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On this day in 1881 a deranged assassin shot US president James Garfield

Europeans like to go on about the innovations colonizers brought to the Americas. But what of the innovations they took away?

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The Hidden Magnetic Universe Begins to Come Into View

How Police Secretly Took Over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime

The Idea of Entropy Has Led Us Astray

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What finding life on Mars could tell us about our own origins

In this day in 1953 the strange and tormented movie “The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.” first appeared in theaters

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