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The Mutilated Currency Division
It sounds like something straight out of Harry Potter, but the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Mutilated Currency Division is real and...
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Jul 31, 20202 min read
Living Funerals
Hyowon Healing Center in South Korea offers an extremely niche service that has seen more than 25,000 participants to date: Living...
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Jul 26, 20201 min read
Farming Furniture
We’ve always been told that money doesn’t grow on trees, but could furniture? One couple in the UK is testing this adage by doing just...
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Jul 26, 20201 min read
Swedish Blood
Giving blood is pretty simple: Whip out your arm, give a pint, have a cookie, head home. But have you ever wondered where those little...
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Jul 26, 20202 min read
The Drake Equation
How many intelligent alien civilizations do you think there are in the universe? 5? 4000? Just us? During the 1960s, while working as a...
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Jul 19, 20202 min read
Growing Colors
In 2019, scientists at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) developed the blackest pigment on record - ten times darker than the...
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Jul 19, 20201 min read
The Queen's Swan
The Queen of England 'technically' owns all of the country's unmarked mute swans found on open waters (such an unnecessary flex). What's...
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Jul 19, 20202 min read
Space Hotels
Calling all intrepid explorers -Â start scavenging through the sofa cushions for loose change - your astronaut dreams could be closer to...
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Jul 12, 20202 min read
Rhino Evacuation
As travel wanes across the globe, poachers have taken advantage of the lack of tourists - and subsequent increase in wildlife activity -...
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Jul 12, 20202 min read
Secret Seconds
Since 1972, scientists have been quietly adding seconds to our clocks because - don’t panic - the earth is slowing down. No, we’re not...
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Jul 12, 20202 min read
Self-Healing Concrete
Concrete is used all over the world in a variety of applications. But after years of wear and tear, it can crack, crumble and look pretty...
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Jul 5, 20201 min read
The Influence of Influencers
If you’ve ever found yourself increasingly invested in a particular celebrity or reality star’s personal life - or dutifully following an...
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Jul 5, 20202 min read
The Baby Eater of Bern
Nestled in Switzerland’s capital city of Bern sits a statue of an ogre eating a bag full of babies. Wait, what? The nearly 500-year-old...
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Jul 5, 20201 min read
The Mètre Etalon
Etched into marble, on the side of the Ministry of Justice building in Paris, lies the mètre étalon - one of the first metre sticks ever...
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Jun 28, 20202 min read
Bish-Bash-Bosh
Have you ever said tock-tik or cross-criss? Probably not, because it sounds super weird. But why? When you repeat the same word but use...
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Jun 28, 20201 min read
Old Olympic Games
With the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics postponed until next summer and itching for our Olympic-fix, we got curious about the history of the...
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Jun 28, 20202 min read
70,000 Generations Later...
For the past 30 years, scientists have been studying over 70,000 generations of E. coli bacteria as they evolve and adapt to...
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Jun 21, 20201 min read
The Electoral College
With the 2020 presidential election only a few months away, a refresher on our election process seemed apropos to dig into - specifically...
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Jun 21, 20202 min read
The First Climate Resilient Country?
The Commonwealth of Dominica - one of the Windward Islands in the Eastern Caribbean - is paving the way for rebuilding a more sustainable...
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Jun 14, 20202 min read
The Illusion of Laminar
Sometimes, water can be so 'organized' it appears frozen (big virgo energy). But how? Well, when water particles travel at orderly speeds...
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Jun 14, 20201 min read
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