Why do birds always disappear every time winter's near? Just like trees, they long to leave in the fall. Obviously, those lines came from sublime songbird Karen Woodpecker, but they also speak to the common phenomenon of bird migration.
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Like many Americans, you may currently find yourself wrapped up in a steaming hot, antimicrobial love affair with hand sanitizer, the gelatinous goop keeping our meathooks unoccupied by the germs that hate our freedom. You might even be using the stuff on the daily. You'll probably want to stop.
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Barring any setbacks or other extenuating circumstances, on May 27, 2020, two astronauts will boldly go where others have gone before ... but they'll do it inside a Dragon, so that's new. Specifically, they'll do it in the SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2.
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The first crewed mission of SpaceX and NASA's collaborative efforts, the Demo-2, is scheduled to lift off on May 27th, 2020. Weather permitting.
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Continuing their efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced that they'll be contributing a further $125 million to the development and distribution of tests, treatments, and vaccines.
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Insects are harbingers of the apocalypse, grim reminder that humanity is not the only hunger that shapes this world.
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As of the beginning of May 2020, you shouldn't. Go out in public, that is.
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Covid-19 is one of several forms of coronavirus, and no successful human vaccine has ever been developed against any of the coronaviruses -- so far. So what will life be like without one?
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Amid the great toilet paper drought of 2020, the US has seen a flood of demand for bidets. Perhaps your hind parts feel thirsty for one right now. Should you quench your butt's thirst?
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Cats are fastidious. Famously discerning in culinary matters. Remember that really expensive dinner in a can, that it trained you to buy, because it wouldn't eat anything else you gave it, and you didn't want it to starve to death? The day will come when that doesn't cut the mustard, either.
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Hypnosis, is "a mental state of highly focused concentration, diminished peripheral awareness, and heightened suggestibility." But what does it feel like?
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Many who have participated in a video conference finishes up, hangs up, and needs a nap. We're quickly learning that video conferencing is exhausting. Intuitively, it makes no sense. But you're not crazy for zooming straight to bed.
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Odds are you're experiencing more dreams, and more vivid dreams, these days. There are a few reasons why.
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The funny thing about the acronym 'UFO' is that so many people treat the 'U' like an 'I' by trying to identify flying objects as extraterrestrial vessels. Really, though, how would anyone know they were looking at one if they can't identify what it is?
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Here's the thing: no one really knows if catching COVID-19 prevents infections in the future, and some evidence suggests that it doesn't.
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Dogs will eat anything, up to and including, well, literally almost any food. Ay, there's the rub.
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Spotted dolphins are almost always spotted with large tuna in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Does the chicken of the sea naturally make a great wing man? Somebody ought to ask dolphins about that. Unfortunately, fishermen have bigger fish to fry, namely, the large tuna.
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Teslas remain the vegan diet of the transportation world: healthier, yes, and a great way of communicating your superiority to your fellow man, but just too expensive for most people to realistically go for.
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It's probably no surprise larger predators in the wild can summon up really significant bites. Among cats, there's one feline more ferocious than any other.
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Billions around the world are staying home, and as a result, air quality is improving. Here's the truth about the pandemic's effect on air quality.
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Want to learn some strange facts about twins? We tackle the best and the weirdest, including secret twin languages and twin mind melds.
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Some say that the wavelength used by 5G networks was designed to incapacitate the human immune system, others that the towers themselves were being used to transmit the disease.
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"Mercury is in retrograde," comes the voice of every astrologer on social media, and just like that, it all makes sense: your computer didn't break because you went four years without cleaning the fans, it happened because Mercury was in retrograde. Is there any truth to this?
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Across the wilds of Africa, it is estimated that some 15,000 reticulated giraffes remain, galloping majestically across the Serengeti and expecting none of us to notice that they're just guys in factory reject horse costumes with stilts taped to their arms.
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If someone were to name an animal after Johnny Cash, you might expect it to be the ostrich that beat him in a fight. But Cash's animal is a tarantula, and as crazy as it sounds, it's even more fitting than the music legend's feathered nemesis.
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If you're hoping for scientifically proven powers of seduction and masculinity by way of wax -- don't hold your breath. The pros are pretty short, and the potential side effects are more about what could go wrong. But first, the history.
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It's certainly not unusual for a Catholic church to display a cross in a prominent fashion. Father Guzialek's take, however, combined iconography with practicality and environmental responsibility.
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