Science & History
6 Real World Jedi Mind Tricks Salesmen Are Using On You
We've all been there: You go in for a new cell phone battery, then one of the salesmen walks up, and next thing you know you're walking out of there with every iWhatever they had in stock. Once the new gadget smell and irresponsibility high wear off, you're left wondering: How the hell did they do that?
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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18 Old-Timey Photos You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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6 Diet Fads For People Who Will Try Anything Except Exercise
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- By Pauli Poisuo
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7 Useful Genetic Experiments That Are Creepy As Hell
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- By Fletcher Wortmann
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
6 Important Things You Didn't Know We're Running Out Of
There are resources other than oil that are key to running to society. And we're running out of them. So much so we might end up killing our neighbors to get a hold of them.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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5 Personality Flaws That Science Will Cure in Our Lifetime
At least half of the bad people in the world avoid trying to change because they insist nothing is their fault. It's all due to their childhood, or their genes -- their temper, their weight, their bad habits -- all of it is outside of their control. It's bullshit, right? Well ... not entirely.
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- By Dennis Hong
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The 6 Most Epic Escapes Across Hostile Territory
If you aren't currently living in a country occupied by a hostile army, you can't really imagine what it's like knowing that trying to leave home means getting your head blown off. But when people want out badly enough, they find a way. And those ways are absolutely amazing.
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- By Tony Pilgram, Cornelius Appin
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6 Things That Annoy You Every Day (Explained by Science)
It turns out that a lot of the things that annoy us about daily existence are just inevitable parts of larger systems and smaller systems that can be just as easily explained away by science.
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- By C. Coville
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7 Life Altering Decisions Made For You (Before Your Birth)
FYI: This is just another care package of horrors mailed directly to your brain from the scientific community.
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- By Sam Cooper
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5 Sci-Fi Apocalypses The Government Is Actually Planning For
There are entire real government programs devoted solely to thinking up ways to counter weather-themed supervillains and other outlandish threats normally relegated to the realm of science fiction.
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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The 7 Most Unexpectedly Awesome Parties in History
We have it better than our ancestors in every way but one: How raging our parties are.
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- By Robert Evans, Jacopo della Quercia
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6 Weird Things That Influence Bad Behavior More Than Laws
Our surroundings can trick us into being generous, good people. Of course, it goes the other way, too ...
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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The 6 Strangest Ways Anyone Was Ever Mistaken for a God
History has shown that through no fault of your own, you can be revered as some religion's immortal deity. All you need is to be in the right place at the right time.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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6 WWI Fighter Pilots Whose Balls Deserve Their Own Monument
We usually think of fighter pilots as kick ass cowboys of the sky, living out our video game fantasies and handing out bitchin' nicknames all day long. But today's fighter pilots have nothing on the first of their kind -- the ones who appeared in the first world war.
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- By Johnny Lepper
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8 Terrifying Animal Swarms Created by Human Stupidity
Animals aren't extremely ambitious. Sometimes, however, all they need is a little helpful prodding in the right direction to start conquering everything around them like warlords.
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- By Danny Vittore, Karl Smallwood
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