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Buyer's Remorse

How Come We're So Bad at Buying Stuff?

We've all enjoyed a little retail therapy -- or thought we did! -- but why does buyer's remorse so often set in? And why do we seem to lose all control over logic when that next big, shiny purchase calls our name?

Good News for the Follicular Challenged

In hairless man, arthritis drug spurs hair growth — lots

A man with almost no hair on his body has […]

Painless Root Canals?

Pain-Free Tooth Cavity Repair? Coming Soon!

In as little as three years, dentists may drop a few notches on the most-feared species list, as a new device promises to use electrical current to rebuild a sick tooth -- without discomfort for the owner of the tooth!

A modern-day Amelia Earheart (that's her name) launches 'round the world flight

In The Magazine, writer Liana Aghajanian has a feature on the Amelia Rose Earhart—yep, that's her name—who plans to fly across the world next week, like the famous aviator after whom she was named.
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Amelia Rose Earhart’s family always told her she was distantly related to Amelia Mary Earhart, the aviation and women’s rights pioneer who disappeared during a journey around the world. Speculation about precisely what happened persists. Expeditions are still organized to find her plane, and teams have claimed to have found its remnants.
Now, Amelia Rose is sitting in a nearly pitch-black garage, just a year before she planned to embark on her own round-the-world flight following the same route as her name-alike, something she announced at the aviation world’s premier event, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh in Wisconsin. She spends so long in the garage with her tears and her shoes that the small motion light fails to sense anyone in the enclosed space. The light goes off.
In many ways it feels as if the light is going out on her life too. Has she built her budding aviation career on a misunderstanding, a genealogical error, a falsehood she had believed to be real? How was she supposed to continue with this flight, continue with her job as “Denver’s own Amelia Earhart.”

"Amelia Reincarnated: A young pilot retraces her namesake’s journey."

Haters Gonna Hate

Haters spend more time … hating?

We already know haters are predisposed to be that way. […]

The Last Nazis

The Last Nazis

An 89-year-old Philadelphia man was recently arrested on Auschwitz Death Camp charges. See other men who are facing or who have faced delayed justice for WWII war crimes.

All Things Historical

Optical Illusion: Child Mummy Opens And Closes Her Eyes

A child mummy in Italy appears to open and close her eyes. But find out what's really happening.

Rare Emperor Nero Coin Found in England

Artifact embossed with the image of the hated Emperor Nero and dates to between A.D. 64 and 65.

Ancient Parasite Uncovered in Mesopotamian Tomb

Egg of a parasite that still infects people today found in the burial plot of a child who lived 6,200 years ago in an ancient farming community.

Bronze Age Bling: Black Stone, Amber and Shells

A necklace found near the head of a young woman's remains from the Bronze Age reveal what materials people once used to create jewelry.

60 Insane Cloud Formations From Around The World

Condensation or deposition of water above the Earth's surface creates clouds. In general, clouds develop in any air mass that becomes saturated. Here are 60 insane cloud formations from around the world.

Daily Comic Relief

3,000 Years of Environmental Change

Humans have been changing Chinese environment for 3,000 years

For thousands of years, Mother Nature has taken the blame […]

Illuminating Evolution

Neanderthal-Human Skulls Shed Light on Evolution

Neanderthals and modern humans shared an ancestor, so why did the two groups wind up looking so different from each other? A new find helps explain that and more.

Earth News

Volcanoes Go Head to Head in Their Own World Cup

If you're not feeling the heat in Brazil, maybe it's time to weigh in on a more explosive competition.

'Plastic-Eating' Microbes Help Marine Debris Sink

The plastic-dwellers appear to be biodegrading the millions of tonnes of debris floating on waters worldwide, according to oceanographers.

Why Protect a Massive, Remote Part of the Pacific?

An expansion of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument would protect one of the few large unspoiled sections of ocean waters on the planet.

Built For Combat

Dinos Built for Combat

Thumb spikes, nose horns and tail clubs were just a few of the weapon-like structures dinosaurs evolved to fight epic battles.

Prognosticating Animals

What's With All the World Cup-Predicting Animals?

A whole menagerie of animals are now predicting World Cup soccer matches... what gives?

Eye To Eye With A Manta Ray

Manta rays are large eagle rays belonging to the genus Manta. The Manta ray has fascinated people for centuries. Yet we usually encounter them as they glide magnificently through the oceans. A lucky few will get to see them when they break the surface and leap in to the air.

For many people, however, the only time they will encounter a Manta ray is in an aquarium. It is then that the inquisitive rays will show their faces, as it were. The result is quite extraordinary.

Animal Pictures

The Daily Drift

Gateways seem to be the theme here these days ...!

 

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For those interested: In World Cup play Nigeria bested Bosnia-Herzegovina 1-0: Argentina bested Iran 1-0 and Germany and Ghana played to a 2-2 tie in play on the tenth day of the tourney.

Sad, but true ... !

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The Americas

Tipitapa and Managua, Nicaragua

Mucurapo, Trinidad and Tobago

Lima, Peru

Komoka, L'ancienne-Lorette and Winnipeg, Canada

Sao Paulo, Rio De Janeiro and Recife, Brazil

Mexico City, Mexico

The Bottom, Sint Eustatius and Saba

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Caracas, Venezuela

Europe

Rouen and Velizy-Villancoublay, France

Rostov-Na-Donu, Moscow, Vladivostok and Ryazan, Russia

Dublin, Ireland

Ravenna, Catania, Milan, Treviso, Rome and Venice, Italy

Kiev, Mykolayiv and Vinnytska, Ukraine

Madrid, Spain

Liege, Belgium

Nuremberg, Germany

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Reykjavik, Iceland

London, England

Czerwionka-Leszczyny, Poland

Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Belgrade, Serbia

Newport, Wales

Nokia, Finland

Frederiksberg, Denmark

Asia

La Dagotiere, Mauritius

Petah Tikva, Israel

Kuala Lumpur and Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

Tehran, Iran

Delhi, Jammu, Mumbai, New Delhi, Salem, Pune, Srinagar and Kolkata, India

Colombo and Pita Kotte, Sri Lanka

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Bang Rak, Thailand

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Kaohsiung, China

Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalm

Doha, Qatar

Medan, Indonesia

Karachi, Pakistan

Africa 

Mabopane, South Africa

The Pacific

Sydney, Australia

Wellington, New Zealand

Quezon, City, Philippines

Today in History

1558		The French take the French town of Thioville from the English.
1772		Slavery is outlawed in England.
1807		British seamen board the USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to the War of 1812.
1864		Confederate General A. P. Hill turns back a Federal flanking movement at the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, Virginia.
1876		General Alfred Terry sends Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer to the Rosebud and Little Bighorn rivers to search for Indian villages.
1910		German bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich announces a definitive cure for syphilis.
1911		King George V of England crowned.
1915		Austro-German forces occupy Lemberg on the Eastern Front as the Russians retreat.
1925		France and Spain agree to join forces against Abd el Krim in Morocco.
1930		A son is born to Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
1933		Hitler bans political parties in Germany other than the Nazis.
1938		Joe Louis floors Max Schmeling in the first round of the heavyweight bout at Yankee Stadium.
1940		France and Germany sign an armistice at Compiegne, on terms dictated by the Nazis.
1941		Under the codename Barbarossa, Germany invades the Soviet Union.
1942		A Japanese submarine shells Fort Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia River.
1944		President Franklin Roosevelt signs the "GI Bill of Rights" to provide broad benefits for veterans of the war.
1956		The battle for Algiers begins as three buildings in Casbah are blown up.
1970		President Richard Nixon signs the 26th amendment, lowering the voting age to 18.
1973		Skylab astronauts splash down safely in the Pacific after a record 28 days in space.
1980		The Soviet Union announces a partial withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.
1981		Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon.
1995		Nigeria's former military ruler Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo and his chief deputy are charged with conspiracy to overthrow Gen. Sami Abacha's military government.

Non Sequitur