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No One Knows Who Owns The Ghost Plane Abandoned At Madrid Airport

US And Taliban Agree In Principle To Peace Framework, Envoy Says

Australia's Extreme Heatwaves Have Killed A Million Fish, Dozens Of Horses

Into The Zone: 4 Days Inside Chernobyl’s Secretive ‘stalker’ Subculture

Tokyo's Subway Is Offering Free Soba To Flexible Commuters

How A Teen's Death Has Become A Political Weapon

A Rogue Mascot Causes Headaches for a Japanese City

Inside The Weird, Dangerous World Of Japan’s Girl 'Idols'

The Treasure Behind The Wall

Norway And Canada Go Head To Head Over the World's Tallest Moose Statues

Welcome To The World's Largest Gathering Of Humans

India’s Plan To Curb Hate Speech Could Mean More Censorship

Reflections On Antarctica

Designing the game console of the future (in 1997)

How Grief Became Joe Biden's 'Superpower'

The Unprecedented Effects Of An Unprecedented Shutdown

The King Of Vasectomy Reversals Has Helped Bring 3,000 Babies Into The World

What China’s Forced Military Training For Students Is Like

How To Suck At Business Without Really Trying

The Unapologetically Arab Restaurant That Reminded Me America Is My Country, Too

I Stopped Using A Computer Mouse For A Week And It Was Amazing

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Gracious Nerd Accepts Gift Of 'God Of War' For The PS2 Instead Of The PS4

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This Kid Is, Uh, Not Great At Hide And Seek

Why Mental Health Apps Sound Like Millennials

How Much Snow It Takes For School Districts To Close, Mapped

3D Printing Could Give You A Better Pill To Swallow

In Oklahoma City, A School Designed For Homeless Children

This Dad's Trick To Make His Baby Fall Asleep Shouldn't Work And Yet It Does

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Why Won't My Colleagues Voluntarily Give Up Their Benefits To Save Our Boss Money, And Other Advice Column Questions

The Knotty Nostalgia Of The Hardy Boys Series

Kid Who's Running Late For Class Makes The Perfect Last Minute Entry

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The Rise Of The Swear Nerds

Is It Just Me, Or Does Duolingo Not Work?

The Most Popular Baby Girl Names In Each State Since 1910, Mapped

The internet’s “Grammar Girl” on the last decade’s most dramatic change in language

Why Brazilians love baby talk

Poop Research Might Get A More Polite Name

The rise and fall of a super-intelligent, self-aware Facebook game

Famous men and their absolutely deranged sexts

Why Do We Obsess Over What's 'Relatable?'

Why 'Mandarin' Doesn't Come From Chinese

What Could Be Wrong With A Little 'Moral Clarity'?

The Most Mispronounced Words Of 2018

In Praise Of The Long And Complicated Sentence

How Much Prices Have Changed For Different Goods And Services Over The Last 20 Years, Graphed

Can Technology Help Fix the Housing Market?

America's Love Affair With Cheap Drugs Has A Hidden Cost

Why China And America Fight Over Chicken Feet

The shutdown cost the US economy $3 billion that isn’t coming back

This Foldable Smartphone Prototype From Xiaomi Looks Like It Could Actually Work