Science & History
5 Baffling Discoveries That Prove History Books Are Wrong
A generation of students found out the hard way that archaeology isn't anywhere near as much fun as Indiana Jones made it look. Still, experts in the field do have their exciting, and even shocking, days at the office.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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The 7 Greatest Pieces of Trash Talk in the History of War
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 Great Scientists Who Believed Wildly Unscientific Things
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- By Howard L.
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The 5 Most Impossible Sniper Shots Ever Made
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- By Xavier Jackson, James Benoist
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
5 Hallmarks of Bad Parenting That Are Actually Good for Kids
Kids who grew up in the '90s couldn't leave the house without a speech on stranger danger and an extra dose of Flintstones vitamins. But it turns out there are some things that lazy/negligent parents kind of got right.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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7 Random Things You Won't Believe Are Shortening Your Life
Apparently, real longevity indicators are things you probably wouldn't guess in a hundred years (even if you managed to live that long).
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- By Michael Corvinus
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5 Seemingly Random Factors That Control Your Memory
Our old friend science has tracked down some of the completely random things that decide whether or not your memory will choose to function at a particular moment. Thanks, science.
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- By Eddie Rodriguez
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The 8 Most Incredible Things Slapped Together in a Day
It's amazing what humanity can accomplish in a moment's notice.
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- By Christina H
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5 Species You Won't Believe Are Related
Imagine you're an animal, attending your evolutionary family reunion. You might be surprised to find out how remarkably similar it is to your last family reunion: You spend the day trying to avoid 'that guy' that no one wants to admit you're related to, while the rest of your relatives randomly eat each other. This article is for the 'that guys.'
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- By Michael Vozniak
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5 Terrifying Killers (That Turned Out to be Mass Panics)
Humans are hard-wired to function in groups. But it's a double-edged sword -- it takes a lot of us to build a city, but as anyone who has ever witnessed a riot can attest, people's ability to act like idiots also multiplies in crowds. And this phenomenon can manifest itself in really weird and even fatal ways.
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- By Pauli Poisuo
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The 8 Most Mind Blowing Disguises in Nature
Let's face it, we all hate nature to varying degrees and for our own reasons. But surely nothing inspires loathing of the animal kingdom like the fact that its creatures are constantly trying to trick us.
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- By Monte Richard, E. Reid Ross
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The 5 Most Badass Tales of Wartime Survival
Every single person on this list puts Bear Grylls' tales of 'badassery' to shame
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- By Chris J.
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The 5 Most Clearly Cursed Expeditions of All Time
We tend to romanticize the age of exploration, like it was all grand exotic frontiers and tiny people tying sailors down with ropes. What we don't hear about so often is the scurvy and the starvation and the months of endless walking through landscapes full of awfulness. And that's too bad, because it actually makes their stories that much more bad
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- By Eric Yosomono, Dustin Koski
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5 Ways to Beat Old-School Games Using Math
We wondered if there were ways to use math to completely ruin all innocent games from our childhood. Guess what? There are!
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- By Karl Smallwood
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5 Historic Artifacts You Won't Believe Still Work
Unless you're talking about diamonds, Twinkies or vampires, lasting forever usually isn't in the cards. Yet all over the world -- and universe -- there are machines, engineering feats and pieces of meat that never got the memo that we all have a use-by date.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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