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For the Love of Clocks: The Very Sad Tale of the Radium Girls
A very sad story about a disposable work force, the ultimate sacrifice, and incredible corporate greed and hubris… From Buzzfeed, by Kate Moore The Forgotten Story Of The Radium Girls, Whose...
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Einstein said this was impossible, but the Hubble just proved him wrong
This is how amazing the Hubble is (it’s even proving Einstein wrong lately) — “Imagine a firefly moving from one side of a U.S. quarter to the other side. You have to detect this movement from 1,500...
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The Forgotten Victims of Jack the Ripper
We are fascinated by the Ripper – he is a legend, with countless books and films dedicated to his mystery. There’s an entire field dedicated to the study of his crimes: Ripperology. But who were his...
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Our nearest potentially habitable exoplanet may be a water world…
Water is life….? Credits: AFP From Futurism, One of Earth’s Closest Alien Planets Appears to Be An “Ocean World” The case for Proxima b “Proxima b’s proximity to Earth — about 4.2 light years...
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Cities and farms are far older than we think — 30,000 years older…
Consider this: “…people began altering their environments for food and shelter about 30,000 years earlier than we thought.” 30,000 years! From arstechnica.com, Paleolithic pastimes — Evidence...
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Future Earthlings Won’t See Total Solar Eclipses…Here’s Why:
How was your eclipse? Experiencing this fluke is even more rare than we can imagine… From “Heard on Morning Edition,” Why Future Earthlings Won’t See Total Solar Eclipses by Nell Greenfieldboyce...
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The eclipse crop circle mystery…
The “eclipse crop circle” in Sutton Hall, Nr Rochford, Essex. Reported 17th August. There are multiple theories so far on what this crop circle means. Some think it looks like a radio broadcast tower...
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New York City’s mysterious, magnificent brass boxes…
These are just magnificent. From Atlas Obscura, New York City’s Mail Chutes are Lovely, Ingenious and Almost Entirely Ignored by Luke Spencer “If you have ever worked in an old building, the...
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Ok guys, stay with us here for a few minutes and enjoy the wonderful oddness of this fellow demonstrating how Medieval people walked before the invention of hard-soled shoes… Share
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The Corpse That Blinks
Iconic (and mysterious) corpse, Rosalio Lombardo, AKA the jewel of the Palermo catacombs… Via Curiosity.com, This Mummified Two-Year-Old Appears to Blink Every Day Written by Reuben Westmaas...
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