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Episode | Date |
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1439: "Shenzhou 5 – China’s First Human Spaceflight"
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Oct 15, 2025 |
1438: "Diane Keaton"
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Oct 14, 2025 |
1437: "The Silkworm"
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Oct 13, 2025 |
1436: "Quantum Entanglement – Spooky Action at a Distance"
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Oct 12, 2025 |
1435: “The Tiny Sausages of Nuremberg”
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Oct 11, 2025 |
1434: "Thelonious Monk and the Shape of Modern Jazz"
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Oct 10, 2025 |
1433: "The James Webb Space Telescope"
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Oct 09, 2025 |
1432: "The Lowell Observatory"
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Oct 08, 2025 |
1431: "Viewing 3I/ATLAS from Mars"
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Oct 07, 2025 |
1430: "Richard Dedekind Redefining Number Theory"
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Oct 06, 2025 |
1429: "Alternate and Special Uniforms in the NFL"
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Oct 05, 2025 |
1428: "Jane Goodall"
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Oct 04, 2025 |
1427: "GPS Trackers on Birds"
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Oct 03, 2025 |
1426: "The Tunnel of Whiteface Mountain"
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Oct 02, 2025 |
1425: "The Steam That Moved a Nation"
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Oct 01, 2025 |
1424: "The Mustang"
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Sep 30, 2025 |
1423: "Three Kings Kaikomako"
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Sep 29, 2025 |
1422: "What the Garden Gives Back"
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Sep 28, 2025 |
1421: "Carbonated Soda"
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Sep 27, 2025 |
1420: "Vanta Black"
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Sep 26, 2025 |
1419: "Stanislaw Petrow"
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Sep 25, 2025 |
1418: "What is Leucovorin?"
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Sep 24, 2025 |
1417: "Dr. Green’s Light"
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Sep 23, 2025 |
1416: "Water on Mars"
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Sep 22, 2025 |
1415: "The 21st Night of September"
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Sep 21, 2025 |
1414: "The Real Castles and Lands of Game of Thrones"
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Sep 21, 2025 |
1413: "Rods, Cones, and Blindness"
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Sep 20, 2025 |
1412: "Robert Redford"
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Sep 19, 2025 |
1411: "Acoustic Shadows"
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Sep 18, 2025 |
1410: "White Corn vs. Yellow Corn Chips"
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Sep 17, 2025 |
1409: "The Hidden Patterns of Statistics"
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Sep 16, 2025 |
1408: "The Imperial Castle"
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Sep 15, 2025 |
1407: "What is a Reddit Kid?"
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Sep 14, 2025 |
1406: "The British Lion"
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Sep 13, 2025 |
1405: "Tropical Waves"
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Sep 12, 2025 |
1404: "The Amateur Radio Operators of 9/11"
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Sep 11, 2025 |
1403: "September 10th, 2001"
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Sep 10, 2025 |
1402: "Keithroy Maynard"
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Sep 09, 2025 |
1401: "Dorothy Dandridge"
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Sep 08, 2025 |
1400: "The Blood Moon"
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Sep 07, 2025 |
1399: "Giorgio Armani"
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Sep 06, 2025 |
1398: "American Paint Horse"
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Sep 05, 2025 |
1397: "What is a Florida Ounce?"
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Sep 04, 2025 |
1396: "An Animal Lying on the Side of the Road Probably Isn’t Sick or Napping"
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Sep 03, 2025 |
1395: "September 2nd - The Beginning and the End"
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Sep 02, 2025 |
1394: "The Great Barrington UFO Encounter of 1969"
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Sep 01, 2025 |
1393: "Mary Ann Nichols: The First Victim of Jack the Ripper"
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Aug 31, 2025 |
1392: "What is Calculus"
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Aug 30, 2025 |
1391: "Sauerkraut Balls"
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Aug 29, 2025 |
1390: "Dr. Joseph Murphy"
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Aug 28, 2025 |
1389: "Krakatoa"
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Aug 27, 2025 |
1388: "How are Fossils Made?"
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Aug 26, 2025 |
1387: "Northwest Mountain Rose Apples"
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Aug 25, 2025 |
1386: "Water Can Boil and Freeze at the Same Time"
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Aug 24, 2025 |
1385: "Judge Frank Caprio"
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Aug 23, 2025 |
1384: "Does Black Paint Make Metal Hotter"
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Aug 22, 2025 |
1383: "Hawaii, the 50th Star"
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Aug 21, 2025 |
1382: "Lazy Pierogi"
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Aug 20, 2025 |
1381: "Terence Stamp"
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Aug 19, 2025 |
1380: "The Battery that Refuses to Die"
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Aug 18, 2025 |
1379: "The Tunnel That Never Thaws"
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Aug 17, 2025 |
1378: "The Brazilian Current"
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Aug 16, 2025 |
1377: "Explosive Pancake Batter of WWII"
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Aug 15, 2025 |
1376: "Explosive Pancake Batter"
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Aug 14, 2025 |
1375: "The Piri Reis Map"
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Aug 13, 2025 |
1374: "Dragon Man - A Face from the Human Past"
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Aug 12, 2025 |
1373: "Betelgeuse – The Unsteady Giant"
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Aug 11, 2025 |
1372: "James Lovell - Commander of Apollo 13"
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Aug 10, 2025 |
1371: "Bookless Library"
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Aug 09, 2025 |
1370: "Fly Fishing"
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Aug 08, 2025 |
1369: "Purple Heart Day"
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Aug 07, 2025 |
1368: "The Truth About Glass"
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Aug 06, 2025 |
1367: "Loni Anderson"
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Aug 05, 2025 |
1366: "Today Is a Great Day!”
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Aug 05, 2025 |
1365: "Heterochromia"
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Aug 04, 2025 |
1364: "What is the Cryospheric Process?"
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Aug 03, 2025 |
1363: "Does the Past Still Exist?"
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Aug 02, 2025 |
1362: "The Man Who Betrayed Washington"
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Aug 01, 2025 |
1361: "The Metric Crescent Wrench"
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Jul 31, 2025 |
1360: "Invisible Ink"
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Jul 30, 2025 |
1359: "The Runit Dome"
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Jul 29, 2025 |
1358: "George ‘Fiji’ Veikoso"
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Jul 28, 2025 |
1357: "Hulk Hogan"
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Jul 27, 2025 |
1356: "Chuck Mangione"
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Jul 26, 2025 |
1355: "Malcolm-Jamal Warner"
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Jul 25, 2025 |
1354: "John Michael 'Ozzy' Osbourne"
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Jul 24, 2025 |
1353: "Interglacial Period"
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Jul 23, 2025 |
1352: "The Soto Dolmen in Trigueros, Spain"
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Jul 22, 2025 |
1351: "Mitochondria"
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Jul 21, 2025 |
1350: "The Kiss Cam"
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Jul 20, 2025 |
1349: "Connie Francis"
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Jul 19, 2025 |
1348: "Ozempic Venom"
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Jul 18, 2025 |
1347: "Kola Superdeep Borehole"
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Jul 17, 2025 |
1346: "Napoleon's Rabbit Hunt Gone Wrong!"
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Jul 16, 2025 |
1345: "Flash Floods"
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Jul 15, 2025 |
1344: "The SnackWrap Guy of Hendersonville"
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Jul 14, 2025 |
1343: "The Cochno Stone"
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Jul 13, 2025 |
1342: "Jumping Out of a Moving Car"
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Jul 12, 2025 |
1341: "The History of 7-Eleven"
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Jul 11, 2025 |
1340: "Ellesmere Island in Canada"
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Jul 10, 2025 |
1339: "Zoroastrianism"
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Jul 09, 2025 |
1338: "Don't Skip Lunch"
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Jul 08, 2025 |
1337: "Tamerlane"
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Jul 07, 2025 |
1336: "Iceland Has No Trees"
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Jul 06, 2025 |
1335: "The Housefly That Didn't Drown"
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Jul 05, 2025 |
1334: "1775: When Independence Became Inevitable"
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Jul 04, 2025 |
1333: "Why Doesn't South America Have Hurricanes?"
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Jul 03, 2025 |
1332: "The Fighter Mafia"
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Jul 02, 2025 |
1331: "The Sheep That Stopped the Bite"
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Jul 01, 2025 |
1330: "The General Who Gave Reform Its Rank"
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Jun 30, 2025 |
1329: "The Queen of Vacations – Beverly D'Angelo"
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Jun 29, 2025 |
1328: "The Year Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, and Freud Were Neighbors"
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Jun 28, 2025 |
1327: "The Impossible Coin Flip"
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Jun 27, 2025 |
1326: "Patent No. 5,255,452: Michael Jackson’s Secret to the Lean"
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Jun 26, 2025 |
1326: "Before the Crown - A Tribute to the Career of Michael Jackson"
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Jun 25, 2025 |
1324: "A Simple Riddle 11"
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Jun 24, 2025 |
1323: "The Human Fingernail"
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Jun 23, 2025 |
1322: "Chevy Corvette C2"
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Jun 22, 2025 |
#1321: "Carroll O'Connor"
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Jun 21, 2025 |
1320: "Why Do People Install Wall Plugs Upside Down?"
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Jun 20, 2025 |
1319: "The Vessel at Hudson Yards"
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Jun 19, 2025 |
1318: "Spring Water"
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Jun 18, 2025 |
1317: "Do You Drink More Through a Straw?"
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Jun 17, 2025 |
1316: "Cranberry Pills"
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Jun 16, 2025 |
1315: "The Rongorongo Script"
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Jun 15, 2025 |
1314: "Could a Hidden Parasite Make You a Mosquito Target?"
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Jun 14, 2025 |
1313: "Brian Wilson"
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Jun 13, 2025 |
1312: "Sly Stone"
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Jun 12, 2025 |
1311: "Not Broken, But Injured"
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Jun 11, 2025 |
1310: "Can Your Eyes Predict How Long You’ll Live?"
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Jun 10, 2025 |
1309: "The Cornea That Turned to Cone"
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Jun 09, 2025 |
1308: "Hyperion"
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Jun 08, 2025 |
1307: "The Device That Proved We Don’t See With Our Eyes"
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Jun 07, 2025 |
1306: "Cocoa and Cancer"
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Jun 06, 2025 |
1305: "Pozzolanic Concrete"
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Jun 05, 2025 |
1304: "Astigmatism Lens Flares"
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Jun 04, 2025 |
1303: "Clock It"
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Jun 03, 2025 |
1302: "The Man Who Controlled a Computer with His Mind"
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Jun 02, 2025 |
1301: "Marilyn Monroe"
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Jun 01, 2025 |
1300: "When the F5 Came to Pennsylvania"
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May 31, 2025 |
1299: "How to Properly Clean a Fish"
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May 30, 2025 |
1298: "86 Oldsmobile Cutlass"
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May 29, 2025 |
1297: "The Chain of Rocks Bridge"
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May 28, 2025 |
1296: "What Was Cash for Clunkers?"
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May 27, 2025 |
1295: "Get Out and Move"
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May 26, 2025 |
1294: "5/25/25"
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May 25, 2025 |
1293: "Traditions of the Indy 500"
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May 24, 2025 |
1292: "Corvette ZR1"
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May 23, 2025 |
1291: "Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome"
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May 22, 2025 |
1290: "Love, Possibility, & Awareness"
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May 21, 2025 |
1289: "Linoleum"
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May 20, 2025 |
1288: "Don't Put Dawn in the Dishwasher!"
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May 19, 2025 |
1287: "The Six Flags Over Texas"
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May 18, 2025 |
1286: "Where do you find a Left Handed ScrewDriver?"
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May 17, 2025 |
1285: "The Serpent That Watches the Sky"
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May 16, 2025 |
1284: "Strawberries and Garlic are Companion Plants"
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May 15, 2025 |
1283: "The Strange Strength of Mixed Emotions"
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May 14, 2025 |
1282: "May 13, 1981 – The Attempted Assassination of Pope John Paul II"
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May 13, 2025 |
1281: "Wild Horse Hooves Explained"
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May 12, 2025 |
1280: "The Sword in the Stone of Saint Galgano"
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May 11, 2025 |
1279: "The World’s Smallest Army"
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May 10, 2025 |
1278: "1965 Buick Riviera Gran Sport"
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May 09, 2025 |
1277: "Insulin’s Legacy - The Untold Stories"
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May 08, 2025 |
1276: "What is SubTropolis?"
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May 07, 2025 |
1275: "When the Man Comes Around"
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May 06, 2025 |
1274: "Texas is Bigger than You Think"
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May 05, 2025 |
1273: "What are Organoids?"
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May 04, 2025 |
1272: "Steve’s Lava Chicken – Guinness Book Record for Shortest Charting Song"
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May 03, 2025 |
1271: "Strawberries and the Rose Family"
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May 02, 2025 |
1270: "Jack"
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May 01, 2025 |
1269: "What Is a Carnelian?"
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Apr 30, 2025 |
1268: "Murder on the High Seas – The Case of the Mignonette"
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Apr 29, 2025 |
1267: "What is a Chicken Jockey?"
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Apr 28, 2025 |
1266: "The Secret Life of a Single Note"
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Apr 27, 2025 |
1265: "Tavistock, The Beatles, and Pink Floyd: Unraveling the Conspiracy Theory"
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Apr 26, 2025 |
1264: "Pick 33 – The First of the Forgotten"
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Apr 25, 2025 |
1263: "The Malibu Secret"
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Apr 24, 2025 |
1262: "How Does a Septic Tank Work?"
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Apr 23, 2025 |
1261: "Grapes of Spring"
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Apr 22, 2025 |
1260: "Replacing the Pope"
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Apr 21, 2025 |
1259: "Farming in April"
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Apr 21, 2025 |
1258: "The History of Peeps!"
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Apr 20, 2025 |
1257: "Easter Lily"
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Apr 19, 2025 |
1256: "The Smell of Fresh Bread Out of the Oven"
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Apr 18, 2025 |
1255: "Fire from Ice"
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Apr 17, 2025 |
1254: "The Cost Beneath Our Feet"
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Apr 16, 2025 |
1253: "What is a Burl?"
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Apr 15, 2025 |
1252: "April 14th, 1939, The Book That Brought America to Its Knees"
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Apr 14, 2025 |
1251: "The Gene That Won’t Let Go"
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Apr 13, 2025 |
1250: "Great Loop Boating"
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Apr 12, 2025 |
1249: "What is a Carpenters Board Stretcher?"
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Apr 11, 2025 |
1248: "Mahuffer – Wurst Place on the Beech!"
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Apr 10, 2025 |
1247: "The Mathematics Behind Music Theory"
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Apr 09, 2025 |
1246: "The Notes in Ricky’s Pocket"
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Apr 08, 2025 |
1245: "A Simple Riddle 11"
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Apr 07, 2025 |
1244: "Operation Midnight Climax: The CIA's Covert Safehouses"
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Apr 06, 2025 |
1243: "Mystery of Dark Matter and Dark Energy"
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Apr 05, 2025 |
1242: "The Mountain Named for Gods"
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Apr 04, 2025 |
1241: "The Day the Sky Erased the Map"
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Apr 03, 2025 |
1240: “Opossum vs Possum”
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Apr 02, 2025 |
1239: “The Manitou Springs Incline”
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Apr 01, 2025 |
1238: "The Calendar That Made Fools"
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Mar 31, 2025 |
1237: "Cryo-Electron Microscopy"
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Mar 30, 2025 |
1236: "A Simple Riddle 10"
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Mar 29, 2025 |
1235: “Three Turns to Freedom”
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Mar 28, 2025 |
1234: "Yuri Gagarin - The First Human in Space"
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Mar 27, 2025 |
1233: "Notification Hijacking – How Hackers Take Over Your Phone and Accounts"
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Mar 26, 2025 |
1232: "What is Geographic Tongue?"
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Mar 25, 2025 |
1231: "The Boeing F-47"
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Mar 24, 2025 |
1230: “The Heavens Declare”
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Mar 23, 2025 |
1229: "The Damage of Fast Fashion"
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Mar 22, 2025 |
1228: "Sea Cucumbers: Butt Breathers"
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Mar 21, 2025 |
1227: "The Plastic Recycling Myth”
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Mar 20, 2025 |
1226: "Finding a Can of Arc Light?"
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Mar 19, 2025 |
1225: "The Infamous Gardner Museum Heist"
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Mar 18, 2025 |
1224: "Ghost in the Coffee Shop – How Nearby Hackers Hijack Your Phone in Real Time"
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Mar 17, 2025 |
1223: "The Silent Heist – How a Simple Notification Can Unlock Your Entire Digital Life"
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Mar 16, 2025 |
1222: "Registration of the First Internet Domain Name"
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Mar 15, 2025 |
1221: "Psychological Warfare"
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Mar 14, 2025 |
1220: "Magnetoreception in Animals"
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Mar 13, 2025 |
1219: "The Law of Assumption"
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Mar 12, 2025 |
1218: "5000 Year Battery"
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Mar 11, 2025 |
1217: "ADHD A Hunters Edge or Desk Job Disorder?"
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Mar 10, 2025 |
1216 "American Shipbuilding"
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Mar 09, 2025 |
1215: "Apollo and Daphne - The Chase of Immortal Desire"
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Mar 08, 2025 |
1214: "The Leshy"
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Mar 07, 2025 |
1213: "How Do Escalators Work?"
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Mar 06, 2025 |
1212: "Hawk-Eye Technology"
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Mar 05, 2025 |
1211: "3425"
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Mar 04, 2025 |
1210: "Why use a Rebar Stretcher?"
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Mar 03, 2025 |
1209: "GibberLink"
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Mar 02, 2025 |
1208: "The Eye on the Back of the US Dollar"
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Mar 01, 2025 |
1207: "Mystery of the Twelfth Imam"
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Feb 28, 2025 |
1206: “What Is a Topoconductor and Why Does It Matter?”
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Feb 27, 2025 |
1205: "How do Automated Car Wash Tiers Work?"
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Feb 26, 2025 |
1204: “Eastern Air Lines Flight 304 – The Tragedy Over Lake Pontchartrain”
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Feb 25, 2025 |
1203: "The Speed of Light"
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Feb 24, 2025 |
1202: "Raising Valor - The Flag on Iwo Jima"
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Feb 23, 2025 |
1201: "Glycine – The Sleep Boosting Secret in Your Soup"
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Feb 22, 2025 |
1200: "The Dark Factor Behind Human Behavior"
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Feb 21, 2025 |
1199: "The Battle of Edinburgh 1547 – The Rough Wooing War"
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Feb 20, 2025 |
1198: "IWO JIMA"
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Feb 19, 2025 |
1197: "The 133rd Seabees – Built on Sacrifice, Deserving of Honor"
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Feb 18, 2025 |
1196: "Skara Brae"
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Feb 17, 2025 |
1195: "Pineapple Cucumber Salad"
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Feb 16, 2025 |
1194: "Stonehenge of Lake Michigan"
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Feb 15, 2025 |
1193: "What are Reciprocal Tariffs and Sovereign Wealth Funds?"
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Feb 14, 2025 |
1192: "Chromosome 2 - The Fusion That Made Us Human"
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Feb 13, 2025 |
1191: "B-2 Spirit"
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Feb 12, 2025 |
1190: "Von Neumann Machines"
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Feb 11, 2025 |
1189: "Marilyn vos Savant"
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Feb 10, 2025 |
1188: "Your Thoughts and Beliefs Shape Your Reality"
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Feb 09, 2025 |
1187: "Who Were the Ancient North Eurasians?"
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Feb 08, 2025 |
1186: "Chevrolet K10"
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Feb 07, 2025 |
1185: "From a Small Town to the White House - The Birth of Ronald Reagan"
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Feb 06, 2025 |
1184: "National Girls and Women in Sports Day"
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Feb 05, 2025 |
1183: "Spintronics"
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Feb 04, 2025 |
1182: "The Vanishing of Judge Crater"
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Feb 03, 2025 |
1181: "Groundhogs"
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Feb 02, 2025 |
1180: "Ingested - The Rising Threat of Drones in Jet Engines"
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Feb 01, 2025 |
1179: "Evolution of Aircraft Collision Avoidance Technology"
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Jan 31, 2025 |
1178: "Golden Blood"
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Jan 30, 2025 |
1177: "Lead Madness"
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Jan 29, 2025 |
1176: "What is a Lab Leak?"
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Jan 28, 2025 |
1175: "From Victim to Empowerment"
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Jan 27, 2025 |
1174: "Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest - The Oldest in America"
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Jan 26, 2025 |
1173: "Astrobiology and Extremophiles"
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Jan 25, 2025 |
1172: "The Overthinker’s Paradox"
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Jan 24, 2025 |
1171: "The Discovery of Insulin"
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Jan 23, 2025 |
1170: "Blood Minerals - The Hidden Cost of Progress"
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Jan 22, 2025 |
1169: "How Language Connects Us"
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Jan 21, 2025 |
1168: "Presidential Inaugurations in the Rotunda"
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Jan 20, 2025 |
1167: "AI and Gut Bacteria"
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Jan 19, 2025 |
1166: "Humans are The Only Species with a Chin"
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Jan 18, 2025 |
1165: "WW2 German Escape Myths"
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Jan 17, 2025 |
1164: "David Attenborough's Life on Earth Premieres"
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Jan 16, 2025 |
1163: "AI in IVF"
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Jan 15, 2025 |
1162: "mRNA Cancer Vaccine"
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Jan 14, 2025 |
1161: "What Are Ivermectin and Fenbendazole?"
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Jan 13, 2025 |
1160: "What is Methylene Blue?"
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Jan 12, 2025 |
1159: "Circadian Rhythm and Inflammation"
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Jan 11, 2025 |
1158: "Ambivalence - The Push and Pull of Human Emotions"
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Jan 10, 2025 |
1157: "SuperAlignment"
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Jan 09, 2025 |
1156: "Erik the Red - A Legacy of Exploration and Connection"
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Jan 08, 2025 |
1155: "The Scent of Apples Eases Claustrophobia"
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Jan 07, 2025 |
1154: "Pronoia"
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Jan 06, 2025 |
1153: "The Law of Large Numbers"
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Jan 05, 2025 |
1152: "Antikythera Mechanism"
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Jan 04, 2025 |
1151: "Derinkuyu Turkey"
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Jan 03, 2025 |
1150: "Second Sleep"
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Jan 02, 2025 |
1149: "The Hidden Language of the Brain: Intrinsic Traveling Waves"
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Jan 01, 2025 |
1148: "A Breath Between Seconds - A New Year Story"
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Dec 31, 2024 |
1147: "Nereids and the Corinthian Gulf"
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Dec 30, 2024 |
1146: "Sassoon Jeans – The Denim Revolution"
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Dec 29, 2024 |
1145: "The Library of Ashurbanipal - The World's First Repository of Knowledge"
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Dec 28, 2024 |
1144: "The Power Source of Voyager 1"
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Dec 27, 2024 |
1143: "E-4 Nightwatch"
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Dec 26, 2024 |
1142: "The Wonder of Christmas Morning"
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Dec 25, 2024 |
1141: "The Christmas Eve Escape of the S.S. Vega"
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Dec 24, 2024 |
1140: "Operation Christmas Drop"
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Dec 23, 2024 |