ARTICLES
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The acceptance rate at Harvard is a measly 6%. But over half of its admitted students face the far friendlier acceptance rate of 18%.
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Matt Farley has written 15,000 songs from his Massachusetts basement with titles ranging from "Moby Dick is a Big Old Whale" to "Jon Hamm is a Very Handsome Man."
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In the 1970s and 80s, the red M&M mysteriously disappeared, a victim of horribly unsound FDA testing.
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Will Vinton brought clay to life with characters like the California Raisins and the Noid -- until Nike billionaire Phil Knight stepped in and bought the business for his son.
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How Marilyn Monroe helped popularize the idea that our marriages are all doomed.
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Antonio Garcia-Martinez tells us about the time his startup Adgrok got sued.
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Some less than professional game theory shows why cyclists and drivers always clash at intersections.
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The ex-President of MySpace is turning his hobby into a business.
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How one Girl Scout sold 100,000 boxes of cookies in the 1980s and made her way to the White House.
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How one company intends to dominate what could be the biggest shakeup in Internet history.
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The 19th century's "freakshow" performers tell a fascinating economic story, but also a morality tale.
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What do you get when you mix overfishing and foodie culture? An exercise in rebranding.
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Using chainsaws, 300-pound ice blocks, and engineering skills, a handful of people make a living as "ice artists."
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Before pink mustaches became synonymous with Lyft, the "carstache" began with one entrepreneur who thought the front of cars look a lot like faces.
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The tale of a salesman who built a shoe-shaped house and gave it to the community.
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The story behind the trashy "recommended content" you see advertised on every news and entertainment website.
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Castigated by school districts and denigrated in the media, dodgeball is the diabolical bastard of recreational sports.
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Stanford researchers say that attractive people are more likely to endorse hierarchies -- and believe that they belong at the top of them.
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American science is moving from always be researching to always be closing.
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