Science & History
5 Surprisingly Easy Ways to Make Kids Smarter
There are some surprisingly simple things you can do to help your Bieber-obsessed Twittering child actually learn something.
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- By Sam Sprinkle
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5 Forgotten Revolutions That Created The Modern World
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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6 Impossible Escapes Using Impossibler Methods
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- By Tony Pilgram, Cornelius Appin, Drew Miller
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6 Terrifying Predators Routinely Owned by Adorable Prey
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- By Tom Hohle
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
The 6 Most WTF Moments From Shakespeare Plays
Apparently, Billy Shakes was one of the most insane, violent, out of left-field wackos who ever picked up a pen.
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- By Craig Thomas
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6 Tricks That Let You Control Animals Like The Beast Master
Evolution has afforded every animal in the world the tools perfectly designed for its survival, whether it be claws, venom, horns, or whatever it is that cockroaches have. But every once in a while evolution makes a mistake and leaves a totally useless trait in an entire species. That's bad news for them, but good news for us, as it can be amusing
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- By Kevin Forde
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6 'Wuss' Behaviors That Were Once Badass Survival Instincts
You might not realize it, but some of the behaviors that get you swirlied today were survival strategies that kept you alive thousands of years ago.
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- By Kristi Harrison, Dennis Hong
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6 Uneducated Amateurs Whose Genius Changed the World
Now, we're not telling you not to get an education -- everybody knows employers these days want a degree. But we'd be remiss if we didn't take a moment to celebrate some of the amazing achievements from people who had virtually no education at all.
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- By John Champion
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7 Mind-Blowing Vehicles Built and Driven by Animals
We've already pointed out that animals are capable of building pretty impressive cities, but at least they're not driving around the streets in little beaver sedans and amassing armies of spider war-jets, right? Horribly, we're not too far from that reality, either.
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- By Jonathan Wojcik
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6 Personality Quirks You Didn't Know Were Medical Conditions
Your weird quirks don't make you a quirky snowflake. They make you a medical textbook entry.
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- By Andrew Martin
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The Science Behind Stupidly Hot Peppers [CHART]
The Scoville hotness scale ain't got shit on us.
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- By John Larwood
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The 5 Strangest Ways Your Mind Can Get Your Body Sick
The brain can fool the body into thinking it's sick, complete with physical symptoms. And we're not talking about bullshit symptoms like headaches, either.
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- By Eric Yosomono
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6 Civil War Myths Everyone Believes That Are Total B.S.
We might be going out on a limb here, but we're guessing that most of our readers aren't hardcore Civil War historians. And since VH-1 discontinued their series before they got around to the 1860s, a lot of us are walking around with Civil War misinformation firmly wired in our brains.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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7 Animals That Are Evolving Right Before Our Eyes
f you or someone you know refuses to believe that organisms change over time without proof on a monkey-man level, here are some animals in the middle of getting their evolve on.
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- By Kristi Harrison
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6 Intimate Details You Can Tell Just By Looking At Someone
Experts say you can tell a whole lot of intimate details about a person just by looking at them. It's not magic and it's not 100 percent. But it is science.
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- By Kathy Benjamin, Simon Bower
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