The unsung hero of countless boozy nights out has passed away. Shigeichi Negishi, inventor of the first commercially available karaoke machine, died of natural causes, at the age of 100.… Read the rest of the article: Can stop the music: Karaoke inventor dies
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Carolyn Townsend A pair of goat farmers transporting fifty goats from Minnesota to California needed all hands on deck when they found themselves delayed by a fierce winter storm in Utah. A… Read the rest of the article: Good Samaritans become emergency goat milkers
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Carolyn Townsend The residents of Longyearbyen, Norway, the northernmost town in the world, suffer through four months of polar night. So when the sun finally rises in March, they celebrate by toasting… Read the rest of the article: How Norwegians welcome back spring with a tropical "fruit party"
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Carolyn Townsend Your car may be snitching on you. The New York Times recently reported that Internet-enabled autos from manufacturers like GM are transmitting info on how you drive to data analytics… Read the rest of the article: Your Internet-connected car is spying on you, and your premium could go up
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Carolyn Townsend As the first Irish man to win a Best Actor Oscar, Cillian Murphy also had the distinct honor of having his name pronounced correctly to a viewing audience of millions.… Read the rest of the article: Irish names marked as typos: Tech companies' diversity failure
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Carolyn Townsend Harry Houdini is famous today as an escape artist, but his real passion in the 1920s was ghost busting. Or, rather, busting phony psychics who claimed to communicate with the… Read the rest of the article: The ghost-busting duo: Harry Houdini and Rose Mackenberg's crusade against fake psychics and spiritualists
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Carolyn Townsend Today we are all too familiar with the concept of greenhouse gasses and global warming, but almost 170 years ago, an American woman gave us a distant early warning that… Read the rest of the article: Eunice Newton Foote: The forgotten scientist who discovered the greenhouse effect in 1856
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Carolyn Townsend Turkmenistan, one of the most isolated countries in the world, is hoping to extinguish one of its only tourist attractions — a fiery 20-foot wide crater. The Darvaza Crater has… Read the rest of the article: Turkmenistan wants to extinguish the fiery Darvaza Crater, known as The Gates of Hell
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Carolyn Townsend The world is getting a little less funky. As microbial diversity is wiped out, your favorite stinky cheese may be facing extinction, and, according to the French National Center for… Read the rest of the article: Bye bye brie: your beloved stinky cheeses are at risk of extinction
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Carolyn Townsend If you've ever fantasized about a steamy supernatural encounter, perhaps with a brawny faery sporting batlike wings and back tattoos, you're not alone. Romantasy — a potent mash up of… Read the rest of the article: I touch my elf: the rise of "romantasy," with sex, supernatural encounters, and strong heroines
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Carolyn Townsend In recent years, teams like the LA Dodgers have added a superstar to the bullpen, one that doesn't require peanuts or crackerjack. Meet the Trajekt Arc, the latest in robotic… Read the rest of the article: Meet the robot pitcher transforming major league batting practice