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A Guy Who *Saw* Lincoln Get Shot Was on a TV Show in 1956 That Is Now on YouTube
On a 1956 game show, a man appeared who had been present at Ford's Theatre on the night of April 14, 1865. The America of Lincoln and the Civil War can feel like distant history, but every now and...
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Why Google's Stock Just Plummeted
A rare misstep combined with worse-than-expected quarterly numbers to send investors into a panic.If you're on Twitter or watching the stock market, it's been a very interesting past half an hour....
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A Grand Finale: Time-Lapse Video of Endeavour's Last Mission
Part of what was so fascinating about the photographs of Endeavour's final journey last week was the incongruency of this mighty beast of a spaceship traveling along Los Angeles's humble streets, over...
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Sergei Udaltsov, Russian Dissident, Live Tweets His Detention
"Don't be silent. The most important thing is for you to not be silent!" Russian Interior Ministry officers detained opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov during a demonstration outside the State Duma...
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Twitter Blocks Neo-Nazi Twitter Account in Germany
When should a transnational social-media company respect the laws of the land and when should they ignore them? A white-power tattoo is seen at a far-right wing summer festival some 80 miles north of...
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L'État, C'est Google? Search Giant Threatens to Stop Indexing French Media Sites
France and Google: the showdown continues. A Google carpet at the entrance of Google France's Paris headquarters, December 2011 (Reuters) Several years ago, the French government commissioned a report...
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The Day Goddard Dreamed of Taking a Rocket to Mars
This day in 1899 was the key date in the life of our country's most celebrated rocket scientist. I don't tend to believe most origin stories about how people came to do their life's work, but I love...
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Watch Psychedelic Explosions on the Sun's Surface
In a new video, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory uses a gradient to reveal a gorgeous swirl of coronal loops and cooler "moss" patterns. The SDO has been observing our home star and the "space...
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To Snap A Predator: The Patented Tech That Helps Photographers Go...
"No cage, no metal suit, just a camera between me and their teeth." A Great White shark captured at close range (Michael Muller) Michael Muller is fascinated with sharks. Ever since he was a kid,...
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An Energy Entrepreneur Turns to Inflatable Robots
And really, who could complain? The industry entrepreneurs shaping our future. See full coverage If you've been following this special report on energy entrepreneurs, you might remember Makani...
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Um, What's That Bright, Shiny Thing Curiosity Just Found on Mars?
A close-up of the small pit created when the Curiosity rover collected its second scoop of Martian soil. The bright particle near the center -- which resembled similar ones elsewhere in the pit --...
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The Onion's TED Talk Spoof: I'll Be Your Visionary and You Do the Things I...
Down with the Idea Men! The Onion's take on the genre of the TED Talk is as wickedly funny as you'd expect. Featuring a spiky-haired, self-proclaimed "visionary," it's as much an indictment of a...
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The Best Nature Photographs of the Year, Including This Too-Human Monkey...
This is not your average Tumblr full of cute animal pics. Prepare for the sublime. There are animal photos and there are animal photos. While I'm a fan of Instagrams of cats and dogs, the images in the...
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What We Talk About WHEN WE TALK ABOUT CAPS LOCK
Happy International Caps Lock Day, everyone! NO, SERIOUSLY. Flickr/Zawezome Today is International Caps Lock Day, which is -- after National Punctuation Day and International Talk Like a Pirate Day --...
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There Once Was a White Whale Who Tried to Speak to Humans
Parrots are good mimics, but a whale might actually have something to say. This recording appears to be a beluga whale named NOC trying to imitate human speech. NOC was captured in 1977 and became a...
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How to Watch Tonight's Debate Without Actually Watching It
A real-time web app wants to take the pundits out of the process. One of the best things about presidential debates is their spontaneity: They test how candidates perform, relatively unscripted, before...
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#horsesandbayonets: The Main Meme of the Final Debate, Explained
Why American foreign policy took a trip to previous centuries during tonight's debate King and Country If the meme of the first presidential debate was Big Bird, and the meme of the second was binders...
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Planetfall: A New Anthology of Our Expeditions Across the Solar System
Highlights from the last decade of space photography "We're all huddled here around the same campfire -- the sun," says author Michael Benson. (NASA) We began haltingly, with rockets that scraped the...
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What Internet Trolls Thought of Last Night's Debate
From "Obummer" to "Robme," the insults were out in full form for the final showdown. Shutterstock/Albert Ziganshin The shots fired from last night's presidential debate weren't limited to a table in...
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Scenes From World War II Photoshopped Onto Today's Streets
A photography project reminds us that soldiers surrendered and prisoners marched on the same streets we walk along every day. January 27, 1945, Auschwitz (Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse) "It is a bit like...
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