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[ad_1] Enlarge / These might look like your standard leather-bound texts, but they are actually bound in human skin—a practice known as “anthropodermic bibliopegy.” All five are housed in the …
[ad_1] After Centuries, a Simple Math Problem Gets an Exact Solution – My programming school. A simple problem: Imagine a circular fence enclosing an acre of grass. If you tie …
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[ad_1] Divers recover a WWII Code Machine from the Baltic Sea – My programming school. When the Nazi marines ditched their ship’s Angma encryption machine, they felt they were keeping …
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[ad_1] Flooding from Hurricane Sandy in 2012 Rising to meet the tide against the threat of coastal flooding Christina Laughlin usually does whatever she can to avoid the floods that …
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[ad_1] Enlarge / Ophelia (1852) by John Everett Millais, inspired by the character in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, who goes mad and drowns in a brook. It can be challenging for forensic …
[ad_1] Enlarge / Two female Gila spotted whiptail lizards basking in sunlight, Aspidoscelis flagellicauda. This is one of several all-female species of whiptails that reproduce by means of parthenogenesis. Wild …
[ad_1] Can the Paris Agreement Still Avert Climate Chaos? At the talks, France’s top diplomat Lawrence Toubiana said there was another important innovation he called a “360 degree diploma”. This …
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