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Today we pay tribute to one of the most iconic pieces of American culture. Listen in to hear us gush

For a learning disability that everyone seems to know about, dyslexia is maybe the most commonly mis

It started with New Hampshire couple Betty and Barney Hill, who learned under hypnosis they’d been a

There’s an ingredient in Skittles and lots of other food that Dunkin Donuts stopped using it in thei

Leave Brutalism Alone!

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The most reviled, hated, despised, no-good, low down, dirty rotten architectural style of all time i

Breaking up is hard to do. Your brain might even think you're getting over a cocaine addiction. Lear

Llamas are pretty great. They smile! They also spit and if they feel overworked will just lay down.

Roly Poly bugs go by many names. They look like tiny armadillos. They're great for your garden. And

Multitasking isn't really possible, because of the way the human brain works. We know you think you'

The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, two anarchists accused of murder, was one of the first "crimes of t

You know all of those cords and cables and wires that we use to connect our stuff to the electrical

Smudging is the process of wafting around the smoke of burning white sage. What is it good for? List

If you grew up outside of Africa, you might know Haile Selassie’s name from reggae music - the man w

In 1968, Paul Erlich published The Population Bomb, predicting coming famine and mass death. Erlich'

David Hahn was a kid who was really into science. So much that he built a nuclear reactor in his mot

One of the world’s cultural treasure troves were created in West Africa. But for over a century they

Charles and Ray Eames were superstar designers who dreamed up some of the most iconic pieces of furn

Sometimes a good idea doesn’t pan out in real life. Take Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome: It requ

Like is a very divisive word. Purists think it's like, a filler word born in the 80s that's like, de

There’s a great origin story behind snake oil salesmen, and it has to do with just one guy who singl