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What’s So Great About 350 Degrees?

(via The Atlantic) The magic of cooking at 350 degrees isn’t magic at all, but chemistry. It is, for example,

(via Motherboard) A 1954 report from the birthplace of the atomic bomb wants you to know that everything is totally

(via mental_floss) Wearing gloves at a crime scene seems like a no-brainer. Not only does it help prevent the contamination

(via mental_floss) They’re probably the weirdest—and certainly the most puzzling—objects in the universe. And yet black holes are oddly familiar,

(via Atlas Obscura) In an ordinary Tampa, Florida, office park, just a couple of blocks from a bustling thoroughfare, a

(via Real Clear Science) In all likelihood, a Martian colony won’t resemble a silver city rising in stark contrast to

(via National Geographic) Some minds are so exceptional they change the world. We don’t know exactly why these people soar

(via Atlas Obscura) When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade—everyone knows that. When life gives you 1,250 gallons of

(via Real Clear Science) Clearly, someone could not subsist on the current conception of “superfoods,” so how “super” are they

(via Great Big Story) Twenty five years ago, physicist Robert Lang worked at NASA, where he researched lasers. He also

(via Atlas Obscura) There are more than 5,000 minerals in the world—naturally occurring chemical compounds that are stable at room

(via Smithsonian) Have you ever noticed that almost every barn you have ever seen is red? The simple answer to