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Adorable, Critically Endangered Baby Sumatran Rhino Born
The new baby takes his first sip of water. Photo: Way Kambas National Park As the planet bids goodbye to Lonesome George, the last of a subspecies of Galapagos tortoises, the world welcomes a new...
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Today’s the Shared Anniversary of Ruin Porn Poster Children Detroit, Machu...
Photos: reverendtheef & Mellagi July 24 marks double jackpot for the intrepid explorers of years past, as well for as fans of the trend in “ruin porn.” The fine city of Detroit was founded 311...
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How Aldous Huxley, 118 Today, Predicted the Present Far More Accurately than...
Some members of the Bloomsbury Group, including Huxley. Left to right: Lady Ottoline Morrell, Mrs. Aldous Huxley, Lytton Strachey, Duncan Grant, and Vanessa Bell. Image: Lady Ottoline Morel In the...
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Celebrating 80 Years of LEGO
Photo: teaperson Children and hobbyists rejoice – today is Lego’s 80th birthday. As LEGO.com explains, on this day in 1932, Ole Kirk Kristiansen, a master carpenter in Denmark, established a business...
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Happy Birthday to Alfred Hitchcock, the Master of Suspense
Photo: Wikicommons Were he still walking this Earth, Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock would be 113 today. His career spanned more than half a century and gave us jewels like cinematic voyeurism, cameo...
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Julia Child Loved Science but Would Hate Today’s Food
This morning’s Google Doodle pays homage to one of America’s favorite chefs of all time, Julia Child. It’s a big honor, but the woman deserves it, it is her 100th birthday after all. Child is probably...
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Today We Celebrate the Short, Unhappy Life of H.P. Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft finally rests in peace, sans night horrors. Photo: StrangeInterlude Today, “weird fiction” fans everywhere toast the birth of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, more commonly known as H.P....
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Meet the National Zoo’s Newest Panda Cub
Proud Panda Parents Mei Xiang and Tian Tian Image Credit: Ann Batdorf, NZP photographer There’s a new panda in town. Last night, around 10:46 pm Eastern Time, giant panda Mei Xiang (pronounced...
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Happy Birthday to the Father of the Modern Vampire
Photo: Google The Google team must be literati or vampire fans—or both: Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the birth of Bram Stoker, arguably the father of the modern vampire. If he were alive today,...
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Celebrating Carl Sagan’s Birthday With the Best Tributes Around
Image: NASA Seventy-eight years ago today the world was graced with the first breaths of Carl Sagan—researcher, communicator, scientist extraordinaire. Throughout his years as both a scientist and a...
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Happy Birthday Rodin, Sculptor And Breaker of Women’s Hearts
Photo: Google Auguste Rodin, the French sculptor behind “The Thinker” and “The Kiss,” celebrates his would-be 172nd birthday today with a Google Doodle tribute. The Los Angeles Times describes the...
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These Two Kids Are Turning 12 at 12:12 on 12/12/12
Image: Leo Reynolds Tons of parents vie to have their kid born first every new year. But how many do you think planned to have their kids turn 12, at 12:12, on 12/12/12? Two. Okay, their parents...
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How to Properly Celebrate a Hobbit Birthday
Gandalf’s fireworks were far better of course. Image: davidmonro January 3rd was J.R.R. Tolkien’s birthday, and in his honor, we’ve put together instructions on how to throw the best Hobbit Birthday...
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The Hunt for a New, Copyright-Free Happy Birthday Song
Image: freakgirl In the United States, “Happy Birthday to You”—one of the most popular songs in the world—is still under copyright. And it will be until 2030. While you’re free to sing the song in...
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The Stupid Reason the NHL Drafts Older Players First
Image: Roland Tanglao In the NHL, players’ birthdays fall into a strange pattern: the best players seem to all be born in the earlier months of the year. This pattern was extremely clear from youth...
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One Hundred Years Ago, 5,000 Suffragettes Paraded Down Pennsylvania Avenue
Suffragettes march, complete with cloth banners, across the intersection of Pennsylvania Ave. and 11th St. in Washington, D.C. Photo: Library of Congress One hundred years ago, as Washington, D.C....
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A Woman With Five Transplanted Organs Has a Baby
Not the baby in question. Image: Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL) A woman whose liver, pancreas, stomach, large intestine and small intestine all began their lives outside her body has...
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Happy Birthday to the Father of Modern Neuroscience, Who Wanted to Be an Artist
Drawing of Purkinje cells and granule cells from pigeon cerebellum by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1899. Photo: Instituto Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain It took Santiago Ramón y Cajal quite a while...
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A New 3D Map of the Universe Covers More Than 100 Million Light-Years
Photo: Hélène Courtois, Daniel Pomarède, R. Brent Tully, Yehuda Hoffman, and Denis Courtois. “It is no exaggeration to say that almost everything we know about the universe today has grown out of the...
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Happy 315th Birthday to the Steam Engine
Image: garibaldi Three hundred and fifteen years ago today Thomas Savery’s patented the steam engine. His patent included no pictures, simply the following description: ”A new invention for raising of...
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