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  • Popkin
    8:32 am Fri, Jun 20, 2025
    Adorable baby opossum with tiny squeaks and big appetite Baby opossum (David Louis Econopouly/shutterstock.com)

    This adorable baby opossum named Ellie will melt your heart. Baby Opposums are some of the most joy-sparking little critters I've seen. Known as joeys, these tiny marsupials are full… Read the rest of the article: Adorable baby opossum with tiny squeaks and big appetite

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  • Popkin
    8:25 am Fri, Jun 20, 2025
    The erotic séances that scandalized 1920s spiritualism Photo from Phenomena of Materialisation (1923)

    In early 1900s Paris, a young medium named Eva Carrière claimed she could manifest spirits from her body in the form of ghostly ectoplasm. A fan named Baron von Schrenck-Notzing… Read the rest of the article: The erotic séances that scandalized 1920s spiritualism

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  • Popkin
    8:02 am Fri, Jun 20, 2025
    Why is Red Dye No. 3 still in our food if it was banned for cosmetics in 1990?

    Red Dye No. 3 has been banned for use in cosmetics and topical drugs since 1990. So why is it still in our food? This video deep dives into Red… Read the rest of the article: Why is Red Dye No. 3 still in our food if it was banned for cosmetics in 1990?

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  • Popkin
    8:52 am Thu, Jun 19, 2025
    This stop-motion blob with googly eyes and a hat is the 22-second serotonin boost you need YouTube Screenshot

    This stop motion of a googly-eyed blob by Nick Douillard helped me forget about life's problems for 22 seconds. This little pink blob with a hat and teeth is endlessly… Read the rest of the article: This stop-motion blob with googly eyes and a hat is the 22-second serotonin boost you need

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  • Popkin
    8:41 am Thu, Jun 19, 2025
    The secret world of Victorian microphotography: shrinking images to the size of a pencil tip An erotic Stanhope microphotograph from Alfred Kinsey’s collection, ca. 1920s

    In 1853, a Liverpool photographer achieved what seemed impossible at the time. He shrunk a 680-letter memorial plaque to the size of a pencil tip while keeping every character crystal… Read the rest of the article: The secret world of Victorian microphotography: shrinking images to the size of a pencil tip

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  • Popkin
    8:32 am Thu, Jun 19, 2025
    Road trip alert: The weirdest fast-food landmarks across the USA Billboard, near Dillon, South Carolina; 1986. (John Margolies’ Photographs of Roadside America) Public Domain

    American highways harbor some of the country's most unusual fast-food landmarks, from a palatial McDonald's mansion to a UFO-themed burger joint in Roswell, New Mexico. These quirky restaurants, as listed… Read the rest of the article: Road trip alert: The weirdest fast-food landmarks across the USA

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  • Popkin
    10:00 am Wed, Jun 18, 2025
    Bolivia's Death Road: why this deadly mountain pass attracts 25,000 tourists a year (video) Image: Chatty G

    Bolivia's Death Road claims the lives of nearly 100 people each year. This narrow mountain road in Bolivia has some sections that are barely 3 meters wide. It has earned… Read the rest of the article: Bolivia's Death Road: why this deadly mountain pass attracts 25,000 tourists a year (video)

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  • Popkin
    9:30 am Wed, Jun 18, 2025
    Swim with millions of harmless jellyfish in Palau's marine lake (video) BlueOrange Studio/shutterstock.com

    Deep in Palau's Rock Islands is a remarkable marine lake where millions of golden jellyfish swim daily. The golden jellyfish have evolved to be distinctly different from their ocean-dwelling relatives.… Read the rest of the article: Swim with millions of harmless jellyfish in Palau's marine lake (video)

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  • Popkin
    7:57 am Wed, Jun 18, 2025
    Victorian illustration depicting effects of laughing gas makes science look like a wild party

    In the age before warning labels and liability waivers, scientific experimentation often looked like something between a séance and a rave. Case in point: this glorious 1807 illustration from a… Read the rest of the article: Victorian illustration depicting effects of laughing gas makes science look like a wild party

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  • Popkin
    11:45 am Tue, Jun 17, 2025
    Strange friendship: The carnivorous plant that lets bats use it as a toilet Nepenthes plant (Chantath K/shutterstock.com)

    Deep in the Bornean rainforest, a small woolly bat curls up for a nap inside of a carnivorous plant, designed by nature to devour insects that dare cross its path.… Read the rest of the article: Strange friendship: The carnivorous plant that lets bats use it as a toilet

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  • Popkin
    11:30 am Tue, Jun 17, 2025
    How a con man built the World's Littlest Skyscraper with one clever blueprint scam By Travis K. Witt - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link

    Travis K. Witt, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

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  • Popkin
    8:48 am Tue, Jun 17, 2025
    Rare collection reveals how Russians used folk art to mock their rulers

    A 19th-century Russian judge assembled this remarkable collection of folk art prints that used humor and satire to mock everything from emperors to elaborate hairstyles. Dimitrii Aleksandrovich Rovinskii, a high-ranking… Read the rest of the article: Rare collection reveals how Russians used folk art to mock their rulers

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  • Popkin
    7:31 am Fri, Jun 13, 2025
    40,000 bees living rent-free in bedroom wall evicted by chillest beekeeper on earth (video) Photo credit: Sergii Sobolevskyi / Shutterstock.com

    When a Florida homeowner heard an ominous buzzing noise coming from inside her bedroom wall, she discovered she was sharing her home with 40,000 unexpected tenants. The mysterious sound led… Read the rest of the article: 40,000 bees living rent-free in bedroom wall evicted by chillest beekeeper on earth (video)

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  • Popkin
    7:21 am Fri, Jun 13, 2025
    Yet another reason to hate bar soap: it might be cheese, and you might be drunk Tanya Sid/shutterstock.com

    In 2020, a woman washed her hands with a block of cheese for days until realizing that it was not a bar of soap. She says that she left the… Read the rest of the article: Yet another reason to hate bar soap: it might be cheese, and you might be drunk

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  • Popkin
    9:19 am Thu, Jun 12, 2025
    Meet nature's smartest blob: The mysterious world of slime molds Representational image (Boing Boing/Midjourney)

    Slime molds are weird. They are blobs that don't have brains or nervous systems, yet they can navigate mazes better than some humans, and remember past events without neurons. Despite… Read the rest of the article: Meet nature's smartest blob: The mysterious world of slime molds

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  • Popkin
    9:03 am Thu, Jun 12, 2025
    The phone charging myth that lead to a ton of fake emergency calls Image: TaraPatta / shutterstock.com

    A phone-charging myth once kept emergency operators busy responding to thousands of pointless 999 calls from people who wrongly believe dialing the emergency number will boost their dying phone batteries.… Read the rest of the article: The phone charging myth that lead to a ton of fake emergency calls

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  • Popkin
    8:47 am Thu, Jun 12, 2025
    Competitive snowball fighting requires 90 snowballs, helmets, and strict rules (video)

    A competitive snowball fighting sport from Japan has evolved into an international phenomenon, with teams battling it out in organized tournaments from the Arctic Circle to the Australian Alps. Yukigassen,… Read the rest of the article: Competitive snowball fighting requires 90 snowballs, helmets, and strict rules (video)

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  • Popkin
    11:00 am Wed, Jun 11, 2025
    This guided exercise shows how art can activate your body — and help heal it

    Experience art with your whole body in this unique guided meditation from MoMA. Through vibrant animation and gentle narration, therapist Emily Price guides viewers to explore how art affects them… Read the rest of the article: This guided exercise shows how art can activate your body — and help heal it

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  • Popkin
    9:30 am Wed, Jun 11, 2025
    The marble monument that honors the only person struck by a meteorite image: Marko Aliaksandr/Shutterstock

    On a quiet afternoon in 1954, Ann Hodge was doing what any sensible Alabamian would do – taking a nap. Then space decided to wake her up. An 8.5-pound meteorite… Read the rest of the article: The marble monument that honors the only person struck by a meteorite

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  • Popkin
    8:12 am Wed, Jun 11, 2025
    The mysterious curse of the ninth symphony that haunted famous composers

    The "Curse of the Ninth" haunts classical music: write nine symphonies and die before your tenth. And some of history's greatest composers took this deadly seriously. Gustav Mahler was so… Read the rest of the article: The mysterious curse of the ninth symphony that haunted famous composers

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