Facebook Just Created Its Own Unit of Time. The "flick" is very short, but divides nicely into different video frame rates.

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This Flu Season Marks the Fastest Spreading Outbreak Since Flu Tracking Began. Maybe this is the year you'll get a flu shot.

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How Well Do You Know World Geography? Take a quiz from the Department of Geography at Ghent University in Belgium and help them study the effects of map distortion.

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Putting Ancient Recipes on the Plate. Baking a panis quadratus from a 2000-year-old recipe takes study, experimentation, and guesswork.

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The Fraught History Of America’s Most Pervasive Brand. Images of Native Americans are still used to sell anything and everything.

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How Do They Train Drug Sniffing Dogs? A precise procedure gives us pooches that can find anything.

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Making Friends as a New Parent is Hard. But it can be done.

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David Rice Atchison, One-Day President. It's a technicality that survives on his grave marker.