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NASA’s Curiosity Finds Crunchy Nodules Where Ancient Martian Water Once Stood Curiosity has been exploring a region filled with boxwork formations, which formed billions of years ago when water leaked through rock cracks.

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250 million-year-old amphibian fossils from Australia reveal global spread of ‘sea-salamanders’ The strange fossils were lost in museum collections around the world for some 50 years.

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So it looks like maybe capitalism isn’t a meritocracy after all.

Caponi Art Park in Eagan joins National Register of Historic Places Caponi Art Park in Eagan has been added to the National Register of Historic Places, recognizing the 60-acre landscape of large-scale sculptures created by artist and Macalester professor Anthony Capo...

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Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums Sammy Azdoufal just wanted to steer his DJI Romo with a gaming controller.

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Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad by Fergus M. Bordewich, Fergus M. Bordewich An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired mov...

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Why Did a Man Build This Secret Passageway Below a Dresser Drawer Nearly 200 Years Ago? Historians Think It Was Part of the Underground Railroad Staffers at the Merchant's House Museum in Manhattan are unraveling the mysteries of the narrow tunnel, which is hidden beneath a piece of built-in furniture on the second floor

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These dogs are having the time of their lives following this week's historic blizzard in the Northeast. Please enjoy. 14/10 for all

A Man Bought a $13 Camera at a Thrift Shop—and Found 70-Year-Old Film Still Inside. Do You Recognize the Faces in the Photos? Staffers at a photography shop in England carefully developed the negatives, which depict a ski trip in the Swiss Alps. Now, they're searching for clues to help identify the people pictured

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I love a moment of truth on TV.
It's so rare.

This is Wiley. He has never seen snow before and wants to make sure he gets a real good look at it. For science. 12/10 (IG: smileywileydog)

Floreana by Midge Raymond On the Galápagos Islands, the lives of two women—a century apart—converge in the most startling w...

Also: app.thestorygraph.com/books/f619aa...

Galápagos park releases 158 juvenile hybrid tortoises on Floreana to restore the ecosystem Giant tortoises have returned to Floreana Island in Ecuador's Galapagos archipelago as conservationists release 158 juvenile hybrids to restore the ecosystem.

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This Bizarre Star System Is Inside Out, and Astronomers Aren't Sure How A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form.

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The Smallest Bar in the World Is Worth the Trip If you can snag one of four seats, Backdoor 43 is Milan’s most charming bar

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The cameraman who skates backward to capture Olympic triumph and defeat Former U.S. ice dancer Jordan Cowan now skates on the Olympic rink as a camera operator, giving viewers for the first time a close look at figure skaters’ emotions.

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Incredible Moment When Photographer Captures Meteor Streaking Into an Active Volcano | Moss and Fog Like some type of alien science fiction, we see a brilliantly timed shot of a meteor streaking into an active volcano.

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World’s Oldest Known Pieces of Sewn Clothing Sat in an Oregon Cave for 12,000 Years Indigenous Americans weathered the Ice Age with style and utility, it seems.

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Deep-sea fish larvae rewrite the rules of how eyes can be built Deep-sea fish larvae combine features of both rods and cones into a single, highly specialised cell that is optimised for life in between light and darkness.

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British crime-fighting llamas nab tobacco thief A herd of llamas assisted law enforcement in the UK, making a "citizen's arrest" of a fleeing suspect.

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How bird poo fuelled the rise of Peru’s powerful Chincha Kingdom In new research, biochemical analyses align with imagery and historical sources to show how the pre-Inca Chincha society turned guano into a source of power.

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New Deep-Sea Mollusk Has an Iron Tongue and Hitchhiking Worms That Eat Its Poo Meet Ferreiraella populi, a weird mollusk discovered in Japan. Keep reading to find out how Rihanna is involved.

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Unpacking Bad Bunny’s Superbowl show – an alternative joyful vision for America The performance is a Puerto Rican manifesto of love and resistance in the time of Trump.

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If you cannot do it with people watching, what you're doing is not "law enforcement," obviously.

It is legal to observe ICE, and the people committing "obstruction of justice" here are not the observers. This should be 100000000% obvious.

Poetry, music and snow sculptures: Minneapolis artists honor 'victims of ICE' 2024 Minneapolis Poet Laureate Heid E. Erdrich and various snow sculptors hosted a ceremony and vigil Saturday evening for “victims of ICE,” including the debut of a poem by Erdrich honoring Renee Mac...

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A historic house in Serbia’s capital hangs on with intimate theatrical productions Villa owners have opened its doors as a theater called Takovska17.

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Donald Trump is:

- Openly racist
- Covering up evidence he may have sexually abused children
- Directly responsible for the murder of US citizens by masked agents of the state
- Openly looting the treasury and taking bribes from foreign leaders
- Polling at 38% amongst the American people

That's called a manicule and people used to draw them into their books to mark notable passages. Gotta respect the "Finger of Contempt" usage too though.