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Time Crystals. They Actually Exist.
Time crystals? This sounds more like a Star Trek technology than something incredibly real that scientists just discovered… From Science Alert, Scientists have confirmed a brand new phase of...
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The ‘lunatic box’ and other bizarre artifacts from mental asylum history
This isn’t the most cheerful post we’ve ever done, we know. But imagine having lived in one of these places your whole life. If walls could talk…The Glore Psychiatric Museum is the closest thing to a...
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Woman Hosts Miniature Parties For Squirrels
It’s time for something completely different…and completely nice. From The Dodo, Woman Throws Little Parties For The Squirrels Who Come To Visit Her She builds them dining rooms and even food...
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The Most Amazing Doll House You’ve Probably Ever Seen
If this doesn’t inspire you to want to spend a day back in your childhood playing with this, well, we don’t know what would…and by the way, who is this Colleen Moore of old Hollywood who spent a...
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A Ballet Barre in the Attic Space of the Grand Opera de Paris
We think that if you still haven’t danced in an attic in Paris, it’s time… From MessyNessy, Dancing in the Attic of the Paris Opera House “Classical ballet as we know it today was born within...
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Book Lovers: Book This!
Could this possibly be the best hotel for introverts and book lovers? The Literary Man hotel in Óbidos, Portugal has a massive reading lounge with over 50,000 books… From HuffPost, This Hotel With...
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From 1935 to 1943 the arts were funded by the U.S. government
When artists are supported, there’s more art for everyone to enjoy. Artsy Editorial via Artsy.net, What We Can Learn from the Brief Period When the Government Employed Artists By Tess Thackara...
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BrainGate2 – incredible science allows paralyzed man to move again
From NPR, something truly incredible. The human brain and body are mysteries that we have only just started to unravel…and with a name like BrainGate2 — well, you’ll see… Bill Kochevar received an...
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Mysterious secret places and spaces around the world!
What’s cooler than a secret compartment in a Leonardo da Vinci statue? — Maybe the secret apartments inside the New York Public Library? The back bedroom of Fort Washington Library’s secret...
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Gutenberg’s Bible is the oldest printed book, right? Think again…
The oldest book in the world…and it comes with such an incredible, mystery-infused discovery story. Enjoy! From The Huffington Post, Buddhism’s Diamond Sutra: The Extraordinary Discovery Of The...
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Mysterious post-mortem delta waves found in the brain…
Is there life after death for our brains? The evidence says it depends. From discovermagazine.com, Brain Activity At The Moment of Death By Neuroskeptic What happens in the brain when we die?...
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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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