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High-speed rail in America: It might possibly actually happen
Maybe. Possibly. But not for a long time. Unless you live in California, in which case it's a slightly less long time.
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‘Missed Connections’ street art marks the sites of love affairs that never happened
I Wish I Said Hello takes the private moments of missed connections and puts them back in the public spaces where they occurred.
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Gambling advice: Don’t bet that the warm weather is just a fluke
The odds that we just had the warmest 13 months in American history by chance? 1 in 1.5 million.
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Museum’s indoor mini-golf course lets you putt your way through a miniature city
The National Building Museum may not be D.C.’s star attraction, but even if you don’t love it, it loves you. You can tell, because the museum is giving sweltering District residents a nice, cool place to play indoor mini-golf this summer. And because it’s the National Building Museum, this is no plaster-clown-head putt-putt course — […]
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Caring about family planning does not make you a slut, according to Melinda Gates
As she gears up for a big family-planning summit in London, Melinda Gates goes on "The Colbert Report" and CNN to dispel pesky rumors about her contraceptive campaign.
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Cloned horses could compete in the Olympics
The highest body of equestrian sports, the Federation Equestre Internationale, is just a little obsessed with where horse babies come from. And not without reason — have you seen the prices for champion horse sperm these days? (Man, you know this is a phrase that has actually come out of Mitt Romney’s mouth. And we […]
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This video proves we’re living in a disaster movie
This compilation of recent news footage could EASILY be the scene from a disaster movie showing a news footage montage right before everything goes to hell.
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Is fracking polluting Pennsylvania groundwater or not?
It depends on how you want to frame it. But a new study provides no evidence that it does.
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Is New Nuclear Energy Just Mission Impossible?
Until headlines last week announced the end of his marriage to Katie Holmes, it seemed there was no mission too impossible for Tom Cruise to accomplish. But even his cool, Burj Khalifa-climbing character in the famous film franchise might refuse the Mission Impossible assignment facing global economies today – – powering growth with nuclear energy. […]
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Ethanol: Beloved by farmers, detested by Big Oil, endlessly debated by Congress
A case study in how change is made in Washington: slowly, with much debate, and with tangential regard for the science.
