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Baz Ratner / Reuters Another Brutal Fact About the Ice Age Arctic: The Hyenas
As if saber-toothed cats weren’t enough.
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Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden The Care and Keeping of Raccoon Dogs
They should eat a varied diet—and they shouldn’t be allowed to escape.
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Agami / Diana Carpenter / Eric Isselee / ... The Least Popular Birds in the U.S. Deserve Some Love
They may be small, drab, and shy, but somebody’s got to stand up for them.
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Barcroft Media / Getty A Big, Weird, Pancake-Shaped Fish Keeps Surprising Beachgoers
The mola is a 5,000-pound bag of secrets.
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Aref Karimi / Stringer / Getty How ‘F’ Sounds Might Break a Fundamental Rule of Linguistics
If farming helped introduce f’s and v’s 12,000 years ago, it would challenge the principle that humans’ language abilities haven’t significantly changed since we first learned to speak.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters The Three Most Chilling Conclusions From the Climate Report
Thirteen federal agencies agree: Climate change has already wreaked havoc on the United States, and the worst is likely yet to come.
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Debra Reid / AP Endorsing Dead People Is a Shrewd Political Strategy
Races like Dennis Hof’s show that political parties often have plenty to gain and little to lose from backing deceased candidates.
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WCVB / AP Dozens of Massachusetts Homes Exploded. A Gas Expert Weighs In.
Investigators still don't know what happened, but there's one likely explanation.
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NASA Hurricane Florence Could Be the Worst Storm to Ever Hit North of Florida
Since records began, only 10 major hurricanes have made landfall around the Carolinas. This one has the potential to blow them all out of the water.
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Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters James Comey Continues to Argue With Himself
In an interview with Katie Couric, the ousted FBI director excoriated Trump for undoing America’s norms—but let himself off the hook for slipping out of the FBI’s.
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Yusuf Ahmad / Reuters Could Quantum Computing Be the End of Free Will?
On the fear that too much processing power will make us cease to be human
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Francois Lenoir / Reuters Can Sacrificing Privacy Stomp Out Disinformation Online?
One way to ward off bad actors could be more information sharing between social-media platforms, researchers, and governments.
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Courtesy of Robhat Labs A Web Tool That Lets People Choose Their Own ‘Sources of Truth’
Two 21-year-olds believe they have a way to bring consumers of unreliable news closer to objectivity.
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Horacio Villalobos / Corbis / Getty Reddit's Case for Anonymity on the Internet
The site’s head claims that the policy of not collecting personal information allows people to be “more true to themselves.”
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Tibrina Hobson / Getty Will Probiotics Ever Live Up to the Hype?
Changing your microbiome takes more than just swallowing a pill full of bacteria.
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Yasser Al-Zayyat / AFP / Getty A Linguist Explains Why 'Laurel' Sounds Like 'Yanny'
It’s the audio version of The Dress.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty The 13 Strangest Moments From the Zuckerberg Hearing
The first day of the Facebook CEO's congressional testimony featured a snubbed chicken chain, an aspiring teen Instagram star, and plenty of confused dialogue.
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Rachel Gutman / Katie Martin / The Atlantic A Grandpa's-Eye View of the March for Our Lives
He hadn't been to a demonstration since the early '60s, but the energy of the post-Parkland movement drove him to go.
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Julio Cortez / AP Who Is Weev, and Why Did He Derail a Journalist's Career?
A newly hired opinion writer for The New York Times called weev "a terrible person, and an old friend of mine." The rest of the world calls him a Nazi.
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Reuters 'America First' Is Straining Bill Gates's Optimism
The philanthropist still thinks the world is getting better. But he says pulling foreign aid from global-health measures would reverse that trend.
