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The Smoldering Ruins of Centralia

There is a small town in Pennsylvania called Ashland where Route 61's northbound traffic is temporarily branched onto...

Written by Alan Bellows • 29 Mar 2006 • Read/Listen →

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The Troubled History of Beards

Thanks to my parents' genes, I simply do not grow facial hair. I never have, unless you count microscopic stubble in...

Written by Daniel Lew • 28 Mar 2006 • Read →

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Taking Control of Candy Jones

Jessica Wilcox was born into a humble family on New Year’s Eve of 1925. Her father left them when she was three; her...

Written by Jason Bellows • 27 Mar 2006 • Read →

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The Man Who Changed Comic Books Forever

There was a time when comic books were just that - comic - with the likes of Mutt and Jeff and Mickey Mouse. But by t...

Written by Greg Bjerg • 26 Mar 2006 • Read →

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A Life More Colorful

Human beings normally see in color. We are natural trichromats-- we have three different color receptors that permit...

Written by Cynthia Wood • 21 Mar 2006 • Read →

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The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon

You may have heard about Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon before. In fact, you probably learned about it for the first time...

Written by Alan Bellows • 19 Mar 2006 • Read →

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China’s Sorrow

Natural disasters are tragedies that usually strike randomly and infrequently - unless you happen to live in the Huan...

Written by Anthony Kendall • 15 Mar 2006 • Read →

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Shortness of Dark

Depending on who you ask, the first practical light bulb was invented by Joseph Wilson Swan of Britain in 1878, or Th...

Written by Alan Bellows • 13 Mar 2006 • Read →

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The Jumping Frenchman of Maine Disorder

In a nutshell, evolution describes the fact that in a given set of organisms, those which manage to survive are the s...

Written by Alan Bellows • 09 Mar 2006 • Read →

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A Big Footprint on the Steppe

The Y-chromosome is one that geneticists love to study. Because it is passed on from father to son with no matching c...

Written by Cynthia Wood • 05 Mar 2006 • Read →

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