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Science Evidence of hominins building wooden structures half a million years ago Ruben Bolling

History Watch people in the 1980s resisting laws against drinking and driving: "Pretty soon, it's gonna be a communist country." Mark Frauenfelder

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Culture El Pochcast, Talking to Houseplants, and the podcast worlds of Rodrigo Nuñez Elías Villoro

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Culture The Best of the Worst Cartoons Ever Rob Beschizza

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Culture Bot reveals rejected vanity license plates and the real DMV notes on why they were flagged Rusty Blazenhoff

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