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Zero Dumb Games
When you think about playing a game, does your mind go straight to thinking about beating someone else at said game?
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Scorpion Sex
Scorpions are utterly ancient.
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Point Nemo
What’s the most remote thing on Earth?
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Save Thy Pee by Royal Decree
The Stuart Period in England was full of surprises.
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The Thing About Koalas
Koalas have a few noteworthy characteristics.
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Skeuomorphs
In 1889, the world was facing the future.
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Hands
Ever catch yourself making hand gestures while you’re talking?
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Knuckle Crackers
When I was a kid, few things were more satisfying to me than cracking my knuckles.
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Panspermia
One tantalizing idea about how life began on Earth is that it didn’t.
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Open Up and Say Uvula
That little dangly thing all the way at the back of your mouth is called a uvula. In Latin, uva means grape, so uvula is something like “little grape.”
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I Know How You're Thinking
It starts when you get some kind of data.
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So Many Critters
Suppose you started with one self-replicating life form.
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