Let Me Google That

Svalbard is the world's arctic DOOMSDAY SEED VAULT in Norway.

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The latest iOS update gave us new emojis so let's discuss the Emoji Illuminati aka the Unicode Consortium!

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The true fate of the canine cosmonaut, who died on November 3rd, 1957, was kept from the public for decades.

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Well, maybe.

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From BBS chatrooms and Compuserv to Geocities, AOL, and Myspace — when it comes to social media, how did we get to. . .whatever it is we're doing now?

As long as humans have been living we’ve been dying. And as long as we’ve been confronting our mortality, we’ve been asking: what happens when we die? Part of that is telling ghost stories. Here's one of mine.

SPOILER: You don't technically die from the flu. ⚰️

Using AI to model human brain processes could help us better understand conditions like depression — but does that mean robots can get depressed? And if they can't. . .should we program them to? For SCIENCE?

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Marcel Petiot is one of history's most prolific serial killers. You've probably never heard of him — and after today's episode, you'll wish you never had.

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Karen Wetterhahn's untimely death in the 1990s gave science invaluable insight into mercury poisoning.

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