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Whether you can digest milk comfortably after childhood is a genetic fluke. For many people, the ability to produce lactase--the enzyme that allows the
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The breathtaking undulatus asperatus cloud looks very like stormy ocean waves, and is rather disorientating to see as these waves are upside down in the sky!
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You know how it is: you’re a professional sports player, deep in the throes of a crucial game, when suddenly you’re faced with a plucky member of the animal kingdom. What do you do? Stop to give the thing a cuddle, or move it out of the way?
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Before their names became fantastically expensive fashion brands, these people were just individuals opening up their own shops.
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Life kind of sucks, that’s why vacations were invented. Hilton HHonors is giving you a chance to win a Great Weekend Getaway by answering the call of travel before August 22, 2013. The excuse...
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Whether you're an adventurous New Yorker or a tourist looking to make a few unconventional stops, consider paying a visit to some of the city's little-known gems.
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One of our favorite posts to-date was the roundup of vintage WWII Victory Garden posters. Today we decided to dive into some farm propaganda from a different side of the political spectrum.
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Thank you to everyone for sending in their awkward vacation pics! It wasn’t easy to narrow the field but we’ve selected the 10 finalists and now it’s up to you to decide our winner. VOTE for your favorite as many times as you want
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Today we look at various clocks, watches and means to tell the time, a fleeting continuum that is otherwise invisible and even irrelevant, especially when considered as a disappearing line between absolute concepts of "past" and "future".
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Have you ever felt that dread when, on their return from some far flung place, your friend threatens to show you their summer holiday photos? You may have to sit through that particular agony. In the meantime, here is a collection of photographs spanning the first seven decades of the twentieth century which show summer in all its glory. Times and social mores may have changed, but these may still be the type of pictures you wish your friend had taken.
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What can be more inspiring than nature? If looking for inspiration in your own photography or design, why not take a crack at taking a picture of the subject that never complains or blinks? Nature is all around, but capturing it can be difficult. |
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The following is an article from the book Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into the Universe.(Image credit: Flickr user Ken Bondy)Built-in lights, field detectors, flotation devices: Sharks have mastered the evolutionary tricks of a killing...
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ctrl+alt+delete started as a trade secret. Then it became an icon.
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When the Linkery, a small San Diego restaurant, shuttered its doors this summer, it ended a fascinating social experiment. The Linkery had instituted a
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Everyone needs a vacation sometimes. These animals are long overdue. If you feel the same, enter to win a Great Weekend Getaway from Hilton HHonors by answering the call of travel before August 22,...
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Yellowstone's Steamboat Geyser erupted for the first time in eight years on Wednesday (July 31) afternoon, drenching delighted viewers who stood in the spray from the safety of a nearby boardwalk. The unexpected blast occurred at 7:30 p.m.
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How did Harriet Tubman lead so many slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad?
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Located near Supai and within the Havasupai Indian Reservation in Grand Canyon National Park is Havasu Falls; a picturesque, hidden gem featuring a main chute that drops nearly 100 ft (30 m)...
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Ridiculously cute and tiny creatures like the pygmy marmoset, bee hummingbird, mouse lemur and a cat that fits in a pint glass. |
