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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Word-of-Mouths
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Word-of-Mouths

Salt mines, German sanatoriums, and how a social media rescue mission saved one lovable photographic underdog.

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6 Signs the Apocalypse Cometh
6 Signs the Apocalypse Cometh

Shortcuts to obesity, paid shamelessness, D.C.’s constitutional right to bitch-slapping, and a potent antidote to it all.

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Geek Mondays: Dating Data Art
Geek Mondays: Dating Data Art

Why 1.7 million people yearn to have their balloons popped every day and what the MoMA has to do with matchmaking.

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She, Him & Us
She, Him & Us

What 1962 and a perfectly timed violin have in common.

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Inner Kid Fodder
Inner Kid Fodder

Cat herding, bionic lobsters, how to finally understand your mother, and why Ian likes the Over Under.

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The Year in Ideas: 8 Best of 2008
The Year in Ideas: 8 Best of 2008

8 things that shaped the year’s innovation footprint, or what Buckminster Fuller has to do with tap water and Michael Phelps.

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Buddhist Bottle Temple
Buddhist Bottle Temple

Beer, Buddhism, and $100,000 worth of world-changing photography.

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Geek Mondays: Unlimited Solar Power
Geek Mondays: Unlimited Solar Power

Why MIT geeks are throwing the best dinner party ever.

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You Better Believe It
You Better Believe It

Why we drink, scandal!, the world’s most expensive clock, theft-worthy animation, what Radiohead and Goldfrapp have in common, and how diarrhea can save the planet.

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Blame It on the Weatherman
Blame It on the Weatherman

Why World War II put Al Gore in business, and how Mae West helps keep it 72 and sunny.

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