Why is it so hard to design a better paper cup?
(via The Week) You go to the coffee shop and take your coffee to go. You enjoy your drink, then
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How Hurricanes Have Shaped the Course of U.S. History
(via Smithsonian) A new book examines the 500-year record of devastating storms affecting the nation’s trajectory
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The Same Scientist Invented Cool Whip, Pop Rocks, Tang and Jell-O
(via Great Big Story) William A. Mitchell was the greatest junk food chemist to ever live. Yes, that’s quite a
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How Dinosaurs Raised Their Young
(via Smithsonian) New research into eggshells and nesting sites help paleontologists unravel the family lives of the Mesozoic
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Ecologists Dig Prairie Dogs, And You Should Too
(via Smithsonian) Prairie dogs are not big and charismatic like bison, grizzly bears or pandas, but they are just as
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This Ancient Greek Shipwreck Is Now an Underwater Museum
(via Smithsonian) The Peristera, a cargo vessel loaded with thousands of amphorae, sank in the Aegean Sea around 500 B.C.
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10 Amazing Ancient Buildings Still In Use Today
(via Listverse) Many buildings from the ancient world are still visible today but a few have managed to transcend their
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The Balloon Satellites of Project Echo
(via Amusing Planet) The world’s first communication satellite was remarkably unsophisticated—a big silvery plastic balloon coated with aluminum, soaring roughly
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NASA Scientist Simulates What Sunsets Would Look Like on Venus, Mars, and Beyond
Geronimo Villanueva, a planetary scientist from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, created the sunset simulations while building
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14 Powerful Facts About the Hoover Dam
(via Mental Floss) The hulking Hoover Dam has been holding back the Colorado River and generating power since 1936, but
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Why don’t banana-flavored candies taste like bananas?
(via Massive Science) They do, they just taste like your great-grandfather’s banana (or a pear, depending on who you ask)
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Typhoid Mary Was a Real, Asymptomatic Carrier Who Caused Multiple Outbreaks
(via Discover) In the early 1900s, Mary Mallon worked as a cook — and spread typhoid fever to the families
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