ARTICLES
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An inside look at the incredibly strange and varied music of science fiction fans.
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Why does every nice car in California have a license plate frame from a charity that supports highway patrol officers? They think they'll get out of speeding tickets.
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The marketer's Rule of Three: make 3 extraordinary claims, but never 4.
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From 1995 to 2001, it really was impossible to win a grand prize from McDonalds Monopoly promotion. Unless you knew "Uncle Jerry."
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Unlike college, you don't have 18 years to save up for day care.
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What do you get when you map the coordinates of thousands and thousands of ships from their logs and journals? A world map unlike any other.
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Was the iPhone 5c a flop by Apple standards? According to its resale value, yes.
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From 60s cool-kid culture to Obama's belly, the Slurpee has seen it all.
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From WriteAPrisoner to Women Behind Bars: the business of helping Americans find prisoner pen pals.
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Here's a radical idea. Instead of companies doing pranks for April Fools Day, maybe they should do nice things instead?
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UPS engineers map out routes for their drivers consisting of "a series of right-hand loops"
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Investors prefer pitches by men -- attractive men.
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In the early 80s, Susan Kare was a pixel art pioneer at Apple. Today, she continues to dazzle.
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How a $1.8BN company could implode if Google changes its search algorithm.
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Which U.S. cities and states have the highest proportion of farmers' markets (and "crunchy" people)?
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An important corollary to the infinite monkey theorem.
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The Internet is not making everything better. It’s not making everything worse. But it might do both. Or neither.
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A look at the rough and tumble history of roller coasters and the people who make them happen.
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A group of college football players just won the right to unionize. What should their union bargain for?
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