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Wolverine Sloth Yum

from USA Today Giant sloths with wolverine-like claws used to roam America, and humans hunted them by Doyle Rice Human footprint inside a sloth track. This composite track is part of a trackway in which the human appears to have stalked the sloth. (Photo: Matthew Bennett, Bournemouth University) Although it sounds like a grade-B science fiction movie, […]

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Steve Explained

from Public Radio International The mysterious aurora known as ‘Steve,’ explained by Adam Wernick A composite of images captures “Steve” (Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement) over Manitoba, Canada.  / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Thanks to collaboration between citizen scientists and astronomers, a strange phenomenon in the night sky, dubbed “Steve,” has finally been explained. In […]

Steamboat To Blow?

from The Independent World’s biggest active geyser erupts at Yellowstone National Park for third time in weeks Increased activity at Steamboat Geyser after three years sat dormant by Tom Barnes The world’s largest active geyser has erupted for the third time in less than six weeks. Steamboat Geyser, in Yellowstone National Park, erupted at around […]

Merd!

from The Telegraph French museum discovers half of its collection are fakes by David Chazan Collioure in the Pyrenees by Étienne Terrus. The museum discovered half of the paintings it believed were by the artist were forgeries A state-owned French art museum has discovered that more than half of its collection consists of worthless fakes and […]

Returning ‘Firing Line’

from Deadline ‘Firing Line’: PBS Reloads Public-Affairs Show With Host Margaret Hoover by Erik Pedersen EXCLUSIVE: PBS is bringing back an iconic property after nearly two decades. The pubcaster said today that a new version of Firing Line, the William F. Buckley-hosted public-affairs show it aired from 1966-99, will premiere in June. The new host is […]

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Grand Unified Math Finally?

from New Scientist Theorem of everything: The secret that links numbers and shapes For millennia mathematicians have struggled to unify arithmetic and geometry. Now one young genius could have brought them in sight of the ultimate prize By Gilead Amit IF JOEY was Chloe’s age when he was twice as old as Zoe was, how […]

A TRUE HERO – Give this man every award and accolade available

from the New York Times No Sweatpants in Public: Inside t...

from the New York Times No Sweatpants in Public: Inside the Rule Books for N.F.L. Cheerleaders By Ken Belson Photographs by Associated Press and Getty Images Cheerleaders for the Carolina Panthers, known as the TopCats, must arrive at the stadium on game days at least five hours before kickoff. Body piercings and tattoos must be […]