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Growing up in rural Oregon, Erin Lauridsen didn’t have a lot of contact with blind people like herself. She recalls there being one other blind person in…
Growing up in rural Oregon, Erin Lauridsen didn’t have a lot of contact with blind people like herself. She recalls there being one other blind person in…
A new mother in Bangladesh got quite a surprise last week: Less than a month after she had delivered a healthy baby boy, she returned to the… Read More
Right on the waterfront in the most expensive city in America, a group of wealthy residents have quickly raised nearly $50,000 and rising to oppose San Francisco… Read More
Scientists have determined that the way an animal rests–reclining on its back, sprawling on its belly, standing up, or sitting, is determined by primarily by its size.… Read More
Two weeks ago, members of the Gimlet Media staff announced its intentions to unionize. The company, which is known for podcasts like Start Up and Reply All,… Read More
The most basic rule of deduction is that a simple explanation is far better than a complex one. The fewer assumptions one has to make, the fewer…
During the final days of the legendary Cassini mission, the NASA spacecraft performed a series of ring-skimming orbits around Saturn, snapping unprecedented images of the gas giant’s… Read More
Scientists aren’t known for being alarmists. And that’s exactly what makes a new study released Thursday on amphibians so, well, alarming. Read More
You thought those 32 individual posters for Avengers: Endgame were something? Well, check this out. Read More
Following a very strange, inaccurate presentation by President Donald Trump to Republican senators earlier this week on the amount of federal disaster relief funds given to Puerto… Read More