Chromatic for the People
Taste the rainbow with our sampler of color-related news
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Our Favorite Dragons
Chinese New Year got us in our flapping, flaming feelings
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Horns aplenty
What’s up with Scotland and unicorns?
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Elmo: A history
From generic extra to pop-culture phenom to ad hoc therapist
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Hot off the press!
Burn and learn with a roundup of last week’s fire news
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Joyeux anniversaire, Jackie Robinson
On his 105th birthday, Montreal remembers a legend
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Say cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…
‘Millennium Camera’ reminds us of other hecka-long art projects
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Holy molars
Grin and bear this roundup of toothy news
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What Lies Beneath
Miners just keep finding fascinating crap
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Hello, I am Macintosh.
A look at 40 years of Apple being Apple
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America’s first woman doctor was no joke
The unreasonably busy life of Elizabeth Blackwell
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What’s up?
All the latest in things that fly
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Nature and Nurture
Our nominations for the Mama Animal Hall of Fame
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Postmodern Prometheus
Awaiting a new Frankenstein, we look at past portrayers
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A plum assignment
This week’s fruit news explains everything else (and then loses its flavor)
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Carmy’s Army
We order up six courses from our favorite fictional chefs
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Say ‘fromage’
The multiple lives of Louis Daguerre, the father of modern photography
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Not Quite Elementary
It was a big week for solving weird-ass mysteries
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The Crater Good
Exploration of the moon’s far side ramps up in 2024
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May alder acquaintance be forgot
Ringing in 2024 with the latest in lumber-related news
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The Year in Video Eating Itself
Search trends find YouTubers using YouTube to make more YouTube
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The Big Bounce Back
Magnificent megafauna mark 50 years of Endangered Species Act
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Shaggy dog story
If Bobi fooled the Guinness Book, does anything mean anything?
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Terra Nova
We welcome a new island. Do we do that enough?
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Flake News
These snow briefs may be the closest you get to a white Christmas
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Krispité, Egalité, Fraternité
As donuts cross the ocean, we recap the French-American cultural exchange program
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Still dead after all these years
Everyone knows the best Scrooges; we examine the best Jacob Marleys
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Tome for the Holidays
Book lovers, meet the Jolabokaflod
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Triumphs!
The very best movies with one-word titles
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Weird animal sleep habits: an investigation
Or, a trip to the zzzzzzzzoo
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The Rise and Fall of the Roasting Chestnut
The Nat-King-Cold hard facts
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Generation Ax
Conservation campaign highlights internet’s favorite salamander
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Under My Umbrella, No More
Celebrating the second (and 57th) anniversary of Barbadian independence
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Gimme!
A very serious ranking of things people “want” in popular song
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You’ve Got a Friend, Again
With Part Five apparently looming, a look back at 28 years of Toy Story
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On a (Re)Mission
Cancer-treating soap is far from the first useful teen invention
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Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Beef
The artists behind a Christmas classic didn’t exactly have bushels of fun
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A Joy Forever
Remembering the legacy of Anna Sewell and Black Beauty
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A Sticky Subject
On the eve of Thanksgiving, exactly WTF is up with marshmallows?
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Mercy Buckets
Podcasters choose a very old way to sort things out
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Of Pockets and Patriarchy
or, Keep your friends close and your car keys closer
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Yas Queen
The life of Elizabeth I, in five symbols
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Girl You Know It’s (Finally) True
Decades after scandal, documentary shifts blame away from Milli Vanilli
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Whatever happened to “A man, a plan”?
Historic drought = Panama Canal bottleneck = consumer pain
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Revenge of the Restaurant
Spare yourself the public shaming, and pay for your damn meal.
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Torch Song Pentalogy
There’ll be five new(ish) sports at the 2028 L.A. Olympics. What the heck are they?
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Birds Do It, Bees Do It
We keep finding more cross-species hybrids – and the reasons why are only sometimes horrible
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The Devil’s “Devil’s Plan” Plan
Reality competitions are taking a dark, inhuman turn… and we’re not sure that’s okay
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Campaign Event Horizon
The U.S. election season as a reflection on time and space.
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Putting the Goth in Gotham City
The Beatles got us thinking about Batman. Just go with it.
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Crime doesn’t pay … in folding money
A rundown of recent coin heists
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Loess is more
The future of building materials may look a lot like the past
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From Scream to Shining Scream
A super-scientific ranking of the most haunted states of the union
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Certified Cover Boy
Of all people, Drake catches beef with (checks notes) the Pet Shop Boys.
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When Life Gives You Apples
How the history of cider parallels the history of … everything else.
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Horrific Progress
Looking back on six years of Black horror renaissance
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Boom and Bust
Twenty years after Concorde, SSTs could soon take flight once more
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Curds and Weihenstephaner
A (maybe literally) heart-stopping voyage into beer/cheese amalgams
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Dumpst-afire Explosion
Untangling the sordid web that is ShowBiz Pizza vs. Chuck E. Cheese
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‘An Independent Will’
Jane Eyre has been inspiring everybody for 166 years and counting
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It’s a Hot “Hot Labor Fall” Fall
Megan Thee Stallion still inspiring all of thee journalists
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Lust for Larceny
With return of “Parsonage Garden,” the Netherlands are 29-for-29 on recovering stolen Van Goghs.
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Flight of the RoboBee
That’s right, “RoboBee.”
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Fast Times in Order Mammalia
Our furry cousins are shining, sniffing, and shtupping in recent animal-world news
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Out Into History
Normally you have to die to lose your speakership early. Kevin McCarthy is not normal.
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‘Get in, loser, we’re reunifying Germany’
Tracing the plot of Mean Girls through three Oct. 3s (just go with it)
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All’s Fair in Love and Canon
The blank space in ‘traditional’ trivia knowledge – and why we shouldn’t shake it off
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Duh-Nuh. Duh-Nuh.
How John Williams made us more afraid of sharks than we maybe should be
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‘The plexus becomes inflamed’
The jittery life and trailblazing death of Honoré de Balzac
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Earth Angel
The MTV girl who became an environmental activist
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This Post Blows
A loud, shrill history of the referee whistle
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Q: Are we not soundtrack artists?
A: We are Devo!
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Thinking of the children
‘Parental Advisory’ movement is older than J-Kwon (who is so old you’ve probably forgotten him)
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Frequent Filcher
Carmen Sandiego flew far enough to go 69% of the way to the dang moon
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Mothman the scariest thing in West Virginia
… and that’s saying something.
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Hip, hip
Say goodbye to summer with a look at some famous (and less-famous) ‘islands’
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Elementary, my dear Squatson
By the time the 1800s were inching towards their final years, it was pretty good to be Eugen Sandow. The Prussian-born wrestler, bodybuilder and all-around strongman had been a breakout…
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Tonight, we dine on bananas!
Ancient Greece’s “first marathon” was more impressive than you’ve heard
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‘The writer was so brave’
(Sorry, this post is mostly about the poison-dart umbrella)
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Sinéad O’Connor’s historic refusal
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