A newly hatched chick enters the world with an urgent problem. It can walk almost immediately, but walking in the wrong direction could be fatal. In nature, staying near a parent means warmth, protection, access to food and a much better ch...
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On an autumn Sunday in the United States, a peculiar national clock starts ticking shortly before 1 p.m. Eastern Time. Televisions switch on. Fantasy lineups receive one last nervous inspect...
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Few English words have traveled as far politically as “woke.” Depending on who says it, the word can mean alert to racial injustice, broadly progressive, excessively politically correct, per...
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Space is a vacuum, so an astronaut cannot simply lift a visor and take a sniff. Yet crews returning from spacewalks have repeatedly described something remarkably close to a smell of space:...
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The Story of Scotch - The history of Scottish whisky, known as scotch, dates back thousands of years, when the Celtic peoples of the British Isles and continental Europe began to ferment the...
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Who invented the toilet? The modern toilet was then more effectively developed by the Scottish engineer Alexander Cumming in 1775, who patented a drainage system and a flow mechanism to prev...
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