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Little Girl Receives A Chucky Doll And Is Over The Moon About It

Marie Kondo Helps Hasan Minhaj Clean His Only-Sort-Of-Messy Office

A Japanese Fashion Model Who Isn't Human, And More Of The Week's Coolest Design

The Greek Island Where People Live Longer Than Anywhere Else, And More Of The Best Photography Of The Week

What To Read About Roger Stone's Indictment

The Director Who Could Be Spielberg

An All-Meat Diet Is Not The Answer, And Other Facts

Rafflesian: Palabra del día: January 29, 2019

How A Vermont Social Network Became A Model For Online Communities

Google's Proposed Changes To Chrome Could Weaken Ad Blockers

What's The Loudest Sound In The Universe?

Here's Some Amazing Footage Of China's Rover Driving On The Far Side Of The Moon

We May Have Finally Spotted A Star Turning Into A Black Hole

Our Sun Could One Day Turn Into A Crystal Ball

Why Different Cultures' Calendars All Look So Different

Amazing Footage Of China's Chang'e 4 Landing On The Far Side Of The Moon

Buddhism And Self-Deception

What Can One Nazi's Act Of Decency Teach Us About Good And Evil?

The Blind Spot

Italy's Practically Perfect Food

You Say You Sell “Le Big Mac,” but Why Should We Believe You?

People In China Are Going Gaga Over 'Cheese Tea'

China Holds A Secret Trial For A Rights Lawyer After Three Years In Detention. It Backfired

Digital Detoxes Are A Solution Looking For A Problem

China Is Achieving AI Dominance By Relying On Young Blue-Collar Workers

The Story Of The Guy Whose Liver Was Shutdown By Eating Leftover Pasta

China's Bizarre Program To Keep Activists In Check

What I Learned From Eating Only Meat For A Month

Guy Seals Himself In An Airtight Chamber To Illustrate The Effects Of Sky-High CO2 Levels On The Brain

Florida's Secretary Of State Resigned After Blackface Photos Of Him Dressed As A 'Katrina Victim' Surfaced

The Year I Couldn't Speak at All

Officials Rejected Jared Kushner For Top Secret Security Clearance, But Were Overruled

Why They Will Hate Us In The Future

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Commerce Secretary (And Billionaire) Wilbur Ross: 'I Don't Really Understand Why' Federal Workers Are Going To Food Banks

Tech Company Employees Are Tasked With Creating The Ultimate Robot Dog In This Weirdo Animated Short

The Key To Cracking Long-Dead Languages?

Do We Have Gossip All Wrong?

Can You Guess What Language These Folks Are Speaking?

Who Decides What Words Mean

What Humpback Whales Can Teach Us About Alien Languages

Red for Stop, Grue for Go: How Language Turned Traffic Lights “Bleen” in Japan

White Liberals Dumb Themselves Down When They Speak To Black People, A New Study Contends

Homer Simpson's Most Commonly Spoken Words, Visualized

A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’

Facebook And Google Need To Start Paying Journalists What They Owe Us

What Makes The 2019 Government Shutdown Worse Than Others

We Shouldn't Blame Silicon Valley For Technology's Problems — We Should Blame Capitalism

This Guy's Method For Shoveling Seven Feet Of Snow Off A Roof Is Brilliant

Why Taxing the Bejesus Out of the Rich Might be Useful, Even If It Doesn’t Actually Raise Much Money

Porn, Opioids And A Freezer Full Of Cigarettes: What One Cleaner Saw In America's Homes

The Young Left's Anti-Capitalist Manifesto