Science & History
5 Things You Do Every Day That Are Actually Addictions
As science gets a better understanding of how addiction works in the brain, suddenly a whole lot of our habits and cultural phenomena make more sense.
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- By Mike Haring
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7 Famous 'Unsolved' Mysteries (Science Solved Years Ago)
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- By Pauli Poisuo, M. Asher Cantrell
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6 Ways Your Sense of Smell Is Secretly Controlling Your Mind
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- By C. Coville
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5 Major Cities That Are Going to Be Destroyed
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- By Evan V. Symon
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
The 10 Greatest Uses of Trash Talk in the History of War
History records some badass trash talk that would put Schwarzenegger to shame, some spoken in dire circumstances. Of course, it takes a certain type of badass.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 Ways the Invention of Pants Shaped the Modern World
What would you say is the single biggest source or symbol of your strength and power as an individual? The answer is easy: just look down. We're talking, of course, about your pants.
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- By Alexia Franklin
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5 Untrained Civilians Who Took On Armies
Regular people get pushed, and sometimes they push back. Hard.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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The 5 Most Badass Things Done While Conquering a Mountain
Hemingway once noted that bull fighting, motor racing and mountaineering were the only true sports. Meaning, if there wasn't a risk of death, it was just a game. To that end, mountaineering stands above the rest.
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- By Erling Fasting
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5 Embarrassing Failures History Class Turned Into Victories
Sometimes history is written by wishful thinking. When the real event isn't quite inspirational or romantic enough, we just make up a prettier version and call it history.
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- By John Champion
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The 6 Most Frequently Quoted Brain Facts (That Are Total BS)
After millennia of research, experts still don't know very much about the human brain. As such, most of what you have picked up on the subject from pop culture is just laughably wrong.
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- By J.N. Chaney
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6 Animals That Kill Nature's Scariest Creatures For Fun
For every animal you'd be terrified to run across in the wild, the odds are there is at least one other beast who sees it as a tasty snack. And often it's what you'd least expect.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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6 Things You Won't Believe Animals Do Just Like Us
Hold on, humanity. Before we go boasting about our opposable thumbs, maybe we should take a deep breath and calm down.
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- By Kristi Harrison, Fady Labib, Eddie Rodriguez
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The 5 Creepiest Ways Animals Have Mastered Mind Control
Humans have been trying to control each other's minds for centuries, but have only succeeded in getting people to buy more tortilla chips and hand cream. Meanwhile, in the animal kingdom, absurd comic-book style mind-control plots have been coming true for millennia.
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- By Luke Taylor
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5 Physical Details That Reveal Highly Personal Information
None of these are 100 percent, and you should not use any of them to make unfair assumptions about people. It is only in the name of entertainment that we point out what researchers have found.
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- By Kathy Benjamin, Eric Yosomono
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6 Beneficial Things They Made You Stop Doing in School
It's easy to think of a classroom as a battle of wills between kids who want to dick around all day and teachers who actually want to make them learn. But it's not that simple. A lot of the things that will get you yelled at in a classroom are, in fact, beneficial to learning.
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- By Pauli Poisuo
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