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Why do you laugh when people fall down? Blame your ape ancestors
We laugh, and apes laugh too, and because we come from apes, we might laugh in ways that they laugh, but because we aren't apes, we laugh in some ways that are different.
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100-year-old chestnut tree composes its own concert and light show
A tree in Berlin is the unlikely but cool source of a spontaneous concert.
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Dispatch from Ohio, land of public markets and urban farms
Our correspondent visits the annual Public Market Conference in Cleveland and discovers an inspiring urban farm.
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Google Maps now lets you walk around on the ocean floor
Google Maps and the Catlin Seaview Survey have provided you with panoramic ocean floor vistas, because you didn't want to get any work done anyway, right?
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Impossibly beautiful photographs of Iceland’s volcanic rivers
With landscapes like these, taken by photographer Andre Ermolaev, it's no wonder Icelanders believe in magic.
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$4,000 eco-chandeliers are made of bike parts and self-importance
Woman makes chandeliers out of bike parts, and someone makes a video about it, and we can't help but laugh at how pretentious it is.
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How certain can we be about climate change?
Climate hawks stress that climate science is "settled," but that's misleading. There are still lots of uncertainties around climate, scientific and otherwise, and we have to learn to live with them.
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This terrifying hell-squid lives on ocean waste
Turns out the scary-looking "vampire squid" is the only cephalopod that DOESN'T want to eat you. It mainly eats poop.
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We dare you not to cry while watching this man hand-feed a sick bee
An adorable bee was going to die until an adorable man adorably hand fed the bee honey and then the bee got better.
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These celebs want GMOs labeled
With the vote on GMO labeling in California only a month away, guess who's going public about the issue?
