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History may not repeat but it does rhyme.

Now is a good time to brush up on who’s on the ballot.

Flat Earth theory has enjoyed staying power since at least the 19th century despite being patently untrue. Neil deGrasse Tyson, the late Carl Sagan, Bill Nye the Science Guy, and other big thinkers will show you how to disprove this bad idea, all without having to take a journey into space.

Inconceivable wealth. And a few lessons in how not to get rich, too.

Name one French coastline. Great. Now name another. Can’t? Here are all 36.

Mind-boggling as it is, some of the world’s roundest countries are also some of the most rectangular ones.

Is Nessie real or just a tourism ploy? There might be more to this (in)famous monster than you think…

There may be a fundamental reason why time travel, backwards, is impossible. We’ve all had the dream of traveling back in time. Whether there’s a wrong we want to right, […]

Cash currency goes back a long time – 40,000 years.

Thought experiment: What if you graft Israel’s borders onto the San Francisco Bay Area?

Researchers are starting to get a handle on why ancient creatures returned to the ocean after their ancient ancestors climbed out of it.

We all love the art, but we often forget the difficulty of being an artist. Here are some of the most famous, greatest writers of all time who never could quite make a living doing it. 

From the history of LSD to the origins of hip-hop, these 10 documentaries will educate and inspire.

It takes an average of 7.5 months to build a single-family home. A Ukrainian startup has cut that timeframe down to just 8 hours.

A company specializing in A.I. medicine will tell you how long you’re likely to live.

While the Olympics officially ended demonstration sports in 1992, a century of unique offerings made us rethink what athletic competition could be.

Americans are inherently a little crazy. But now the crazy is being enabled by politicians in the White House and by the internet. How exactly did it get so bad?

Geologists find that when the earth’s spin slows as it has recently, major earthquake activity follows.

Scientists identify for the first time two specific genes that may foster a predisposition for being gay in men.

What happens when a good philosopher fudges the facts to promote his politics? 

You think the collapse of the Soviet Union was chaotic? You should have seen the start.

How bloody was Australia’s colonial history? Two mapping projects reveal the horrible truth

New research suggests that whale stranding are the result of the navigational mistakes cause by the same magnetic anomalies that produce the aurora borealis.

It illustrates the dangers of rip currents.

Why civilians do not need to own guns like the AR-15.

The U.S. divided into Pacific, Atlantic, Interior and Confederate States      

After decades of research and analysis of geoscience data, the seventh largest geological continent officially exists.

It isn’t the rapture or some crazy prophesy, but science, that tells us when and how the end will come. “The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic […]

AI won’t really resemble humanoids. Instead, AI will create a world that countries and large companies can live in.

A company plans to transform the world’s most arid region by bringing icebergs from Antarctica.