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5 Ways to Trick Your Body Into Being More Awesome
The human body is a miracle. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't always be finding ways to game the system to gain a little bit more of an advantage.
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- By Sam Irwin
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The 6 Most Popular Crime Fighting Tactics (That Don't Work)
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- By Robert Evans
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5 Disturbing Ways Food Will Be Different in the Future
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- By XJ Selman, Nadia Lopez
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
5 Iconic Building That Were Barely Saved from Destruction
There is this very elite class of buildings so iconic that they transcend the country that built them. So it's kind of weird how often we almost let the things get destroyed.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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The 5 Most Terrifying Ways Your Brain Can Turn on You
Here are five ways your brain can suddenly turn the world into a bizarre carnival of the absurd.
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- By Ben Smith
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The 5 Most Insane Modern Medical Procedures That Work
Medicine is unique in that every radical advance is simultaneously exciting and terrifying. Very, very terrifying.
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- By John Dubensky
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8 Mind-Blowing Realities of Our Future Full of Old People
Allow us to take a moment to imagine a planet where 'old' is the new 'everybody.'
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- By Kristi Harrison
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The 6 Most Insanely Huge Musical Instruments
Humanity became great for two reasons: our ability to create beauty through art, and our urge to build increasingly huge, terrifying gadgets. It only makes sense that these two impulses would converge in amazing, if largely useless, ways.
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- By Isaac Cabe, Jeff Sloan
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The 16 Most Hilariously Ineffective Propaganda Posters
War is hell, and tragedy, and terrible, terrible posters.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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8 Species That Are Threatening to Swarm the Globe
It's paradoxical that there are some species out there that we just can't exterminate, and not for want of trying. These creatures breed out of control and march steadily forth, taking human territory miles at a time.
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- By E. Reid Ross, Meg Anastasia
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5 Insanely Frivolous Uses of DNA Technology
Sure, science fiction is full of horrifying genetic experiments gone wrong, but in the real world, things are much worse.
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- By Erik Germ, Tracy V.
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The 6 Craziest Disguises Ever Used in the History of War
It turns out that, unlike the Greeks, more modern armies have downright insane methods of concealment.
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- By Chris J.
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5 Insane Explanations for Stuff Your Body Does Every Day
It's weird: Much of what is going on inside our own bodies is still a complete mystery to us. And the theories as to why we do some of these things are downright bizarre.
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- By Pauli Poisuo
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The 5 Most Half-Assed Attempts to Take Over a Country
For every inspiring revolution by the oppressed, there are several low-rent slapdick operations where the insurgents trip getting off the boat.
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- By Evan V. Symon , Chris J.
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