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The Heavenly Sounds of the Glass Armonica

As with many of man's great achievements (or is that blunders?), it all began with the wine. In this case, however, i...
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Never Say Never

Don’t you just love proving people wrong by doing what is supposed to be impossible? My own personal triumph was bea...
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The Lost Bomber

In the middle of the afternoon on January 31, 1956 a B-25 bomber crash-landed into the Monongahela river near Homeste...
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The Hobo Code

During times of economic hardship, people turn to the road to see if they can make their luck somewhere else. As such...
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Another World

Try to imagine a world without numbers. No more addition or subtraction, algebra nor calculus. No more high school ge...
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In the Heat of the Moment

In the U.S., violent crime rates are consistently higher in the South than in any other part of the country. It's jus...
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New Batteries at Long Last

Battery science has traditionally been the slowpoke of the technological industry. Look at a few of its competitors...
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The Artificial Prison of the Human Mind

In 1971, a study about prisons was funded by the U.S. Navy to try to better understand problems in the Marine Corps.'...
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Forget Yourself For Just a Bit

Amnesia is a fascinating condition, and as such it comes up commonly in popular culture. It's such a wonderful (and b...
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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...
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