Was Frankenstein actually about childbirth?
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Buying this thing will make you happy.
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Grope and Pillage: The woeful budget track record of the TSA.
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Every year in Colombia there are hundreds of reported cases of the criminal use of burundanga, a mysterious drug that allegedly robs victims of their free will.
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The Great New-York-to-Paris Automobile Race of 1908.
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Life lessons learned in a French cemetery.
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A historical manuscripts cataloger spends her days archiving old letters, novel drafts, diaries, and odds and ends like Dickens’ cigar case and a lottery ticket signed by George Washington.
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Glorious day–new literary prizes for fiction and nonfiction writers!
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Why most people get divorced in March.
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Bored at work? Get started on one of these: A mural made from 450,000 staples.
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Forget your thinking cap. Slip on a white lab coat to focus your brain on a tricky task.
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The next time you cut your finger, you could save a life. A new project aims to include a bone-marrow donor sign-up kit in Band-Aid boxes. Dab some blood on the included card, put it in the provided envelope and mail it to a lab, and join the ranks of donors. “I wanted to make it as fucking simple as possible to do something good,” says Graham Douglas, the man behind the idea.
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