ARTICLES
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Dr. Vasav Sahni studies the adhesive qualities of spider webs, and hopes to use his findings to make a tape strong enough to stick a television to the wall.
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He came, he deep fried Coca-Cola and butter balls, he conquered. And in the process, he made more money that he ever did as a database engineer.
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Airbnb's competitors are kicking its butt in the Google search results.
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The neighborhood comic book store is a way for comics enthusiasts and aspiring artists to subsidize a grade-A comics education. Here's why it still exists.
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Running from Mexico to Canada, the PCT takes 150 days to complete. Along the way, a hiker will wear through 4 or 5 pairs of shoes, consume some 600,000 calories (mostly in the form of energy bars and freeze-dried foods), and take 6 million steps. Here's one man's experience.
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A comparison of the reading levels of the books in the Harry Potter series.
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The hotel mini-bar is a dying breed. But will anyone really miss $6 water bottles and $13 bags of cashews?
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The complicated history of photography and race reveals how sometimes the political biases inherent to a technology's design can go unnoticed for decades.
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Research suggests that people who suffer from schizophrenia in different cultures hear different voices, and the voices Westerners hear are unusually disturbing.
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Can you guess which country has the highest percentage of weed smokers? (Hint: it isn't Singapore!)
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New research suggests students don't need candy to make it through a long test, they just need to believe in themselves.
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A history of the United States, by the keywords in each President's State of the Union Address.
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"Happy Birthday" is America's most frequently sung song -- but sing it in the wrong place, and Warner Music may charge you $50,000.
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Nobel Prize winners these days are older when they produce their discoveries, waiting longer for their prizes, and apparently they smell different.
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Is so-called "Old People Smell" rooted in scientific truth, or is it just a product of ageism?
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The reasons for dog breed extinction have changed over the millennia. In today's world of post-functional dog breeds, no breed is safe.
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In the early years of Stanford University, pranks and ridiculous antics took precedent over hitting the books.
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For the past decade, Brent Curry has been building bicycles out of things like couches, using his own design software.
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The economics behind how a disease that should be all but eliminated by now claims tens of thousands of lives a year.
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'Foley' artist Gregg Barbanell has over 500 film and TV credits, including huge hits like "Breaking Bad," "The Walking Dead," and "Little Miss Sunshine" -- though you've probably never recognized his work.
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Baby carrots are just regular carrots cut up and polished down. They're also the biggest thing to happen to carrots since orange. How did it happen?
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Americans feel strongly that tipping waiters and waitresses anything under 15% is perniciously cheap, yet most people seem equally certain that tipping on takeout orders is unnecessary. Is it really?
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Artist Karl Toomey puts together curios from the not-too-distant future. His pieces include a literal "Bieber meter" and a tombstone for the quantified self.
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San Francisco has a pretty large white population. Its public school system, it turns out, does not.
